Ron's Great Uncle Teofil

unknown location in Poland  (1930)

Teofil Ossowski  (1873-1953)

Teofil, first  child of Julianna and Wojciech Ossowski, was born on 29 October, 1873.

While his younger sister, Franciszka, emigrated to the United States, Teofil remained

in Poland, eventually settling in the city of Nowe Dobra,  There, he married Weronika

Anna Chabowska (1880-1938), and the two of them produced fifteen children.  Sadly,

three sons died in infancy -- Konrad at three years old, Leon I shortly after birth, and

Leon II, also shortly after birth.  Those remaining children surviving into adulthood

included Klara (1902-1986);  Amelia (1905-1992);  Regina (1908-1992);  Bronislawa

(1909- 1934);  Lucja ( 1911-1986);  Bernard (1912-1968);  Hieronin (1914- lost during

WWII );  Marta (1916);  Wanda (1919);  Apolonia (1921-1989);  Wiktoria (1922-1995);

and Wladyslawa (1923-1996).  Teofil died in Nowe Dobra on 10 May,1953,  just five

months shy of his eightieth birthday.