NameKathleen Mary Lasica 
BirthMay 24, 1946
EducationBA, Montclair State College
ResidesBloomfield, NJ
OccupationMercy Associate, Director of Association of the Mid-Atlantic Community for Sisters of Mercy of the Americas; former family counselor
FatherEmil George Lasica (1920-1999)
MotherLillian Elizabeth Sporn (1922-)
Spouses
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- Helen and George Rashevich, Lillian Lasica holding daughter Kathleen, Mary Schepper Sporn, Lorraine Puzio and Ernie Sporn, and Midge Sporn. Photo taken in 1948 by Emil Lasica.
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- Ernie and Lorraine Sporn with Kathy Lasica.
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- A convention of cousins in the spring of 1950. From right to left, Johnny Lasica, Dolores Wojcik holding little brother Walter Jr., Carole Wojcik with Jessica Stagg, Susanne and Robert Krzynowski, Eddie (a neighbor), Kathy Lasica and Bobby Lasica. (Emil Lasica is hidden behind dresser.)
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- Kathy Lasica at age 5. She won a beauty pageant a short while later at a union picnic.
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- Jessica Stagg, Kathy Lasica and Bobby Lasica at their grandparents’ house, circa 1953.
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- Kathy Lasica with cousin Ken Sporn in 1954. Kathy had Legg-Calve Perthes disease as a child and needed crutches from age 7 to 9.
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- Kathy Lasica with cousin Ken Sporn, who holds Kathy’s brother Joe, late summer 1955.
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- Emil and Lil Lasica with daughter Kathy and infant son Joe in fall 1955.
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- Kathy Lasica holds 3-month-old brother Joe at Staggs Farm in the fall of 1955.
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- Ken Sporn cradles his sister Gale next to cousin Kathy Lasica at Christmas 1955. Years later Kathy recalled, “I was very much afraid of that doll,” a knockoff of 1950s TV ventriloquist Paul Winchell’s dummy Jerry Mahoney.
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- Kathy Lasica smiles at her baby brother Joe right off the front porch of the Raseviches’ house on Lackawack Hill in the Catskills, probably in early 1956. I only recently came across this photo, but it’s one of my favorites.
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- Kathy Lasica with baby brother Joe and cousin Walter Wojcick Jr. at Greenwood Lake, spring 1956.
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- A somewhat blurry photo of Mary Schepper Sporn with four of her grandchildren, Kathy Lasica holding Joe Lasica and Kenn Sporn holding Gale Sporn, around 1957.
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- A joint birthday party for Duke Stagg (5) and George Lasica (2) in September 1959. From left, Jessica Stagg, Duke, Kathy Lasica holding George, Ken Sporn, Joe Lasica.
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- Emil and Lil Lasica with their children Kathy, Joe and George Lasica, around 1959.
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- Lil Sporn Lasica, Gladys Sporn DeVries, Tory Lasica Stagg and Kathy Lasica around 1960.
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- Kathy Lasica with father Emil before the Pulaski Day parade, circa 1963. Kathy was princess of the parade.
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- Email and Lil Lasica with daughter Kathy at Kathy’s high school graduation party in 1964.
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- Ernie Sporn, Kathy Lasica and Tory Lasica Stagg at Kathy’s high school graduation party in 1964.
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- Kathy Lasica Schiro with her godchild, Gale Sporn, on Gale’s confirmation day, around 1966.
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- Kathy Schiro and Michael Schiro at the Lasica’s house during Christmas around 1966.
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- Kathy Lasica and fiance Michael Schiro with Kathy’s godchild, Gale Sporn, at Gale’s confirmation, around 1966.
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- Kathy Lasica with godchild Gale Sporn at Gale’s confirmation, around 1966.
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- Kathy Lasica Schiro and daughter Dawn at Dawn’s christening, around late August 1970.
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- Kathy and George Lasica dance at a wedding in 1970.
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- Joe, Kathy and George Lasica go river rafting on the American River during their visit to Sacramento in July 1985.
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- Kathy Lasica Schiro during a river rafting trip on the American River in Northern California in July 1985 to visit her brother Joe. (Joe: This is one of my favorite shots of my sister.)
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- Kathy Lasica Schiro with Cynthia and Jennifer Lasica at Jennifer’s wedding in 1993.
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- At George Lasica’s wedding in Arizona, clockwise from top left: George, Kathy, JD, Lil and Emil Lasica.
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- George Lasica, Andy and Mike, and Lil Lasica at the wedding of JD and Mary Lasica.
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- Kathy Lasica Schiro with George Lasica at Kathy’s house in Bloomfield, NJ.
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- Kathy Schiro dances with her son Daniel at her daughter Gina’s wedding, April 1998.
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- Bobby sports a blue cap on a trip to the Catskills in June 2000 with his aunt and godmother, Kathy Schiro, and his dad, while visiting the Kilinsky family.
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- Cousins J. Martin Lasica, Kathy Lasica Schiro and Duke Stagg in May 2000 at Edson and Tory Lasica Stagg’s backyard patio in Flemington, NJ.
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- At the Schiros’ house for Christa and Stef’s wedding: clockwise from left, Kathy Schiro, Christa Schiro Barillari, JD Lasica, Stef Barillari, Rick Lasica, George Lasica
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- Kathy and Mike Schiro with granddaughter Ariana Barillari at daughter Dawn’s wedding on July 8, 2007.
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- From left, Kathy Schiro, Lil, JD and George Lasica in Phoenix around 2007.
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- At our family reunion in Lavallette at the Jersey Shore, July 2012. From left, Rick Lasica, Andrew Lasica, Tory Lasica Stagg, Mary Schrader Lasica, Jessica Morgan, Byron Morgan, Kathy Lasica Schiro, Michael Lasica and Bobby Lasica.
