JOHN AND RUTH NITSOS: AN AVERAGE GREEK-AMERICAN LIFE Published in The National Herald, May 27-June 2, 2017 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- All things considered, for the times and places they lived, John and Ruth Nitsos were just an ordinary couple. Hardworking Greek immigrants, they quite literally helped build and maintain the society around them. Yet what the average American (and perhaps even the average Greek-American) would recognize as a life of marked by considerable economic and social success was in the end somehow not enough for John Nitsos. While he left a legacy of sustained material success, Nitsos sought to honor his family with a gift common enough among G...