Helena Bożeniec-Jełowicka h. własny was born in Sapiechow,Lublin Voivodeship , Poland on 12th February 1870 and died on April 14th 1962 in Pleasantville, USA.
Family Background
Helena was the daughter of Zdzisław Julian Jan Bożeniec-Jełowicki (1846-1893) and Karolina Kępińska (1840 – 1896). She had two brothers: Stanisław Jełowicki (1863–1917) and Wacław Jełowicki (1846–1948) and one sister: Jadwiga Bożeniec-Jełowicka (?- 1942), later married to Dr. Kazimierz Ciągliński.
In 1895 she married Kazimierz Pawłowicz h. Przyjaciel and had two children: Krystyna and Bohdan.
Early Years of Marriage
From 1901 to 1902, she moved with her husband and children to Dąbrowa Górnicza and in 1902 to Korwinów, where her husband was the director of the “Korwinów” brick factory near Częstochowa.
Her son, Bohdan, describes some of the memories of these times in the article “Wspomnienia Z dzieciństwa” [Memories of Childhood] (pdf in Polish). In this piece of writing, Helena is portrayed as calm and composed, particularly during a strike incident in 1905 involving her husband and the workers from the brick factory, where he was the director. This event resulted in Kazimierz’s arrest and imprisonment in Raków for several months, during which their house was occupied by Russian officers.
In 1908 the family relocated to Warsaw, and in 1913 settled in their own house at Kanonia 14, where her husband also had also established his consulting office. There she later housed her son, Bohdan, with his wife, Wanda when they arrived from Brazil and this is where her grandson, Leszek, was born in 1925. The whole family moved again, this time to the house her husband had built on Goraszewska 8, in Czerniaków.
Czerniaków
Kazimierz, her husband, passed away on June 16, 1927 so she was grateful to have her son and his family living with her. Her daughter-in-law, Wanda, found a second mother in Helena, especially since her husband, Bohdan, traveled frequently abroad during the interwar period.