Bernard Zdanowicz

Bernard Zdanowicz SDB Stoney Point, NY - BrotherBernardZdanowicz, age 90,ended his earthly pilgrimage on Feb.20,2015, at theJoe Raso Hospice in New City, NY. He had been a Salesian Brother for more than 58 years. He graduated from Trenton Central High School in 1942,where he excelled in football for three years. He was then drafted into the army and served with the 69th infantry division. After his discharge he worked as an auto mechanic. At age 29 he entered Don Bosco Seminary since the Salesians accepted late vocations. After two years of study he was assigned to teach auto technology at Don Bosco Technical School in Paterson, N.J. When the school closed in 1993, Brother Bernie was assigned to the Marian Shrine-Don Bosco Reatreat House in Stony Pt.,N.Y. where he worked until the fall of 2014, when he became ill. Brother Bernie was the fifth of twelve children born to Stanley and Stella Wisniewska Zdanowicz. Besides his parents, he was preceeded in death by brothers Stanley,Martin and Donald and his sisters Eleanore, Michaline, Emma Lotys and Joan Notaro. He is survived by his sister Theresa Ciosek and brothers Rudolph, Clifford and Joseph, sister in laws Virginia and Joan, brother in law Rudy Notaro and many nieces and nephews. A viewing and funeral mass will take place at the Marian Shrine Stony Pt.,N.Y. on Feb. 23, 2015 and burial at the Salesian Cemetary in Goshen, N.Y.