Family Background
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. She 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.
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 1908, the family relocated to Warsaw and settled in their own house at Kanonia 14, where her husband also had his consulting office. There she later housed her son with his wife, Wanda and this is where her grandson, Leszek, was born in 1925, before the whole family moved again, this time to the house her husband had built on Goraszewska 8, in Czerniaków.