Kathy Kowalski's Classification
Posted by Bill Molesworth
on Feb 08, 2012
Kathy said this was her second classification with this Club - back in 1002 when she was Kathy Warlow and only the fourth female to join. She was born in Toronto in 1963 to parents who had emigrated from Hungary in 1957. Her mother was a nurse from a city on the border of Austria and her father was from the country who trained as a botanist and an accountant. He had been able to help make the family farm more profitable but after the Russians came it was all lost.
He stole a military truck and a uniform and, using fake papers and language skills, managed to drive across the border when he was 27. Her mother's brother had gotten lost in the turmoil and her mother was sent to find him but she got swept up in the refugee movements and ended up walking into Austria. They both lived in a refugee camp for a couple of years, which was where they met. Leaving was a lottery. Some countries were accepting refugees and when a boat arrived and if your number was drawn you were off to wherever. Her father was selected but he wouldn't leave without her mother but they weren't married and it wasn't allowed. Of course there were others in the same situation so in the end there was a wedding ceremony for 300 couples and when the next boat came it was off to Canada.
Her mother was sequestered in a TB sanitorium on arrival in Halifax and her father laboured but after a year 3 couples bought an old car and, with the windows open in winter to avoid the smoke from the engine they drove to Toronto. They lived in the Bloor Bathurst area and her father worked maintenance at the Lord Simcoe Hotel and her mother worked in a nursing home. Kathy's brother George was born in 59, Kathy in 63 and her other brother, Peter, in 70. They did a lot of camping and came to this area a lot before buying land and building a cottage.
Kathy moved her permanently in 84 and launched an unsuccessful business and went back to Toronto but realized how much she missed it so after becoming a massage therapist in 1990 she came back and started a business and did some teaching. By now she was a single mother to Jason and James - Jason is in business and currently is in Vietnam. James is in his second year at RMC. He was a magician at 10 and worked through high school. Even though he got great marks in school here he had to do a lot of catching up when he went to Kingston. Kathy was critical of his education here.
She and Mark Kowalski were married in 2006 way up a slope in Banff. They like adventure and scuba and climb when they travel, do cross fit training. She showed a short film of her spa which is doing well and has a great staff.
In answer to a question she told us her uncle ended up in England and her parents in Sweden. She said she hadn't spent a lot of time on her business or on all the sorts of things she could of told us because she wanted us to know about her parents and what they had gone through and accomplished.
He stole a military truck and a uniform and, using fake papers and language skills, managed to drive across the border when he was 27. Her mother's brother had gotten lost in the turmoil and her mother was sent to find him but she got swept up in the refugee movements and ended up walking into Austria. They both lived in a refugee camp for a couple of years, which was where they met. Leaving was a lottery. Some countries were accepting refugees and when a boat arrived and if your number was drawn you were off to wherever. Her father was selected but he wouldn't leave without her mother but they weren't married and it wasn't allowed. Of course there were others in the same situation so in the end there was a wedding ceremony for 300 couples and when the next boat came it was off to Canada.
Her mother was sequestered in a TB sanitorium on arrival in Halifax and her father laboured but after a year 3 couples bought an old car and, with the windows open in winter to avoid the smoke from the engine they drove to Toronto. They lived in the Bloor Bathurst area and her father worked maintenance at the Lord Simcoe Hotel and her mother worked in a nursing home. Kathy's brother George was born in 59, Kathy in 63 and her other brother, Peter, in 70. They did a lot of camping and came to this area a lot before buying land and building a cottage.
Kathy moved her permanently in 84 and launched an unsuccessful business and went back to Toronto but realized how much she missed it so after becoming a massage therapist in 1990 she came back and started a business and did some teaching. By now she was a single mother to Jason and James - Jason is in business and currently is in Vietnam. James is in his second year at RMC. He was a magician at 10 and worked through high school. Even though he got great marks in school here he had to do a lot of catching up when he went to Kingston. Kathy was critical of his education here.
She and Mark Kowalski were married in 2006 way up a slope in Banff. They like adventure and scuba and climb when they travel, do cross fit training. She showed a short film of her spa which is doing well and has a great staff.
In answer to a question she told us her uncle ended up in England and her parents in Sweden. She said she hadn't spent a lot of time on her business or on all the sorts of things she could of told us because she wanted us to know about her parents and what they had gone through and accomplished.