Obituary of Lillian Beatrice Ginalski

Vernon-Lillian Beatrice Ginalski, 99, formerly of Putnam, died November 19, 2013 in Manchester. Born Lillian Beatrice Moran on June 13, 1914 in Putnam, CT, she was the oldest and last surviving child of John Moran and Marie Louise Viens Moran. On March 12, 1945 she married the love of her life, Mitchell W. Ginalski. Their wedding photograph became a family icon of the WWII war bride and groom. They lived all of their married lives in Putnam, CT, where they enjoyed 39 years of wedded life together. She was a life member of the Textile Workers Union of America. After her husband died in May 1984, she moved to Vernon to be closer to her sister and her sister's family. In a life that spanned nearly a century, she enjoyed her family and friends, travels to Canada, Florida, California, cross-country USA, creating handcrafts, such as knitting and crocheting and baking holiday cookies. She was predeceased by all five of her siblings: Edward Moran, Lawrence Moran, William Moran, Ramond Moran and Lorraine Mierzwa and her dearest friends from a younger day Josie Rucki Kentile and Anna Lamothe. She leaves behind her immediate family in CT: three nephews, a niece, a great-nephew and a great-niece: Stephen M. Mierzwa and his wife Debbie, Mary Ann Mierzwa, Robert J. Mierzwa and his wife Carol and their two children Thomas Henry and Emma Amelia, and John E. Mierzwa. Extended family members: A cousin Olga Kay of New Hampshire and a sister-in-law Josephine Gleniewicz and her family of Long Island, NY; and attentive friends: Adeline, Barbara, Bernice, Nancy, Rita, Vicky and her daughter Maureen. May she rest in peace. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 10:30 Am at St. Mary Church of the Visitation, 218 Providence Street, Putnam, CT. Burial following in St. Mary Cemetery, Putnam. To share a memory with her family, "Light a Candle" at www.smithandwalkerfh.com