Patty Vest

    I met Ronald at his aunt Willo’s beauty shop, she had done my hair for 25 years and it was her retirement day, I went after work to get my hair cut for the last time and to say goodbye as she was moving back to her hometown of Buffalo, MO. She had just cut my hair and was getting ready to leave when Ron came down, he was taking her to dinner for she Raytown, she introduced my to him,  he had a beard which I hated so I pay any attention to him, shook his hand and it was nice to meet him and went on my way. About a month later I get. call from Willo wanting to know if it was alright to give Ron my number he would to go out with me and I well, I would do as a favor to Willo since was always so good to great-grandma and grandma.

I worked for my uncle Babe who owned a meat market, I worked there my senior year of high school and continued to work there after high school. My starting pay for 1973 was $2.00, I really didn’t like working because Virgin was not every nice to work for but uncle Babe needed help. I worked 5 days a week form 9 to 6 and then from 8 to 6 on Saturday and after we closed I helped clean everything so usually didn’t get out of there till after 7.  Wednesday was Virgie’s day off so she also left me a long list of chores to do plus wait on customers. Then is the January of 76 I decided to go to Longview college so I quit and started school, in the meantime I putting applications in for jobs. Kathy and I decided to apply at Hallmark so we down and filled an application out, about a week later we got called in for an interview and was hiring to work on third shift from 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. in Handwork, I worked in manufacturing  for 5 years then transferred to corporate on days in OMS, I continued working I that department transferring to different  jobs in OMS. My career at Hallmark lasted 35 years until my retirement in 2011. I had other little jobs that didn’t amount to much.

. My dad wanted to send us to a private school so we went to Our Lady of Lourdes which was where we went to church. I went there from 1st – 8th grade. I enjoyed

going there we had small classes and I knew everyone in my class, the only thing we the nuns most were nice except for the one that I had in fourth grade,

She wasn’t nice her name was Sister Ann Theresa she was always getting after someone for one thing or another. There were only 35 kids in my graduating class.

After graduating from OLL, I went to Raytown South Junior for 9th grade, it was hard I was use to going to a big school with so many kids. After 9th grade I

went to Raytown South High School from 10th- 12th grade, that was even harder it was even bigger, I was use to have to from room to room to get to my classes.

I made some new friends but most of my friends from OLL went to Raytown High so I really missed them. Classes were hard and the kids were not that friendly.

I graduated from South in 1973 with over 600 kids, I was so glad that High School was behind me, I decided to go to work instead of college, so off to find a job.

My mother’s parents Tony and Vita Treccariche moved to from the Northeast District to a house in the Southeast part of Kansas City, they brought a house

at 7915 Blue Ridge Ext. with an acre of land behind the house. My parents decided to move also, my grandpa gave they the money to buy the house next door

  to them, it was nice leaving next door so I could go see them anytime. My dad rented a building close to home and started his business there ( auto part store).

My dad planted a bunch of fruit trees in the back yard so we had plenty of fruit to eat in the summer. We always had dogs, my dad loved dogs.

We really didn’t have kids in the neighborhood to play with, their was the Suchrest that lived next door to grandma and grandpa, they had a son Bob who 

older than us but sometimes he would help with our kites. Most of the time we played with our cousins, Anthony and Tom ( my mom’s brother sons).

. I started kindergarten when I was 6, I went half days and I still remember my teacher, she was so nice. That started my school days.

Charter !

  The Beginning

I was born at 12:18 a.m. on December 23, 1954 at St. Lukes Hospital in Kansas nCity, Missouri. My parents were Fred and Nancy Caponetto.

I have one sibling an older sister Victoria. We lived in a small apartment in what was known as the Northeast where the Italians lived. The apartment

was not very nice, my mother didn’t work and dad worked for Manor Bakery delivering bread, mom used to say the rats were so big you could ride them,

she would put a loaf of bread on the counter and the next morning the rats would pull it off the counter and eat part of it.  It wasn’t an easy life for my

parents since my dad was the only one working. I only lived there for a few months, my mother’s parents (Tony and Vita Treccariche) had moved out

of the Northeast and brought a house in East Kansas City and moved away.  There was a house next door so may grandparents gave my dad enough

money to make a down payment on the house so we moved there. It was a small two bedroom, one bath house so my sister and I had to share the bedroom.

It  was nice having my grandparents next door.

Charter 2

      The Early Years

       The Early Years