Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 10/17/1950

Martin Joseph Nowak. radarman,
2/c, (aboard Pledge) son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nowak, 116
Flfty-third street, was killed, the
United Press reported.

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Niagara Gazette - 8/29/1951

NOWAK-Martin J.. RD2. In Korea.
October, 1950. son of Mr..and Mrs.
Henry Nowak of 61 "A" S t . brother
of Helen, Jane, Pauline, Margaret
Thomas, Andrew, Stephen, Leonard.
Francis. Henry, all of this city;.Stan-
ley and Philip of U. S. Navy, New
Jersey. Funeral- services from Zajac
Funeral Home. 318 34th St. at 8:30
a. m.. Saturday, Sept 1 and to Our
Lady of Rosary church 9 a. m.. The
Niagara Falls Naval Air. Station will
furnish military escort pall bearers.
firing squad and bugler. Interment in
Soldiers Plot. Riverdale cemetery.

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Niagara Gazette - 8/30/1951

Funeral services for Martin
Nowak, 24, radarman 2/c, son
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nowak, 36 A
street, who . was
killed October 12
off Korea, will be
held" at 9 a;m.
Saturday at Our
Lady of the Rosary
church.
A lifelong resident
of Niagara
Falls, he was killed
when his ship,
the minesweeper
Pledge, was sunk
by mines off
Wonsan, on the east coast of Korea.
A graduate oY Gaskill Junior high
school, he.enlisted in the navy in
1943 and saw service in the Pacific
theater of operations during World
War 2.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by fqur listers, Helen, Jane, Pauline
and Margaret Nowak, all of this
city, and eight brothers, Stanley and
Philip, of the U. S. Navy; Thomas,
Andrew, Stephen. Leonard, Francis
and Henry, all of this city.
The body is at the Zajac Funeral
home. Interment will be in Riverdale
cemetery.

Henry + MONKO, Mary. Mary (daughter of MONKO, Martin and Mary) was born about 1906 in Bituman, PA; died on 13 Apr 1952 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 4/14/1952

Mrs. Mary Nowak, 46, of 61 A
street, mother of Radarman Martin
Joseph Nowak, U. S. Navy, who was
killed early in the Korean war on
the aircraft carrier, Pledge, died suddenly
late yesterday at Mt. St. Mary's
hospital.
Requiem High Mass for Mrs.
Nowak will be celebrated at 9 a.m.
on Wednesday at Our Lady of the
Rosary church after 8:30 a.m. services
at the Zajac Funeral home.
Mrs. Nowak was born at Bituman,
Pa., and moved here during her infancy.
She attended Sugar Street
school and Our Lady of Rosary
parochial school.
Mrs. Nowak was the mother of 12
other children, Two of her-sons,
Stanley Nowak, AK2, Lakehurst, N.
J., and Philip Nowak, AOAN, San
Francisco, Calif., are serving in the
United States Navy.
Abo surviving are her husband,
Henry Nowak; six other sons, Henry,
Thomas, Andrew, Stephen, Leonard
and Francis Nowak, all pf this city;
four daughters, the Misses Helen,
Pauline and Margaret Nowak and
Mrs. Mary Jane Roy, all of this
city;, her mother, Mrs. Mary Monko,
this city; six sisters, Mrs. Margaret
Polewicz, Mrs. Josephine Guzdek,
Mrs. Sophie Beczkowski, Mrs. Helen
Schram and Mrs. Susan Kapelka,
all of this city, and Mrs. Anna
Tomaka, Lackawanna; two brothers,
Michael and John Monko, this city;
one grandchild and 19 nieces and
nephews.
Burial will be in Gat of Heaven
cemetery.

Martin + Mary. Mary was born in 1883 in Czechoslovakia; died on 17 Aug 1954 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 8/18/1954

Funeral services will be held Saturday,
for Mrs. Mary Monko, 3012
Monroe Ave., who died last night
in Mt. St. Mary's Hospital after a
long illness.
A native of Czechoslovakia, she
was a resident of this city for 42
years and was the widow of Martin
Monko.
Mrs. Monko was a member of
the Ladies Sodality and Society,
St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church;
the Polish Roman Catholic Union
and St. Hedwig's Society. During
World War II, she was employed at
International Graphite and Electrode
Co. for about 2-1/2 years.
She is survived by'six daughters,
Mrs. Sophie Beczkowski, Mrs.
Helen Schram, Mrs. Margaret Polewicz,
Mrs. Susan Kapelka and Mrs.
Josephine Guzdek. all of this city,
and Mrs. Anna Tomaka, Lackawanna.
Two sons. John and Michael
Monko; a brother, Andrew Prokop,
Beaverdale, Pa.; 32 grandchildren
and 19 great-grandchildren also survive.
The services will be held at the
Zajac Funeral Home at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday and at St. Mary's Greek
Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Interment
will