QUINCY – They were the two Pascucci sisters, part of a large family of nine children in Dorchester who would both become known as “Rosie the Riveters” for their jobs on the home front during World War II. Mary, the oldest, started working at age 19 as a welder at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. She was […]
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Weatherford woman, WWII Rosie the Riveter, marks 106th birthday
Jan. 27—A Mary Pickford movie debuted the day Madge Houser Kean was born. Kean, known to friends and family as Granny, likely never saw the second-highest grossing movie of 1918, “Stella Maris”. Her life was too busy from the get-go on Jan. 21, 1918. But it was fun and cake last Sunday when the Weatherford […]
Release denied for man in fatal shooting over pizza and bar tab at Rosie O’Reilly’s in unincorporated Wheaton
A DuPage County judge denied pre-trail release of an Aurora man accused of fatally shooting a 49-year-old Friday morning at Rosie O’Reilly’s bar in unincorporated Wheaton, officials said. Dexter Perkins was shot dead Friday at about 8:40 a.m. at the bar after an argument over pizza and a bar tab, according to a DuPage County […]