Eleanor Isabelle Bajoczky – Tallahassee, Fla.

Eleanor Bajoczky, 101, passed on to be with her Lord early Friday morning, July 19, 2019. She was born on Sept. 15, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Pa., to Bill and Alice Hammitt, and everyone in her family worked in the steel mills and coal mines of that region. Although raised through the Great Depression in a “dirt poor” family, she was quite well educated and became employed at a glass factory with Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Pittsburgh, Pa., during World War II. She and many other women co-workers at Pittsburgh Plate Glass were transferred to Miami during World War II to work in a new factory for Pittsburgh Plate Glass that manufactured glass canopies, instrument dials and other parts for U.S. fighter planes and bombers. Eleanor was always very proud to be involved and able to contribute to the war effort and the victory of the U.S. in World War II. Eleanor’s pride and dedication to America was second only to her dedication to Christ. In 1945, Eleanor met and married Anthony Bajoczky, who was an Army medic stationed temporarily in Miami to practice landing on the beaches and to care for wounded soldiers returning from the war. Eleanor and her husband had three children, Tony, Evelyn and Amy. On Valentine’s Day in 1964, her husband was killed, and she educated and raised her three children to adulthood. Although only 46 years old when her husband died, Eleanor never re-married. Eleanor is survived by her three children, a son, Tony (and Teresa) Bajoczky; her daughters, Evelyn (and George) McBride of South Dakota and Amy Bajoczky (and Jeb) of Tallahassee; and her grandchildren, Erin Baumfalk of South Dakota, Tony (and Veronica) Cline, Bekki Rudolph and Tony Bajoczky Jr., all of Tallahassee, and Andy Bajoczky of Charleston, S.C. She also had two great-granddaughters, Lizzie and Lexi Baumfalk. Eleanor was one of the last survivors of the truly Great Generation. Funeral services will be held at CULLEY’S MEADOWWOOD FUNERAL HOME, 700 Timberland Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312. A viewing will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 22, 2019, with the funeral services the following day, Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at 11 a.m. at Culley’s MeadowWood Memorial Park.