Michael John Worczak

There is a detailed story surrounding his disappearance in Vietnam. It is a very detailed account. Search for Task Force Omega and it is there.

I ran into Mike frequently because he worked at the K-Mart on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst, and I also remember him as a real rabble-rouser and hell-raiser, kind of fearsome and wild. I think his name embroidered on his fraternity jacket was something other than his name, to match his personality. I hesitate to put it on this site, as my memory might be dim. I ran into him a few times over the years at the Golden Pheasant on Delaware in Kenmore. He would walk up to the bar and there would be a beer waiting for him, and I believe it was Schmidt's Tiger Ale. 

After about 40 years since Ed and I were in the same Mech Drawing class, I ran into him again at a hot rod cruise night in Akron NY. He passed away about a half dozen years ago, he was living in Rochester and he came to Tonawanda where his mother was living in a care facility, and passed away during that visit, from unknown causes. He was a real straightforward guy, and is missed by his many friends, including those in the car restoration community. 

She was in charge of store security for the Hengerer's stores and I think also when they were bought by Sibley's. I had the opportunity of meeting her in many capers, as I was with a local police agency. She was definitely a tenacious adversary to the bad guys. 

Good for you with your revenge. That was a horrible thing she told you about not being smart enough. How great, that you did not heed that advice. I had experiences like that too along the way. My wife was an RN, by the way. Mike Worczak

We should all be patient with our memories and our abilities to bring things back with greater accuracy, but I think I remember being at the accident scene on Middlesex. I recall there was a bar on Grand Island called the Edgewater and kids were always getting into bad wrecks coming home from there. The drinking age being 18 and them selling bottles of beer for a quarter on Thursdays was a bad combo, for sure.

Yes. I remember something about Middlesex. Did he hit a tree? Our memories are fallible. Thanks for the jog.

Yes. Thanks for jarring the memory.. I didn't know him too well either.

Thanks for clearing that up. I know he also had an MGA. 

Are you Frank's sister? I went to St. ANDREW's with him.

Mike was a real character but he had a good heart. 

Richard was killed in a one car accident in 1968 near Alfred, New York.

I went to St. Andrews School with John and he was a brilliant musician and it is no surprise that he is in the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. He lived the past 30 years or so in the San Francisco area and that is where he died. Before he left, he played in a famous Buffalo area band called Raven, which almost played at Woodstock, supposedly only being left out because of a contract snafu. He worked all his life in the music industry and earned many patents for technical music devices.

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When I was in the army in Korea my mother sent me the news article about his death. It interested me because, like me, he was a Military Policeman. We were in the same Mechanical Drawing class taught by Mr. Fleishman.

Like and I both drove MGAs, mine was a hardtop and his a convertible. I believe he was killed in it in a crash while still in West.

I remember Bill as being a real intellectual and not a phony one but the real deal and he once told me he pictured hi self in retirement as living in a Parkside cabin, smoking a pipe and writing his philosophy. It sounds like he ended up doing just that. 

I went to St. Andrews Elementary with Phil. He was very bright and definitely marched to a different drum. Phil was a Vietnam War veteran, serving with the 173rd Airborne Division. Following his service he was employed as a fireman for the city of Buffalo, until his retirement,