Aunt Vinnie's Photo Collection: DiRaffaele Family Portrait

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DiRaffaele Family Portrait

This extraordinary photo has become iconic in the DiRaffaele family. The parents Theresa and Joseph are pictured with their eleven children. The decision to take this family portrait was very timely, because there was only a brief period in which all thirteen family members would be alive at the same time; Theresa DiRaffaele would die shortly afterwards delivering her twelfth child, who also failed to survive.

The four children in white to the left of their mother are Vinnie, far left. Her hands are on Freddie's shoulders. Yola is to the right of Freddie, and the little one leaning into his mother is Johnny.

The three older offspring standing in the back and wearing darker clothing are, from left to right, Mary, Charlie, and Joe. (All of the official records seem to have Charlie listed as "Salvatore".)

The second cluster of four children in white on the far right are Al, in his father's lap, Teddy (Theresa) with the bow in her hair, Fran standing at the far right, and Emily, sitting on the box. Emily would be the last remaining survivor from this photo. She died in 2019 at the age of 101.

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