Nativity BVM

I wrote earlier about the cultural ease with which Lithuanians approach funerals. Few funerals go unrecorded.

When Mr. Irene's Dad returned to Chicago from his service in the U.S. Army, a young friend of his died. The friend was crossing a street in Marquette Park, and a car hit him. He left behind a wife and several young children.

The friend's funeral took place at the Lithuanian church in Marquette Park, Nativity BVM. That's the same church at which Mr. Irene's parents later married.

Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1956. The funeral Mass gets underway at Nativity BVM.