Shirley Raczkiewicz was born January 15, 1936

When Shirley Ann Raczkiewicz(my mother) 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. Anthony worked as a machinist. Shirley was baptized at St. Adalberts on February 9 by Father Maksymowski The Godparents were Walter Świegocki and Victoria “Vicki” Palczewski. “Vicki” was her aunt, her mother’s sister, who had also moved to Grand Rapids. Shirley grew up with three siblings. Lorraine and Anthony were much older than her – 14 and 10 years older. Her brother Ronald was born in 1940 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when Shirley was four years old. Shirley’s siblings are now deceased.