[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 55 (Wednesday, May 6, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E780]
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           50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. LUKIEWSKI

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                         HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 6, 1998

  Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate and honor a 
truly remarkable couple from my Congressional district, Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward and Stella Lukiewski. On May 8th, the couple will celebrate 
their Golden Anniversary--fifty years of marriage. Their story begins 
when the young couple grew up just two blocks from one another in the 
Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. They even attended the same 
grade school, but would not meet until after their graduation. The 
couple first encountered one another when Mr. Lukiewski returned for a 
brief time during the second World War. Unfortunately, Mr. Lukiewski 
returned to the Pacific and would have to wait quite sometime before 
they would once again see each other.
  Soon after Mr. Lukiewski's return the couple began to date and on May 
8, 1948 they were wed in St. Adalbert's church in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. It was the same church that they had both received all of 
their sacraments while growing up. Immediately after their marriage, 
Mr. and Mrs. Lukiewski moved into a humble apartment across from St. 
Adalbert. They would live here until it was time to start a family. The 
couple then moved to the Mayfair section of Northeast Philadelphia 
where they would spend the next twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Lukiewski 
are the proud parents of seven children, and eleven grandchildren, 
three of them being a group of triplets.
  Mr. Lukiewski has been a retired Army Reserve Colonel for the past 
ten years. He served in Europe and the Pacific during the World War II 
and is an actual veteran of the Normandy invasion. For the past three 
years he has also been actively retired after twenty-five years of 
service as President and C.E.O. of the Polonia Bank, of Philadelphia. 
Mr. Lukiewski now spends one day a week working for the St. Joseph's 
Villa retirement home where he helps in the daily responsibilities of 
the home. Whether it is supplying the patients with ice water, 
supplies, or just friendly conversation, Mr. Lukiewski is always 
available for help.
  Mrs. Lukiewski is the devout and yet easy going mother of the 
couple's seven children. She is quite active in their local church, St. 
James' Parish in Cheltenham, and in the Retired Officer's Association 
of the Willow Grove Naval Air Station. Mrs. Lukiewski was also the 
president of the Woman's Club, and still remains a member of that 
organization. The couple has been in their present Cheltenham home now 
for fifteen years.
  On May 9th the couple is renewing their vows in the same church in 
which they were wed in, fifty years ago. Several members of the 
original wedding party will attend the celebration, as well as numerous 
friends and relatives. A number of the couple's grandchildren will be 
offering the gifts and performing the readings for the ceremony. 
Monsignor Francis Ferret will be officiating the mass, accompanied by 
Monsignor Lee Korda, and Reverend Raymond Himsworth.
  Mr. Speaker, I am more than honored to congratulate this beautiful 
couple on their outstanding fifty years of marriage. I hope that the 
love shared between these two people is a model for us all, let us all 
share equal success and happiness that this couple has endured. I wish 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Stella Lukiewski fifty more years of utter 
happiness and marriage.

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