3. | BLONKOWSKI, Delores M was born on 14 Mar 1931 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY (daughter of BLONKOWSKI, William and STEPHANOWSKI, Stella); died on 16 Oct 2015 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Posted: Saturday, October 17, 2015 3:28 pm
Dolores Blonkowski Dubaj, matriarch of five generations passed away October 16th, 2015. She was born March 14th, 1931, in Lockport, NY, the daughter of William and Stella Stefanowski Blonkowski.
Dolores attended design school and was a talented seamstress, making clothes for her three daughters and then some; she also loved her flower gardens, walking, bird watching, knitting, and beading, but most of all family was Dolores's life and everything revolved around the family .
Dolores was the wife of the late Adam L. Dubaj who passed away June 13, 2003; dear mother of Marie Nunnari of Fairport, NY, Diane (Dallas Ward) Yerdon and Lynn (Mont) Miller; loving grandmother of Angela Hanczarowski, Michelle (Jonathan) Price, Stephanie (Manar) Alnuaimi, Brian Crow, Eileen Terdon and Louise Miller; great grandmother of Timothy Leising, Andrew Alnuaimiand twins Hanna and Hailie Skates; great-great grandmother of Edith and Emma Price and great-great-great grandmother of Addison Leising. Dolores was the sister of Stanley Blonkowski, Loraine (Edward ) Sherman and the late Frances Sahr, Lota Biernacki, Dorothy Blonkowski, Helen Dubai, Jean Kowalski and Mary Nowak; she is also survived by her dear friend and beau, Harold Seeloff; sister-in-law Florence Snyder and her daughter Grace and Ron Bilby; several nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Relatives and friends may call on Monday, October 19th from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM in Prudden and Kandt Funeral Home, 242 Genesee Street Lockport, NY. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, October 20th at 10 AM in St. John the Baptist Church, 168 Chestnut St., Lockport.
Notes:
Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 6/10/1953
A gown of traditional white bri-
dal satin was designed and made
by Miss Dolores M. Blonkowski.
daughter of Mr. aad Mrs. William
Blonkowaki at 34 Waterman St..
for her marriage to Adam Dubai.
son of Mrs. Nellie Dubai of Me-
dina, in St. Joseph's Church
Saturday mornng at 10:S9. The
Rev. Joseph F. Brand, OSFS, of
Do Sales High School officiated at
ceremony.
The bride was given In marriage
by her father. Her gown was fashioned
with a fitted bodies studded
with pearls, a sweetheart neckline,
long pointed sleeves aad a full
skirt. A cap of pleated net trimmed
with pearls held bar fingertip
veil and she earned a Colonial
bouquet of white carnations.
SISTERS ATTEND BRIDE
Miss Dorothy Blonkowski of
Lockport and Mrs. Edward Sherman
of Aberdeen, Md., sisters of
the bride, were maid of honor and
bridesmaid. They were identical
bailer ina-leng th gowns of white organdy,
enmroidered in red, with
matching stoles. Beth were coronets
of red aad white flowers and
carried Colonial bouquets of red
and white carnations. They wore
rhlnestone Jewelry, a gift of tbe
bride.
Dolores Biernacki, niece of tbe
bride was flower girt attired in a
floor-length gown fashioned after
those worn by the bride's attendants,
with a red and white coronet
and Colonial bouquet of red and
white carnations. David Harmer,
nephew of tbe bridegroom, acted
as ring bearer.
The bridegroom was attended oy
his brother. Mathew Dubai of Medina
and Edward W. Sherman of
Aberdeen, Md., waa usher.
MOTHERS' GOWNS
The mother of tbe bride chose
a light blue dress of Alencon lace
with white accessories and the
bridegroom's mother wore a dress
of navy print with white accessories.
Both wore corsages of pink'
roses.
A wedding breakfast was
served to the bridal party and im-
mediate families following the ceremony.
In the afternoon a garden
reception was held at the home of
the bride's sister and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. John Kowakki of
300 Jackson Street
The couple left
trip to Florida and the
states, the bride wearing a tan
summer suit, orchid scarf aad
shoes with a white hat and purse,
and an orchid corsage.
Tbe bride and groom received
a cablegram in honor of the occasion
from the bride's paternal
grandmother in Poland.
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