The Ford Family

Nickname	Hommie
Born	December 18, 1894 Cleveland, Ohio
Died	January 11, 1978 North Olmsted, Ohio
Father	William Thomas Sweeny
Mother	Mary Sweeny
Siblings	Joseph Thomas Sweeny John Leo Sweeny Catherine Grady Nora Sweeny William Daniel Sweeny Edward Joseph Sweeny

Spouse	Joseph B Grane
Children	Rosemary Pratt Margaret Mary Ford Mary Jo Colling

Bio
Vera Sweeny was the youngest child of working class Irish immigrants. Her father was a shipbuilder and like most women of the day, her mother "kept" house. The family owned a home on Bridge Street in Ohio City that is no longer standing.

He daughter tells the story that little Vera was a willful child who embarrassed her brothers by getting a job as a teenager. Girls belonged at home at this time and I believe that her older brother Bill was very motivated to find little Vera a husband. So motivated that he brought home a German kid from work to dinner one night, and the rest is history.

After her husband's death in 1961, Vera lived with her youngest daughter Mary Jo. Vera was a very dedicated Catholic woman and therefore did not approve of her daughter Margaret's divorce. I remember her as a stern woman. Her frowning face, however, was likely the result of her Parkinson's disease that eventually led to her being bedridden in a nursing home and passing away from complications thereof.