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On that Sunday morning 46 years ago, an 8-year-old girl delivered an Easter basket to her neighbour’s house.
When she returned home, she told her dad that Charity Ruppert was excited her whole family was coming for Easter dinner.
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Leonard Ruppert piled his eight children into his black van and drove to his mother’s house in Hamilton, Ohio — about 50 kilometres from Cincinnati.
It was March 30, 1975.
“They all drove up in this big black van, and piled out of the car and staged an Easter egg hunt on the lawn,” neighbour George Wroot told the Cincinnati Post.