Ethel Morgan Loomis
at the time of her wedding in 1914.

Ethel Morgan as a girl.  She grew up in the Morgan homestead at Moss Springs, where her grandparents, ERF and Hannah, had started their farm in 1873.  She met Arthur Loomis when they were students at Baker University in Kansas.  They had four sons, Robert, John (who was stillborn), Edward, and Richard.  Ethel died of leukemia in 1937 and is buried at the Moss Springs cemetery.  Arthur married his second wife, Kate Wood Ashley, in 1938.  From 1947 to 1957, they served with American forces in Japan, helping to rebuild public education there.  

Arthur Kirkwood Loomis
in 1914, the year he married Ethel Morgan at her family's farm in Moss Springs, Alta Vista, Kansas.  His father, an itinerant Methodist minister, Rev. Merritt Francis Loomis, officiated.

Each human life belongs to a family, and each family has its life as part of the one human family that springs from the source of all life and all being.

God is is, writes Augustine in his Confessions 13.31:  "est est."  Who are we?  We are ourselves, and we are a portion of our parents, and we are a breath from our human life's ancient beginning, each of us is a minute presence with a long coming-to-be, and we have a wide embrace, if we care to embrace the full width of our being.

Concetta Passafaro Guerriere
in 1906, the year she married Leonardo Guerriere in Borgia, Catanzaro, Italy, and came to America.  


Leonardo Guerriere
first sailed to the United States in 1902, aboard a German ship out of Naples.  His sponsor was his brother Luigi, a shoemaker living in Freeland, Pennsylvania.  In 1906 he became a US citizen and returned to Italy to marry Concetta.  They settled in Freeland, where the first of their four children, Louis, was born in 1910.  Next came Tony, Jeanette, and Mary.  Mary and I met on July 2, 1953, at Cornell University, and were married at the Newman Chapel there on August 21, 1954.  Our sons were born in Pennsylvania, Leonard in 1956 and Mario in 1958.  Leonard died at the age of 33 and is buried with his grandparents at St. Anthony's cemetery in Freeland.  Mario lives with his wife, Donna, and their four children, Joseph, Rebecca, Gabriel, and Teresa, in Goshen, New York.