The Reading of the Obits

Sadly, the obit section of the paper has been bigger.  25% bigger to be exact.  Typically, we have 3 pages to wade through but lately?

FOUR FULL PAGES!

That, my friends, is a lot of dead people.  And not just one week, but consistently since right before Christmas.  So it's truly a lot more than the usual numbers.

Anyhoo, I was reading along as I tend to do and came across this one particular one that was so interesting.  And I mean really interesting.  Interesting enough to consider making a movie or writing a fabulous book out of this family history.  So instead of listing all kinds of sundry things about the obit writing and such I decided to just share this one in it's entirety.

"Gertruda Medynski of San Antonio passed away peacefully on January 4, 2012 at the age of 98. She was born in Wejherowo, Poland December 3, 1913 to Jan and Anastazja Wolter. In 1941 she married Grzegorz Wojewski who became the commander in chief of the Secret Military Organization "Gryf Pomorski," a Polish anti-Nazi resistance group. Gertruda herself was a secret operative known by the pseudonym "Rose" as she gathered information about imminent Nazi arrests and provided false documents to assist Poles escape persecution. Wanted by the Nazi's, she gave birth to her second daughter, Danuta while hiding in a basement. After Grzegorz was secretly executed by the Russians following the war, Gertruda took over running her husband's factory producing construction materials. She moved to the United States in 1972. She visited Poland in 2001 for the dedication of a memorial to her husband and in 2002 for the dedication of a school named after him. She is survived by her oldest daughter Barbara Rupinska, her granddaughters Monika Dalrymple, Arleta and Edita Rupinska, and great granddaughter Alexandra Dalrymple."


See?  Isn't that amazing?  I hope the rest of her life was as fulfilling as her early years were.  What a legacy to pass on to those granddaughters!  They have some mighty big shoes to fill, don't they?