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* A few facts about his life

	He was born October 18, 1921. At the age of fifteen years old (1936), he went to Athens to learn the jewelry business. In July of 1940, he left for the United States on a merchant ship and on September 1, 1940 he arrived in New York City. He worked as a jeweler for sixteen months.
	On November 21, 1940 he was called into the U.S. Army to serve. He was sent to Campe Lee Virginia for training and then was sent to North Africa in Casablanca . In 1943, he trained in Camp Liory. From there he was transfered to the 59th Evacuation Hospital as a security guard. He left for Tunis for the invasion of Sicily, Palermo. After six months they sent him to the 5th Army in Anzio Italy for three months.

Then he went back to the 7th Army, in time for the invasion of South France.He travelled all the way to Germany (Baveria) when the war came to an end. He left for the United States on October 28, 1945 and arrived on November 12, 1945. After two years, six months and twenty-one days in Foreign Service, he returned to civilian life. He served with the Naupaktian Brotherhood as treausurer in 1947 for twenty years. He was also a treasurer for the St. Athanasios Association of Perista.

In 1951, he married Athanasia Pappas (pappacostula). They had a son named George and a daughter named Bessie. She is married to Nick Stolatis. They have two grandchildren named Evangelos and Contantina.
In 1952, he opened C&J Manufactory Jewelery at 99 Canal Street in New York City.