McManamon Family Tree

Per phone conversation 3/16/96 with Jean DiCicco, daughter-in-law ofJosie. Josie was verbally abusive to Jean DiCicco. When Jean DiCiccocontacted Josie about family information, Josie said she did not want herfamily included in the geneology.

Josie owned a small cafe with a juke box called the Oop Shoop inYoungstown for a few years. Jean Srpan Cooke remembers on rare occationsgetting old 45 records from the juke box because room was needed for thenew popular songs. Josie was unable or unwilling to give dates to JeanDiCicco for shop ownership. Josie and Jake probably got divorced in the1960's. There is bad feelings between them from the gist of myconversation with Jean DiCicco. Jose is remarried to a man named Joe butdid not want any information given out. She and her husband are livingtogether, not in nursing homes.

Jake had told Joan and Jean that Josie's first marriage to an Italian orSicilian was arranged by her father to either pay off a debt or tostrengthen family ties. Her first husband was quite a bit older thenJosie and either physically and verbally abusive or just verbally abusiveto her. Josie finally left him.

Per Josie conversation 11/2/96; her marriage to DiCicco was not arranged,but "just happened". He was 12 years older. Their son Frank, was born in1929, and was "a couple years old" when Josie divorced her first husbandbecause "he used to beat the hell out of me". Her parents took her awayfrom him. "My father did not know he used to beat me up or he would havekilled him".

Per Jean DiCicco, Josie and Jake were both not nice to her, verballyabusive, snubbed her or gave her the cold shoulder. Jean DiCicco statesshe is shy.

Jean Srpan Cooke told Jean DiCicco, when she next talked to Josie, totell her I appreciated her teaching Jean, Joan and Theresa the box stepin dancing. I said I had good memories of Josie because she was nice tome. Jean DiCicco said Josie never taught any of HER children to dance.

Per conversation with daughter-in-law, Jean DiCicco 11/2/96: "Josie is abitter women, and too ornery to die." Josie has been hospitalized a lotover the last 10 years.

Per conversation with Josie by Jean and Joan 11/2/96; Not at all scaredabout dying. Got diabetes and her vision is almost gone, only seesshadows. Blindness is the worse thing to happen because she lovesreading. Josie almost cried on the phone, stating she could not writeChristmas cards or letters, only listens to TV. She stated a few monthsago her nieces visited her in the hospital, which created joy for her.She said our phone call was a God send and that she loved both of us andwants us to visit her next year.

Josie met Jake over someone's house. When Jake came in it was love atfirst sight. Billie Snyder was about 5-6 years old. She dated Jake about1930 or 1931 and then they married in 1933.

"I loved your mother, (Dorothy Snyder Srpan). She was guardian angel, hada heart of gold like her dad, Jacob." Dorothy Snyder Srpan was alwaysgood to her, where as her mother-in-law, Mary Stack Snyder called her a"damn black Dago". Our grandfather, Jacob Snyder, would tell Josie, "Ilove you." Jake Snyder, Josie's husband, was a mommies boy and would notstand up to his mother to defend Josie. At the Snyder family gatheringsand parties, when Mary Stack Snyder screamed at Josie, Rock Gillespie,Grace's husband, and Roy Gillespie would come, put their arms around her,kiss and console her, saying that Mary was a devil of a woman.

Even though Mary Stack Snyder was mean and screamed obscenities at Josie,Josie felt sorry for her. Mary could not see well, and barely at all outof one eye. Josie called an optomotrist and paid extra for him to go toMary's house, exam her eyes and make glasses. Josie told him not to payattention when Mary would not let him into the house, but be persistantand keep trying to get in. He told Mary that Josie paid him already andshe better let him in the house. The optomotrist told Josie he had nevermet anyone who would be so nice to that kind of mother-in-law. Josiestated she felt sorry for Mary. The optomotrist discoved a way to makeMary see out of her bad eye. After that Mary told Josie how sorry she wasfor being mean and asked forgiveness. Josie said God had to forgive her.Mary got real nice after she got the new glasses.

Josie and Jacob Snyder (father-in-law) would lay on the floor doingcrossword puzzels. Jacob was afraid of Mary and she would make him get up.

When Bill Snyder was 15-16 years old, Jacob, Mary and Bill moved indownstairs with Jake and Josie who lived upstairs. Mary Stack Snyderwould come upstairs and call Josie a black Dago. Jacob Snyder cameupstairs and would start to hit Mary for saying such things. Josie toldhim to stop, "She (Mary) needs to be pittied."

Josie, Agnes Gillespie, Dorothy Snyder Srpan and maybe Grace Stack wouldgo out to a movie or to a resteraunt. Dorothy liked Josie and Josiestated "I loved her." They did not go rollar skating because Josie didnot know how. Josie liked to dance.

1940 Youngstown City Directory: Snyder Jacob jr (Josephine) wksCarnegie-T S Corp h 1014 Mabel

INTERVIEW WITH JOSIE TRAFICANT DICICCO SNYDER BUCIK, September 2000

JOSIE'S SIBLINGS

She has five brothers; the oldest is Albert, then Jim, Tony, Pat and Sam. Josie has two sisters; Mary is older than Albert and Rosie is older thanJosie. They all died of colon, lung or esophagus cancer. All brothers andsisters lived in Youngstown. Josie was born between Tony and Jimmie. She can't remember Albert'sbirth year. Tony is 3 year's younger than Josie, born in 1916. Jim was born 1917.

JOSIE

Your parents were Italian, you're Italian? Josie-Yes. You were from Youngstown? Josie-Yes. What did your dad do? Josie--My dad was a foreman on the rail, on the tracks. Were your parents from the Old Country? Josie-Yes, my parents were from the Old Country. Where in Italy? Josie-In Simone, that's North. South was Calabrese and Napzon???? So, you speak Italian? Josie-A few words. I used to talk real good but now since I don't haveanybody to talk to. (Discussion with Joe that possibly the stroke had an effect on her speaking Italian). Mymother and father couldn't speak English. I used to make my father'sreports out from the RR. He couldn't write. I used to write his reports,make his reports out. And they had to bring a report in every day. Andthey knew that I made his reports but they liked him so well, he was sucha good foreman. But they used to come over to our house, his big bossesto eat. Were the bosses all Catholic? Josie---No, the bosses weren't all Catholic. They were all differentnationalities. My mother and father were Catholic. What was your father'sname? Josie-Salvatore, and my nephew, his name was Salvatore and he was alwaysproud of that name. My father's name was Salvatore but he changed hisname to Sam. What was your maiden name? Josie- Traficant. My nephew is a congressman now. He's having trouble. So were some of your brothers and sisters born in Italy? Josie-No they were all born here. And your parents met here or in Italy? Josie-No, they met and married in Italy then came here. Have you everbeen to Italy? Josie-No. I wanted to go when we bought this house, this was my Italy. Iwanted to go to Rome. Did you ever write to the relatives? Josie-Oh yes I did, I used to write Italian. The words are exactly asthey are pronounced and that's how they are spelled. I wrote to Italy butI didn't know if they would understand my letters but they wrote back. Icould read almost all of it. I wish I could have went.

Josie wanted the parrots, not Jakie. Josie is godmother of Rosemarie Gillespie King.

Josie, 14 years ago, diagnosed with Uterine CANCER. Got radiation,refused chemo- told she had 6 months to live. Put implant and she did nothave a hysterectomy.

So, what caused your blindness? Josie---This eye, I'm stone blind in this one. This one I see shadows.This one a vein broke in there. Macular degeneration. And then I saw onTV where they could fix my degeneration so the doctor who could do it isone I went to in Cleveland a whole year for a study and when I went tosee him on Belmont he could do nothin' for me. Joe---I was going to take her out to Akron where they have these visualaides out there where they have these things virtual reality but everytime we make an appointment she gets sick. Josie-I went to my family medical doctor and he said I should reconcileto myself that you are blind. Don't go to Akron, they can't do nothin'. Joe-Yeah, he said you would just be wasting your money. She was going tothis Oriental doctor but all he wanted to do was operate on her and gether money. She, the eye she is totally blind on, has a cataract on it. Hewanted to take it off. Well, would that help my sight? He said there wasno guarantee. So, why take it off, I am blind in that eye.

So, how long have your kidney's been bad, you been on dialysis? Joe---Five years now. Josie-How my kidney's turned bad, I went to the doctor for high bloodpressure. He gave me a prescription. I was supposed to drink the pillswith orange juice but he didn't tell me that. When I went to get the nextprescription, there was a big thing on there: Do Not drink without orangejuice. I said to that guy, "Boy, I've been burning and so damn sick." Hesaid, "Well, that kidney's dead already." It's a good thing he said todrink orange juice then or the other kidney would've died. This kidneythey can't find, the one they killed it. (Discussion about dialysis)Without it I would only live about 4 weeks. Joe---she was without it for 4 days from Friday to Monday and she couldhardly breathe. I had to rush her to emergency and everything. They hadto put a temporary catheter in her. ( Josie-they put it in my groin).

FRANKIE DICICCO and First Husband DiCicco

How did you meet him then? Josie--When I was a young kid. I married him when I was 13 . I was 15when Frankie was born. I was married for a year before I got pregnant Josie--He used to come to our house. My sister married Magerelli or olliand he used to come over with him. And his friend didn't beat your sister up? Josie-No. Oh yeah. He did too. She had a little girl. She left him.Florence (daughter) got married and she had two sets of twins, girls andboys. She had Jane and Joan. You're Jean and Joan, she had Jane and Joan.The girls were identical; it was the boys didn't look alike at all.(Named Rusty and can't remember the other name). The girls werebeautiful. She had seven children all together. Then she got married again? Josie-No. She left him, this was her daughter. Yeah, my sister gotmarried again. Her husband just died a couple of years ago. She diedbefore him.

But your first husband was a lot older than you? Josie-Twelve years older. He was Italian? Josie-Yeah. So, how long did you live with him before you got divorced? Josie-About 5 years. Frankie was a baby when I divorced him. Why did you divorce him? Josie--He used to beat me. I lived next door to my mother and father. Heused to beat me up so bad and I never told them (parents). Well, mysister, Rosie, come there one day when he was beating me up and, boy, shestarted beating up on him. She told my father. My father says, "I didn'traise you for him to beat you up." Just leave him. Joe -Your sister Rosie was one nut to mess with, I tell you. Josie-Boy, she was tough. And my father says, "Why didn't you tell me?"I says, "I was afraid, I thought you'd do somethin', get in a fight withhim." (About her husband) He used to lock me in the house and everything. Did you move in with you mother and father after you divorced? Josie-Yeah, I moved in with my mother and father.

Does he remember his father? Josie-Yeah, oh yeah, I used to take him to his father whenever he wantedhim. When his father died, we had him at our house in the casket.(Divorced from him and married to Jake).

Josie--And then I took Frankie to Cleveland to meet his relatives and Iwent to get him and they wouldn't give Frankie to me. So, I came home. Myfather would say, "Where's Frankie?" I said, "Oh, he wanted to stay alittle while longer." I couldn't tell him because he'd want to go there.So I took them to court and the judge said to his relatives; "How couldyou keep that baby away from the, she's a baby. He said to me, you gohome and I will see to it that he gets home. And they brought him home.In the dead of winter. How long was he gone? Josie-He was gone almost 2 years. I'd go get him and they would say, noyou can't have him. So my brother-in-law, Rosie's husband, says you hadbetter go to the court and tell them what's going on here. And they (herhusband's family) thought they'd get to keep him since he knew everybody.Frankie's relatives knew everybody in the courthouse. And the judge saysto him, I forget what his first name was, "How could you take a baby awayfrom a baby." I'll never forget that. "Go home, I'll see to it that hegets home." And I thought, well, that's a good way to get rid of me.Well, they brought him home.

So, his father was in Youngstown still? Josie-His father was dead. Joan--He died young then! Josie-Oh yes. He died while they were playing cards. Dropped dead. Iheard that somebody killed him. Joan-Was he in the Mafia? Josie-No. But he was with a bunch of people that were. Oh, I could writea book about my life. I should have done it a long time ago but it is toolate now.

Josie--When you mentioned Mafia there was a fella that they played cardswith all the time that was in love with me. But I didn't know it, youknow. But it was his niece who'd say, "My uncle loves you." So theyplanned, one night, someone would steal me, take me. An another guy, fromthe Mafia said that; thought a lot of me, warned me and came and got meand took me to my mother and father's house. And he said, "Hide mesomewhere because when they found out what I done they'll kill me." Theycame to my father's house and looked for him but they didn't find him,they didn't. He was up in the attic. So, how old were you when this happened? Josie-I was about 16 years old, Frankie was a baby. They were going toleave Frankie and take me. Oh, my father couldn't get over that that guycame to take (me), in the middle of the night. We walked home, he walkedme home with Frank and it was late and he was afraid that they'd catchhim. Whatever happened to him? Did they kill him? Josie-No they never found him. He got away and he wrote that a long timeafterwards and said he was safe. Anyway, they weren't going to doanything to him anymore. I don't know if they ever killed him. And that'swhy I think they killed him, Frankie's father. Because he played cardswith the guys who would ?kidnap me. He didn't know that. But you were divorced at that time? Josie--Oh yes, I was divorced from him. Jean-That way you could getmarried in the Church if he was dead-laughter. Josie-They wouldn't have married me though if they would've took me.What would they have done with you? Josie-Who knows what they would have done with me. Joan--They justwanted you as their sex slave? Josie-Probably. Jean-You have led a pretty interesting life.

How long have you lived out here in Lake Milton? Joe---since 1972. Since you got married? Joe-No, we got married in 1973.

Josie-His mother came here and she went to put me to divorce Jake. Theyliked me but they knew I was 25 years older than him. And he wouldn'thave any children. Joe--There is a lot of people they go through life without children,don't worry about that. Josie---Yeah and you are better off ?stru. I have one son and his wifehates me. Oh, she hates everything I give her (Jean DiCicco). She hatesme. Joe-They have a place just on the other side of the Lake and if I everneeded them in case of an emergency or something, just forget it. Josie---If he wouldn't have a sister, I don't know what I could do. Doyou call them? Joe---They have a phone and everything but you can never get a hold ofthem over there. Josie-They're out the Lake all summer long but they don't visit me. Joe-They visited twice this summer. Even Frankie by himself? Josie-Frankie sticks by his wife the way he's supposed to when you getmarried. Twins comment: And Frankie is the one that loved Jakie! Josie-He loved Jakie even after I left him. Twin- even when he beat himup! Josie-He (Jake) was so mean and he hated him but he (Frankie) stillloved him.

Josie-I have four grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. (Joe shows us some pictures). My great grandchild is 26. Jim Traficant whenhe was a congressman picture. Then taking pictures.

Josie-I'm glad to see you two. I am glad that you came. I never didthink you would come. Would they ever be able to come? I thought someonewas playing a trick on me. Who would have known about Jean and Joan? Andthen I thought it about the Gillespie's.

Josie--Joe would never beat me up. He would never, never put a fingeron me. I bet a lot of times he feels like beating the hell out of me buthe never would.

Josie--Frank, when he comes over and sees me, he kisses me and loves me.(Why Jean DiCicco does not like you) Jean is funny I like her. She is thewife of my son and the mother of my grandchildren. I used to dye my hairred and she would tell anyone that said they liked my hair, "Oh, she dyesher hair!"

MARRIAGE- JAKE SNYDER AND JOSIE TRAFFICANT DICICCO

Jakie and Josie married when Billie was a little kid. She met Jakie at aplace where she lived with the Ackermans. He used to come there. Josie---Jakie used to visit "the people and then I met him". Can'tremember how long she was married to Jakie. I left him some time in the50' s or 60's. I don't know where we got married. She finally rememberedthey got married in a church.

Josie---I had a car and Jakie had a charge where he used to buy gas. Theguy used to say, "Why don't you buy your gas here and charge it?" Theydidn't believe me. So I said, OK, I buy gas there once and when he sawthe bill he said that you can't afford that car, just park it or sell it.I bought it too, I worked but he told everyone that he bought it. Nobodybelieved that I bought it.

Did Jake ever hit you? Josie--"Jakie used to hit me in front of people. When I was cooking onenight at 4 in the evening well I got stabbed with a fork He was cruel. Mymother was blind and he would come and hit her. Gee, Oh God."

Why did you stay with him so long? Josie--I tried not to leave but he was so mean to my son. My son calledhim "Dad". After I left him he used to go to my sons. First he didn'tlike him, then after I left him he would go there you see.

So you just walked out on him? Josie--Yah, I walked out. When I had enough money. I worked all thetime. I worked and he took my pay. Until I said, well, you aren't gettingmy money anymore. And then when I wanted something he wouldn't buy meanything.

LEAVING JAKE

When you left Jakie was it like a big fight or something? Josie----No, I just left. When he had left that paper on the table and Isaw it when he didn't even have the nerve to tell me to sign it. But Iknew that he was waiting for my signature. I left him. I didn't take myclothes or nothin'. I didn't take anything. I went back and got themafter awhile. I went back the get the $3000. I bought a house just threestreets up away from his. I bought a little house for $10,000. When I gotdone with it, it was worth $30,000. I worked every day, you know, Ialways worked. And then I got to keep my own money. I worked in the Mill.I would bring my paycheck home and give it to him (Jake). And I'd give itto him.

So, when you left Jake, did he try to come and find you? Josie---No. Joan---That was just OK with him? Josie---He knew that I wasn't going tosign that so why look for me. He knew before I left. Joan-He didn't try to woo you back? Josie-Oh yes, he wanted me to comeback. He would go to my son's house and cry. I don't know how my soncould like him. He hated my son. He hated him. He hated poor Frankie.Frankie wanted him to love him. I couldn't stand it the way he hated him. Jean--Do you know why he hated him? Josie---He was just like hismother. My son was so good that his mother wanted Frankie to go withBillie. Billie was a little (wild)

JOSEPH BUCIK

How did Josie and Joseph Bucik meet? Joe Bucik- She was having a pretty hard time of it when we met. Josie-I used to have a little restaurant between my sister-in-laws, the"Oop Shoop" custard stand. Jean- I remember that you had a jukebox there. Josie-Where you there? Jean/Joan---We were only there a couple of timeswhen we were about 14-15 years old. Josie-we had a Victrola there, a jukebox. They used to come and changethe records. We used to buy a lot of the old records. Joe-When they were getting out of style, they would see it for almostnothing. So, how long did you have that? Josie---Oh, I had it, 5-6 years. Did you buy that with your own money because you were married to Jakiethen? Josie-Yeah. What did Jakie say when you bought that? Did he try to take it away fromyou? Josie--- No. He didn't try to help. He didn't try to take it away fromme.

And so you two ( Josie and Joe ) met there? Josie- He used to come there and help us. Joe-I used to help them out over there. They'd be going somewhere andthey would lleave me in charge of it. I had to close the place up andeverything. If they were going out for a night or so. Were you a paid employee? Joe-No, I'd just do it out of kindness, helped them out. So, did you (Joe ) like her then? Hoped she would get a divorce? Joe- Yeah, I liked her. Josie-he liked me from the beginning. I didn't care for him. I learnedto like him. Well, I'm glad he liked me. And, I'm a lot older than him.His mother and father they wanted to talk to Jean-do you remember seeingJakie's grandparents? Josie---No, I never saw them. They were dead. All I knew was hisfather's brother, Uncle Joe. He was nice. He would give them half of hispension check when Jake's father was real sick. Repeat He gave half ofhis pension check. She shouldn't have taken it. He didn't have enough tolive on when he gave them half. Shoot. Jean-where did Joseph live? Josie -I don't know, but he didn't live in town. Jean-And was hemarried? Josie--- His wife left him. Jean---Why did she leave him? Josie---I have no idea. He was such a nice guy. He was so nice to Jake'smother and father. Jean---So he didn't live in Youngstown? Josie-I think he lived in Sharon or someplace close. Josie-He just got home and I said, "Tell him to come down here. Someoneis breaking my door down. When he got down there the car, the guy, wasgone. And you didn't see any cars, did you Joe ? Joe- No.

Recieved June18, 2001. "Dear Jean, Thank you for your words of sympathy.Josephine enjoyed seeing the two of you and talked about you after. JoeBucik. " Place and time of service: Monday, June 4, 2001 at St.Catherine's Church, Lake Milton, Ohio 10 AM. Clergy: Father DavidMerzweiler. Place of Interment: Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements by LaneFuneral Home.

Obituary from Youngstown Vindicator, June 2, 2001. Josephine Bucik. Lake Milton - Services will be at 10 am on Monday at theSt. Catherine's Church for Josephine Bucik, 87, of 423 Roselawn Drive inLake Milton, who passed away Thursday night at her home. Josephine was born Nov. 15, 1913 in Youngstown, a daughter of Salvatoreand Francisca Traficant. She was a member of St. Catherine's Church in Lake Milton and wasCongressman Jim Traficant's Godmother. Besides her husband, Joseph R. Bucik, whom she married March 17, 1973,she leaves a son, Frank DiCicco of Boardman; four grandchildren; and 11great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by two sisters, Mary DeRamo and Rose Salvatore;and five brothers, Albert, James, Anthony, Patrick and Samuel Traficant. Friends may call from 5 to 8 pm on Sunday, June, 3, at Lane FuneralHome-Austintown.

TONY DFJM/Assodated Press

Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, leaves federal district court onTuesday in Cleveland after the start of his federal corruption andbribery trial. Traficant's bribery trial begins

Blustery lawmaker rails against government By NICK ANDERSON LOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON - As his federal corruption and bribery trial opened Tuesdayin Cleveland, Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. was blasting away at what heconsiders a great government conspiracy to drive him from office andthrow him behind bars. "I am not liked by the IRS," Tralicant said in one of many nationallytelevised interviews he gave shortly before the trial began. "I am notliked by the FBI. I am not liked by the Treasury. lam not liked by thecourts. And you know what? Quite frankly, I don't give a damn." For all Traficant's bluster, the trial and a series of politicalmaneuvers are threatening to torpedo his career - and with it one of themost durable sideshows in Congress. The nine-term Ohio Democrat, loathed by many in his party for supportingRepubli cans on key votes, is famed for tirades in the House against perceivedgovernment outrages. Sometimes they are punctuated with crude languageand mild profanity; usually they end with a cry gleaned from television's"Star Trek": "Beam me up!" His tousled gray hair and well-worn plaid polyester suits are alsoTrauicant trademarks. Now the lawmaker finds himself one of therelatively few members to be put on trial. Prosecutors allege that Traficant took gifts and favors from constituentsin exchange for lobbying aid in Washington. He also is charged withforcing his staff to make cash kickbacks to him or to do favors for himat his Ohio horse farm. If convicted on the 10 counts against him, hecould face more than 60 years in prison and $2 mfflion in fmes. Traficant, declining legal representation, is arguing his own case eventhough he is not an attorney. On Monday, as jury selection started, hechallenged U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells on points of procedure. At one point, Traficant sought to allow more people into the courtroom toview "the ambience." But the judge ruled against him. "This trial is not going to be a donnybrook," Wells told the defendant. Before the proceedings began, Traficant promised to try to put hisprosecutors in jall if they failed to do the same to him. But he did notunderestimate his legal adversaries. "I'm like a mouse looking up at an elephant, asking the ele- ,i phant to surrender, quite ~ frankly,"he told ABC. Traficant has had success representing himself in court. In 1983, he won acquittal on charges that, as a county sherill, he tookbribes from mobsters to overlook loan-sharking, prostitution and otherikegalities. In his defense, Traficant admitted taking cash but said it was part ofhis own sting operation. That legal triumph helped the former University of Pittsburgh quarterbackwin election in 1984 to the House in a northeastern Ohio district.

2/2002 taped interview with Evelyn Davis Lundblad, Betty Davis Stroberg,Pat Stroberg Serio Evelyn--But Jake Snyder's heart was broken. Jake married Josie. Anddidn't she cheat on him? Yeah, well that's what I heard and Jake got sobroken hearted being a strict Catholic.

Betty-He never married again. They divorced and Jake never married again.He was such a swell guy, Ahh, such a nice guy.

Jean-In what way? What did he do?

Betty-He was very pleasant, very mannerly. Very family person.