{"id":862,"date":"2006-12-12T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/the-death-of-harry-meleski\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T17:27:49","slug":"the-death-of-harry-meleski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/862","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Harry Meleski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s half-nephew, Harry Meleski, was a prominent attorney in Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His Death Certificate is filed with the City of Worcester, with a copy to the State of Massachusetts .\u00a0 I obtained this copy from the State of Massachusetts, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Death Certificate for Harry Meleski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/VRD_Meleski_Harry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image861\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 453px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/VRD_Meleski_Harry.jpg\" alt=\"Death Certificate for Harry Meleski\" width=\"457\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The Death Certificate for Harry J. Meleski<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a PDF copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/VRD-Meleski-Harry-1981.pdf\">Death Certificate for Harry J. Meleski &#8211; 1981<\/a> .\u00a0 The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry J. Meleski was born on May 3, 1898 in Massachusetts and died January 8, 1981 in Hahnemann Hospital, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry&#8217;s wife was Margaret Werme<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His residence was 33 Hill Top Circle, Worcester, Massachusetts<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His occupation was Retired Attorney for the City of Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His parents were Joseph Meleski and Katherine Warchol, both born in Poland<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry was buried in Hope Cemetery,\u00a0Worcester, Massachusetts on January 12, 1981 by A J Jozefowski of Alexander Memorial Chapel at 52 Ward Street, Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">An autopsy was performed<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry died as a result of respiratory failure, due to weeks of aspiration pneumonia, as a consequence of Parkinson&#8217;s Syndrome<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry also suffered from benign prostatic hypertrophy<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Harry&#8217;s death was certified by Leonard Morse, MD<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Harry and his wife died childless .\u00a0 Their grave has been largely neglected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s half-nephew, Harry Meleski, was a prominent attorney in Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His Death Certificate is filed with the City of Worcester, with a copy to the State of Massachusetts .\u00a0 I obtained this copy from the State of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,147,293],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","category-warchol","category-werme","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20425,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/20425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}