Margaret Joy Gommel Jurkiewicz

Background

Jurkiewicz, Margaret Joy Gommel was born on September 5, 1920 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Dewey Ezra and Joy Agnes (Edie) Gommel.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Indiana University, 1941. Postgraduate, University Minnesota, 1943. Postgraduate, Butler University, 1951.

Postgraduate, University Cincinnati, 1960. Postgraduate, Indiana University, 1972. Postgraduate, Ball State University, 1975.

Career

Teacher home economics, Plymouth (Indiana) H.S., 1941-1942; teacher home economics, Indianapolis Public Schools, 1949-1957; teacher home economics, Mount Confort-Hancock Company Schools, Mount Comfort, Indiana, 1957-1958; teacher home economics, Cincinnati Public schools, 1958-1961; teacher 6th grade, Plymouth (Indiana) School corporation, 1961-1963; teacher home economics and art, Argos (Indiana) Cmty. Schools, 1963-1967; teacher home economics, Penn-Harris-Madison Schools, Mishawaka, Indiana, 1967-1983; teacher chapter I, South Bend (Indiana) School Corporation, 1983-1985; volunteer teacher art, various schools, Indiana, since 1985; volunteer teacher art, various schools, Michigan, 1985-1996; volunteer teacher art, various schools, Illinois, 1985-1996.

Achievements

• Margaret Joy Gommel Jurkiewicz has been listed as a noteworthy Secondary education educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board director Area Agency on Aging Council, Plymouth, Indiana, since 1987, Garden Courts Senior Housing, Plymouth, since 1989. Member legislation committee Five County Area Agency on Aging, since 1994. Volunteer teacher school, library, children's museum and senior center, since 1985, staff, Paris Committee Trinity United Methodists Church, Plymonth, Indiana.

Member of AARP (editor newsletter Marshall County chapter since 1993), American Association of University Women (president, chair various committees), Plymouth Public Library. Friends, Marshall County Retired Teacher (president 1993-1995), Indiana Association Family and Consumer Science, American Association Family and Consumer Science, Tippecanoe Audubon Society, Indiana Polish Cultural Society (vice president, chair various committees).

Interests

• Avocations: gardening, camping, travel, football games, sewing.

Connections

Married Walter Stephen Jurkiewicz, January 1, 1942. Children: Mary Margaret, Dewey John, Walter Stephen Junior, Hugh Louis.

Father:

Dewey Ezra Gommel

Mother:

Joy Agnes (Edie) Gommel

Spouse:

Walter Stephen Jurkiewicz

child:

Walter Stephen Junior Jurkiewicz

child:

Hugh Louis Jurkiewicz

child:

Mary Margaret Jurkiewicz

child:

Dewey John Jurkiewicz