Michaline Paleski

MICHALINE (MICKEY) PALESKI

MAY 22, 1927 - FEBRUARY 13, 2024

96 YEARS AGO, MICKEY WAS BORN IN BROOKLYN, NY TO

FRANCSZKA DAVIDOWICZ AND MICHAEL MAJEWSKI

MICKEY GREW UP IN A LOVING HOME WITH HER SISTERS, JENNIE, ANNA AND ALICE. THEIR PARENTS OWNED A POLISH DELI WITH THE TITLE GIVEN BY THEIR CUSTOMERS OF THE “BEST POTATO SALAD IN BROOKLYN”.

AFTER GRADUATION FROM BAY RIDGE H.S. MICKEY WENT ON TO STUDY DESIGN AT PRATT INSTITUE WHILE WORKING FOR A&S DEPARTMENT STORE AS A DESIGN ASSISTANT.  LATER IN HER CAREER SHE WOULD BECOME DIRECTOR OF A DESIGN CO. AS WELL AS COMPTROLLER.

IN 1949 SHE MARRIED “HER GUY” ALFONSE PALESKI AT      OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, NY.

MICKEY WAS PREDECEASED BY HER LOVING HUSBAND AL, HER SISTERS, BROTHER IN LAWS TONY PAJKOWSKI AND TED KELCZEWSKI, NEPHEWS ALFRED PAJKOWSKI, RAYMOND & PAUL SWIDER AS WELL AS NIECE DR. LARA J. DE NONNO.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY NIECES AND NEPHEWS ANN SWIDER, DOROTHY AND CARL DE NONNO, FRANK AND BARBARA KELCZEWSKI, JOAN AND LOU MALACRIDA. GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS STEPHANIE, BILL, ANDREW AND KATHERINE ARMOR, MARIAN, WILLIAM, CHRISTOPHER, PAULA, KYLE, AND CADEN SWIDER, ANDRE, MADISON AND ALEX DE NONNO, KRISTAN, BRYAN, BRADLEY AND BRANDON FISH, JESSICA MALACRIDA

A Funeral Mass will be celebrates on 9:30 AM, Tuesday February 20, 2024 at OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA CHURCH 224 24th Street BROOKLYN, NY 11232.

In lieu of flowers friends may send donations to The Tunnel to Towers Foundation.    T2T.org

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