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Wedding Day photo of my grandparents, Casimer Kowalski and Veronica Bodziony. The wedding took place on July 15, 1939 at Saint Hyacinth Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Their county marriage record is shown below (They misspelled my grandfather's first name.) Source Citation: Cuyahoga County Archive; Cleveland, Ohio; Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1810-1973; Volume: Vol 190; Page: 192; Year Range: 1895 Aug - 1941 Jun.
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My husband, Tony, next to his Great-Grandfather, who was also named Anthony. You can definitely see some family resemblance, can't you? (Lots more hair gel in 2004 Tony's hair - me thinks a little too much? :) Great-Grandfather Anthony was 24 when he was married in 1919; Tony was 26 when we were married in 2004.
©2012, copyright Emily Kowalski Schroeder Not to sound too much like Cher in Clueless, but isn't this photo classic? This is my Great-Aunt Olga Bellan on her wedding day in 1923. It's all so very F. Scott Fitzgerald, isn't it? The flapper-style dresses, short wavy hair, and Greek goddess-like headpieces; I love it all. Interesting, though, how you could put the men's fashions in a wedding today, and they would look completely normal.
Olga was born in 1901, so she was 22 yrs old in this photo. Unfortunately, four and a half years later, she died of complications related to tuberculosis. (Her younger sister, Mary, died of TB four months prior to Olga's death.) My mom said that her dad, who was the second-youngest child in the family, never talked about his older siblings who passed away before their time (a brother, John, died in 1922 at age 16 of rheumatic fever). Either he didn't remember much, or those times were just so painful for the family that he didn't want to bring it up. I'm glad this photo has survived, though. I think Olga's eyes look just like mine, both in shape and color. I've got the Bellan eyes. ©2012, copyright Emily Kowalski Schroeder |
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