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John A Koska 1922 - 2007

John A Koska of Delhi, Delaware County, NY was born on October 7, 1922, and had a brother Joseph F. Koska, Jr.. John was baptized circa October 1922 at NYC, NY, USA in New York. He was in a relationship with Anne A. Koska, and had a child John Charles Koska. John Koska died at age 84 years old on May 25, 2007, and was buried on June 17, 2007 at Woodland Cemetery 2 Orchard St, in Delhi.

John A Koska
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Delhi, Delaware County, NY 13753
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October 7, 1922
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  • 10/7
    1922

    Birthday

    October 7, 1922
    Birthdate
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  • Nationality & Locations

    John was born in NYC, but at the age of 3 to 4 years old, he and his older brother and younger brother went with their mother back to her family in Germany. Her family ultimately forced his mother and his brothers with him back to USA. My paternal grandfather (a cavalry officer 1st in 1st of Austro-Hungarian empire) had to go to Ellis Island with paperwork to demand that immigration release his wife and children. They returned to Worcester / East Worcester area. My paternal grandfather obtained employment managing horses for a silent film being made in the area, and the family got a "break" to allow them to purchase a farm in Middleburgh NY. Where they weathered out the Depression. They eventually brought a second larger farm just down the road from the first, and were successful crop and diary farmers. When World War II occurred he was drafted along with his older brother, Joseph (Joe). Joe served as a tailgunner in a B-17 Pacific theater, and near Tonopah NV. And John served likewise in the Pacific theater as a plane mechanic. John was injured with shrapnel to his right eye during a Japanese strafing run on their "forward operating base / airstrip". John was discharged with 15% disability, but never collected a dime from it. John served in the occupying force of Tokyo, Japan before coming back to the USA. John did use the GI Bill to go to Cornell University, where he played football as tackle from 1948 to 1952. He obtained a teaching degree in agriculture. After a short time back in Middleburgh, he found employment in Andes, NY as an ag teacher; where he met my mother, Anne A. Aitken, who was a social worker for Delaware County, NY at the Andes Hotel / Bar and Grill. He got married in July 1952, with his best college friend, Peter Dorset (Cornell quarterback - Dartmouth Law School - City Court judge of Cortland NY) as his best man. He moved with his wife to Seneca Falls, NY for a better job as an ag and shop teacher/football coach. He worked on getting his Masters degree in guidance counseling from Hobart College during the period. They lived initially in an apartment, but a fire caused them to buy a home at 239 Fall Street across from Gould Pumps; which has since burned down under different ownership and turned into a parking lot. His wife was traumatized by the apartment fire, and would always be fearful and on the watch for smoke and fire wherever she was. John Charles Koska was born in 1958, and eventually my Mom got her way with my Dad to move back near her parents in Delhi, NY. John a job as a guidance counselor at Walton Central School in Walton, NY. We lived at 105 Stockton Avenue. John had great aspirations for John Charles to follow in many of his footsteps (go to Cornell, play football, etc.). However, John Charles was strong willed like John Andrew but with different ideas. When his wife's parents died (f. 1975 and m. 1981), they decided to move into their home and sell the Stockton Avenue home; while John commuted to Walton to finish out his career.

  • Early Life & Education

    Middleburgh High School, School of hardknocks and WWII. Then Cornell University for Bachelors in Agriculture, followed by Masters in Guidance at Hobart College.
  • 10/dd
    1922
    circa

    Baptism

    circa October 1922
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    NYC, NY, USA in New York, New York United States
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  • Religious Beliefs

    John said when sermons were stopped from being given in Latin, the church was not Catholic anymore, and he stopped going to church, but not church functions like Saturday youth basketball and alike. He just didn't go to a sermon, but he went to church on his own terms.

  • Military Service

    World War II veteran. Pacific theater, as a plane mechanic at forward operating base / landing strip. Also part of the occupying force of Tokyo, Japan.

  • Professional Career

    Ag teacher, football coach, guidance counselor
  • 05/25
    2007

    Death

    May 25, 2007
    Death date
    My dad decided his quality of life was next to nil, so he made the decision to stop going to dialysis. Two days later while on palliative hospice care he passed away in the early morning hours. His last words were, "Oooh, that stings", while I was administering morphine solution drops to his mouth. His mouth was quite chapped from no fluids, and the drops were salty. A few hours after his last words, he died. His body was cremated a few days later, and his ashes buried in a private ceremony.
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  • 06/17
    2007

    Gravesite & Burial

    June 17, 2007
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    Woodland Cemetery 2 Orchard St, in Delhi, Delaware County, New York 13753, United States
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On the front page! That's awesome to still have a newspaper from so long ago. Is that 1949?
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John A Koska Oct 7, 1922 - May 25, 2007
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John A Koska Oct 7, 1922 - May 25, 2007
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