Mike and I worked for NCR in 1967. He worked in the Mount Clemens sub office and I worked in the Pontiac office. We were both at a sales meeting in Pontiac one Friday morning. The next Monday morning we got a call from the Mount Clemens office that Mike had died over the weekend. The shock of his death has stayed with me all these years. He was the first of our class to die and I felt very sad for his family for a long time. I can still see him sitting in that meeting.
A letter from Margaret Rose Head Kolinski to share information about her son Michael:
Michael Joseph Kolinski enlisted in the Air Force in 1962. He was sent to Frankfurt, Germany, and was there until May of 1966. He came home and worked for National Cash Register. He was only home for 1 year and 3 months when he died. He complained of a sore throat and had lost weight. We took him to the Hospital at 8:00 PM Monday evening and he died Tuesday morning at 5:00 AM. The doctor said that he had Strep Throat, and the poisoning went into his blood stream and then to his heart and caused tightening of the heart muscle, so he died with acute myocarditis. What a shock? He died August 15, 1967, the feast of The Assumption of our Blessed Mother. He was only 23 years old. I thought I would never survive, but of course I did. I had twelve other children to care for and God helped me thru this.
John Goodrich
Mike and I worked for NCR in 1967. He worked in the Mount Clemens sub office and I worked in the Pontiac office. We were both at a sales meeting in Pontiac one Friday morning. The next Monday morning we got a call from the Mount Clemens office that Mike had died over the weekend. The shock of his death has stayed with me all these years. He was the first of our class to die and I felt very sad for his family for a long time. I can still see him sitting in that meeting.
John Goodrich
Class of '62
Stephen Tomczyk
A letter from Margaret Rose Head Kolinski to share information about her son Michael:
Michael Joseph Kolinski enlisted in the Air Force in 1962. He was sent to Frankfurt, Germany, and was there until May of 1966. He came home and worked for National Cash Register. He was only home for 1 year and 3 months when he died. He complained of a sore throat and had lost weight. We took him to the Hospital at 8:00 PM Monday evening and he died Tuesday morning at 5:00 AM. The doctor said that he had Strep Throat, and the poisoning went into his blood stream and then to his heart and caused tightening of the heart muscle, so he died with acute myocarditis. What a shock? He died August 15, 1967, the feast of The Assumption of our Blessed Mother. He was only 23 years old. I thought I would never survive, but of course I did. I had twelve other children to care for and God helped me thru this.