IRA REESE DAY

Ira, 21 Years Old

Ira told his children that he was one quart english, so going back, George (abt 1818) and Sarah Day (abt 1820) were both full english.

Ira told JD, his 3rd daughter, that he was laid of from his job at Curtis Wrights in 1951 the year JD was born. They lived in a cold water flat in Lodi, NJ. During that time, at 6 months old, JD had her first asthma attack and was in and out of the hospital until she was 2 and a half years old. Aunt Babe (Frances Dunn) and some of the others would help out with bringing food. After about a year, Ira got his job back.

He said that when he went back to Curtis Wrights Industries he deviced a

Ira, Babe and Marty

filing system that only he knew. He rearranged letters of the alphabet in his head making his own system and he did all the filing. His secretaries typed and answered the phone only. He would use files and replaced them right back in the filing cabinets. No one else knew how to find anything in his office. This worked and he was the boss there for many years.

 One day LD, Ira's oldest daughter, was talking on the phone to EG and TG (best friends of Ira (Ike) Day ( b. Dec,11,1953). EG  and LD were talking about their family trees and how the Day line was stopped about the 1820's with George and Sarah Day in Paterson, NJ and trying to link them to a Captain Samuel Day, a revolutionary was hero when EG's mother said, that we had a somewhat famous person in our family. That our father, Ira Reese Day was somewhat famous locally in Paterson because everyone knew that there was a man who would help people with their taxes and the IRS. EG mother also said didn't we remember how packed the funeral home was when he died. Many people wanted to pay their respects.

At a Dunn family reunion in 1991, which D and I, Jan, along with D's wife, C, their daughter, C M and my daughter, J W all went. There I was told by 3 cousins, things about our father. J N told me how my father helped him make a few decisions that helped him and how thankful he was for that help. B B told me how my father helped him in the same way and M B said my father helped his mother, my Aunt Babe (Frances), after his father died. He said she couldn't have made it without my father's helped. They all said they and others admired him and they had great memories of him.

Ira and his daughters, DD and LD
late 1950s at the Jersey shore.