28 Nov
2019
28 Nov
'19
11:18 p.m.
Just to follow up, I found JF in the 1940 census records. He indeed was
Joseph Frank Ossanna, Jr.
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna
I've done some searching through newspaper archives and various
Ancestry.com-indexed databases. I haven't found any use of a middle
name
spelled out, always F. I even have an image of his draft card and it
just
reads "Joseph F. Ossanna, Jr."
However, digging a little deeper finds that his father went by the name
"Joseph FRANK Ossanna" so it's quite likely that this was the son's
middle
name (since he was a "junior"). I suspect he might have avoided
spelling
out Frank because people would have difficulty
undersding it wasn't short
for
Francis or something.