Final details so the story doesn’t get set down wrong:
- Aunt Esther had heart problems but she didn’t die of them, she died of pneumonia at the age of 35.
- Her husband’s name was Simeon Rocheleau and he was French Canadian. He was a barber like his brother-in-law, not a salesman. He had a barber shop and a beauty salon and they lived in rooms behind the shop until they could afford a separate house.
- Final blow: when the priest cordoned off our family in the back of the church he also wouldn’t allow our family to participate in the ceremony. My grandma was 5 at the time of Aunt Esther’s wedding and didn’t get to be her flower girl. Not over it.
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