The girls dressed in their brightly-colored dresses, white hats, gloves and shoes, and after the service they paraded down Harrison Avenue in their Easter finery. They backed us. They went wherever we went. They chaperoned us. There were always parents with us - not that they had to be, but because they cared.
Parents are too busy making money.
Cook had to get her parents to sign when she and Bill Cook married in 1950, a year before she graduated from high school. Her father worked at the paper mill, and his father worked at the shipyard. He wound up in Bay Harbor and she in Millville. They met in 1949 and married in 1950. We've gone through some hard times and some happy times, too.