Radwanski, Frank Stanley
(July 18, 1912 - April 27, 2007)Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was born and raised, lies on the eastern slope of the Allegheny mountains, almost midway between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. It played an important role in the history of the railroad industry. The Pennsylvania Railroad built 7,873 of its locomotives in a three-mile stretch of buildings at Altoona, which it founded in 1849, and the Radwanski families saw the railroad town grow and wane. The church the Polish immigrants built in 1911 has also gone, changing its name from SS Peter & Paul Catholic Church to Our Lady of Fatima Chapel. It was there that Wojciech (George) Radwanski, who came from Faliszowka, Galicia, in 1906, and Josephine Woczinski, with whom he had three children, were married.
His son, Frank, who followed him into the railroad shops, married Helen C. Bieniek on July 19, 1939, in the same church and was buried from it. The records of the church have been deposited with the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg. Frank and Helen Radwanski had three children, Catherine, Frances, and Jeannie. Two of them moved from Altoona after they were married. Their six children moved to other states.
While he was a car repairman, Frank Radwanski was recording secretary of St. Stanislaus Kostka Brotherhood and an officer of Polish National Alliance Lodge 2025. He was a founder and president of the Golden Nuggets Club.
From: Edward Pinkowski (2008)