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Article: In '69, Cohasset home a-Buzz over landing ; Family had ties to Aldrin and his wife, who lived in Scituate
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- July 20, 2009
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COHASSET - When the Eagle touched down on the Moon, members of
one family in Cohasset had a personal reason to cheer. They were
friends with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second man to walk on the
lunar surface.
Aldrin and his then-wife, Joan, knew the late Jerome Tosi and his
wife, Debbie, in the early 1960s when the Aldrins lived in Scituate
while Aldrin, then an Air Force colonel, was getting a doctorate
degree at MIT. Joan Aldrin and Debbie had grown up in the same New
Jersey town.
"It was an amazing thing to watch, and know the person doing it,"
said Debbie, who is now Debbie Rogers and lives in Hingham.
Rogers recalls Aldrin as "a very bright guy," though she and her
husband and children ...