Josephine Mary Glowka
1918 - 1980 (62 years)-
Name Josephine Mary Glowka Born 11 Mar 1918 Central Falls, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA 
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Gender Female Census 1920 Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA [6] Census 1930 Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA [7] Residence Jul 1940 Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA [3] Residence Oct 1940 Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA [8] - Pine Street
Residence May 1979 Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA [9] - 251 Manchester NE
Research Notes Her mother’s Petition for Naturalization gives Josephine’s birthplace as Central Falls, Massachusetts. Central Falls is actually in Rhode Island. Confirmed to be Central Falls, Rhode Island in email message from Joseph Whalen, quoting her birth certificate.
Listed in the 1930 census as “Joseph Jr.” [3, 4, 7]Died 3 Jun 1980 Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA [1, 5, 10] Buried 5 Jun 1980 [5] Person ID I40 Mohr-Whalen Last Modified 4 Apr 2020
Father Józef Piotr Główka
b. 1 Nov 1893, Celinów, Mazowsze, Poland
d. 11 Apr 1984, Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 90 years) Mother Katarzyna Ziemba
b. 29 Dec 1899, Poland
d. 8 Jan 1971, Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 71 years) Family ID F56 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Thomas Henry Whalen
b. 3 Jan 1919, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
d. 1 Dec 2001, South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California, USA (Age 82 years) Married 1940 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA [11] Divorced Abt 1945 [2] Notes - Married before October 1940. [8]
Children + 1. J.E. Whalen + 2. J.E. Whalen Last Modified 29 Feb 2020 Family ID F26 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 George Leighton Colson
b. 29 Jul 1900, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
d. 4 Dec 1977, Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA (Age 77 years) Last Modified 9 Feb 2015 Family ID F211 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 11 Mar 1918 - Central Falls, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA 
Census - 1920 - Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Census - 1930 - Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA 
Married - 1940 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Residence - Jul 1940 - Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Residence - Oct 1940 - Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA 
Residence - May 1979 - Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA Died - 3 Jun 1980 - Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Met Tom Whalen in high school(?) in Milford, Massachusetts (there was no high school in Bellingham at the time). Married shortly after high school. Family did not want her to marry Thomas because he was Irish and from Milford. Was going to name son Tom, but her family would not allow it.
Excommunicated from Church because of divorce from Thomas. Children were raised by her parents. Worked as a live-in maid in Boston family for a time (for the Gilman family, owners of a large liquor store). Moved to Florida suddenly and bought a triplex.
1920 Census lists her age as 2 and 11/12 years, born in Massachusetts. She is the only child listed. [2, 6]
- Met Tom Whalen in high school(?) in Milford, Massachusetts (there was no high school in Bellingham at the time). Married shortly after high school. Family did not want her to marry Thomas because he was Irish and from Milford. Was going to name son Tom, but her family would not allow it.
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Sources - [S6] U.S., Social Security Death Index.
- [S11] Personal conversation with Joseph Whalen.
- [S4423] Petition for Naturalization for Catherine Glowka.
- [S5280] Family Morphed Memories, Joseph E. Whalen.
- [S6151] Obituary of Josephine M. Colson.
- [S17] 1920 US Census - Household of Joseph Glowka.
- [S191] 1930 US Census - Household of Joseph Glowka.
- [S5741] WWII Draft Registration Card of Thomas Henry Whalen, Ancestry.com (National Archives & Records Administration).
- [S3326] Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bourgosis [Bourgeois] (envelope only), Josephine M. Colson.
- [S948] Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Ancestry.com (Florida Health Department, Office of Vital Records), Certificate # 48837.
- [S2729] Massachusetts Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970, Ancestry.com (Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics), Volume 16, Page 134.
- [S6] U.S., Social Security Death Index.