Charles and Meka Stathis, the Greek Immigrants who started the partriarchial side of the Stathis Family in America

 

Demothenes C. Stathis with His Mother and Father

 

Demothenes C. Stathis (seated) and Brother Pete Stathis

 

Pete Delaporta 1921 Syracuse, WWI Veteran, Future Patriarch...not yet a Father of the 4 Girls

 

He was always trying various occupations. See Thea Eleni's Memoirs

***Link to Thea Eleni's Memoirs***

 

Delaporta Family: Matriarch Theodora (Center), Pete (little Pa Pou), Paraskevi (Nona), 4 Girls: Eleni (Back row, standing by father), Barbara (standing by mother), Maria (front of father), Corina (holding Grandmother's hand)

 

Different tinting on the photo. Which brings-out their feelings the best?

 

4 Delaporta Sisters Also see LINK here for close-up of this photo, further explanation, and related links.

***Link to 4 Sisters on a Pony further info.***

 

 

Maria Delaporta (Stathis), HS Graduation, Central High, Syracuse 1943. Maria was an Honor Student and was also awarded at Graduation the Virgil Medal for Latin. Maria was Salutatorian from Roosevelt Jr. High School 4 years earlier.

 

Demo C. Stathis, believed to be his High School Senior Photo

 

Maria Delaporta. Also believed to be her High School Senior Photo, age 18? So beautiful. The coloring here is the original copy, done at the time with the color-photography technology they would have had then. If she is 18 here, then this is Spring 1944, smack in the heart of WWII, just a few months before D-Day. According to the Parent Interview of 1993, she stated she went to work in a fighter airplane production facility. The writing on it says: To my Brother and Sister, With Love, Maria. Can't figure-out who she would have meant by brother? Likely one of her older sister's husbands....if one had been married at that point. Maybe not.... The Soldier in Training for Battlefield Medic. Texas Late 1943 or early 1944. The shadows make an interesting effect to his stately Saluting. We see in shadow his commanding Officer that he is presenting himself.

 

 

 

Above: Greek School 1935, Maria age 9 in front Row (in double braids). Includes her sister, Barbara, and other lifelong Greek friends. Such a cast of characters, all the first generation children of turn-of-the-centery Greek Immigrants coalesced in Syracuse, N.Y. One can understand the bond that they all felt and shared in Syracuse, and for many, shared for their whole lives. It's interesting that the tiny writing at the top, listing the names, gives the maiden and married names of these kids, thus someone delineated that many years later.

 

Maria by Classic Car, Downtown Syracuse.  Also see LINK here for close-up of this photo, further explanation, and related links.

Link to Maria by Classic Car further info.

 

 

Young Maria, maybe still Delaporta, Maybe Newlywed Mrs. D.C. Stathis