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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary Janna Piechorowski: Birth: 01 SEP 1913 in South Bend, IN. Death: 03 SEP 1997 in South Bend, IN

  2. Bronisilaum Bert Piechorowski: Birth: 18 APR 1918 in South Bend, IN. Death: 11 JUN 1967 in South Bend, IN

  3. Dorothy Piechorowski: Birth: 18 APR 1925 in South Bend, IN. Death: 26 APR 1997 in South Bend, IN

  4. Adeline Connie Piechorowski: Birth: 08 MAY 1926 in South Bend, IN. Death: 20 APR 2016 in South Bend, IN


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Notes
a. Note:   [Piech~52.ftw]
  Oral History Adeline Piechorowski Holvoet 6-19-2000
  Lottie came from Poland with Dr. Abel and is wife a nurse at about the age of eight (abt. 1895). Times in Prussian Poland "Pozen" were not good with maurading German soldiers looting and pillaging Polish villiages and especially raping Polish women. Lotties father saved enough money to pay for her passage to America with the doctor and his wife to avoid this fate for his daughter. Her parents never made it to America and died in Poland of Consumption. Lottie returned to Poland with medicine for the family as there was little available in the area other than folk remedies.
  Dr. Abel a "Jewish Doctor" maintained his office on Washington Street in South Bend and served a large Polish clientel until he passed away.
  Mother did not speak english when we were little girls and we had to learn how at grade school. It was very hard.
  Adeline cherished and loved her mother and thinks of her often to this day.
  "SHE MADE ME THE LADY I AM TODAY"
  Lottie was the first Polish Lady in the area to begin a Catering Business in association with St. Adelberts Church to serve ethnic weddings, birthdays, wakes ...etc.
  Lottie did not use processed foods and made everything from "SCRATCH" she was a renouned cook in her day and passed the "Gene" to her Grandson Chris an execellent cook by reputation and caterer with St. Hedwig Church in South Bend.

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