John was born July 14, 1918. Mother Julianna and father Josef Pieklo. He had an older brother Stanley who died in 1963 from cancer. He had 5 sisters Nell,Ag, Vicky, Wanda, and Judy. He married Lola Shearer in August 1955. He had one daughter Paula born May 16, 1963. Two grandkids Meg and Craig.
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...