Jerry Jerzy Wlodarczyk

Jerry Wlodarczyk, a retired builder and restaurant owner in North Jersey, died on Saturday, November 8, 2014. He was 87. Mr. Wlodarczyk was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1927. He served in the Polish Armia Krajowa (the Home Army) as a partisan within his teenage years, during World War II. His blond hair enabled him to slip through German checkpoints and positions to commits acts of sabotage against the Nazi occupiers. After V-E Day and the Soviet occupation of Poland in 1945, he fled to Denmark. He ultimately reached Canada in 1950, and settled in Ottawa. There he met his wife Therese, worked as a painter, and became a builder. They lived in Minnesota for a brief time before moving to New Jersey in the 1950s, living in Lodi and Waldwick, ultimately settling in Hawthorne. Mr. Wlodarczyk formed his own construction company, which built two-family and middle-income housing for property owners and the like across northern New Jersey, doing so into the 1980s. In the early 1970s, Mr. Wlodarczyk began building and later owning various restaurants in New Jersey. He was Vice Commander of District 2 of the Polish Army Veterans Association of America, a member of the PAWA (Polish Army Veterans) Post 36, the Polish-American Caucus of New Jersey, a Board Member of Wawel Bank, the League of American Poles, on the Board of Directors of the Polish-American Congress, the Nowy Dziennik newspaper, and the Polish-American Cultural Center (formerly the Polish People’s Home of Passaic). He was a member of the Polish-American Republican Club, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and a 40-year member and active participant of the Chopin Singing Society. In his spare time, he volunteered and provided financial support to the Polish-American community in northern New Jersey. He had a strong interest in promoting Polish-American politicians in Passaic and Bergen Counties. He was predeceased by his wife Therese, and is survived by his daughter Mimi Wlodarczyk; his son, Gerald Wlodarczyk; and grandchildren Kyle and Amy. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, NJ Chapter, PO Box 910, New Brunswick NJ 08903, (732) 745-7520. Funeral arrangements are being made by the Polish Army Veterans Association of America, District 2, to be held at a later date at Our Lady of Czestochowa Cemetery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Jerry Jerzy Wlodarczyk

March 20, 1927 - November 8, 2014