Joseph Kaminski
March 23, 1930 — January 16, 2016
Joseph H. Kaminski, 85, a lifelong resident of Stamford, passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 16, 2016 surrounded by his loving family. A beloved husband, father and friend, Joe was born in Stamford on March 23, 1930 to the late Henry and Mary Kowalik Kaminski.
Joe served in the US Navy during the Korean War. He was a photoengraver for many years with the Engraving Division of McCall’s Magazine. In 1970, McCall’s closed and Joe took a job working for Graphic Color Plate and later at Wilbar Engraving of Darien. In 1985, he went to work as a general mechanic for the US Post Office in Norwalk. Joe was a member of the Graphic Communications International Union, The American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Retired Employees. Joe enjoyed fishing, bowling, water-color and oil painting along with other arts and crafts. He was passionate about music and was notorious for his humor.
Joe is survived by his wife, of sixty- two years, Joan Mathews Kaminski, two daughters; Jean Fratino and her husband Mike of Norwalk and Barbara “Bobbi” Loughran and her husband Patrick of Trumbull, his son Kenneth J. Kaminski and his wife Daphne of Texas, his six grandchildren, Dr. Ken Kaminski, Jr., Michael A. Kaminski, Kelly Fratino, Robert Fratino, Tierney and Patrick Loughran,Amanda Hicks, and two great-granddaughters; Zoe and Caroline.
Besides his parents, Joe is predeceased by his brother Henry and sister-in-law Mary.
A funeral procession will leave the Nicholas F. Cognetta Funeral Home & Crematory, 104 Myrtle Avenue, Stamford, CT on Thursday January 21, 2016 at 9:40AM and proceed to St. Mary’s RC Church, 566 Elm Street, Stamford for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 10:00AM. Interment will follow at Spring Grove Cemetery, Darien. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday January 20, 2016 from 4:00 to 8:00PM.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Joseph’s memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Building, Memphis, TN 38105
To leave online condolences, please visit www.cognetta.com.
Joe served in the US Navy during the Korean War. He was a photoengraver for many years with the Engraving Division of McCall’s Magazine. In 1970, McCall’s closed and Joe took a job working for Graphic Color Plate and later at Wilbar Engraving of Darien. In 1985, he went to work as a general mechanic for the US Post Office in Norwalk. Joe was a member of the Graphic Communications International Union, The American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Retired Employees. Joe enjoyed fishing, bowling, water-color and oil painting along with other arts and crafts. He was passionate about music and was notorious for his humor.
Joe is survived by his wife, of sixty- two years, Joan Mathews Kaminski, two daughters; Jean Fratino and her husband Mike of Norwalk and Barbara “Bobbi” Loughran and her husband Patrick of Trumbull, his son Kenneth J. Kaminski and his wife Daphne of Texas, his six grandchildren, Dr. Ken Kaminski, Jr., Michael A. Kaminski, Kelly Fratino, Robert Fratino, Tierney and Patrick Loughran,Amanda Hicks, and two great-granddaughters; Zoe and Caroline.
Besides his parents, Joe is predeceased by his brother Henry and sister-in-law Mary.
A funeral procession will leave the Nicholas F. Cognetta Funeral Home & Crematory, 104 Myrtle Avenue, Stamford, CT on Thursday January 21, 2016 at 9:40AM and proceed to St. Mary’s RC Church, 566 Elm Street, Stamford for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 10:00AM. Interment will follow at Spring Grove Cemetery, Darien. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday January 20, 2016 from 4:00 to 8:00PM.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Joseph’s memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Building, Memphis, TN 38105
To leave online condolences, please visit www.cognetta.com.
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