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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; ">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Powajbo family at Biloxi, Mississippi had its origins in Grodno, Poland with the birth of Alexander Powajbo (1895-1920+).&nbsp; He came to America at the age of sixteen and settled probably in NYC.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here he may have met another Polish immigrant, Marion ? (1894-1920+), who had arrived here in 1908.&nbsp; By 1920, they were married and settled at Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York.&nbsp; Here, Alexander Powajbo made his livelihood as a spinner in the John K. Stewart &amp; Sons Knitting Mill.&nbsp; Mrs. Powajbo was a puncher at a button manufacturer plant.(1920 Montgomery Co., New York Federal Census, T625_1126, p. 16A, Ed 63)</span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><strong>Zigmund Powajbo</strong></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexander and Marion Powajbo had a son, Zigmund Chester &lsquo;Ziggy&rsquo; Powajbo (1917-2000), who was born at Amsterdam, New York on October 17, 1917.&nbsp; He attended St. Stanislaw&rsquo;s Catholic High School at Amsterdam before enlisting in the Army Air Corps.&nbsp; During WWII, Ziggy was stationed at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Here he met and later married Erena Branecki (1922-2001), a Biloxi native, on August 30, 1942 at St. John&rsquo;s Catholic Church on Lameuse Street.&nbsp; Erena called &lsquo;Boom Booms&rsquo; was the daughter of John Branecki (1883-1955), also a 1918 Polish immigrant, and Mary Branecki (1888-1951), native of Baltimore, Maryland.&nbsp; Mr. Braneki made his livelihood as a fisherman and the family was domiciled in the Back Bay section of Biloxi.(1930 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census R1146, p. 29B, ED 6 and Harrison Co., Mississippi MRB 57, p. 35 and <em>The Sun Herald, February 17, 2000</em>)</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ziggy Powajbo made his livelihood as a traveling sporting goods salesman.&nbsp; He relocated the family to NOLA in 1968 and retired there in 1989.&nbsp; Ziggy expired on February 15, 2000.Erena followed him in death dying on April 6, 2001.<em>(The Sun Herald, February 17, 2000 and April 6, 2001)</em></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ziggy Powajbo and Erena Branecki were the parents of five children: <strong>Constance &lsquo;Connie&rsquo; Powajbo</strong> (b. 1944) m. Mr. Maurer; <strong>Linda Powajbo</strong> m. Joseph A. Bosco (1948-2010); <strong>Robbe Powajbo</strong> m. Mr. Stillman; <strong>Richard A. Powajbo</strong>; and <strong>John Z. Pawjabo</strong> (1957-2004) m. Julie Mellon.</span></span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><strong>Linda Powajbo</strong></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Circa 1970, Linda Powajbo married Joseph A. &lsquo;Joe&rsquo; Bosco.&nbsp; Joe became a celebrated author and teacher.&nbsp; His biography follows:</span></span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; ">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Joseph Augustus &#39;Joe&#39; Bosco&nbsp;</strong>(1948-2010), author, writer and college professor, died on natural causes on July 8th in Beijing, China. &nbsp;Joe was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on August 30, 1948 to Frank A. Bosco (1919-1975) and Wilma Annetta Snyder Bosco (1926-2006). &nbsp;He&nbsp;graduated with the 1966 class of Ocean Springs High School and left this forward in&nbsp;<em>The Greyhound</em>, the school annual:&nbsp;<strong><em>&quot;Beware! I may yet do something sensational.&quot; &nbsp;</em></strong>Joe matriculated to USM and UNO where he earned Fine Arts degrees in 1972 and 1976 respectively. &nbsp;His published works were:&nbsp;<strong><u>The Boys Who Would be Cubs</u></strong>: A Year in the Heart of Baseball&#39;s Minor Leagues&quot; (1990);&nbsp;<strong><u>Blood Will Tell:</u></strong>A True Story of Deadly Lust in New Orleans (1993); and&nbsp;<strong><u>A Problem of Evidence</u></strong>: How the Prosecution Freed O.J. Simpson (1996). &nbsp;Joe Bosco resided in New Orleans and Los Angeles before his demise in China. &nbsp;While in Los Angeles, he reported on the ludicrous,&nbsp;<strong>O.J. Simpson Trial</strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>Penthouse Magazine</em>. &nbsp;He had also written of the murder of Ennis Cosby (1969-1997), son of Bill Cosby, comedian and actor, as&nbsp;<strong>&quot;In the Face of Death&quot;</strong>&nbsp;for N<em>ation, a&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;<em>(June 2, 1997).</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Joseph A. Bosco, &nbsp;a favorite son and friend of Ocean Springs, is survived by Linda Powajbo Bosco, a former wife, Joseph A Bosco II, a son, and Sylvia A. Bosco, his sister and a special education teacher at OSHS.[Ray L. Bellande, August 7, 2010]</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Sigmund C. Powajbo&rdquo;</strong>, February 17, 2000.</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Erena Powjabo&rdquo;</strong>, April 6, 2001.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The Times Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Powajbo&rdquo;</strong>, May 21, 2004.</span></span></p>
