Catherine Gustava Pisarcik

Female26 March 1918–13 May 2006

Brief Life History of Catherine Gustava

When Catherine Gustava Pisarcik was born on 26 March 1918, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joannes Piszarcsik, was 34 and her mother, Sophia Bielak, was 25. She married Curtis Walker on 12 June 1937, in Oswego, New York, United States. She lived in East Taylor Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Blacklick Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 13 May 2006, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

Curtis Walker
1909–1995
Catherine Gustava Pisarcik
1918–2006
Marriage: 12 June 1937

Sources (3)

  • Katie Pisarcik in household of John Pisarcik, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Catherine Walker, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
  • Kathryn Pisarcik in household of Sophie Pisarcik, "United States Census, 1930"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    12 June 1937Oswego, New York, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (7)

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    World Events (8)

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

    1920

    Age 2

    The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

    1941

    Age 23

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    Slovak (Pisarčík): from a diminutive of pisár ‘clerk, scribe’. It is also found in Czechia.

    Americanized form of Polish Pisarczyk , a cognate of 1 above.

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

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