Jadwiga Jasnowski

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Thursday, August 20, 1998 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Aurora. Interment was held in the Aurora Catholic Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Jadwiga “Hedy” Jasnowski

Jadwiga “Hedy” Jasnowski was bonr in Chriboshovo, Russia (now Belarus) on June 20, 1912 to Josef and Ludwika Kardziejonek.

As a child, she attended school near her home and later graduated from the Women’s Teacher Seminary in Warsaw, Poland in 1934.

She then taught elementary school in the region near her childhood home until after the German invasion of her homeland in 1941.

In 1944, she was taken to Germany as a slave laborer by the Nazi occupation forces. She became a war refugee following the Allied liberation of Germany in 1945.

She was then transported to a U.S. organized Displaced Person Camp in Wildflecken, (West) Germany, where she taught the children of fellow Polish refugees. In 1946, while at the camp, she married Antoni Jasnowski.

In 1949, with her husband and two small children she immigrated to Aurora, Nebraska, where she resided until her death.

Primarily a homemaker, she was also employed for a number of years at the Hamilton Manor and Larson’s Pioneer Home. She was a member of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church and the Ladies Altar Society.

Mrs. Jasnowski was known for her singing voice. For many years she performed “God Bless America” at Hamilton County Fourth of July celebrations.

She is survived by her husband, Antoni, of Aurora, and her children Teresa (Stan) Butkus of Columbia, South Carolina; Kazie (Feli) of Englewood, Ohio; John (Mardell), of Aurora; Mary, of Omaha; and Tony (Jan) of Omaha, and thirteen grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, two brothers, and infant sons Peter and Paul.