Busia Barb’s Memorial
Born July 10, 1938
Died August 17, 2003
Barb’s last garden, summer 2003.
This page is from a journal Barb kept while she underwent chemo-therapy. She is very positive on day one, but as the months wore on she became more and more depressed. The tone of her writing shows it. Even so, she managed to care for her three kids and me too without letting on. It wasn;t until she died and I found this journal, that I learned her true feelings about the disease and the treatment.
Barbara loved poetry and prayers. Here is one she lived by
Barbara was a nurse before she was a wife, mother, or grandmother. She worked only a short time but was always finding people who needed help. She gave of herself willingly and selflessly. I often teased that she always “needed a sick puppy to take care of.”
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Barbara M Rohaly, nee Barbara Marie Drozdowicz
Born July 10, 1938,
Died August 17, 2003
Parents: Father Charles Drozdowicz
Mother Anna Kopec
Schools: St Turibius 57th 1944-1952
Lourdes High School 1952-1956
Saint Anne’s School of Nursing 1956-1959
Jobs: West Side VA Hospital 1959-1962
Nurse for Dr. Lawrence Sedlak 1958-1961
Christ Hospital, 1963-64
Married October, 1961
Children:
Son, Steven, 1962
Daughter, Jacqueline, 1963
Son, Michael, 1967
Illness: Breast Cancer, January 1979
Silent Heart Attack, August 30, 2001
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