Jozef Lasica - Lasica-Sporn-Schepper-Delenta family tree

NameJozef Lasica

BirthJan. 27, 1888, Poland

DeathMay 23, 1964

BurialCemetery of St. Michael the Archangel, Spie, Poland

Short bioJózef Łasica lived in Poland with his wife and children and never visited the US or Canada. He served in the army during WW1 and served in Russia; at one point he was gone for so long without word that his wife thought he was dead. They had two children before the war — Jan and Walenty — and six children after the war. The youngest, Stefan, was 22 years younger than his oldest brother, Jan.

Jozef may have worked a farm in Germany for a time when the Germans occupied his homeland during WW2. Before and after that he worked on the family estate in Spie, Poland. From old photos and family reminiscences, says granddaughter Stella Lasica Karniej, “He had a mustache and still had all of his dark hair late in life. He loved to smoke a pipe, and loved horses. He was a very slim man, like my dad, and similar in looks. He was a gentle, quiet man, and passed away when I was about 11.” Stella Lasica Karniej says her grandfather bore a strong resemblance to his brother Wojciech/George (Joseph Lasica’s grandfather), based on George’s citizenship photo. Joseph was Joseph Lasica‘s great uncle and he visited Jozef’s grave and the former Jozef Lasica homestead in Spie in 2013; Adam Lasica and Mary Lasica Turalinski did so in earlier years.

Spouses

1Jadwiga Sarafin

Birth1897, Poland

Death1971, Poland

ChildrenStefan (1934-1997)
Adam (1932-2007)
Stepania (Stephanie) (1929-)
Maria (1927-2004)
Anna (1923-1998)
Zofia (Sophie) (1920-1998)
Walenty (Valentine) (1914-1961)
Jan (John) (1912-1962)

: Jozef Lasica in an undated photo from perhaps the 1920s.

: Jozef Lasica working the family homestead in Wilcza Wola, Poland, in the 1940s or early 1950s.

: Jadwiga and Jozef Lasica with grandchildren Maria, Janina and Stella Lasica on the family farm in Spie, Poland, around 1957.

: Jozef Lasica, brother of Wojciech (George) Lasica, in an undated photo from the Ordon family site on MyHeritage.

: Mary Lasica Turalinski places a candle on the grave of her grandparents, Jozef and Jadwiga Lasica, in 1986 in Spie during her first trip to Poland.

: The gravestone of Jozef and Jadwiga Lasica in Spie, Poland, taken by JD Lasica in June 2013. You’ll notice it’s the same headstone but has a different plaque than 27 years earlier when Mary Lasica Turalinski visited.