Content Note: This account concerns more recent events that may be unsettling to some readers.     — A Southwick Time Machine Reader-Requested Tragedy | True Crime      A Branch of the Bardsleys Alan Bardsley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1915. By September 1937, he was working as a sheet metal worker when he and Miss Phyllis Ruth Morse—who lived just down the road from him—filed their marriage intentions. Their first child, Kenneth A. Bardsley, was born on February 7, 1938. Six more children would follow: Barbara Jean, Bette, Donald, Harold W. “Buddy,” Joyce, and Philip.   Kenneth Bardsley   The growing family moved frequently in those early years. On July 26, 1942, Kenneth was baptized at White Church in Chicopee while the family was living at 192 Chicomansett Village. By 1950, the Bardsleys relocated from 97 Lancaster Avenue in West Springfield to 91 Hillside Avenue, also in West Springfield. It was there that disaster st...

  — A Southwick Time Machine Original | Tribute     Sylvester Lambert Meagher, Jr., married Marion Grace Chambers in a single-ring service at St. Mary’s Rectory in Westfield, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1929. For their honeymoon, they traveled to Washington, D.C. Upon their return on December 15, 1929, they made their home at 41 Pochassic Street before eventually moving to 9 and then later 42 Montgomery Street. Sylvester Jr. had to return as he was called to report for jury duty for the trial of cases of the Superior Court criminal sitting on Monday, December 23, 1929. That same year, Sylvester Jr. became manager of the grocery department at the First National Stores on Elm Street in Westfield. Marion was a telephone exchange operator. (First National Stores grew into a major New England supermarket chain. It eventually became Finast. The final Finast store closed in 1993.)   A First National Stores, Inc. grocery store (location unknown) as seen in 1928   In ...

  — A Southwick Time Machine Original | Tribute Felix H. Robtoy married Eileen M. Baker in the bride’s hometown of St. Albans, Vermont, on April 26, 1941. The ceremony was a joyful spring occasion. The bride carried Easter lilies and wore a princess-style white satin gown with a long tulle veil. Following the wedding, the newlyweds traveled to New York City, Boston, and Springfield, Massachusetts, for their honeymoon before moving to 2994 Main Street in Springfield to begin their married life. On November 19, 1942, they welcomed their first child, Donna Ann. Donna’s proud parents took her on a trip to Vermont for a few days on May 4, 1943, to meet her paternal grandparents. In 1946, a second daughter, Doreen Jean, was born. Not long afterward, the young family relocated to 19 Prospect Street in Westfield, Massachusetts, where they would put down deeper roots. Several years later, on November 4, 1951, a son, Wayne J. Robtoy, completed the Robtoy family. They later moved nearby to 4 ...