Renee’s Baptism came up and her mother Kathy asked me to fill in as a temp God Father because the actual God Father was not able to attend. I agreed to being the stand-in so long as the Baptism counted toward my going to church that weekend (I did not want God to get tired of me by going to Church too often).

My sister Margaret was the God Mother and the entire Baptism was attended by the “Trenton Pinochle Club” as we liked to refer to them (Aunt Louise, Loretta (Mom), Peg, etc.). The two of us are seated in the back row in the picture.

The ceremony went off without a hitch, although I got called the wrong name several times but it was no biggy. At the time I was a teenager so I really didn’t care what they called me so long as it counted toward my going to Church for that week.