Edward & Helen Stortz

My Uncle Eddy and Aunt Helen (nee Szopinski) didn’t have any children, but watched us a number of times while my Grandmother (Wysocki) was in the hospital at the end of her life. Uncle Eddy was head of aintenance for a chain of bakeries in Buffalo, NY, and Aunt...

Walter and Sophie Stuczynski

My grandfather, Walter Stuczynski, was first legally Warren Stuczynski, an English approximation of Wenceslaus.  A friend in Dunkirk City Hall had the record changed to “Walter”, which he liked better.  His lifelong nickname was “Psyche”...

Helen Szopinski (born Helen Cybulski)

This is my great aunt by marriage on my father’s mother’s side. I received inquiries about her from someone doing research and have more information now, or at least indirect information. My Dad, Jerome W. Stuczynski, was in the drum corps for the 4th Ward...

My Szopinski Heritage

According to my father, my grandmother’s family was from Poznan, Poland. The daughter of Walter and Antoinina (Annette, maiden name Lentz), my grandmother, Sophia (Sophie) Szopinski had five siblings – Stanley, Joe, Valentine, Helen, and Veronica. Walter...