Stanley Klatka Sr.

   Cause of his death was Kidney failure.

  General Notes:

Stanley Klatka came to America when Europe had been under hard times.His
father sent him to the States during the begining of WWI. He arrived
in (Conneticut?) around 1911/12. The Dept. of Immigration wanted him to change
his name from Klatka to Cage (the english translation for Klatka) butStanley
refused saying that his father wanted Stanley to carry on the family name.
Stanley Klatka met Sophie Jankowski at a textile mill in Chicopee, MA.
Stanleys' hands were too big to work the small work of the textile factory so
he moved on to Columbus, Ohio to the Home of his sister and brother in law,
Veronica and Joe Green. Joe Green had sponsered Stanleys' trip to America.
Joe Green ran a milking farm and Stanley worked as a milkman where hehad
saved up enough money to buy a farm in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
While in Reynoldsburg it had been said that Stanley would make moonshine for
the Police. When it came time for the police to raid Stanleys' barn,they
would give him advanced warnings so as not to catch him with the goods!
Stanley also raised pigeons and sold squab.
Sophie Jankowski came up to Columbus to see Stanley and to possibly get
married to a man with his own farm. Shortly thereafter they married in East
Columbus.
An associate friend of Stanleys', Mr. Minneman, was building a golf course in
Chardon, Ohio. Mr. Minneman was to be the manager and he asked Stanley if he
would be forman and groundskeeper for the Chardon Lakes Golf Course. The
property was owned by George Durrell. Mrs. Minneman owned a coffee shop in
Becksley, Ohio.?
Stanley came up to Munson c.1927 and lived at a house on Auburn Rd just north
of Mayfield Rd. The family lived there until about 1940 when they moved to
Chesterland and rented the Jacobs' farm off of Mulberry Rd. They remained at
the Jacobs' farm for 5 years. In the fourth year of their lease Stanley and
Sophie bought the Ashcraft house in 1944 which was on Mayfield Rd in Munson,
Ohio. The Klatkas' remained at the Jacobs' farm until 1945.
Stanley had taken ill and was prescibed sulfer pills by a Dr. Pease. He told
Sophie to give Stanley two pills every 4 hours and she did very diligently. It
was at this time when Wilbur Butler had returned from the service andhad
recognized that the dosage of sulfer pills that Stanley was taking was 12 per
day when he should NOT have exceded more than 8 per day and that he also should
have been drinking plenty of water, of which he was not. This had worsened
Stanleys' condition and he had been rushed to University Hospital. Dr. Pease
had given Stanley a shot in the chest of which we do not know what itwas.
Another Doctor. Dr. Price, had suggested to Stanley to see a specialist.
Stanley had died on an X-Ray table.

!PERSONAL: First hand information from Stella (Klatka) Butler

Stanley came from Krakow, Poland
Came to U. S. at 16. around 1907
Sisters followed later.
Lived in Columbus, Ohio (Reynoldsburg)
Moved to Chardon as architect for golf course - around 1926
He had a half brother Paul, who lived in the Homestead, south of Pittsburgh.
Had 10 sisters.

Passenger Record
First Name: Stanislaw
Last Name: Klatka
Ethnicity: Polish
Last Place of Residence: Zarnoroia, Galicia
Date of Arrival: March 08, 1909
Age at Arrival: 18y Gender: M Marital Status: S
Ship of Travel: California
Port of Departure: Glasgow
Manifest Line Number: 0013
Ship Records show that Stanislaw was to live with his sister
Katryna at 165 Lakeview Aven. Lowell, Mass. It also states
that he was 5' 3" with fair complexion, brown hair, brown eyes.

Obituary: Stanley Klatka, 55 of Fowlers Mills, former greens keeper at Chardon Lakes Inn golf course, died Saturday in Lakeside hospital, Cleveland.
He had been a resident of Geauga county 20 years. Funeral services were held in St. Mary's church, Chardon, at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Rev. Fr. James E. Maher, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Chardon cemetery. His father 98, and mother, 96, died in Poland in 1941.

(Other records Kindred Konnections gives different ages of parents atdeath, 88 for father and 85 for mother)

According to the 1930 Census, Stanley was naturalized in 1910

Id#: 0182423
Name: Klatka, Stanley
Date: May 20 1946
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #045.
Notes: Klatka: Stanley, beloved husband of Sophia (nee Jankowski), father of Mrs. Sarah Butler, Corp, John, Mrs. Stella Butler, Fred, Paul,Edline Ann, Henry, Stanley, jr., and Joseph. Now at the late residence, Route 322, in Fowler's Mill. Services Tuesday, May 21, at 9 a. m., from St. Mary's Catholic Church, Chardon, O.

Stanley married Sophie Tekla Jankowski, daughter of Peter Jankowski and Anna Sidor, on 6 Oct 1914 in East Columbus, Franklin Co., OH. (Sophie Tekla Jankowski was born on 2 Mar 1898 in Debica, Rzeszowskiego, Poland, died on 10 Apr 1983 in Willoughby, Lake Co., OH and was buried on 13 Apr 1983 in Chardon, Geauga Co., OH, Chardon Cem..) The cause of her death was Heart Failure.