Stella and Al in 1937 at one of the Finger Lakes.

The long courtship of Stella and Al Pawlik was interrupted by World War II when Al was in the Army. They were married after he returned from service. They lived most of their married life on Orchard Road in Solvay.

Al Pawlik was a 1929 graduate of Syracuse University Law School and a lawyer with the U.S. Veterans Administration for 40 years. He died Aug. 16, 1989.

Stella was a bookkeeper for Flah's and the Addis Co. department stores in Syracuse. She died Jan. 21, 2001. She was 93.

(For more on Stella and Al, see Popcorn and Waterfalls.)

 

Stella Rydelek and Helen Smolinski were lifelong friends who attended Sacred Heart School together. Here they pose in what are identified on the back of the photograph as "Polish costumes."