Michael F. Frydrych
Michael F.
Frydrych of Ipswich died peacefully on January 6, 2012 at Essex Park in
Beverly. He was predeceased by his beloved wife of sixty-six years
Mildred A. (Swiszcz) Frydrych in 2008.
He was born on
November 5, 1913 in Ipswich where he lived throughout his life. To help
support his family, he started working at thirteen years old in the
Agawam Tourist camp in Ipswich. After attending Beverly Trade School he
worked at the United Shoe in Beverly for forty-five years. In his later
life he worked at the Turner-Wallima machine shop in Essex, finally
retiring at age eighty-four. He enjoyed a number of favorite activities
which included gardening, painting, wall papering, reading and caring
for his property and lawns. He was an active parishioner at the former
Sacred Heart Parish. Serving as an altar boy in his youth, he was an
usher for many years, worked at the annual parish picnic and called
numbers at the weekly bingo games. He was also a communicant of Our Lady
of Hope Parish in Ipswich.
He is survived by
three sons, Paul Frydrych of Ipswich, Melvyn Frydrych of Cumberland, RI
and Theodore Frydrych and his wife Sheryl of Boothbay, ME, and a
daughter, Andrea Frydrych of Ipswich. He is also survived by sisters
Julia Dudzisz and Charlotte Frydrych, both of Ipswich, a brother, Joseph
Frydrych of Topeka, Kansas, and several nieces and nephews. He was
blessed with four grandchildren, Kristen Ray, Mary Ray, Michael Frydrych
and Bryan Frydrych, and five great-grandchildren, Jake, Brady and Maggie
Ray and Andrew and Aiden Ray. He loved them all and he will be dearly
missed.
Private services were held at the
request of the family, with arrangements by the Whittier-Porter Funeral
Home of Ipswich.
