Sat 10/17/2020 7:28 PM
John, IV,
I’m happy you and Gene Elcik are communicating, and thank you for sharing your email with him. We had a wonderful visit with Gene on Wednesday. I gave him as much information as I could about the research you and I are doing on the Elcik family. He was very interested in that. I’m hoping he will be a contributor as I believe he’s the only living Elcik of his generation.
I photocopied several pages of notes I’ve taken and some of the family group sheets you sent me. While I was doing that, he and Jack spent some time talking, and even Jack said how much he enjoyed that. It was wonderful to have him here with us for a couple of hours.
Also, Marilyn Keamy stopped by the same day, and she and Gene were happy to see each other, even if it was for a little while. She’s soon to be 93 and pretty frail, but she has an incredible memory. She didn’t stay long; she wore a mask as did Gene while she was here. I kept a 6′ distance, and she was comfortable with that. She’s so afraid of coming in any contact with people during COVID, and I agree with that. She doesn’t go out in public much at all and has even stopped going to the library even though they’re open. She went every day and spent several hours socializing, doing crossword puzzles, etc. She wrote the names on the back of the Karkos photo you sent. She knew all of them and even some stories about them. She’s truly amazing!! She didn’t know, nor did Gene, if Anna and Mary Pelcarsky were sisters. That remains a mystery.
Beth