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From: <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "'Finn O'Leary'" <finnoleary@inventati.org>, <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:16:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f8101d5a60f$857d2870$90777950$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c99256a6c908b079aed4ef9e94ece518@inventati.org>

I've done some searching through newspaper archives and various
Ancestry.com-indexed databases.     I haven't found any use of a middle name
spelled out, always F.    I even have an image of his draft card and it just
reads "Joseph F. Ossanna, Jr."

However, digging a little deeper finds that his father went by the name
"Joseph FRANK Ossanna" so it's quite likely that this was the son's middle
name (since he was a "junior").    I suspect he might have avoided spelling
out Frank because people would have difficulty undersding it wasn't short
for Francis or something.




  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-28 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-27 20:53 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-28  0:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-28  0:43   ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28 17:16     ` ron [this message]
2019-11-28 17:18       ` ron
2019-11-28  0:46   ` David Arnold
2019-11-28  3:43 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-30 17:45   ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28  9:19 ` Thomas Paulsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-28 13:09 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-27 21:47 Dave Horsfall
2018-11-27 23:08 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28  2:57   ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-28  4:48     ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28 14:44       ` Dan Cross
2018-11-28 17:08       ` Paul Winalski
2018-11-28 19:03         ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 19:04         ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 17:57       ` Earl Baugh
2018-11-28 18:23       ` ron minnich
2018-11-28  5:22     ` Fabio Scotoni
2018-11-28  9:20 ` Donald ODona
2018-11-29  3:54 ` Dave Horsfall

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