Re: ALIUK ( name cut )
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ALIUK ( name cut )
Pat Mielke 2/11/07
Pat, not sure if you're still searching, but John Aliuk was my grandfather. Doris Walkowski was my cousin. After the death of John Walkowski, my grandfather came to live with us for the remainder of his life.
I don't believe my grandfather and grandmother were ever married, quite the family scandal, her name was Barbara Aleckna. When working on the assembly line at Ford in Detroit, I know my grandfather sent money to support my grandmother and her children. She lost her husband, brother-in-law and two week old daughter in 1918 during Flu outbreak.
At some point my grandfather came into the picture and my father was born in 1920. Never got the whole story as to why I'm an Aleckna and not Aliuk and at 92, I don't think my father is about to spill.
I do have access to some pictures of Doris, her husband John, and my grandfather.
No one seems to remember who Walter Zavas was, my mother seems to know, but she had a stroke a few years back and can't make the connection.