Jerome Joseph Kaminski
Born on March 1, 1928 (Actually February 29, 1928) Leap Year Baby
Death June 10, 2012
Married June 20, 1951
Dona Lee Zweiner
Born December 13, 1931
Death on August 31, 2020
Children:
David Jerome Kaminski 2-28-1955
Married 9-1-1995 Belinde Kay Gryder 2-17-1958
Jolaine Ann Zweifel 1-11-1957
Married 6-19-1982 Thomas Robert Zweifel 6-11-1954
Jean Marie Kaminski 4-22-1959
Common Marriage John Camero 05-12-1954
Daniel Thomas Kaminski 04-14-1960
Janet Clare Schmidt 10-25-1961
Married 2-20-1982 Mark John Schmidt Jr 12-4-1961
Dale Damian Kaminski 12-27-1967
Married 6-11-1994 Carol Ann Arentsen 12-5-1967
Jolaine Children:
Nichlas Alexanders Zweifel 10-9-1986
Married 5-19-2019 Pooja Bhadbhada 8-8-1985
Jennifer Renee Nolan 5-29-1990
Married 12-31-2016 John Nolan 12-17-1987
He attended grade school in Elba Nebraska. He went to high school in Grand Island @ St. Mary's in Nebraska. He graduated in 1946. He joined the U.S. Navy directly after graduation from high school.
After the war he attended art school in Omaha. Art was always his passion by he found a job working for the Union Pacific Railroad in Columbus Nebraska.
They settled in Sidney for the next 20 years were they had 6 children.
The family moved to Schuyler in the Summer of 1971, when he transferred to a new position for the railroad. They remained in Schuyler until the summer of 2009, when they moved to St. Joseph to retirement community.
He made his likelihood by working the railroad for the next 38 years. He also painted signs & made many drawing s & paintings throughout his life.
Jerome Joseph Kaminski
He was born February 29, 1928, in Elba Nebraska. To Victory & Domicella (Krzycki) Kaminski.
He severed two years on the USS Shangri-La as a seaman apprentice during World War II.
Married Dona Lee Zwiener on June 20, 1951, at St Bonaventure Catholic Church in Columbus Nebraska.
Grew up on a farm 5 miles west of Bellwood Nebraska. Went to grade school at District 41 near Bellwood Nebraska.
That summer and until she was 16 years old, Dona drove the tractor and helped her father with the farm work because there were no young men around to help. Because of this she considered herself a veteran of WWII. Dona went to Columbus public high school and graduated in 1949.
Early Adulthood:
David, the first child, was born in 1955, Jolaine,
the second in 1957, Jean, the third was in 1959, Dan, the forth in 1960, Janet, the fifth in 1961 and Dale, the sixth in 1967. Once the kids were old enough Dona started working for the Sidney Public Library, as a library assistant in 1964 through 1967.
Dona was very active in the church in both Sidney and in Schuyler, Nebraska where the family moved in 1972.
She found a job at the Schuyler Public Library in 1975 as a library assistant. Through the years she move-up to being the library director and retired in 1998. Dona loves books and enjoyed reading history and autobiographical and factual material.
In retirement, Dona enjoyed gardening with flowers and learning to sketch and paint and well as continuing to read anything she could find in a book. She mostly enjoyed reading non-fiction and history
as well as books giving her knowledge about and growth spiritually in her faith.
In August 2009, the children moved Dona and Jerry to St. Joseph Missouri, to a retirement community, where they would be closer to Jolaine to help care for them. Dona moved in the summer of 2013 to
Maryville MO, after Jerry died, to Jolaine’s home town, to make it easier to visit and care for her.
Dona was always very social and enjoyed being with and visiting with others. She also was very good at writing letters and staying in touch with her acquaintances. Most important to Dona was her faith in
and love for God.
Moved from the home in Bellwood Ne to Grand Island for Business College in 1949. Dona attended Grand Island Business College and once graduated, she moved to Sidney NE to work at the Sioux Army Depot in many different jobs from 1950 to 1955. Dona had met Jerome Kaminski before college and married him June20th, 1951. Jerry worked for the Union Pacific Railroad & also moved to Sidney after the marriage.
In Schuyler, at St. Augustine’s Church, Dona was a Eucharist Minister, a reader at Mass, President of the Little Flower Altar Society, President of the Religious Education Committee, leader of the St. Clair Study Group, and the head of the religious education program, where she had to not only find teachers for all the classes, but also homes where the sessions could be held. This included ordering all the books and supplies. She also found time to help clean the church on Wednesday mornings.
Dona went to grade school in a country school house where she was the only student in her grade for 8 years. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941. Six days later Dona turned 10 years old.
Dona Lee (Zwiener) Kaminski
Born in Columbus Nebraska to Emil and Marie Zwiener on Dec 13, 1931.
