When Theodore A Lapka was born on 20 April 1920, in Cicero, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, John Lapka, was 34 and his mother, Mary Gryga, was 28. He died on 1 December 2011, at the age of 91.
Polish (Łapka): from a diminutive of Łapa‘paw, mutton fist’ (see Lapa ).
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