About John Bernard Flannagan

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John B Flanagan
  • Biography

    The following is from the newspaper, Reading Eagle, November 30, 2005, Reading, Pennsylvania

    "Modest Berks cottage yields treasures of art
    The late Grace Zaparata held onto the works
    of her famous ex-husband; auction is scheduled"

    By Don Spatz
    Senior Reporter

    For half a century, Grace Zaparata and her husband, Sebastian, lived quietly and frugally in a tiny Rockland Township cottage adjacent to the Sally Ann Furnace mansion.

    People knew Grace only as a popular teacher's aide in the Jewish Community Center in Reading for nearly 30 years, retiring in the mid-1980s.

    What they didn't know was her past, and the art treasures stored with her memories at the cottage.

    Grace died ...

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