Off on their "honeymoon"

Associated Press · August 4, 1955

Mr. and Mrs. Richard O'Reilly assemble their nine children before talking off from Boston, Mass., late yesterday (8/4/55) on a free vacation on Lake Erie provided by a Detroit manufacturer. John Green a Detroit machinery Co., president, saw Associated Press story on family in Detroit Free Press telling how Mrs. O'Reilly was raising a big happy family despite handicap of having been born with only one arm. The O'Reilly's call trip their "honeymoon." Standing L. to R., Mrs. O'Reilly holds Richard, four months, Anthony, 10; Margaret, 11; Clara, 12; Gerald, 13 and the father. Seated on baggage are Theresa, 2; Mary, 3; Marie, 4; and Constance, 9.