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- 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.
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Abt 1926 - 1950 (~ 24 years)