Very little is know about Walter L. Okon. He was the Father of
three children; Jean, Mickolay and Alexander. Walter L. Okon can to the
United States of America in the early 1900's. The date was about
1912. There does not seem to be any record at Ellis Island, New York
of his entry. Some how her got to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
area. Being from the country, he was more comfortable in the rual
area and moved about 20 miles West of West Philadelphia into the Broomal
area which was very much country at the time.
1922
Started school at St. Anastasia Parish Elementary School, 3309 West
Chester Pike, Newtown Square.
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1950-1960
Walter L. Okon was an owner of a small chicken farm on Post Road, Vineland,
New Jersey during the 1950s, and 1960s.
1970
I know that in the 1970s some time he sold the farm and moved to a
Assisted Living community in or near Vineland.
1984
He died some time in 1984 or 1985 I think.
He often went to the Five Points Tavern at Landis Avenue and Tuckahoe
Road, Route 557.
1916:
On 31 December 1916 Walter L. Okon and Anna Okon had their second child,
Mickolay J. Okon. As far as we know Mickolay J. Okon was born in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania. Mickolay J. Okon the oldest son of Walter L.
Okon married Cornelia Cantelmi in 1942 and they had a son whick they named
Walter J. Okon.
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