Joseph and Pauline Vidich's children

Joseph and Pauline gave their children a good education, plenty of love and an expectation of hard work. All of the children were expected to work in the family's restaurant/tavern. After years of running this small business, Joseph was able to afford an automobile and even had money to send back to his family in Kropa. Pauline's granddaughter, Mary (daughter of Elizabeth) wrote to her Uncle Art in the year 2000 with the discovery of documents that showed Pauline had sent $108 back to Kropa in the Great Depression. This incredible act of charity, was probably a months wages according to Mary and revealed the strength of their link to the Kropa family. Despite this family bond, neither Joseph nor Pauline ever returned to Slovenia. Only their children, Arthur, Olga and Elizabeth ventured abroad and rekindled the relationships that had been held by the fragile link of pen and ink. In his later years, Arthur mentioned that the Kropa relatives were eternally grateful for these acts of love and charity and this love was returned multi-fold over when he visited Kropa in the summer of 1951.