Shirley Raczkiewicz was born

When Shirley Ann Raczkiewicz was born on January 15, 1936, in Grand Rapids, Michigan Her father, Anthony, was 40, and her mother, Apolonia, was 31. Her family lived at 501 Milwaukee NW. She was baptized at St. Adalberts on February 9 by Father Makaymowski The sponsors were Walter Swiegoski and Victoria Palczewski. “Vicki” was her aunt, her mother’s sister. Shirley grew up with two siblings, Lorraine and Anthony, who were much older than her --14 and 10 years older and her brother Ronald was born in 1940 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when Shirley Ann was four years old. She had a half sister Bronislawa from her father’s first marriage who died young and a sibling that was born and died unnamed at the beginning of her parents’ marriage. Shirley’s siblings are now deceased.