Seventh Generation

123. Josephine (Jo, Jo Jo, Piti) LAGOS.

Josephine (Jo, Jo Jo, Piti) LAGOS and Joseph Frank BARON were married on 19 Mar 1947 in New York, NY, USA. Because Joe Baron was a divorced man (and therefore disapproved of by Jo's father Antonio Lagos), Joe and Jo were married while Josephine's parents were visiting Cuba. Joe and Jo later moved in with her parents, and Antonio was later to describe Joe in glowing terms.

Joseph Frank BARON (son of Francis BARON and Agnes ZAGATA) was born on 15 Mar 1914 in Passaic, Passaic County, NJ, USA. He served in the military between 1944 and 1946. In the US Navy on the USS Sabik, where he was a ship's barber, third class. He was educated at Passaic High School and graduated on 16 Jun 1949 in Passaic, Passaic County, NJ, USA. Did not graduate until 1949 because he had dropped out of high school at 16 when his mother died. He was a barber and owned his own barber shop in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA between 1949 and 1953. He died on 5 Apr 1953 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA. Josephine (Jo, Jo Jo, Piti) LAGOS and Joseph Frank BARON had the following children:

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Mercedes Mary BARON **111 was born on 21 Mar 1951 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA.32 Her grandfather Antonio Lagos had always wanted a descendant named after his sister Mercedes, and when she was born, he and his wife were visiting Cuba. Mercedes' parents Joe and Jo sent a telegram to Antonio and Josefa stating simply words to the effect "Mercedes and her mother are doing well." She died on 6 Feb 1957 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA. Dolores BALL (Carr) noted in 1992 that "Mercedes reached the hearts of her aunts and uncles as well as her cousins. What stands out is how special she was to her Aunt Dee [LAGOS) and Uncle Pie [BALL], who were extraordinarily good to her after her father's death. Long after the death of Mercedes and her father Joe Baron, her mother, Jo LAGOS BESTEIRO commented "A book is made up of many chapters and I look at this as a closed chapter of the Book of Life but I know that their memory will always live in the hearts of the Lagos Family."

Josephine (Jo, Jo Jo, Piti) LAGOS and Michael Stanley NASPINSKI were married on 25 Jun 1961 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA.

Michael Stanley NASPINSKI (son of John F. NASPINSKI and Katherine B. WAZECHA) was born on 22 Aug 1917 in Mahanoy Plane, Schuykill County, PA, USA. He was baptized on 26 Sep 1917 in Frackville, Schuykill County, PA, USA. Baptism took place at St. Anne's Church He was educated at Frackville High School and graduated in Jun 1935 in Frackville, Schuykill County, PA, USA. He served in the military between 1942 and 1945 in Newport, RI, USA. He was in the US Navy, where he served as a Ship's Cook First Class, cooking 21,000 meals a day on the destroyer Mervine at Newport. He was a cook in Newark, Essex County, NJ, USA after 1945. Worked as Second Cook at the Hotel Essex House and as a cook in Child's Restaurant and the Hickory Grille. He owned a luncheonette called Mike's between 1950 and 1960 in East Newark, Hudson County, NJ, USA. He was a postal clerk in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA between 1960 and 1979. He retired in 1979 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA. After retirement moved to Port St. Lucie, FL, in 1979, and then to Tallahasse, FL in 1994. He died on 12 Jul 2001 in Tallahassee, Leon, FL, USA. Josephine (Jo, Jo Jo, Piti) LAGOS and Michael Stanley NASPINSKI had the following children:

+341	i.	Avis Ann NASPINSKI.
+342	ii.	Arlette NASPINSKI.
+343	iii.	Michelle Frances NASPINSKI LAGOS.