Joseph HOJARA

16 MAR 1880 - 7 JUL 1955

• OCCUPATION: Unemployed
  1942
• RESIDENCE: 1905, Came to So Bend in 1905 from Star Junction, Pa.
• OCCUPATION: Oiler-Northern Indiana RR
  1918
• RESIDENCE: 1918, 2024 Ford, South Bend, IN
• RESIDENCE: 1942, 715 Meade, South Bend, IN
• BIRTH: 16 MAR 1880, Poland
• BURIAL: JUL 1955, St Joseph Cemetery , South Bend, IN
• DEATH: 7 JUL 1955, South Bend, IN

1. +Adalbert J. "George" HOJARA
2.  Lillie HOJARA
3.  Walter Waclaw HOJARA
4.  Theodore HOJARA
5.  Arthur HOJARA
6.  Frank HOJARA
7.  Pearl HOJARA
8.  Stanley HOJARA
9.  Cecelia HOJARA
10.  John HOJARA

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[N9413] Birth: Mar. 16, 1880
Poland
Death: Jul. 7, 1955
South Bend,St. Joseph County, IN

Born 16 Mar 1880 Poland; died 7 Jul 1955 at 8:10 p.m. at the home of his daughter Mrs Cecylia Smith of 310 Chicago St where he resided. Joseph came to So Bend in 1905 from Star Junction Pa. Services at St Adalbert's Catholic Church; buried at St Joseph Cemetery. Pallbearers are his grandchildren: Ernest Sommer, Richard & Robert Hojara, James Smith, Sylvester & Ervin Gerschoffer. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs Cecylia Smith, Mrs Pearl Sommer, Mrs Lillian Gerschoffer & Mrs Clara Fox; 7 sons: Frank, Stnaley, John, George, Waclaw, Arthur & Theodore. One sister, Mrs Frances Ludwick of Warren OH; and 3 brtohers, Stefan of Niles MI; Michael of Detroit MI and Martin of Star Junction Penn; 26 grandchildren & 7 great grandchildren.

Burial: Saint Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN

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Star Junction is a census-designated place in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It is located along Pennsylvania Route 51. As of the 2010 census the population was 616 residents.

It was founded in 1893, when the Washington No. 2 Mine was opened by the Washington Coal and Coke Company.[4] It received its name because it was once the home of a railroad depot, the end of the line for the Washington Run Railroad. Star Junction was once a coal mining center, with beehive ovens for coke manufacture and a foundry. It was the site of labor unrest, including the walkout of 4,500 miners in 1922.[5] Although the company store and mines are long gone, the "patch" (the groups of company houses) still remain and house many residents. This area was added to the "Determined Eligible List" of the Bureau of Historic Preservation, as an example of a typical coal town,[6] and has been added to the NRHP.