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Barbara Ann Wojtaszek lived her life with a full and content heart. Not a day went by without her finding a reason to celebrate it. Her life was admirably lived without a single regret, and she would find enormous joy knowing that we have wiped our tears and sadness away to join her in rejoicing that she is now reunited with Paul, Cheryl, and so many others who have gone before us. She was devoted to caring for others throughout every stage in her life, and we must now honor her fully by celebrating all the memories we shared with such a good spirit. Few people are blessed to have a wife, mother, mother-in-law, cousin or soul sister like her. The dawning of a new decade brought in the year of 1940. The United States was finally beginning to feel some relief from The Great Depression, but WWII raged on abroad. American citizens rolled up their sleeves to help with the war efforts manning factories or merely planting vegetable gardens to lessen the burden of the low food supply. The country supported Franklin D. Roosevelt who was elected to an unprecedented third term in office. Closer to home, in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Louis and Pearl (Romanowski) Kwiatkowski were looking forward to becoming parents for the first and only time in their lives. On September 23, 1940, they welcomed their daughter, Barbara Ann, into the world. Her parents were no stranger to hard work, and they certainly ingrained this quality into their daughter. Barbara’s father started working as a coal miner at the tender age of 14, for he lied about his age to afford the opportunity so early.
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