This photograph was taken shortly after their wedding in 1935.   Mary Briscar and John (Bill) Ellsworth settled in Connellsville, PA where they raised five children, Shirley, Rita, Gerald, Mary (Billie) and Carol.

Mary loved to bake and cook.  For many years she worked at the All-American Restaurant in Connellsville.  Aunt Mary made the best home made bread in Fayette County.

Bill was an avid amateur radio operator.  "The Voice of the Alleghenies" -W3PON - His signal carried great distances.  Listening to Dad and Uncle Bill talking to each other over the airwaves, it seemed to me that he was talking from next door.

John and Helen Chuska

John and Helen are seen here with James Guy, son of Tony Guy and Cathie Gallagher Guy.  the photo was taken in July, 1988.

John and Helen raised their family in Lemont - Ambrose Briscar, Bette Ann Chuska Smithburger, Bernadine (Chuska) Creighton and Diane Chuska Mahallick.

"Gee for sox!" - "Holy jumped-up cows!"   I remember these as John's favorite expressions  as he suffered through his beloved Pittsburgh Pirates' lean years.  His ear was ever at the radio, wishing and hoping that Kiner would drive in the runner with one of his famed long, arching home runs.   John once took me to a Pirates-Giants doubleheader and I got a chance to see Ralph Kiner and Willie Mays on the same field.  He was also the neighborhood barber - mostly to his nephews Ronnie, Ernie and Eddie.