Joseph Nowak jr

Male8 September 1926–24 December 2009

Brief Life History of Joseph

When Joseph Nowak jr was born on 8 September 1926, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Joseph Nowak Sr, was 21 and his mother, Apolonia Ostrowski, was 16. He married Patricia Grzesk on 12 May 1956, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 24 December 2009, in Fox Crossing, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Menasha, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Nowak jr
1926–2009
Patricia Grzesk
1936–1997
Marriage: 12 May 1956
Craig Nowak
1957–1995

Sources (5)

  • Joseph Nowak in household of Joseph Nowak, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Joseph Nowak, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Joseph Menasha Nowak Jr, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    12 May 1956Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1927

    Age 1

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    1932 · Wisconsin Passes First Unemployment Compensation Law

    Age 6

    The nation's first unemployment compensation law was passed in Wisconsin on January 28, 1932.

    1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

    Age 22

    The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Polish Andrzej, Janusz, Jozef, Stanislaw, Zbigniew, Janina, Jerzy, Boguslaw, Casimir, Lech, Piotr, Tadeusz.

    Polish, Rusyn (from Poland), Sorbian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a newcomer to a place or someone new to a profession or occupation, from a derivative of Polish and Sorbian nowy ‘new’. This surname is extremely common in Poland, and also very frequent in Germany (see also 2 below).

    Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Novák, and Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Rusyn, and Jewish Novak , both generally meaning ‘newcomer’. Compare Nowack .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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