tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15621027.post113607506702943361..comments2024-02-23T15:50:19.097-06:00Comments on Curmudgeon's Cave: St. John the Baptist, Kansas City, MissouriCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16958570482046462392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15621027.post-54752040290618996082024-01-23T19:19:17.751-06:002024-01-23T19:19:17.751-06:00I went to school at St John’s for kindergarten and...I went to school at St John’s for kindergarten and 2nd grade. I remember one of the nuns, Sr. Florentine and the Priest was Fr. Peter. I don’t recall his last name. My family lived with my grandparents on Garfield Avenue. My grandfather was a doctor as stated above by Mary C. who is one of my maternal aunts. They were very involved at St. John’s. The Holy Name Society and and Altar Rosary Society and The Knights of Columbus. I remember in 1965 Urban Renewal took over my grandparents home and properties they owned which were on Garfield Avenue. There were beautiful homes even if some needed work. We had some wonderful neighbors that I still remember to this day. At my age now, I still can’t understand how properties can be taken away when people have owned them for years. My grandparents had lived there for 32 years until they had to move. Those years were the best of my childhood. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15621027.post-77427559661043330992023-08-06T08:07:50.701-05:002023-08-06T08:07:50.701-05:00I went to St John the Baptist school from 1954 to ...I went to St John the Baptist school from 1954 to 1963 and remember the tiny chapel being our only church. They built our new, huge gym in 1959 then before we could use it, it was turned into our new church. It was modern and sleek and huge, nothing like the tiny dark chapel we used to call our church. Sister Rosalinda, 7 & 8 grade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15621027.post-88303908831472987522022-11-27T21:47:48.533-06:002022-11-27T21:47:48.533-06:00The school was a great loss The school was a great loss Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15621027.post-22176903662370978602014-03-15T22:43:21.180-05:002014-03-15T22:43:21.180-05:00My family home was one of "10 percent of the ...My family home was one of "10 percent of the dwellings in the parish north of Independence Avenue" that "were condemned and razed". I was born in the neighborhood in 1942 and my father and family were forced out of our home in 1965 by The Garfield Urban Renewal Project. My father was a practicing family doctor who took care of poor families, no matter whether they were white, black or Hispanic. He took excellent care of his patients.Mary Cnoreply@blogger.com