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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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 1928 - 2002
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| Born |
1 Jan 1928 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
8 Oct 2002 |
| Person ID |
I657 |
Johnson Hindin Tree |
| Last Modified |
15 Jul 2009 |
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| Notes |
- The following obituary appeared in the October 11, 2002 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Conrad Michael Jaworski--Longtime civil engineer at Republic Steel
By Jim McKay, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Conrad Michael Jaworski, a civil engineer who became assistant to the president of Republic Steel before his retirement, died this week of complications from cancer.
Mr. Jaworski, 74, of Bethel Park, died Tuesday, 15 days after the death of his wife,
Mary Jean Jaworski, who also had cancer, family members said. They had been married for 47 years.
His grandparents emigrated from Poland and the family lived on Polish Hill when Mr. Jaworski was young. His father, also named Conrad, operated Jaworski's Meat Market, a neighborhood grocery store.
Mr. Jaworski worked in his father's Polish Hill store while a student at both Central Catholic High School and the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering, where he earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
After a brief time as a state highway engineer, Mr. Jaworski joined the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served in the Army as an engineer at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.
In 1953, after his discharge from the service, Mr. Jaworski began his 34-year career at Republic Steel, where he held a variety of positions including sales engineer, district sales manager and assistant to the president.
He met his wife, a graduate of the Allegheny General Hospital school of nursing, in 1955 at a dance. A stay-at-home mom for many years, Mrs. Jaworski was a school nurse in the Bethel Park and Mt. Lebanon school districts during the 1980s.
Mr. Jaworski retired after Republic merged in 1984 with LTV Corp.'s Jones & Laughlin Steel, to become LTV Steel Corp. LTV liquidated under bankruptcy court protection this year.
After retirement, Mr. Jaworski did not let his engineering skills erode. A daughter, Carol Jaworski, of Hopkins, S.C., said her father built decks on the homes of his three daughters and helped them with renovations. "They were exquisite, the most structurally sound decks that could be built," she said. "He was a tremendous worker, very meticulous, very much a perfectionist. He could fix anything."
His daughter described him as a gregarious man with many friends. She said he enjoyed Pittsburgh's professional sports teams and followed with interest his grandchildren's sports activities.
"He was a true Pittsburgher," she said. "He knew back roads and short cuts that the postman probably didn't even know."
Mr. Jaworski picked up computer skills in retirement and during a family trip to Poland in 1995 found he could still converse in Polish, which was spoken at home during his youth and for part of the day when he attended the Immaculate Heart of Mary elementary school.
He was a lifetime member of St. Valentine Church, where he served as an usher and was a founding member of the Men's Club.
Besides his daughter Carol Jaworski, Mr. Jaworski is survived by daughters Janice Maszle and Marilyn Miller, both also of McMurray, and four grandchildren.
The John F. Slater Funeral Home, 4201 Brownsville Road, Brentwood, handled arrangements. A funeral prayer will be held at 9:15 a.m. today followed by a Mass in St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Church at 10 a.m.
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