Regina Gonzalez
Violet Anderson Carlson
This is the ice cream shop right across the street from Aunt Violet's old apt in Frewsburg NY. In the mid 1970s, all I had to do was go out her front door, cross the yard, cross the street, and there I was, at the Igloo (now renamed as The Corner Scoop) Ice Cream Shop. My mother's favorite was Maple Walnut or Butter Pecan Perry's Hard Ice Cream Cones. My Dad liked Black Cherry Perry's Hard Ice Cream Cones the best. I used to dabble in the Mexican Sundae a lot. My sister liked Hot Fudge Sundaes. And we all loved the Banana Splits.
The people in my family who lived right across the street from it were Aunt Violet, and Santina and Denny Johnson. Santina and Denny lived in a house that looked like it was planted in the middle of Aunt Violet's front yard! right across the street from the Igloo / Corner Scoop Ice Cream Shop. We stayed in touch for many years. Santina moved to 126 Sampson Street and eventually became my son David's babysitter so I could go to work sometimes. She was an awesome person to talk to, and she had great stories to tell about her time growing up in an all girls parochial school, and her times spent in both Africa and Italy. Aunt Violet eventually moved over to Cherry St Senior Housing in Frewsburg.
I tried to stay in touch with cousin Marcia, Great Aunt Violet, and Santina and Denny Johnson, after my mother Linda’s death in 1980 as much as I could. By pure stroke of luck, I gave Aunt Violet a ride home one day from the Armory when she had fallen down some concrete steps. My heart skipped a beat when I realized this woman I was picking up off the pavement, with a bloody scraped up nose, was actually my Great Aunt Violet, whom I had not seen in a long, long time. This is how I learned my Great Aunt Vi had moved into senior housing behind the Hotel Frewsburg on Cherry St. So I began to visit her there occasionally, until she moved to a nursing home and then passed away in 2008. I once even unwittingly picked up a hitchhiker, who turned out to be Aunt Violet's grandson, (Terri 'Travis' and Marcia's third born son), my cousin Stevie, when he was hitchhiking back home to Frewsburg one day. Imagine both of our surprises to find out we were related. I had not seen him since I was a kid. I was told later he also died but I have no details on this. Submitted by Gina, (Regina Mazzurco Gonzalez)
The people in my family who lived right across the street from it were Aunt Violet, and Santina and Denny Johnson. Santina and Denny lived in a house that looked like it was planted in the middle of Aunt Violet's front yard! right across the street from the Igloo / Corner Scoop Ice Cream Shop. We stayed in touch for many years. Santina moved to 126 Sampson Street and eventually became my son David's babysitter so I could go to work sometimes. She was an awesome person to talk to, and she had great stories to tell about her time growing up in an all girls parochial school, and her times spent in both Africa and Italy. Aunt Violet eventually moved over to Cherry St Senior Housing in Frewsburg.
I tried to stay in touch with cousin Marcia, Great Aunt Violet, and Santina and Denny Johnson, after my mother Linda’s death in 1980 as much as I could. By pure stroke of luck, I gave Aunt Violet a ride home one day from the Armory when she had fallen down some concrete steps. My heart skipped a beat when I realized this woman I was picking up off the pavement, with a bloody scraped up nose, was actually my Great Aunt Violet, whom I had not seen in a long, long time. This is how I learned my Great Aunt Vi had moved into senior housing behind the Hotel Frewsburg on Cherry St. So I began to visit her there occasionally, until she moved to a nursing home and then passed away in 2008. I once even unwittingly picked up a hitchhiker, who turned out to be Aunt Violet's grandson, (Terri 'Travis' and Marcia's third born son), my cousin Stevie, when he was hitchhiking back home to Frewsburg one day. Imagine both of our surprises to find out we were related. I had not seen him since I was a kid. I was told later he also died but I have no details on this. Submitted by Gina, (Regina Mazzurco Gonzalez)
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