Rosemary Raymond Pagliaro, Class of 1958, and Carmen Pagliaro are celebrating their 49^th wedding anniversary today in Fairmont, where they live.

Rosemary is the only daughter of Mary Dudiak Raymond and Angelo Raymond and the only sibling of Bob Raymond, Class of 1951,  whose widow, Susan Russell Raymond, lives in White Hall.  

Rosemary and Carmen’s children are Melanie Ann Pagliaro, policy analyst for the Majority Leader in the West Virginia House of Delegates who lives in Charleston, and C.J. Pagliaro.

Rosemary’s mother’s siblings were Anna Dudiak Koval and Sophie Dudiak Shelosky of Monongah, who married George Shelosky, and John Dudiak.

 

Bobby and I were inseparable friends who lived across from each other on Church and Thomas streets before either one of us showed up at Sts. Peter and Paul School.

When Consolidation Coal Company sold the houses they were renting to the miners, my parents, Lena Futten Olesky and John W. Olesky, Sr., bought the Church Street home that the Raymonds were renting because it had indoor plumbing and our Thomas Street house did not.

The Raymonds moved to Frogtown, buying a house and running a tavern below their home not far from where the Kasper and Kubiet families lived.

Melanie, originally from Monongah, got her master’s in education administration at Marshall University after graduating from North Marion High and Fairmont State. She resided in Fairmont 2003-2007.

 

Bob was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean conflict, a former employee of Fairmont Box Factory and retired from Creative Labeling.

Bob and Susan’s children are Paula, married to Sam Adkins and living in Idamay; Robin Long of Colfax; Mary Harr of Pleasant Valley; and another Bob Raymond, married to Susie and living in Fairmont.

Kudos, Rosemary and Carmen! It’s been a LONG while since Rosemary was Bobby’s little sister.