| Name |
Petrowski, Jusef Frank "Joseph" "Joe" [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] |
| Birth |
13 Oct 1910 |
Gardenton, RM of Stuartburn, Manitoba, Canada  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15] |
- MB Birth Registration #1910,11916827 as "Jusef Petrowski", mother "Anna Maliski" (RM of Stuartburn); Date of Registration: 1930/01/03
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| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
Jun 1916 |
RM of Stuartburn, Manitoba, Canada [2, 3] |
- Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Son
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| Residence |
1 Jun 1921 |
RM of Stuartburn, Manitoba, Canada [6, 7] |
- Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
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| Death |
13 Mar 1993 |
Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [4, 5, 8, 9, 15] |
- Findagrave Joseph F. Petrowski (NO0008045)
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| Burial |
Aft. 13 Mar 1993 |
Glen Lawn Memorial Gardens, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [8, 9, 15] |
- Findagrave Joseph F. Petrowski (NO0008045)
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| Notes |
- Findagrave Joseph F. Petrowski (NO0008045)
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- Obituary - John Paul "Johnnie" Petrowski (1920) (NO0010439)
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- The Winnipeg Tribune Obituary - Frances -Petrowski- Petrowski 1913 (NO0009613)
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Described as: Obituary for Frances -Petrowski- Petrowski (1913), as published in The Winnipeg Tribune (page 16)
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- HI, Call me Joe (NO0003947)
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<p>OK, where will I start, I was born on October 13th, 1910 in Gardenton, Manitoba, Canada. I came to be the second born son, after my brother Mike and the 3rd child after my older sister Helen. Then came Rose, Charlie, Johnny and my baby sister that cute Detroit wonder Frances. I was around 9 when I started to work for my dad. </p><p>My father (Frank) was, by local stories, well known and famous as the best man behind a forge and blacksmiths hammer. I grew up learning how to watch the metal change color and when to shape it into something useful. My brother Mike, used to pee on the hot metal when dad wasn't looking and create a huge cloud and smell, what a character he was. I was afraid to push the point around our dad but Mike did not seem to care, I think he needed the attention good or bad.</p><p>I would push the bellows up and down and my brother Mike would carry coal and stoke the fire. While doing our chores, around the small shop local farmers and construction people would stop by and ask if dad (Frank) would be able to come down the road 20 miles to where a huge dredge line tractor, had broken a cable or chain or cleat ot bolt or pin and weld it back together. He always said yes. How ould use the money made from these outside activites, to build a home for us. Mother had a nice garden and chickens and we all did well for those years. We were ony a few miles from the US border and Americans would come over many times a week for some help with something. Frank Petrowski and Sons, became a reality around 1924. By the way dad walked several times the 65 miles, for supplies on the mud roads carrying his shoes, putting them on when he got to the outskirts. He walked to Winnipeg and Emerson for supplies, banking and business. With a shingle hanging, we were open for business.</p><p>The roof caved in for dad, during the depression, when so many farmers lost their farms, for in ability to pay. We traded work for animals, oxen, pigs, turkeys and people willing to do sweat labor. My dad always had a meal for strangers, mom tried to make the comfortable, knowing they were deeply depressed. Then our turn came. Costs were up, income down and Mike and I decided to leave home to ease things and look for work on the road.</p><p>1928-1933 were by far the hardest years on our growing family. My dad absolutely hated us because we left home, in that way telling him he could not support us. God knows we loved him and that was the reason we left home, to ease the cost of living on our brothers and sisters. Mike never went back meeting his wife to be Lena in Windsor, Ontario. I went back trying to say "see, I could do it", but my dad never forgot or forgave us for doing what we did. During our years away, we worked on the Ambassador bridge, steel rigging, hot bolt installing, pouring concrete and generally working our butts off 6 days a week. During this period, we picked tobaco in fields outside Windsor, even stooking fields, diggin ditches and anything that kept a roof over our heads. When we got laid off, Ford Steel took us on for hot pouring molten metal into molds for engine blocks. Mike picked up some new metal talents and his welding tricks and got odd jobs around Windsor and we started drifting apart. I decided to go home to Gardenton, where the love of my life was, my family. Mike and I parted, both crying bitterly, and we never looked back. Even in later years in California, I could still see the look in Mike's eyes as if he was always saying good bye or I am sorry. I loved my big brother.</p><p>I married a beautiful Ukrainian girl named Frances Petrowski, so she never had to change her name, spelled the same as mine. We had 3 children, Clara, Ed and Bobby and lived in Gradenton, Manitoba until 1938 when we moved to Tolstoi. I worked for the local dairy as a butter maker, cream sampler and tester and grader. I won the Canadian Dairy Award for testing products and butter making. Soon Winnipeg offered me a better paying job and we moved in 1941. My wife died in 1948 and I remarried a year laer. I retired in 1965 and moved to California with my second wife and started the earlist 7-11 markets in Oxnard, California. After being robbed at gun point 2 times we sold out and became property managers in Sherman Oaks and Reseda, California. Years later home sick again, we moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba and settled in with living as we could, with the hard winters and life. I never looked back with anger just regret, I could not make my dad happier while hw was alive. My brothers, my sisters, my family are all in my prayers and my heart. </p>
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| Person ID |
I402055522806 |
Rick Dondo's Family |
| Last Modified |
31 Mar 2024 |
Rick Dondo's Family Tree
1910 - 1993 (82 years)
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