Louis Henry Bart was born Dec 13, 1918 in Brandy Camp, PA. He was the second of five children born to Lindo Baratter (Bart) (1892-1964) and Marianna Mariucci (1897-1964). Louis was baptized as Aloysius Barattieri Apr 20, 1919 by Rev. Francis Ferrara at Holy Cross Church in Brandy Camp. His uncle and aunt, William and Alice Tomasetti, were his godparents.
Louie graduated from the Brockport Consolidated School May 25th 1933 and was promoted to Brockport High School. After one year he chose to help the family financially, quit school and worked in the Shawmut coal mines with his father and uncle Narciso. Being down in the mines knee deep in water during the winter and then having your legs encased in ice during lunch breaks at the top, all for a pay of 60 cents for a ton of coal, were surely not one of his pleasant memories.
On Aug 01, 1942 in New Cumberland, PA, he enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. At that time, according to his enlistment card, he completed one year of high school, was 68 inches tall and weighed 144 pounds. While stationed in Romulus, Michigan with the 345th Air Base Squadron 3rd Ferrying Group, he met Mary Catherine “Kay” Tokarcik. They were married in Holy Cross Church in Brockport on Jun 22, 1944 by Rev. Philip A. Herrmann. Mary was the daughter of Charles Stephen Tokarcik (1899-1969) and Celeste Antoinette “Christine” Sabatose (1905-1991) “Kay” was born Feb 24, 1925 in Crenshaw, PA and died Nov 01, 1995 in Buffalo, NY. During World War II, Louis served from May 07, 1945 to Jan 18, 1946 in Algeria, Africa as a supply clerk. He received the good conduct and WW II Victory medals. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant on Feb 05, 1946 with a muster out pay of $300, and travel pay of $11.85.
He moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he worked for International Harvester until 1951. He and his wife lived at 245 South Fourth Street, with Catherine’s uncle, Joseph Tokarcik and his wife, Rena . Their two sons Richard and Dennis were born there. While they lived in Richmond, Louis enrolled in an at-home radio and TV repair course with the National Radio Institute. He did not follow through with that career though. The family moved back to Brockway, where he and Kay worked for the Brockway Glass Company.
In 1952, they removed to an apartment on Niagara Street in Tonawanda, NY where Louis found work with the Robert Gair Company. In 1955, Louie joined General Motors Foundry Division in Buffalo, NY, and bought the permanent residence at 284 Broad Street in Tonawanda. The family did not own an automobile so he paid a friend to drive him to and from Buffalo for $2 a week to help with gas. Louie owned a Red Flyer wagon which was used for shopping at Loblaws in Tonawanda and one remarkable memory was hand carrying an accordion at least eight blocks round-trip to a music studio for his oldest son’s lessons. He was the chief cook and bottle washer during the week and was known for learning well his mother’s recipe for polenta aka “mush.”
A man you could set your watch by, corn flakes every single morning was his breakfast, sit-coms on the 1954 RCA black and white TV every night, and he never missed a day’s work except to recover from a stroke during the late 50s. Although only making it through one year of high school, he was right up there with the times. He read the Tonawanda News cover to cover and one night his son Richard who had just learned about space in grammar school could not comprehend the infinite boundary concept. He told his father “there had to be a wall at the end of space.” Louie’s simple rhetorical reply, “what’s on the other side of the wall?”
Louis Henry Bart was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1983, and died Jan 23, 1984 in DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, NY. He and his wife are buried in Elm Lawn Cemetery, Field of Honor Section in Buffalo, NY.
Louie graduated from the Brockport Consolidated School May 25th 1933 and was promoted to Brockport High School. After one year he chose to help the family financially, quit school and worked in the Shawmut coal mines with his father and uncle Narciso. Being down in the mines knee deep in water during the winter and then having your legs encased in ice during lunch breaks at the top, all for a pay of 60 cents for a ton of coal, were surely not one of his pleasant memories.
On Aug 01, 1942 in New Cumberland, PA, he enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. At that time, according to his enlistment card, he completed one year of high school, was 68 inches tall and weighed 144 pounds. While stationed in Romulus, Michigan with the 345th Air Base Squadron 3rd Ferrying Group, he met Mary Catherine “Kay” Tokarcik. They were married in Holy Cross Church in Brockport on Jun 22, 1944 by Rev. Philip A. Herrmann. Mary was the daughter of Charles Stephen Tokarcik (1899-1969) and Celeste Antoinette “Christine” Sabatose (1905-1991) “Kay” was born Feb 24, 1925 in Crenshaw, PA and died Nov 01, 1995 in Buffalo, NY. During World War II, Louis served from May 07, 1945 to Jan 18, 1946 in Algeria, Africa as a supply clerk. He received the good conduct and WW II Victory medals. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant on Feb 05, 1946 with a muster out pay of $300, and travel pay of $11.85.
He moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he worked for International Harvester until 1951. He and his wife lived at 245 South Fourth Street, with Catherine’s uncle, Joseph Tokarcik and his wife, Rena . Their two sons Richard and Dennis were born there. While they lived in Richmond, Louis enrolled in an at-home radio and TV repair course with the National Radio Institute. He did not follow through with that career though. The family moved back to Brockway, where he and Kay worked for the Brockway Glass Company.
In 1952, they removed to an apartment on Niagara Street in Tonawanda, NY where Louis found work with the Robert Gair Company. In 1955, Louie joined General Motors Foundry Division in Buffalo, NY, and bought the permanent residence at 284 Broad Street in Tonawanda. The family did not own an automobile so he paid a friend to drive him to and from Buffalo for $2 a week to help with gas. Louie owned a Red Flyer wagon which was used for shopping at Loblaws in Tonawanda and one remarkable memory was hand carrying an accordion at least eight blocks round-trip to a music studio for his oldest son’s lessons. He was the chief cook and bottle washer during the week and was known for learning well his mother’s recipe for polenta aka “mush.”
A man you could set your watch by, corn flakes every single morning was his breakfast, sit-coms on the 1954 RCA black and white TV every night, and he never missed a day’s work except to recover from a stroke during the late 50s. Although only making it through one year of high school, he was right up there with the times. He read the Tonawanda News cover to cover and one night his son Richard who had just learned about space in grammar school could not comprehend the infinite boundary concept. He told his father “there had to be a wall at the end of space.” Louie’s simple rhetorical reply, “what’s on the other side of the wall?”
Louis Henry Bart was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1983, and died Jan 23, 1984 in DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, NY. He and his wife are buried in Elm Lawn Cemetery, Field of Honor Section in Buffalo, NY.
Louis Henry Bart was born Dec 13, 1918 in Brandy Camp, PA. He was the second of five children born to Lindo Baratter (Bart) (1892-1964) and Marianna Mariucci (1897-1964). Louis was baptized as Aloysius Barattieri Apr 20, 1919 by Rev. Francis Ferrara at Holy Cross Church in Brandy Camp. His uncle and aunt, William and Alice Tomasetti, were his godparents.
Louie graduated from the Brockport Consolidated School May 25th 1933 and was promoted to Brockport High School. After one year he chose to help the family financially, quit school and worked in the Shawmut coal mines with his father and uncle Narciso. Being down in the mines knee deep in water during the winter and then having your legs encased in ice during lunch breaks at the top, all for a pay of 60 cents for a ton of coal, were surely not one of his pleasant memories.
On Aug 01, 1942 in New Cumberland, PA, he enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. At that time, according to his enlistment card, he completed one year of high school, was 68 inches tall and weighed 144 pounds. While stationed in Romulus, Michigan with the 345th Air Base Squadron 3rd Ferrying Group, he met Mary Catherine “Kay” Tokarcik. They were married in Holy Cross Church in Brockport on Jun 22, 1944 by Rev. Philip A. Herrmann. Mary was the daughter of Charles Stephen Tokarcik (1899-1969) and Celeste Antoinette “Christine” Sabatose (1905-1991) “Kay” was born Feb 24, 1925 in Crenshaw, PA and died Nov 01, 1995 in Buffalo, NY. During World War II, Louis served from May 07, 1945 to Jan 18, 1946 in Algeria, Africa as a supply clerk. He received the good conduct and WW II Victory medals. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant on Feb 05, 1946 with a muster out pay of $300, and travel pay of $11.85.
He moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he worked for International Harvester until 1951. He and his wife lived at 245 South Fourth Street, with Catherine’s uncle, Joseph Tokarcik and his wife, Rena . Their two sons Richard and Dennis were born there. While they lived in Richmond, Louis enrolled in an at-home radio and TV repair course with the National Radio Institute. He did not follow through with that career though. The family moved back to Brockway, where he and Kay worked for the Brockway Glass Company.
In 1952, they removed to an apartment on Niagara Street in Tonawanda, NY where Louis found work with the Robert Gair Company. In 1955, Louie joined General Motors Foundry Division in Buffalo, NY, and bought the permanent residence at 284 Broad Street in Tonawanda. The family did not own an automobile so he paid a friend to drive him to and from Buffalo for $2 a week to help with gas. Louie owned a Red Flyer wagon which was used for shopping at Loblaws in Tonawanda and one remarkable memory was hand carrying an accordion at least eight blocks round-trip to a music studio for his oldest son’s lessons. He was the chief cook and bottle washer during the week and was known for learning well his mother’s recipe for polenta aka “mush.”
A man you could set your watch by, corn flakes every single morning was his breakfast, sit-coms on the 1954 RCA black and white TV every night, and he never missed a day’s work except to recover from a stroke during the late 50s. Although only making it through one year of high school, he was right up there with the times. He read the Tonawanda News cover to cover and one night his son Richard who had just learned about space in grammar school could not comprehend the infinite boundary concept. He told his father “there had to be a wall at the end of space.” Louie’s simple rhetorical reply, “what’s on the other side of the wall?”
Louis Henry Bart was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1983, and died Jan 23, 1984 in DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, NY. He and his wife are buried in Elm Lawn Cemetery, Field of Honor Section in Buffalo, NY.
Louie graduated from the Brockport Consolidated School May 25th 1933 and was promoted to Brockport High School. After one year he chose to help the family financially, quit school and worked in the Shawmut coal mines with his father and uncle Narciso. Being down in the mines knee deep in water during the winter and then having your legs encased in ice during lunch breaks at the top, all for a pay of 60 cents for a ton of coal, were surely not one of his pleasant memories.
On Aug 01, 1942 in New Cumberland, PA, he enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. At that time, according to his enlistment card, he completed one year of high school, was 68 inches tall and weighed 144 pounds. While stationed in Romulus, Michigan with the 345th Air Base Squadron 3rd Ferrying Group, he met Mary Catherine “Kay” Tokarcik. They were married in Holy Cross Church in Brockport on Jun 22, 1944 by Rev. Philip A. Herrmann. Mary was the daughter of Charles Stephen Tokarcik (1899-1969) and Celeste Antoinette “Christine” Sabatose (1905-1991) “Kay” was born Feb 24, 1925 in Crenshaw, PA and died Nov 01, 1995 in Buffalo, NY. During World War II, Louis served from May 07, 1945 to Jan 18, 1946 in Algeria, Africa as a supply clerk. He received the good conduct and WW II Victory medals. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant on Feb 05, 1946 with a muster out pay of $300, and travel pay of $11.85.
He moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he worked for International Harvester until 1951. He and his wife lived at 245 South Fourth Street, with Catherine’s uncle, Joseph Tokarcik and his wife, Rena . Their two sons Richard and Dennis were born there. While they lived in Richmond, Louis enrolled in an at-home radio and TV repair course with the National Radio Institute. He did not follow through with that career though. The family moved back to Brockway, where he and Kay worked for the Brockway Glass Company.
In 1952, they removed to an apartment on Niagara Street in Tonawanda, NY where Louis found work with the Robert Gair Company. In 1955, Louie joined General Motors Foundry Division in Buffalo, NY, and bought the permanent residence at 284 Broad Street in Tonawanda. The family did not own an automobile so he paid a friend to drive him to and from Buffalo for $2 a week to help with gas. Louie owned a Red Flyer wagon which was used for shopping at Loblaws in Tonawanda and one remarkable memory was hand carrying an accordion at least eight blocks round-trip to a music studio for his oldest son’s lessons. He was the chief cook and bottle washer during the week and was known for learning well his mother’s recipe for polenta aka “mush.”
A man you could set your watch by, corn flakes every single morning was his breakfast, sit-coms on the 1954 RCA black and white TV every night, and he never missed a day’s work except to recover from a stroke during the late 50s. Although only making it through one year of high school, he was right up there with the times. He read the Tonawanda News cover to cover and one night his son Richard who had just learned about space in grammar school could not comprehend the infinite boundary concept. He told his father “there had to be a wall at the end of space.” Louie’s simple rhetorical reply, “what’s on the other side of the wall?”
Louis Henry Bart was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1983, and died Jan 23, 1984 in DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, NY. He and his wife are buried in Elm Lawn Cemetery, Field of Honor Section in Buffalo, NY.
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