When Tom Helped Grandma Julia with Her Grocery List

My great grandparents, Joseph and Julia (Szomolya) Orshoski celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1971. Technically, Julia was my step great grandmother, as Grandpa Joe's first wife named Julia died in 1919, but the second Julia is the only Orshoski great grandma that I ever knew! Grandpa Joe and both his first and second wives were all born in Hungary.

One time Grandma Julia needed to go to the grocery store to get groceries. She often shopped at Marks Pick-n-Pay on Perkins Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio.

Grandma would go down her list, and purchase everthing in the order it was written on the list. My then husband Tom said to her, " Grandma, that takes too long, let me help you." As he took the list from Grandma Julia he saw words he did not understand, with lots of accent marks. He handed it back to her, and said he was sorry he just did not know what the words meant! Eventually she got her shopping done, and we took her back home to Bay Bridge where she would soon be cooking dinner!

While this is not the exact list, it looked something like this:

English translation is:

eggs

bread

chicken

salt

milk

butter

chicken soup

She gave us a very fond memory to recall so many years later!