The Handsomest Guy At Cooks And Bakers School

Robert C. Wysong, Baking Bread In Gakona, Alaska. 

The Baker's Wife

Fresh Bread, Military Police, Pies & Pizza

--By Rita Wysong
Instead of being sent to Japan with the army of occupation in l946 after the war, Bob was sent from Calif. to Panama for training in (of all things), Cooks and Bakers School. Besides his duties as a military policeman (and I thought he was the handsomest guy alive in that uniform), he learned how to bake, and excelled in pies, especially. Mary well remembers living on Milton St. in her teens and smelling fresh baked bread coming out of the oven at night and she and her brothers coming down to tear off hot chunks of it dosed with butter.

His pies are legendary, especially pumpkin.  When Suzy and I were finished with our pumpkins at Halloween I would take the jack-o-lanterns, cut them up, cook and mash them and Bob would turn out a big batch that would sometimes cover the table.  Linda loved Dad's visits to Alaska.  More fresh bread and loads of pies were some of his "jobs" and I think he loved all those words of praise about his baking skills.

And at Christmas - Bob would be out in the kitchen before we went to sing at midnight mass  turning out luscious pizzas.  Best ever!