Kunagunda “Kinga” Scholastica Strauss was born on April 1, 1903 in Floral Park, New York to parents Michael and Johanna Strauss. She was baptised on April 12, 1903 in St Hedwigs Church, Floral Park. Her godparents were Anthony Makowski and Scholastica Kapucinska.
Note: Saint Scholastica was a 6th-century Benedictine abbess, and is the patron saint of education.
Kinga was a proofreader at Doubleday in Garden City, NY. She died on May 3, 1982 in New York from heart failure brought on by urinary track sepsis. She is buried in Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, New York with her husband.
Leon Dominick Lubowiecki was born on August 10, 1894 in Jargovo, Poland, which is about 50 miles south of Kraków. His father was Konstanty Lubowiecki, and was born in 1860. His mother was Katherine Wisniewski. His brother Henry was a school principal in Poland.
Leo arrived in New York in 1912 and lived in Hempstead, New York in 1915. Sometime later, he lived with his sister Jean and her husband John Subkowski in New Hyde Park. The Subkowski's owned a butcher shop in town where Michael Strauss and his family shopped. This shop was across the street from the Strauss home.
One day, Leon saw Michael working on his porch (414 First Ave, New Hyde Park) and he offered to help. Leon was
attracted to Kinga, and started courting her. They married on November 20, 1921 in Floral Park, New York.
They lived in 15 South 8th St in New Hyde Park, close to Jean and John Sublowski's store. This is the house Virginia was born in.
Leon built the house at 21 North 10th Street in New Hyde Park in 1927.Leon worked for Hempstead Bus Company in Mineola, New York. Along with Semke Bus company, these two bus companies provided bus service for much of Nassau County.
Kinga lost her U.S. citizenship after marrying Leon who was not a citizen at the time. Her citizenship was later restored by a judge who apologized to her. Leon became a U.S. citizen on November 28, 1931.
