Recollections of Dominic Ragucci – recorded by Rosalie Ragucci-Cook

My grandfather always talks of his first wife, Rose. He tells that she was always happy and easy-going and never complained, even when she was dying of cancer. She had surgery to remove the cancer and he says she was cut straight across her stomach all the way around to her back. Despite the pain, she still wanted to go out dancing on New Years Eve. He said that nobody at the party knew that she was sick. He knew because the doctors had told him but nobody else could tell that she was so sick. She died 6 months later.

My grandfather says that he has visited her in the cemetery every Sunday for almost 40 years.