NameMaria (Mary) Lasica 
BirthDec. 1, 1957, Wilcza Wola, Rzeszow, Poland
EducationStudied Business Education at Ryerson/York University; also attended Humberside Collegiate Institute
OccupationElementary School Teacher at Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board
ResidesMississauga, Canada
FatherAdam Lasica (1932-2007)
MotherJanina Sudol (1934-)
Short bioWith her older brother Mike, younger sister Krystyna and mother Janina, Mary joined her father, Adam, in Toronto in 1966 at age 9. Mary met and married her husband there. She and Ron adopted a daughter, Agneiszka, from Mary’s first cousin, Mary Sudol, daughter of Stephania Lasica and Wojtek Sudol, after visiting the family in Poland in 1995. Agneiszka was 2 at the time. Mary and Ron had tried having children of their own, to no avail; as it turned out, Mary and Ron conceived twins and had Adam and Lynn on their own a short time later.
Mary, my second cousin, called me (Joseph Lasica) in 2000, the day after I spoke with her sister Stella. I visited Mary, Chris, brother Joe and his wife Rose (as well as Stella’s part of the family) on March 31, 2006.
Mary and Ron now travel frequently with their twins, Adam and Lynn, who compete in national and international dance competitions. She visited Poland in 1986, 1999 — and in August 2013 with her sister Chris and daughter Agnieszka, who studied in Krakow in 2013-2014.
Spouses
BirthMay 2, 1959
MarriageFeb. 3, 1990
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- Janina and Adam Lasica flank Adam’s aunt, Katherine Delenta Lasica, in Toronto shortly after Janina and their children arrived in 1966. Bottom left to right: Mary, Chris and Mike Lasica.
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- Mary Lasica’s first communion on June 5, 1967: Janina with children Mary, 9, Krystyna, 6, and Marian, 12.
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- Mary Lasica with sister Chris at Mary’s first communion on June 5, 1967.
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- 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.
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- A photo from Mary Lasica’s trip to Poland in 1986, taken at the Lasica family farmhouse in Spie. From left, Anna and Wojtek Sudol (Mary’s mother’s sister and brother, related to the Lasicas by marriage — Walter is now deceased), Zofia Sudol Lasica (Mary’s aunt, no relation to the other Sudols) and Mary Lasica. Says Chris Lasica: “This was my grandparents’ home (Jozef and Jadwiga Lasica). We lived in that home until we came to Canada (in 1966), and then the house was left to Zofia, since she was a widow and struggling to raise eight children.”
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- A snapshot from Mary Lasica’s first trip back to Poland in 1986. From left: an unidentified man; Jozef Lasica (Mary’s cousin and Zofia’s son), who moved to Canada the following year; Mary Lasica; Mary’s aunt Zofia Sudol Lasica; and Walter and Anna Sudol (brother and sister-in-law of Mary’s mother, Janina Sudol).
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- Mary Lasica in the guest room of the Lasica family farm in Spie, Wilcza Wola, Poland in 1986.
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- Four siblings: Mike Lasica, Mary Lasica Turalinski, Chris Lasica and Joe Lasica at Chris’s wedding to Ian Ryves on Aug. 22, 1992, at city hall in Mississauga, Ontario.
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- Jozef Lasica, wife Maria, daughter Renata, and cousins Mary Lasica Turalinski and Mike Lasica in Toronto in summer 1995 outside St. Mary’s Polish Church at John Sudol and Karolina’s wedding.
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- Mary Lasica Turalinski with Maria Lasica Bordon outside St. Mary’s Church in Toronto at John Sudol and Karolina Pawlowska’s wedding in 1995.
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- Top, from left: Chris Lasica Ryves, Rosa Farrugia Lasica, Mary Lasica Turalinski; bottom: Janina Sudol Lasica, Maria Lasica Bordon and Stephanie Lasica Sudol at Rosa’s baby shower in early 1995.
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- Mary Lasica Turalinski and husband Ron at Christmas 1999.
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- Mary Lasica Turalinski with daughters Lynn and Agnieszka in their back yard.
