Jacqueline Sessa, 70, remembered as face of Birchwood, family’s driving force
Well before they both finally said yes, there were a whole lot of nos.
Frank Sessa Jr. recounted the first time he met his future wife, Jacqueline, at a Brooklyn nightclub:
“That first night I met her, if we had boxing gloves, we would probably have beat each other. She was a typical Brooklyn girl and I was a typical Brooklyn guy dressed in a three-piece suit, and she was dressed in a beautiful dress. We were at a really nice place. I said to her, I said, ‘Hello,’ because my friends and I always had a table in this place. It was like our place to hang out. And I said to her, ‘My name is Frank. Would you like a drink?’