Eva Kukolax
Eva Kukolax was born in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, in November 1914, the youngest of the five children of Theodore Kukolax and Fannie Glowska. Her own Social Security filings give her birth as 12 November 1914 in one and 14 November in another. Her parents had both come from Austria in 1900, and in 1920 they gave their mother tongue, and their children's, as Russian.
On 1 January 1920 Eva, aged 5, was living with her parents, her sister Anna and her brothers Andrew, Daniel and John in the Sixth Ward of Jersey City. Her father was a factory laborer. In April 1930 she was 15 and still at home, enumerated as Eve.
In 1932 she married Frank Lasky, a Jersey City man two years older than her whose parents had come from Poland. Her mother died in March 1933, eleven weeks after Eva's first child was born.
In 1940 Eva, enumerated as Evelyn, 26, was living in Jersey City's Second Ward with Frank and four children: Frank, 7, William, 6, Daniel, 4, and Joan, 2. By April 1950 the family had grown to six children. Frank was driving a truck, and the household held Frank Jr., 17, William J., 16, Daniel C., 14, Joan, 11, Raymond, 8, and Diane, 4. A seventh child, Anthony, was born in Jersey City in 1951.
Frank died in Jersey City on 26 September 1954, at 45. Eva was left a widow at about 40 with seven children, the youngest about three.
Her daughter Joan, who had married John Bilous, died on 1 February 1970 at 31 and was buried in St. Andrew Cemetery at South Bound Brook, New Jersey. Her son Frank Charles died in 1999.
Eva Kukolax Lasky died on 29 December 1997, aged 83. She had last lived in Ocean County, New Jersey.
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