Bronislawa (Bertha (Tomaszewski) Rynkowski

Bronia Rynkowski, beloved family member, was born in Baltimore at midnight on New Year’s Eve of December 31, 1914 to parents Stanislaw and Katarzyna Tomaszewski.  Her siblings were Adam, Ewa, Czeslaw, Stefan, Janina and Kazimierz.  She was baptized in Holy Rosary Church and lived on South Ann Street in Fells Point until she emigrated by ship back to Poland with her family at age 8.  There she lived on her family farm in the village of Dacbogi, surviving the atrocities of the Second World War.  She remained after the war to care for her elderly parents and youngest brother’s children, Bogdan and Marek.

On January 7, 1958, Bronia returned to the United States, reuniting with her siblings Czeslaw and Janina, later joined by her sister Ewa.  She was a gifted cook, seamstress, and homemaker.  Through the church, she met her true love, Adam Rynkowski, a retired blacksmith.  They were married on February 5, 1966 at Holy Rosary Church the day after a snowstorm, surrounded by a foot of snow and unending love.  She also gained a cherished step-daughter that day, Genevieve Kress.

She enjoyed a loving 25-year marriage with Adam until he passed in 1991 at the age of 99.  Bronia remained in her home until she passed peacefully on July 14, 2016 at the age of 101.  She is survived by her goddaughter and niece Krystyna Kozinski, her niece Alina and Stanislaw Plecha, her nephews Bogdan Tomaszewski, Stanislaus Tomaszewski, Bernard Tomaszewski, great nieces Katherine, Samantha, Teresa, Audrey, Anastasia, Renata, and Amanda, great nephews Jan, Michael, David, Eric, Jarek, and Grzegorz, great-great-niece Athena, step-grandchildren Bill Kress and Carol Dels, step-great-grandchildren Kristen, Eric, and Brian, and step-great-great-grandchildren Kiely, Nolan, Declan, Xavier, and Emory, and many more loving family members in Poland.