John Paul Jones living in West
Virginia
After talking to
her motorcycling daughter, Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974, Ramona
Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, who lives in Monongah, thinks the “John Jones”
who complimented sportswriting legend Mickey Furfari may not be Monongah High’s
John Paul Jones.
Ramona’s email:
John,
Marcia talked to one of John Paul Jones’ relatives from McCue Avenue, Monongah.
He is living in West Virginia. Definitely not the JPJones you were
looking for.
I think Mary Catania Heywoood is probably on the right track with John Paul
Jones, son of Howard and Teresa Fabian Jones. Teresa graduated from MHS in
1933. Her father laid brick and blocks (with the help of his
wife). Probably built basements in most of the company houses that
were sold in East Monongah.
Teresa's brother, Louis (Feb) Fabian, lived on Riedy Street
in Monongah. Feb's children are MHS grads also -- Louis, MHS 1957, Connie, MHS
1960, and Mark, MHS 1967.
Teresa’s brother, Guy “Popeye” Fabian, was a sports writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the fifties. Frank (Michalski, Ramona’s late
husband) attended all the Cleveland Browns home football games when we lived in
Cleveland. Frank usually ran into Popeye before the game and he was ways
happy to talk to someone from Monongah.
Ramona
The confusion started when Mickey Furfari
told me that he was complimented by “John Jones” of Monongah High, who was
living in North Carolina, about Mickey’s interview of WVU quarterback Clint
Trickett. I leaped to, apparently, the wrong conclusion, particularly after Mary
Catania Heywood, Class of 1945, who lives in Covina, California, said John Paul
once lived in South Carolina. Maybe he returned to West Virginia later.
Ramona remembers
John Paul and his sister and mom, who worked at Sam’s Club.
I found
a John Paul Jones, son of Kenneth D. Jones, who married Kimberly Joyce Green on
Nov. 11, 1980 in Monongah. Kim is a daughter of John Edward Green and Joyce
Laverne Collins Green.
I
couldn’t find John Paul Jones in the Monongah High year-by-year graduation
lists that I have.
Those
lists go from 1918, the first MHS graduation class, through 1979, the last MHS
graduation before Monongah High was absorbed into the North Marion High
consolidation. Greta Martin Mike, Class of 1922, created the lists so that she
could start the Monongah High Alumni Reunions (1923 was the first), which
continue to this day.
As for Marcia
Michalski Westfall, a Monongah kindergarten teacher who lives in Kilarm with husband Dave Westfall, Class of
1948, when they’re not riding their Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic Electra Glide around the
country, she and Dave are in the Outer Banks with their Harley on a 1,000-mile
plus round trip.
The 2015
Monongah High Alumni Reunion will be Saturday, May 23, 2015 at the Knights of
Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont.
Circle
the date on your calendar and plan to attend. Tony Eates, who lives in
Fairmont, and I are trying to round up as many members as we can of the Class
of 1950, one of the honor classes. If we meet face-to-face I’ll take your photo
with me and others for this Monongah High Alumni blog.
If you know where Monongah’s John Paul Jones is living in West
Virginia, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com
with the information and I’ll add it to this Monongah High Alumni blog article.
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Mary Catania Heywood, Class of 1945, after seeing the original
article, emailed this:
Hi John,
The address my brother had for John Paul, son of
Howard & Teresa Jones, was Myrtle
Beach, SC. Phone # xxx xxx xxxx. This was
many yrs back, he’s not sure if it’s of value….. His family moved
to Morgantown and he did not graduate from MHS. Good luck, someone
may have his current address.
Mary
Heywood
Mary is married to Arthur Heywood.
When
Mary’s brother, Angelo Catania, went into the Army’s Coast Artillery during
World War II, as was reported in an earlier Monongah High Alumni emailed
newsletter, “He really liked this part of the country and convinced the rest of
us that we also would like it.”
At the
time, Alex was teaching
school in Perry, Ohio. Josephine was working for the
government in Washington, D.C. Angelo was working in Clarksburg. Mary was
working in Fairmont.
Added
Mary: “We opted to come here as a family and secured work that we all liked and
remained only a few miles away from one another. Of course, my father was
already retired and California reminded him of his native Sicily.”
The
Catania children’s father was an amateur photographer and inventor, remembers
Frank Franze, Class of 1950, who lives in Slidell, Louisiana.
Four of
the five Catania siblings have lived in Covina since -- till Alex, Class of
1944, died in 2007, and Josephine, Class of 1952, died in 2009.
Angelo, Class of 1943, will celebrate his 90th
birthday on Aug. 12. Pauline Layne Catania, wife of Angelo, died in 2001. I’ve exchanged Facebook messages with Paula Catania, Angelo’s daughter.
Carmella Catania Allard, Class of 1947, didn’t move to Covina
because her husband, Omer Allard, was still in the service. They live in San
Antonio, Texas.
