Lewandowski, John J.
(0ct. 27, 1917 - July 28, 2007)Joseph Lewandowski, who came from Poland in 1904, was among the Polish settlers who in 1905 established St. Mary's Catholic Church along the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The Polish pioneers had no trouble finding work in the paper, woolen, steel and other industries in Conshohocken. Among the eight children Joseph Lewandowski, who worked in a paper mill, had with Stanislawa Kwiatkowski, whom he married when he was 28 years old in 1909, was John J., who was born October 27, 1917. He followed his older brothers and sisters to St. Mary's school and high school, and in a steel mill, step by step, he moved from laborer to crane operator. After working 42 years for Alan Wood Steel Company, during which he belonged to the United Steelworkers of America Local 1392, he spent a little time in the Senior Citizens Center at the Labor Lyceum in Plymouth Township, between Conshohocken and Norristown, in Montgomery County.
St. Titus, the second church to which be belonged, was founded in June of 1962 in East Norriton Township, just off De Kalb Pike, in the suburbs of Norristown, where he sent his four daughters - Mary Ann, Joan, Claire, and Judy - to a modern elementary school. Rev. Leonard A. Furmanski, a former pastor of St. Titus, was defrocked in 2003 for sexual activity with teenagers.
When they died, his wife, to whom he was married for 63 years, and John Lewandoski, as he spelled his last name, were interred in St. Patrick's Cemetery, across De Kalb Pike from St. Titus.
From: Edward Pinkowski (2009)