Ugolick Family History & Genealogy

Anna Ugolick of Vernon Rockville, Tolland County, CT was born on May 15, 1893, and died at age 82 years old in May 1975.

Bazyl Ugolick of Vernon Rockville, Tolland County, CT was born on October 18, 1894, and died at age 84 years old in June 1979.

Alma B Ugolick of Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, FL was born on March 19, 1911, and died at age 87 years old on February 28, 1999. Alma Ugolick was buried at Florida National Cemetery Section 129 Site 408 6502 Sw. 102nd Ave., in Bushnell.

Stanley Ugolick of Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, PA was born on February 11, 1914, and died at age 72 years old in July 1986.

Anthony F Ugolick of Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, FL was born on October 7, 1917, and died at age 90 years old on July 14, 2008. Anthony Ugolick was buried at Florida National Cemetery Section 129 Site 408 6502 Sw. 102nd Ave., in Bushnell.

Bernard P Ugolick of Maple Shade, Burlington County, NJ was born on September 3, 1919, and died at age 73 years old on August 27, 1993.

Walter S Ugolick of Feeding Hills, Hampden County, MA was born on September 10, 1924 in Poland, and died at age 78 years old on September 29, 2002. Walter Ugolick was buried at Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section 3C Row C Site 71 1390 Main St., in Agawam.

He was born and grew up in Shenandoah Pennsylvania. The large family was very poor but loving and devoutly catholic. He was the 6th child out of about 9. ( Several died in early childhood or as stillbirths) He left school early to find work to help support his family after his father was killed in a mining accident when he was about 14. At 18, he was drafted into the army shortly after WW2 and served his time in post war Europe. Mostly stationed in Germany. He spoke Polish fluently as his mother was a Polish immigrant. His father, also an immigrant, spoke Russian and Polish. His best friends were from Lithuania so he knew all those languages. He translated some papers while in Germany for the army as he knew Lithuanian and Polish so well. He settled in Washington, DC after 4 years in the army, got married and had one daughter. His wife encouraged him to finally obtain his high school diploma which he achieved by going to night school. Unfortunately, he did not take his adult responsibilities very seriously and while he was self employed as a roofer and had a good partner who wanted to start up an independent roofing business, he could not commit so his wife still had to work to pay the bills. Eventually, after it was found he was spending most of his money on alcohol and tobacco his wife threw him out of the family home. He handled this by becoming a full time alcoholic and giving up work altogether. After causing a car accident while under the influence of alcohol, with his young daughter in the car, he lost his drivers license. He never regained it although that didn't stop him driving. Soon he lost all visitation rights to his daughter as he was frequently violent with his estranged wife and was often not returning his daughter home at the appointed time. He lost visitation rights to her when she was 3 years old. He never financially provided for either his wife or child after this and eventually moved in with a divorced women who was struggling to raise 3 children on her own. As usual, he rarely contributed financially to this new family but he was a good cook so he took care of the cooking and growing vegetables in the back yard. Besides having a fatal attraction to alcohol he was a chain smoker so lost his teeth quite early in life and was frequently depressed and violent, especially after drinking. He aged quickly as a result. Shortly after his own daughters 18th birthday she succeeded in finding him via his brother and they met again after 15 years. She had no memory of him from her babyhood but she found he had lined the walls of his bedroom with her baby photos despite never maintaining contact with her as she was growing up. His bedroom was a virtual shrine to her yet covered in cobwebs and dust. Quite surreal. In an effort to get to know her father she, very briefly, moved in with him and his partner while working her way through university. However, that did not last long due to his drinking and violence. He frequently broke up his partners home but the poor woman could never find the courage to throw him out. They lived in a low income part of the DC suburbs (in Maryland) so perhaps she felt that having a man in the house offered her some protection! She sometimes worked several different jobs to pay the bills. His daughter left rather rapidly after witnessing his idea of family values and life with an alcoholic. They remained estranged for many years after that. In her eyes, he had not been worth finding but then this was not a surprise considering he was a man who had abandoned his child in the first place. Still he went to church every sunday so he must have thought that Jesus would absolve him of any wrong doing in his life so he would never have to take any responsibility for his actions. His daughter was not so stupid. She grew up to be an agnostic. Got a degree in psychology and went on to become a successful counsellor, nurse, midwife, lactation consultant and teacher...with no addictions except chocolate! Now living in Europe. He contributed not one penny to help her get a university education and could only ever ask when she would be getting married and having children! He could not see that a woman might indeed want that but also a bit more in life! A serious rift occurred when it was suspected that when his daughters precious family heirlooms had gone missing that he had stolen them to pawn in order to pay for alcohol. He never denied this when he was questioned about the jewellery theft. It later transpired that he had put them in a safe deposit box but had forgotten about them until a letter from the bank revealed that there was a 20 year bill he had never paid! He had no memory of ever relocating the items! Finally, he paid for something and returned his daughters maternal heirlooms to her! For a time his partner's youngest daughter and her growing family moved in with them and Charlie found the love of a child again from his step-grand-daughter, Rachel. They adored each other. He was her grandpa Charlie. He gave her the attention she never had from her own parents or that he was never around to give to his own daughter. She gave him great joy in his life in return. After his partner had a stroke and was becoming frail she moved in with her youngest daughter, who had left their home several years previously and now lived a few hours away. Due to his past misdeeds, Charlie was not invited to join them so he then moved into an assisted living complex for those on low income. He had friends in the same building and in the nearby area so he was not alone. He ate breakfast at McDonald's every morning often meeting friends there. He spent most of his evenings at the local American legion bars. Occasionally doing casual work as a barman himself. He was liked by everyone who met him as he was a kind and gentle man provided he hadn't been drinking or you didn't need him to pay a bill. He was devoted to his sisters, nieces and nephews and despite his failure as a suitable father or husband they always stood by him and never said an unkind word about him. He always knew one of his sisters would take care of him if need be. He never needed to grow up so he didn't. He had a pride in the fact that he had never shot an animal in his life, despite growing up in a hunting and gun obsessed culture but he never had the courage to stand up to anyone abusing an animal. His partner abused their 2 dogs for years but he never lifted a finger to stop it. His daughter was horrified when realised this but it was too late to salvage their lives. He also had a great compassion towards native Americans and whenever he had a few spare dollars he would send something to a school for Indigenous children somewhere in the Dakotas. It was a catholic school for American Indian children but as that was his religion he appeared to have no concept that maybe they were not actually being taught their own myths and legends but that was a different time in American history. He did genuinely think he was helping them and maybe he was right. He was never able to heal the wounds he inflicted in his daughters life however. He was not a good husband or father but he at least had the grace to admit this to his daughter before his death. His ex business partner went on to become a highly successful roofer with his own lucrative roofing business which made him a very wealthy man. While Charlie died, in his own words, a pauper. He could have had such a wonderful life but instead chose to throw it all away. He died, probably, of a heart attack shortly after his 70th birthday. We were all surprised he lived as long as he did considering his lifestyle. The day before he died he had been out shopping and Christmas cards were found in a bag with receipts dated the day before he died. One was for his daughter, living in the UK. for many years by this time. Unusually for him, the card said how proud he was of her. Something he never said in life. Everything she had achieved in her life was done without any help from him or indeed, his ex-wife as she had found bringing up a child on her own too much to cope with and she suffered mental illness the rest of her life. He had never owned property or held a steady job so had no assets to leave to his only child or his beloved step grand daughter but he did manage to sort out an insurance policy which, miraculously, covered the cost of his funeral. He actually ended up paying for his own funeral. No one could believe it. He was a devout catholic so he had a catholic funeral arranged by his sisters and daughter. He is buried in the family plot next to his beloved younger sister Frances back in Shenandoah, where he started out life. A sad and wasted life. An early death brought on by self-destruction. Something he would not have denied!

Ronald S Ugolick of Newport News, Newport News City County, VA was born on December 11, 1936, and died at age 60 years old on December 26, 1996.