Photography circa 1896. From left Kazimiera Politowska-Pilewska with Zygmunt Pilewski, Genowefa Pilewska Józen Pilewski organizer of military groups, murdered by Germans in 1914,
standing are from left Zygmunt Pilewski and Edmund Pilewski.


Photography circa 1913. Standing from left Helena Piewska, Genowefa Pilewska.
Sitting on chair Maria Pilewska, standing Waclaw Pilewski.




Zygmunt Pilewski, finished Military Academy at Erewan, hero of Knights Legion in elite
Horseman Intelligence unit of the I-st Polish Eastern Corp at Mobrujsk 1918.
After resident of military counter espionage till 12 september 1939 in Dubno, Ukraine.


Witold Pilewski, finished Military Academy at Erewan.
In I-st Polish Eastern Corp, member of elite unit Knights Legion with Horseman Intelligence.
During II-nd World War prisoner of war in Germany.


Summer 1939. In first raw seats, heroines of Clan Kazimiera Politowska-Pilewska. Next Alicja Drabinska, seats Maryla Drabinska, next Halina Malkiewicz-Karbowska and near her seats Krystyna Malkiewicz-Stremler with young Danek Pawlowski. Standing from left, Genowefa Pilewska-Malkiewicz, Zofia Pilewska-Drabinska, Antoni Drabinski murdered in German concentration camp, Maria Pilewska-Pawlowska, Witold Malkiewicz pilot, killed over Scotland.


Year 1942. Waclaw Pilewski, military counter espionage. II-nd World War resident in Esztergom Hungary.
Since 1946 his fate unknown.


Circa 1960. From left Henryk Pilewski, in place of his brother became a resident in Dubno. Zofia Drabinska, Genowefa Malkiewicz, Maria Pawlowska and Edmund Pilewski.




Filip Pilewski, Jozef Clan died in 1935 buried at Warsaw Powazki, the same as his wife and son Romuald.
Filip's wife Wladyslawa Oranzewska daughter of Mikolaj and Gertrude maiden name Hanrich (daughter of German colonist from deep inside Prussia) Mikolaj Oranzewski, participant of 1863 uprising. Russians confiscated his land and sent him to Siberia.
Filip Pilewski five years in service of Russian Car's Black Sea fleet at Herson and Odessa.


Marian Pilewski, by ending of II-nd WW in service of Polish Air Forces as a mechanic of plane engines.


Romuald Pilewski, soldier of 1939 war, escaped from soviets prison, rest of the war hiding in Prussia


Ryszard Pilewski in Navy service. At collapse of Warsaw Uprising in 1944, taken as POW to Germany never returned. His fate remains unknown.




Bronislava Pilewska with her sister Marianne.
Sitting are Pilewski Joseph with a brother of his father Julian


Frank Zielinski son of Bronislava Pilewski - soldier of Korean War. It is a sad day as today the last of 10 children of Bertha Pilewski who married Anthony Zielinski has passed just shy of her 90th Birthday.
Her 6 sisters and 4 Brothers predeceased her
Her sister Francesca was the one who had reached 100 before her death.
My father Frank Leo Zielinski died after a fall where he struck his head at 88.
Peter, Walter, Adam passed before him.
His sisters Mary, Anastasia, Sophia, Josephine, and Francesca passed before..and today his sister Evelyn passed.
They leave many grand children and great grandchildren spread through America.

Dr. Glenn David Zielinski
Near Philadelphia Pennsylvania




LUB BRONIS£AWY PILEWSKIEJ Z ANTONIM ZIELIÑSKIM ROK 1911



Stoja od lewej Jan Pawlowski, Henryk Pilewski, Janusz Pilewski, Bogdan Pawlowski, Edmund Pilewski
Siedza od lewej Maria Pilewska-Pawlowska, Olga Szulc zona Edmunda Pilewskiego, Zofia Pilewska-Drabinska.
Na dole od lewej Alicja Drabinska, Halina Pozarycka zona Bogdana Pawlowskiego, Zenobia Staniewicz zona Janusza Pilewskiego, Maryla Drabinska






ANTONI PILEWSKI ( UR 1841R.) Z ZON¥ MARIANNA Z DOMU B¡KOWSKA
UCZESTNIK POWSTANIA STYCZNIOWEGO


Antoni Pilewski z zona w drodze do USA. Ur.1881 w Synogaci, syn Antoniego i Franciszki Furmanskiej.



Pilewski1.jpg - is a picture of Ignacy Pilewski 16-Dec-1916
Pilewski2.jpg - is a picture of Josef and Julianna Pilewski 1873 - 1876
Pilewski3.jpg - is a picture of Stanislaw Pilewski 1918
Stephen2.jpg - is a picture of Catherine and Stephen Pilewski 1895 - 1896


Thank you.

Jill Fenstermaker


Ignacy Pilewski 16-Dec-1916


Josef and Julianna Pilewski 1873 - 1876


Stanislaw Pilewski 1918


Catherine and Stephen Pilewski 1895 - 1896


Aleksandra Pilewska razem z mezem Bronislawem Kaminskim w Suminku albo Bendorzynie. Aleksandra Pilewska urodzona w 1888 w Suminku rodzice Antoni i Jozefa Koralewska,







Victor James Pilewski, 83, of Oil City, passed away on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at Oakwood Heights with his family by his side.

He was born in Oil City, on May 15th, 1933, the youngest of six sons of John Pilewski and Thecla Huefner Pilewski. In 1951, he graduated from St. Joseph High School, having been taught by the Benedictine Sisters. During high school he worked at the Oil City Variety Store, Sam Magdovitz Beverage Company, and part-time grave digger at Calvary Cemetery.

Following high school, he attended two years at St. Mark Seminary followed by two years at Gannon College, both located in Erie, PA. In 1953, he entered Our Lady of River Ridge Seminary in Franklin, PA. In 1956, he entered the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) Novitiate in Alexandria Bay, NY and was assigned to Theological Studies in Tunisia, North Africa and later transferred to East View Ontario, Canada. In 1960, he was ordained to the priesthood at his home parish of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Oil City. During his vocation as a White Father of Africa missionary, he served in many locations including Our Lady of River Ridge, Franklin, PA; Washington D.C.; Uganda, Africa; and Onchiota, NY. As a White Father, he served as Assistant Provincial Treasurer, Manager of Investments, and Director of Provincial Finances & Real Estate, which required numerous visits to Rome. After leaving the priesthood, he continued to work with the White Fathers in Plainfield, NJ.

Upon returning to the Oil City area, he assumed directorship of Goodwill Industries for several years. For 15 years, Vic served as Directory of Dietary services at the Oil City Hospital until his retirement. He continued to keep active as a courier for U.S. Cargo and a crossing guard for the Oil City School District. He was a member of the Hospital Council of Northwest Pennsylvania, 4th degree member of Knights of Columbus, a life-time member of Pulaski Club, and a member of the Izaak Walton League.

Vic was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 37 years, Mary (Kleck) Pilewski in June 2014; and his five brothers: Francis, Bernard, Paul, Edward, and John Pilewski. He is survived by one son, Victor John Pilewski, M.D., and his girlfriend, Lainey Mattox, of West Liberty, KY; and five step-children: Joe Schwab and wife, Linda, of Oil City; Rachael Myers and husband, Joe, of Granger, IN; Liz Brewer and husband, Dan, of Erie, PA; Marj Kalamajka and husband, Jerry, of Oil City; and Doug Schwab and wife, Cindy, of Gibsonia, PA. He is also survived by his seventeen grandchildren: Emily, Taylor, and Hillary Schwab; Erin (David) Fifer, Sean, Sarah, and Kathryn Myers; Danielle Vascovich, Ashley (Samantha) Brewer, Meagan (Isaac) White, John and Robynn Milewski, and Ethan Brewer; Ryan and Sadie Kalamajka; and Katrina and Lauren Schwab, as well as three great-grandchildren: Connor Vascovich, Lettie Wisniewski, and Liam Fifer.

Vic loved to travel and was fluent in several languages, He had many interests including poker, travel, deer and bear hunting, outdoor work, garage sales, cooking meat (especially a good filet mignon), following the stock market, and his afternoon Manhattan. His fondest times were spent with his kids and grandkids. He was a daily communicant for many years. He was a loving and dedicated husband to his wife, visiting her every day for five years at Oakwood Heights during her final years battling Parkinson's disease. He was a great father and provider to all of his kids, and will be greatly missed.

Visitations will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Reinsel Funeral Home and Crematory, 116 Bissell Ave, Oil City.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, May 15th at 10:00 a.m. in St. Stephen Church, 21 State Street, Oil City with Fr. John Miller III officiating.

Memorials can be made to St. Stephen Church, Second Century Fund, 210 Reed Street, Oil City; or Oakwood Heights, 10 Vo-Tech Drive, Oil City.





Czesc Slawku,
Ten czlowiek byl synem brata mojego ojca. To jemu bardzo spodobala sie Twoja ksiazka "Pilewscy - Saga Ostaniego Rodu Wielkich Prusow". Wszystkiego najlepszego,
Norb
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Raymonda Waltera Pilewskiego
20 wrzesnia 1931 ~ 15 kwietnia 2023 (wiek 91)

Nekrolog Raymonda W. Pilewskiego (1931-2023)

Raymond Walter Pilewski, lat 91, krol Prus, zmarl spokojnie w domu z kochajaca rodzina przy jego lozku w sobote 15 kwietnia 2023 r.

Urodzony w Oil City, Pensylwania, Ray byl synem niezyjacego juz Josepha K. Pilewskiego i niezyjacej juz Clary (z domu Luczkowiak) Pilewski, oddanego meza przez ponad 63 lata Mary A. (z domu Olon) Pilewski, kochajacego ojca Karen DiGenova (Salvatore), Scott Pilewski, Mike Pilewski (Lynn) i Cindy Vandergeest, dumny „tatus" Matta, Alexa, Victorii, Christiny, Julii, Jacka, Meghan, Jonathana i Ryana oraz kochajacy pradziadek Logana.

Ponadto Ray pozostawia swojego brata, dr Roberta Pilewskiego, w Allison Park, Pensylwania i siostre, Carol Bowser, w Glendale, AZ.

Poza tym Raymond mial dwie ukochane siostry, które zmarly przed nim, Irene Andres z Oil City w Pensylwanii i Joan Nicolas Still z Clarion w Pensylwanii.

Raymond byl absolwentem Oil City High School w 1949 roku, aw 1953 roku dumnie zaciagnal sie do armii amerykanskiej. Sluzyl w wojsku do 1955 roku i dosluzyl siê stopnia kaprala. Otrzymal takze Medal Dobrego Postêpowania i Medal S³uzby Narodowej.

Po odbyciu sluzby pan Pilewski zapisal siê na Carnegie Mellon University i uzyskal tytul Bachelor of Arts w dziedzinie poligrafii z klasa 1961.

Nastepnie zostal kierownikiem operacyjnym w The Evening Bulletin, pracujac tam przez ponad 15 lat i odchodzac z The Bulletin w 1982 roku. Nastepnie zalozyl wlasna drukarnie, QuickPrint Center w Chesterbrook, Pensylwania.

Byl bardzo poboznym katolikiem, uczeszczal na poranne Msze sw. do kosciola Najswietszego Serca Pana Jezusa i przez ponad 55 lat byl czlonkiem kosciola Matki Boskiej Opatrznosci.

Byl takze czlonkiem Zwiazku Narodowego Polskiego w Ameryce Polnocnej.

Lubil grac w golfa i tenisa, podrozowac na wyspe Kiawah, rejsy na Bermudy, kazdego lata odwiedzac nadmorski dom w Ocean City w stanie New Jersey ze swoja ukochana rodzina i obserwowac, jak liscie zmieniaja sie kazdej jesieni.

Byl rowniez znany jako niezla zlota raczka. Mial dodatkowa dzialalnosc, naprawiajac prawie wszystko, nawet pomagajac w konserwacji w QVC.

Uslugi beda prywatne na prosbe rodziny, ale byliby wdzieczni za datki na pamiatke na jego czesc dla Wounded Warrior Project, 7020 A.C. Skinner Parkway, Suite 100, Jacksonville, PA 32256, 1-877-832-6997, www.woundedwarriorproject.org , Za aranzacje odpowiada The Bernard S. Gutkowski Funeral Home, Swedesburg, Upper Merion Twp., PA 19405, Keith J. Murphy, F.D., 610-275-6385, www.gutkowskifuneralhome.com

Aby wys³ac rodzinie kwiaty lub posadzic drzewko ku pamiêci Raymonda Waltera Pilewskiego, zapraszamy do naszej kwiaciarni.



John J. Pilewski, 85, of Latrobe, passed away Friday, May 7, 2021 at his home.
Born September 19, 1935 in Oil City, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late John Walter Pilewski and Martha Mary (Walentowski) Pilewski.

In his youth, John was a member of Troop 7 of the Boy Scouts of America in Oil City, PA. He served on Summer Camp staff all through high school and rose to the rank of Eagle Scout and earned the Vigil Honor of the Order of the Arrow.

John was a dedicated member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Latrobe, and volunteered with its funeral team. Prior to his retirement, he was the design engineer for Extrude Home, Irwin.

John served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served his country during the Cuban Missile Crisis and as a Marine Guard on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea during the Suez Crisis. He served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina as a drill sergeant. and as a radar-man on Marine jet and once had to bail out over the Atlantic Ocean when his jet plane had a flameout.

John enjoyed his daily walks at Westmoreland Mall and the many people he got to know there.

He was unselfish, always concerned about others and will be fondly remembered as a devoted husband and a loving father.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Julie A. King. John is survived by his second wife, Cynthia (Sexton) Pilewski, whom he married on October 19, 1996.

His first wife, Johanna (Deutsch) Pilewski passed away years before. They had one son, Christopher A. Pilewski (wife Bonnie of Aurora, Illinois), and one daughter, Heidi Beth Pilewski/Geiselman and one grandchild, April Geiselman.

He had two grandchildren by his 2nd marriage: Erin Humensky, and Rachel Humensky. John had three brothers: Norbert A. Pilewski, Ph.D. and his wife Charlotte, of Pittsburgh, PA, Walter J. Pilewski of Titusville, PA, and Jerome Pilewski, and his wife Joyce, of Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Family and friends will be received on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at Trinity Lutheran Church from 10 to 11 AM at which time a memorial service will be held with the Trinity Clergy officiating.

Please be prepared to adhere to all current medical guidelines, including wearing a mask and social distancing, while visiting the church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to World Hunger, c/o Trinity Lutheran Church, 331 Weldon Street, Latrobe, PA 15650.

Arrangements are being handled by the Lopatich-Brinker Funeral Home, LLC, 601 Weldon Street, Latrobe.


I was born on a Thursday at 6 PM in the Oil City Hospital on December 15^th, 1938 to Martha Walentowski Pilewski and John Walter Pilewski. My mother told me years later that I had been born with a caul. Some cultures and traditions believe that being born en caul is seen as a sign of good luck for both baby and parents.

My brother John was the first born, then me, then my brother Walter, my brother Jerome, and then my sister Julie Ann.

Our family lived in the Polish community in my maternal grandfather George Walentowski’s large house on a hilltop in Oil City, Pennsylvania in the Polish neighborhood. Our house bordered on the woods and we kids spent our free time playing there.

My Dad worked as traffic manager in an office at the Oil City Glass Bottle Company. My mother had worked as a secretary for the Continental Refining Company. They both had attended Welch’s Business College in Oil City.

I attended the Assumption B.V.M. Polish-American Grade School and was an altar boy and sang in the choir. The Mass was in Latin and the hymns were in Polish. When I was 12 years old I, joined the Boy Scouts and reached the rank of Star.

I attended St. Joseph Irish-American High School and while there: sang in the Gregorian Chant choir, competed in oratory contests, worked on the student newspaper, and was co-editor of the yearbook. In my sophomore year, I left the Boy Scouts and joined the Civil Air Patrol and the Junior American Red Cross.
While in the Civil Air Patrol, I reached the rank of sergeant and became the unit’s adjutant because I could type (I had sat in on a typing course in high school and took a Summer course in typing at the public high school). My high school buddy, Richard Wromble, and I attended the Summer Civil Air Patrol program at Olmsted Air Force Base in Harriburg, Pennsylvania.
We flew down from Pittsburgh to Harriburg in an old WW II bomber and wore parachutes. At the base we lived in a barracks, attended classes and marched.

While in high school, I had a job at Wallace’s Book Store, cleaning up and delivering books. Later I worked as an usher at the Latonia Theater in Oil City. As an usher, I was able to see many, many movies for free.

My father died when I was a senior in high school. There was no money for college so I did the paperwork for enlisting in the U.S. Navy. I wanted to be a Pharmacist’s Mate on a submarine.

I had just about completed my induction into the Navy when I was awarded the Eckerd Drug Scholarship to Pharmacy School at the University of Pittsburgh. When I told the Navy recruiter, he tore up the recruitment contract, threw the pieces into the wastebasket and said, “Go to college, Kid, go to college” and I did and stayed and stayed.

At the University of Pittsburgh I worked as an undergraduate laboratory assistant in the Microbiology and Pharmacognosy Laboratories.

In 1961 I graduated with a B.S. degree in Pharmacy and a few months later I became a Registered Pharmacist in Pennsylvania.

From 1961-1963 I did research on False-Positive Alkaloid Reactions, Phytochemical Screening of Paronychia argentea (Algerian Tea), and the Isolation of the Alkaloids of Catharanthus lanceus.

In 1963 I earned a Master of Science in Pharmacognosy and transferred to the Ohio State University (OSU) to work on a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy. I had a research fellowship at OSU and also, once I became a licensed pharmacist in Ohio, I worked in retail pharmacies to pay expenses.

In 1964 I married Charlotte Marie Kersavage whom I met while at the University of Pittsburgh and who was attending Nurses’ Training at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh. Our son, Michael and daughter, Kathleen were both born while we lived in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1967 I graduated from OSU with a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy. I had isolated codonocarpine, a member of an entirely new class of alkaloids from the bark of the Australian Bell Fruit Tree, Codonocarpus australis.

In 1967 we moved to Pittsburgh and I accepted a position as assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy at Duquesne University. I would teach there for 40 years.

While at Duquesne, I founded the Medical Microbiology and Pharmacognosy undergraduate Lectures & Laboratories as well as lecture courses in Alternative/Complementary Therapies, Herbal Remedies, Toxins & Venoms, and History of Pharmacy.

In 1967 my pharmacy class size was 30 students for required courses. Over the years the class size kept increasing so that by 2005 my class size for required courses was 180 students. This kept me very busy.

Our daughter, Kathleen and our son, Michael, attended St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin grade school. Michael was in the Cub Scout Pack there and I was the Webelos Scout Leader. Later Mike joined Boy Scout Troop 276 at a nearby Protestant Church. I drove Mike to the meetings and became Assistant Scoutmaster then later I became Scoutmaster. Over the years, I served as Roundtable Commissioner, Unit Commissioner, Camping Committee member, and finally as Campmaster at Camp Guyasuta. I was in Scouting for 50 years and was awarded The Silver Beaver, Ph.D. from Commissioners College, Wood Badge the Order-of-the-Arrow Vigil Honor, the St. George Medal, the St. Joan of Arc Medal, the Bronze Pelican Medal, and the 50-Year Veteran Pin.

In 1994, I was awarded the ODK Duquesne University Teacher of the Year Award.

Each year, from 1995 to 2000, and in 2002 (in 2001 I was in Poland) I brought Duquesne University pharmacy and pre-medical students to the Ix Chel Tropical research Station in the foothills of the Maya Mountains of Belize for one-week of classes on Mayan herbal medicine taught by Dr. Rosita Arvigo

In 2001, I was awarded the 1^st ever Pharmacy Fulbright Grant to Poland for February to June at the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. I was able to give guest lectures at Colleges of Pharmacy in: Krakow (Jagiellonian University), Gdansk (Medical University), Lublin (Catholic University), Wroclaw (Medical University), and Poznan (Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences

Over the years, I was able to travel on travel grants from the German government to Hamburg, Lambrecht, Bonn, West Berlin and East Berlin when The Wall was up. I was also able to attend the Goethe Institute in Staufen im Breisgau in the Black Forest.

I was also able to teach Duquesne Pharmacy and Nursing students in two Summer School Sessions at the Monchsberg Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

CHURCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES
1967-1973: Member, St. Norbert Roman Catholic Church.
1973-present: Member - St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Roman Catholic Church, Whitehall.
1973-1978: Member – St. Gabriel Parent-Teacher Guild (PTG)
1975-1976: Vice-President – St. Gabriel PTG.
1976-1979: Member – St. Gabriel Parish Council.
1976-1979: Member – St. Gabriel Education Commission.
1977-1978: Secretary – St. Gabriel Education Commission.
1976-1983: Usher – 8 AM Mass, St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Parish, Whitehall, PA.
1976-1977: President – St. Gabriel PTG.
1977-1978: President Emeritus – St. Gabriel PTG
1977-1979: Instructor – Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 11^th Grade.
2008-2020: Usher – 8 AM Mass, St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Parish, Whitehall, PA.
2010-present: Funeral “Resurrection” Choir, St. Gabriel ofs the Sorrowful Virgin, R.C. Church, Whitehall.
2005-2007: Dr. Pilewski was asked to continue teaching part-time at Duquesne, TOTAL OF 40 YEARS AT DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

1945-1952: Assumption B.V.M. Polish-American Grade School , Oil City, PA.
1950-1954: Boy Scouts (BSA), Colonel Drake Council, Oil City, PA, Troop 7 (Tenderfoot), Troop 15 (2^nd Class, 1^st Class, Star)
1952-1956: St. Joseph Irish-American High School, Oil City, PA. (Newspaper staff, Yearbook co-editor)
1952: BSA, Order of the Arrow, Deer Rock Lodge #256, Camp Coffman, Ordeal.
1953-1956: Civil Air Patrol, Splane Memorial Airport, Fosters Corner, Oil City, PA, Sergeant/Adjutant
1954: Junior American Red Cross, Summer Program, Shadyside Academy, Pittsburgh (Fox Chapel), PA.
1954: Order-of-the-Arrow (BSA), Deer Rock Lodge #256, Camp Coffman, Brotherhood.
1955, August: Civil Air Patrol Summer Encampment – Olmsted Air Force Base, Harrisburg, PA
1956-1961: Eckerd Drug Company 4-Year Scholarship to Univ. of Pgh.
1956-1960: Summer Apprenticeship, Eckerd Drugs, Oil City, PA.
Fall 1957 – Emergency surgery for Appendicitis at St. Francis Hospital, Dr. Hermes Nunez, M.D. assisting at surgery.
Fall 1957, Spring 1958 – Home in Oil City, working at Eckerd Drugs, school postponed due to illness (appendix)
1960-1961: Pharmacy Apprenticeship, Presbyterian-University Hospital Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA.
1960-1961: Microbiology & Pharmacognosy Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant
1961-1963: Microbiology & Pharmacognosy Graduate Laboratory Assistant
1956: Kappa Psi Professional Pharmacy Fraternity.
1959 – 1961: Sigma Pi Social Fraternity, Chi Chapter,
1961: Rho Chi Honorary Pharmaceutical Society.
1961 – B.S. Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
1961-2007: Registered Pharmacist, Pennsylvania.
1961-1963: Part-time Pharmacist: Oakland & East Liberty Community Pharmacies (Sun Drugs, Thrift Drugs, Independent pharmacies)
1961-1963: Research on False-Positive Alkaloid Reactions, Phytochemical Screening of Paronychia argentea (Algerian Tea), and Isolation of the Alkaloids of Catharanthus lanceus. Advisor: Dr. Norman R. Farnsworth.
1962, July 15^th, Saturday: Met the love of my life, Charlotte M. Kersavage, at St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh,PA
1962-1963: Part-time Pharmacist: Magee Womens’ Hospital Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA. 1963 – M.S. Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
1963-1967: Graduate Research Assistant,
Pharmacognosy, The Ohio State University
1963-1968: Registered Pharmacist, Ohio
1964-1967: Research on Codonocarpus australis: Isolation of a new class of alkaloids.
1964-1967: Part-time Pharmacist, Star Drugs (Doc Herbie Solomon, proprietor) and 2 other Independent Pharmacies, Columbus, Ohio.
1964, September 5: Married Charlotte Marie Kersavage in Bellefonte, PA.
1965, July 24: Michael John Pilewski born.
1967, June 6: Kathleen Marie Pilewski born.
1967, December: Ph.D. Pharmacognosy, The Ohio State University
1967-1971: Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy, Duquesne University, School of Pharmacy
1967: Pharmacy Class size = 30 students; 2005: Class size = 180 students
1968-1998: Faculty/Student Class Visits to: Eli Lily and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Parke-Davis, Detroit, Michigan, Abbot t Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, Mylan Laboratories, Morgantown, W.Va.,
1969-1973: Member - Group Against Smog & Pollution (GASP) – Speakers’ Bureau - slide and filmstrip presentations about various forms of pollution to community groups.
1970-1991: Secretary, School of Pharmacy Faculty Meetings.
1971-1980: Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy, Duquesne University, School of Pharmacy
1972 – 1977: Adjunct Professor of Medical Microbiology and Public Health, Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science (PIMS).
1972-1977: Research on Ailanthus glandulosa (Chinese Tree of Heaven)
1973: Moved to new house at 118 Audbert Drive
1973, July 13 – April 19, 1974: Part-time Pharmacist: Prospect Center Pharmacy, Inc, Stanford M. Rosner, Ph.G.
1975, April 20 - June 14, 1975: Part-time Pharmacist Gavin Pharmacy, Butler Street, Pgh.
1975-2005: Clinton Eddy Goodwin Memorial Scholarship Committee.
1977: Faculty visit, Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Somerville, N.J., June 1-30.
1977, July 17-July23: Summer Camp, Camp Tionesta, Assistant Scoutmaster Troop 276
May 3, 1977, October 8, 1977: DuVall’s Drug Store, Inc, Donora, PA.
1978-1983: Scoutmaster, Troop 276, Hamilton Presbyterian Church, Whitehall, PA.
August 16, 1978- September 7, 1978 : Lanza Pharmacy & Surgical Supply, Inc., Cochran Road, Pgh.
1978-1991: Childrens’ Hospital of Pittsburgh, Oakland, Thursday evening & Saturday Pharmacist.
1980-1985: Associate Professor of Pharmacology-Toxicology, Duquesne University, School of Pharmacy
1982, October 16: Order-of-the-Arrow, Kiasutha Lodge #57, Heritage Reservation, Ordeal.
1982-2009: Instructor, Standard First Aid, Adult CPR/AED, Infant and Child CPR, American Red Cross, Pharmacy & Nursing students, Duquesne University.
1982, October 18: Scouter’s Training Award
1982, October 22-24: Fall “Yosemite Sam” Camporee, Silvertip District, Camp Guyasuta, Cayuhoga Campsite (across Guyasuta Run), Communications/Signaling Station, Troop 276.
1983, September 24: Order-of-the-Arrow, Kiasutha Lodge #57, Heritage reservation, Brotherhood.
1983-2010: Adjutant & Quartermaster, District Camping Committee, Silvertip/Steel City District.
1984, May 5: Wood Badge Beads.
1985: Bachelor Degree in Commissioner Science.
1985-2005: Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy
1986, April 25: Scouter’s Key Award
1988: Masters Degree in Commissioner Science
1989, July 2-22: “Berlin and West Germany”, Seminar No.892, Inter-European Educator Seminar (IEES) sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (East and West Berlin, Luebeck, Hamburg, Lambrecht, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Schloss Hambach, Heidelberg, Speyer, and Strassburg).
1990: Silver Beaver, Presented BY BSA to Norbert A. Pilewski, Churchman/Supporter of Youth/Educator, Allegheny Trails Council, BSA.
1993, August 4-10, National Scout Jamboree, “A Bridge to the Future”, Fort A.P. Hill (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Jamboree Staff (Arts & Science Expo.)
1990-2005: “Study of Prescriptions from a 19^th-Century Pittsburgh Pharmacy”.
1991, January 6-12: “A United Germany: Implications for the Future”, International Faculty Development Seminar, Council on International Educational Exchange, Bundestag Administration, Bonn and the Free University of Berlin, DANK Grant.
1992, March 3: Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Community Service, Duquesne University
1992, September 26: Order-of-the-Arrow, Kiasutha Lodge #57, Vigil Honor, Indian Name Genach-gi-hat interpreted as Oversear
1993, September 11: 42^nd Gilwell Wood Badge Reunion, Blue Springs Scout Reserve, Halton Hills (Acton), Ontario, Canada.
1994: ODK Duquesne University Teacher of the Year Award.
1997, June 2–June 27: Goethe Institute, Staufen-im Breisgau, “Learn German in Germany”, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Grant, German Academic Exchange Service.
1997, June 28-29 (Sat,Sun): Bingen-Bingenbruecke and Ruedesheim-Eibingen, Germany, “Auf den Spuren der Hildegard” (“Tracing the Footsteps of Hildegard”)research into the life and healing practices of Hildegard von Bingen.
1998: “Ethnobotany and Therapeutic Uses of Herbs” Workshop, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA.
1999 : 48th Annual Session, University of Utah School of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2000: Order of the Silver Mortar - The Grand Council, Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity.
2000: Amazon International Healthcare Expedition, Iquitos, Peru, Explorama Lodge, Napo Camp.
2000-2009: Health/First Aid Officer, Advancement Camps, Camp Twin Echo, 2 weeks each Summer.
2001, February-June: Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1^ST EVER Pharmacy Fulbright to Poland), (Guest Lectures delivered to Colleges of Pharmacy in: Krakow (Jagiellonian University), Gdansk (Medical University), Lublin (Catholic University), Wroclaw (Medical University), and Poznan (Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences
2002, May 13-20: Belize, Poles, Xunantunich, Rio Frio Falls (Pine Ridge), Punta Gorda, Snake Island, Nim li Punit ruins, Beatrice Waight (midwife, healer), Leopaldo Romero (bushmaster), Juana Shish (midwife, healer), Dr. Rosita Arvigo.
2002, June: “Herbal Remedies”, Duquesne University students, Schloss Moenchsberg Study Abroad Center, Salzburg, Austria
2003, May 23: “Plant Drugs That Changed the World”, Ix Chel Tropical research Station, San Ignacio, Belize, Central America.
2003: Symposium on Botanical Medicines-Medicines from the Earth, Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, North Carolina.
2004, May 27 – June 10: Krakow, Poland, “ Herbal Remedies”, Intercultural Teaching, American and Polish students, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University.
2004, June 10 – June 24: Salzburg, Austria, “ Herbal Remedies”, American Students, Schloss Moenchsberg Akademie.
2005, Summer: “Dr. Pilewski Retires ”, Pharmacy News, page 17, Duquesne University.
2005-2007: Dr. Pilewski was asked to continue teaching part-time at Duquesne, TOTAL OF 40 YEARS AT DUQUENE UNIV.
2009, May 19: “A Guide for Camp Health Officers”, by Norbert A. Pilewski, Commissioners’ College Ph.D. Thesis, Heritage Scout Reservation, GPC, BSA, 44 pp.
2009, October 25: Ph.D. in Commissioner Science, College of Commissioner Science, Heritage Reservation, Eagle Base.
2009-2021: BSA - Campmaster, Camp Guyasuta, Sharpsburgh, PA.
2010, April 25: St. Joan of Arc Award/Medal, 56^th Annual Scout Convocation, 2 PM, St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland
2010: St. George Medal, Catholic Scouting Award
2010-2015: Member - Catholic Committee on Scouting.
2014, Bronze Pelican Medal , Catholic Committee on Scouting.
DECEMBER 2020 – BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 50-YEAR VETERAN PIN



This picture shows “The Point” where the 3 rivers come together (Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers) and the downtown area of Pittsburgh.  We live 3 miles away and to the right of the photograph, in the South Hills.  Duquesne University is located on a hill about 1/4 mile from The Point overlooking the Monongahela River. 

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Hi Slawek,

First Neil sent an email to Norb, Norb answered, and after a few back-and-forth emails, we met at our Eat-N’-Park restaurant in the South Hills of Pittsburgh (Neil and his Father live in the North Hills of Pittsburgh).


Neil is 31, married, and has 2 little girls named Madison and Amelia. 
His wife is pregnant, due in July, and he's hoping for a boy. 
He is a financial advisor, helping people secure loans at a business on Stanwix Street downtown Pittsburgh. 
They live in Shaler Township, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Neil has twin sisters, Natalie and Nicole. 
Nicole plays volleyball!! 
Neil went to the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 
He was very enthusiastic about the Pilewski family history and Poland.   
He found Slawek’s information on the internet, contacted him and got Norbert’s email. 
Both Neil and his Dad, Tony, are planning to go to Poland, maybe next year, and they hope to meet Slawek.

  An interesting note: in the 1980s, Charlotte had seen Neil’s grandfather's name (Tony’s father) on a hospital order form when she worked as a pharmacist at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.  [Charlotte is both a Nurse and a Pharmacist.] Charlotte went to Neil's grandpa's room and introduced herself.
Later Norbert came to the hospital and met Neil's grandpa also! Neil’s grandpa was a Pittsburgh PAT (Port Authority Transit) bus driver.
So there we were, in the restaurant, 30 years later, talking about it!
This man  (Neil’s Grandpa) passed away in 1997.

  We were glad that our son, Michael, was here from Germany visiting us and could meet Neil and his father. Together they were able to fill in some missing blanks in Mike's genealogy research.

  Wszystkiego najlepszego,

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Life is like a journey on a train...
with its stations...
with changes of routes...
and with accidents! At birth we boarded the train and met our parents, and we believe they will always travel on our side.
However, at some station our parents will step down from the train, leaving us on this journey alone.
As time goes by, other people will board the train; and they will be significant i.e. our siblings, friends, children, and even the love of our life.
Many will step down and leave a permanent vacuum. Others will go so unnoticed that we don't realize that they vacated their seats!
This train ride will be full of joy, sorrow, fantasy, expectations, hellos, good-byes, and farewells.
Success consists of having a good relationship with all passengers...
requiring that we give the best of ourselves.
The mystery to everyone is:
We do not know at which station
we ourselves will step down.
So, we must live in the best way - forgive, and offer the best of who we are. It is important to do this because when the time comes for us to step down and leave our seat empty...
We should leave behind beautiful memories for those who will continue to travel on the train of life....
Thank you for being one of the
passengers on my train!



Hi Family,
We had lunch at Eat-N’-Park today with Neil Pilewski and his father, Tony Pilewski.   We are related!   Neil contacted us.   He has been reading Slawek’s computer posts about our ancestors in Poland. Neil has two little girls and his wife is expecting. Their great grandparents settled in Pittsburgh.   Neil’s father and grandfather were both PAT bus drivers in Pittsburgh.   They live now in the North Hills.   Neil posts on Facebook.
All the best,
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Norbert Pilewski with his Family





Hi Slawek,
My youngest brother, Jerome (Jerry), passed away.

Not too long ago, my older brother, John, passed away (John served in the US Marine Corp).

Jerry was the athlete of the family. When he was little, Little League Baseball came to Oil City. Jerry walked a long way up to the field where they were playing and was accepted in the team. As an adult he liked to play golf. Jerry's son is a golf pro. While in high school, Jerry played football and was such a good player that he was awarded a gold watch. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany where he worked in an office in Bad Kreuznach. He told me that he volunteered as a paratrooper and made a few jumps safely while in Germany.
He will be missed. See Jerry's obituary below.....
Wszystkiego najlepszego,
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Jerome John Pilewski, 81 of Pinehurst, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2025, surrounded by his loving family at First-health Hospice House, Pinehurst, NC.
Jerome was born August 21, 1943, to the late John W. and Martha Mary (Walentowski) Pilewski in Oil City.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, John Pilewski, and a sister, Julie A. King.
Jerome proudly served his country in the United States Army.
After his career as production control manager with AK Steel and Braeburn Steel and supervisor of Tobacco Prevention and cessation with Mercy Behavioral Health in Pennsylvania, Jerome shifted his focus to his family.
He loved playing golf, bowling, Civil War history, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Jerome's greatest achievement in life was his family, and he will be deeply missed.
Jerome is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years, Joyce (Barker) Pilewski of Pinehurst, North Carolina; sons, Robert Pilewski and his wife Avis, of Cameron, North Carolina and Dr. Gregory Pilewski and his wife, Bianca, of North Little Rock, Arkansas; brothers, Dr. Norbert Pilewski and his wife, Charlotte of Pittsburgh and Walter Pilewski of Titusville; Sisters-in-law, Elaine (Richard) Smith, Townville, PA and Judy (John) Robbins, Lillington, North Carolina; Two amazing grandchildren, Cora and Isla Pilewski; and many wonderful nieces and nephews.
A memorial mass will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Pinehurst, North Carolina and Celebration of Life will be held in March 2025.
Memorial contributions may be made in Jerome's honor to Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines, North Carolina and First Health Hospice House, 251 Campground Road, West End, North Carolina 27376.


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