Helena Strauss was born on March 3, 1899 in Floral Park, New York.

Helena died on January 10, 1949.

Edward Stanley Tworkowski

Edward Stanley Tworkowski was born in 1892 in Ciechanow, Poland to parents Stanley Tworkowski and Adela Wysocka. Ciechanow is about 47 miles north-northwest of Central Warsaw.

He died in 1958.

Edward's nephew Walter took over the Nassau Bicycle Shop when Edward's brother Alexander passed away. Sometime in the 1960s, the bicycle shop started repairing sulkies for the horse racing industry. Walter hired Edward Sawicki Sr. (husband of Joanne Lubowiecki) to repair them.