The victims of the fire were remembered at a mass on Dec. 1,2008, the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.
Fifty years is a long time to cry.
Della Maffiola wept again Sunday as she remembered her son Joseph, killed in the Our Lady of the Angels school fire 50 years ago today.
“It feels like yesterday,” she said.
Joseph, 10, and 91 other students and three nuns who died in the Chicago blaze were remembered in a Sunday mass at Holy Family Church, 1080 W. Roosevelt.
The emotional high point was a reading of names of the dead. There were so many, it took 22 minutes to finish.
Many wept as relatives lit candles in their memory.
