Passed peacefully on Thursday, October 29th , 2009 in his 90th year at the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. Loving husband to Albina. Cherished father of Joseph & wife Maria, Janine & husband Cecil, Mary & husband Erik. Beloved grandfather of Delia, Lisa, Lucas, Kari, Kayli, Nancy & Ashlee. Loving great-grandfather of Jalen, Hannah & Isaiah. Visitation will be held at Kopriva Taylor Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, (one block east of Kerr, 905-844-2600), Oakville, on Sunday, November 1st from 6:00-9:00pm. Funeral Services will be held at the Polish Catholic Mission, 40 John Street, Oakville, on Monday, November 2nd at 10:00am. Interment to follow at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Canadian Lung Association.

There will be heartache, and many silent tears,
But always a precious memory of the days when you were here.
If tears would make a staircase, and heartaches make a lane,
We'd walk the path to heaven and bring you home again.
We hold you close within our hearts; and there you will remain,
To walk with us throughout our lives until we meet again.
Our family chain is broken now, and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.

We won't say goodbye, instead;
until we meet again.