Wladyslawa NOWACZYK

6 OCT 1887 - 8 JUN 1977

• BIRTH: 6 OCT 1887, Poland
• DEATH: 8 JUN 1977, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 23 NOV 1931, St Adelbert

• MARRIAGE: 26 JAN 1910, South Bend, IN

1. +Dorothy PIECHOROWSKI
2. +Adeline Connie PIECHOROWSKI
3. +Mary Janna PIECHOROWSKI
4.  Bronisilaum Bert PIECHOROWSKI

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[N7671] [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.