Jane Vergetis

First memory of Aunt Jane was about 1955, 1956. I was a Milwaukee Braves fan and a Mickey Mantle fan. Aunt Jane was an avid Yankee's fan. My family states that Aunt Jane brainwashed. me into being a full time Yankee's fan, which she did. So, I was a full time Yankee's fan and worse an American League fan. Being a Yankee's fan was tough during the 1957 and 1958 World Serices. I was given a hard time at school and booed during the 7th inning stretch In Milwaukee in 1958. I also remember running down on Saturday afternoons at my Nona's house to get the Milwaukee Journal Peach Sheet to see how the Yankee's are doing. I saved a few of those. My next memories are more recent as in sometime during 2001, Ellis Island released to the public the immigration records. I then started on the Vergetis Family Tree. Aunt Jane over the many years was invaluable in sending me pictures, record documents, sorting out the stories (fact from fiction), putting names to stories and pictures and running down to City Hall to get me death certificates. Aunt Jane was instrumental in putting together in one place, Histories of both the Vergetis and Theodoropoulos Families. Unfortunately, over the past few years, with the onset of Alzheimer's, her memories faded, but I still called once to twice a month to check up on her. Also mentioned, the fact that it's too bad that Aunt Jane didn't have children, but luckily, she had her nieces Sue and Nancy and Nephew Gregg to do her grocery shopping, her household chores, take her to the doctor, dentist and church. Chuck Vergetis Fountain Hills, Az

In a nutshell, Aunt Jane was the most selfless person I've ever had the honor of knowing. When I moved to Milwaukee as a newlywed back in 1977 she embraced me like family and every week had Jim and I over for dinner. I remember every weekend she'd go upstate to help care for her niece Pamela's many children and if one child wanted something different for dinner, it got made. Her smiling face, boundless energy and thoughtfulness for others never ceased to amaze me. I remember her mentioning to me during one of her summer visits to LBI that she'd had to make enough meals to tide over a lady she'd been cooking for who was disabled before she came for her two weeks. She packed it all up, got on a bus, and stored the meals in the woman's freezer. I get choked up even now thinking about that. My only regret is that she'd never married and had children that could have taken care of her and loved her back, the way she deserved to be loved. Her love of family, church and friends - the countless hours of baking, the cookies or baklava that would arrive - all paid for and sent by a woman who never had lots of money, who chose to spend it not on herself but on the thousands of pounds of butter she'd stock in her freezer for the next delicious gift she'd send off in the mail. The weddings, the birthdays, the church events. Too many to count over her very long life. Her humble life, spent in an apartment she was loath to leave because it was where she lived her life with her mom, was spent always thinking of others. I want to say. my love and thanks here to her friend Jill who every holiday, invited Aunt Jane to spend each holiday with her wonderful family - Jill would drive over an hour each way, pick her up and pamper her, and make sure her Christmas, and Thanksgiving were filled with people who loved her. Just the other day, I organized my many recipes accumulated over 45 years of marriage and I held in my hands so. many of Aunt Jane's she'd been kind enough to share with me - Koulourakia, her Kapama, her carrot cake, her Christmas cookies with frosting which my grandson now loves so much - when I make them I'll say a prayer for her and remember her with much love. Till we meet again Aunt Jane - thank you for all you gave to me and my family - my daughter Alexi said, "well, we know Aunt Jane is in Heaven, because no one deserves it more than she does". Godspeed.

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