What a Romance: The Story of Bill and Rita

By Rita M. Pintaric

This book is the story of Bill and Rita. Their life together, the business they started, and their travels around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982260606

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Balboa Press rev. date: 03/04/2021

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Bill and Rita

Contents

Chapter 1:   The Beginning by Rita

Chapter 2:   What A Romance by Rita

Chapter 3:   The Early Years by Bill

Chapter 4:   A Tribute to Rita by Bill

Chapter 5:   WRP 3⁵th Anniversary by Bill

Chapter 6:   Travel to Italy by Rita

Chapter 7:   Paris/London by Rita

Chapter 8:   Around the World by Rita

Chapter 9:   Letters and Awards by Bill and Rita

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The Beginning

by Rita

I was born August 31,1929 to Julia & Nicholas Latessa, a second child named Rita Mae. It was a working farm owned by my grandfather. It was in North Lima a little town south of Youngstown, Ohio. This was living with parents, grandparents, sisters, Ann, Donna Jean, brother Nicholas, Aunts, and Uncles in a three story house. I was enrolled in the first grade at North Lima Elementary School. It was wonderful growing up on a farm with a typical Italian family. Fun to milk cows, pick up eggs from the chicken coup, watching the pigs in the mud.

Behind the house was a small brick building to bake bread, a spring house to cool the great cans of milk. The food was prepared by mother, grandmother and aunt. Catsup was made in the cellar, sides a pork curing from the ceiling. Chickens had their heads chopped off, then to see them run in circles until they were dead. They were then put in hot water before plucking the feathers. First floor of the house was a kitchen, a small parlor with double doors, large drawing room and utility room. Second floor four bedrooms.

There was activity in the autumn harvest when the community pitched in to help pick the vegetables, potatoes, tomatoes, fill the giant siloes with grain. There was a large barn across the road for the cows, two large horses, King and Daisy who were always escaping in the middle of the night, when the alarm was called the horses are out. There were many visitors, as grandfather had a salon on wood street in downtown Youngstown. In the driveway there was a Ford Tin Lizzie automobile that my father drove to wander away from the farm, so in the autumn of 1935 he moved his family to 35 N. Truesdale in Youngstown. I was in the first grade in Lincoln School which was across the street from our home. I grew up in a nice 3 story house. After elementary school graduated from East High School. Next came Youngstown college for one year of secretary course. Hired as a bookkeeper at General Electric Supply Co. for two years when I met the Prince of my life.

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Rita Pintaric, Class Reunion 1982

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What A Romance

by Rita

These are my recollections on my meeting with that great man in my life William Richard Pintaric. On a Sunday the week after Easter 1949. It started with plans to go dancing at the Idora Park Ballroom in Youngstown, Ohio. With my friend Angie, my sister Ann and I. We were three young girls without escorts.

We entered. Checking our coats, a young man I did not know said to me I like your hair cut the three of us were asked to dance many times and at the end of the set we gathered at the edge of the dance floor to wait. The same young man who liked my hair kept watching me for quite some time. I did wonder if he would ask me to dance. He did approach me and said would you like to dance. I couldn’t help but say,