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Jadwiga Kwasnik-Badmajew

Jadwiga Kwasnik-Badmajew

Born In: Wasrsaw, Poland
Born: June 20th, 1923

Passed in: Jamesport, New York, United States
Passed on: May 29th, 2011

Jadwiga Teresa Kwasnik Badmajew (nee Kosun) died peacefully at her home in Jamesport, NY on May 29, 2011 after a long illness that she bore with amazing grace and bravery.
Born in Warsaw, Poland on June 20, 1923, her life was an adventure that demonstrated her intrepid and joyful spirit. While still in her teens she joined the Resistance in the Polish Underground Army and fought in the bloody but doomed Warsaw Uprising as a courier under the nom de guerre “Jagoda”. From 1944 to 1945 she was a prisoner of war in Germany, liberated and then stationed with the Polish Army in Recanati, Italy, where she completed her training as a cartographer and met and married her first husband, Edward. They were demobilized in England, started a family there and eventually emigrated to the U.S. where she continued working as a draftswoman. Widowed in 1968, with three children, she managed to create a life for her family that was full of laughter and beauty. She moved to Jamesport and married Dr. Peter Badmajew. Her amazing creative abilities came through in everything she touched – her painting, gardening, writing, and every detail of her unique personal sense of style, from the mural on her cellar door to the way she could pack a tiny suitcase and still look fantastic no matter where her travels took her all over the world. Wherever she went she made friends and drew people in with her warmth and charm. Her memoirs, first written in Polish, were translated into English and Italian.
She leaves behind a grieving and loving family, her husband Peter Badmajew, M.D. of Jamesport; son, Mark Kwasnik (Gina) of Flanders; daughters Anne Kwasnik-Krawczyk (John) of Nova Scotia, Canada, and Barbara Kwasnik of Syracuse, NY; her grandchildren Jessica Kwasnik, Joe, Max and Katie Krawczyk, and Amy Hogan (Dan), as well as several nephews and nieces and many friends. She taught us all how to make the most of life no matter what the circumstances. We will miss her gentle, positive presence in our lives.
Private funeral arrangements were made by Costner and Hepner of Cutchogue. Interment of ashes will take place at a later date at the Polish Veteran’s Cemetery at the American Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, PA. To inquire more about her disease or to support research in memory of Jadwiga Badmajew please visit : CurePSP, 30 E. Padonia Road, Suite 201, Timonium, MD 21093 (www.psp.org) or to Trustees of Columbia University, Taub Institute, Att: Natasha Requena, 100 Haven Ave, Suite 29D, New York, NY 10032, where she donated her brain to study this disease for future generations.
I wanted to thank my fellow colleagues, friends, and patients for your support and warm words during this very difficult time, sincerely Dr Anne Kwasnik-Krawczyk.

 

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