Zofia Victoria Paszkowski

Zofia Victoria Paszkowski was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland on November 25, 1924. She was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. After World War II, Zofia married Walter Paszkowski on February 2, 1945. They had four children: Lola who died as an infant, Anna, Steve, and Chris.

With her family, Zofia immigrated to the United States in 1961, taking a ship to Montreal then flying to Monterey Park, California. The family first lived with Tom and Maria Kwapisz who sponsored the families’ immigration to the US. Zofia was very proud to become a naturalized US citizen in later years.

The family lived in Monterey Park where husband, Walter, worked as a laborer for a steel company in Huntington Park and Zofia was a mother and homemaker in addition to working several parttime jobs.

Zofia loved flowers and gardening outside. She enjoyed her children and grandchildren. She especially enjoyed eating sweets. She passed away in Ontario, California on January 23, 2018.

Survivors include her daughter, Ann Smith of Huntington Beach, CA, two sons, Steve Pasker and wife Alicia of LaVerne, CA and Chris Pasker and wife, Janet, of Claremont, CA. Grandchildren include Kristina Smith McMahon and husband Galin of Portland, OR, Tom Pasker and wife Jackie of Pasadena, CA, Mark Pasker of Claremont, CA, and Jill Pasker and fiancé Justen Seymour, of San Jose, CA and one great-grandson Ian McMahon of Portland, OR. Zofia was preceded in death by her husband, Walter, in 2001, her infant daughter, Lola, in 1946, and her granddaughter Tatiana in 1981.