Frank Aloysius PIECHOROWSKI

30 JAN 1916 - 5 DEC 1985

• NAME: Fronse Franak Frankie
• NAME: Frank PIECHOROWSKI
• SSN: Social Security #: 311-09-3193
  
• OCCUPATION: Oliver Corp
  1940
• RESIDENCE: 1940, 2409 Poland St, South Bend,IN
• BIRTH: 30 JAN 1916, South Bend, IN
• BURIAL: 9 DEC 1985, St. Joseph's Cemetery, lot 427 pc 7
• RETIREMENT: 1974, Oliver Corp
• EVENT: Obituary: South Bend Tribune
• EVENT: God Parents: 30 JAN 1916, Stanley Janowiak & Maria Piechorowski
• DEATH: 5 DEC 1985, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 5 AUG 1939, South Bend, IN
• ENGAGEMENT: 25 DEC 1937, South Bend, IN
• EVENT: Marriage Witness: 5 AUG 1939, John Rakowski & Eleonora Piechorowski

1. +James Francis PIECHOROWSKI

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[N4589]
Obituary: Frank A Piechorowski
1-28-1916 to 12-5-1985
South Bend Tribune

Families mentioned: Piechorowski, Slisz, Hechlinski, Janowiak, Floor, Prentkowski, Coryon, Siderits, Gumm, Harmon

Frank A Piechorowski, 69 of 52166 Fir Road, Granger Indiana died at 4:35 pm at the St. Joseph Medical Center. Mr. Piechorowski retired in 1974 as a supervisor for the White Farm Inplement Company after 39 years of employment. He was born January 28, 1916 to Leon and Konstantia Janowiak Piechorowski in South Bend and was a lifetime resident of the area. On August 5, 1939 he married Evelyn Rita Slisz at St Adalberts Church in South Bend Indiana who survives. Also surviving are a son James F Piechorowski of Constantine MI, two grandchildren Frank and Devon and seven sisters, Sophie Hechlinski, Virginia Floor, Esther Prentkowski, Josephine Coryon, Irene Siderits, Clara Gumm and Betty Lou Harmon.

Services will be at 10 am Monday Dec 9, 1985 in St Pius Catholic Church. Friends may call from 7 to 9 Saturday and 2 to 9 Sunday in the St Joseph Funeral Home. Burial will be in the St. Josephs Cemetery. Frank was a third degree Knight of Columbus, Father Baden Council Obituary: Frank A Piechorowski
1-28-1916 to 12-5-1985
South Bend Tribune

Families mentioned: Piechorowski, Slisz, Hechlinski, Janowiak, Floor, Prentkowski, Coryon, Siderits, Gumm, Harmon

Frank A Piechorowski, 69 of 52166 Fir Road, Granger Indiana died at 4:35 pm at the St. Joseph Medical Center. Mr. Piechorowski retired in 1974 as a supervisor for the White Farm Inplement Company after 39 years of employment. He was born January 28, 1916 to Leon and Konstantia Janowiak Piechorowski in South Bend and was a lifetime resident of the area. On August 5, 1939 he married Elevyn Rita Slisz at St Adalberts Church in South Bend Indiana, who survives. Also surviving are a son James F Piechorowski of Constantine MI, two grandchildren Frank and Devon and seven sisters, Sophie Hechlinski, Virginia Floor, Esther Prentkowski, Josephine Coryon, Irene Siderits, Clara Gumm and Betty Lou Harmon.

Services will be at 10 am Monday Dec 9, 1985 in St Pius Catholic Church. Friends may call from 7 to 9 Saturday and 2 to 9 Sunday in the St Joseph Funeral Home. Burial will be in the St. Josephs Cemetery. Frank was a third degree Knight of Columbus, Father Baden Council 4263, and a member of the White Farm Management Club and St Pius

4263, and a member of the White Farm Management Club and St Pius Church.

[Piech~52.ftw]

When the depression hit he went into CCC Camp.

Oral History from Frank D Piechorowski:
He used to tell me stories of CCC camp.

He worked as a baker there.

He used to make the BEST pie crusts. He would mix them up right on the counter top, no measuring... did it all by feel. I remember he would take all the extra crust bits and cut them into strips and bake them with Cinnamon and sugar. I can still taste them 20 years later.

Once, he and the boys snuck out of camp one night and raided a local watermelon field, they brought all the watermelons back to camp and hid them all in the ceiling. The weight of the melons up there caused the ceiling to sag the commander noticed and had one of the men get a ladder and nail the ceiling back up. Well of course the when he tried to nail it back up, he hit a watermelon and this red liquid started to drip down on the floor, the commander though they had a body up in the ceiling. He said they got in SO much trouble.

In another, he told me of one way they would "Initiate" the new guys. They would come in, in the middle of the night, and have a "Short Arm Inspection". One guy would act as the officer, and one as a doctor. The "Doctor" would have a can of black shoe polish. After they were "Inspected" they would get a dob of shoe polish on them. Of course, as soon as they saw their "doctor" in the ranks with them they knew they had been had, but shoe polish can't be washed off... It has to wear off.

We know that Frank came to work for Ludwik (Uncle Louie) when his mother died, c. 1936

Oral History from Evelyn:
Kasper Slisz, Evelyn Father taught Frank how to hunt and fish, in that time for food, not for sport.

He married Evelyn and went to work for Oliver Corp.

Oral History from James:
1938/39 - A die fell out of the "Hot Hammer" at Oliver Corp and hit Frank in the knee, casuing the begining of his knee problems.

Frank was forced to retire from Oliver's in 1974 on disablility.

In 1964 James worked at Olivers on summer vacation on the same hot hammer

[N21482] [Piech~52.ftw]

Oral History from Evelyn Piechorowski
Frank took and purposed to Evelyn on Christmas eve, 1937. He bought a box of chocolates and put the ring in the box for her to find. When she opened the box she said "Ohhh Chocolate...", and was very disappointed because he had bought her candy for Valentines day. She thought, but didn't say "Am I ever going to be engaged to you?". Frank could see that she was disapointed so he let her stew for a few days and called her back asking if she had eaten the candy yet. She said she had had a few pieces. He told her to go have some more and tell him how she liked them... that's when she found the ring.

Frank Earned the money to buy both Evelyn's engagement ring and their wedding ring with the help of Ludwik (Uncle Louie). Ludwik gave frank a plot of land on the farm that Frank was to grow and tend pickles on. All the money that he made from the pickles is what he used to buy the rings.