Her name was Anne Cogan, the oldest of three sisters.
The photo is of her hometown, Sligo, Ireland.
She was pulled out of the third grade in order to take care of a dying aunt.
She never returned to school.
Later on, she was sent to St. Charles Illinois to take care of a relative who was a Catholic priest.
She and her two sisters took a subsequent voyage to the U.S. during which one of her sisters.passed away.
Anne eventually settled on the South side of Chicago which was a large Irish immigrant community.
There, she met and married Timothy Dillon a fireman from County Cork.
Our mom, Paula Dillon had a stepsister, Loretta.
Timothy was a Battalion Chief in the Chicago Fire Department.
He passed away when our mom was 22 years old in 1937.
Living alone the rest of her life, Anne died at the age of 94 in 1969.
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