In March, Debbie Prunty Poluck and Louis Poluck, both class of 1973, saw their son, Todd Poluck, marry Kirsten.

Two days ago Debbie and Louis celebrated their wedding anniversary. They live in Idamay.

Debbie works at Davis Electric. Her mom is 1950 Farmington High grad Margie Jones Prunty.

Debbie’s brother is John Prunty II, 1980 North Marion High grad, married to Geneva. He works at Quality Hydraulics and lives in Monongah. His father, John Prunty, Jr., is Monongah Class of 1949.

Tammie Poluck Shumate is Class of 1977.

Keeping track of who is related to whom and how is a full-time job for me because so many Monongah High families have married into other families.

In my case, Frances Olesky Fazio, the sister of my father, John W. Olesky, Sr., married Renzy Fazio. Dad’s other sister, Helen Olesky Kerekes, married Steve Kerekes.

There were 13 children in the Fazio family. Uncle Steve had a sister, Claire Yuhas, who lived in Carolina with her three daughters, Irene, Tunney and Elizabeth.

So that means I have blood or marital ties to the Fazios, the Kerekeses, the Yuhases, the Preolettis, the Ramseys, the Dibiases, the Pasquales, the DeCarlos, the Domicos, the DePonds.

Plus the Eates, Kasper and DeMary families provided godparents for my three children.

No wonder everyone in Monongah takes care of everyone else in Monongah. It’s not a village; it’s a family of families!