Joe Pat Vozniak with the Marion County Rescue Squad

Mitch & Barbara Vozniak’s son passes away in Florida

Joseph Pat Vozniak, 1982 North Marion graduate and son of Mitch Vozniak and Barbara Prezioso Vozniak, Class of 1953, passed away Sunday, February 21 in Spring Hill, Florida.

Robin Vozniak, Joe’s wife, passed away January 15 in Spring Hill.

Joe is survived by his daughter, Kristen Vozniak; his brother, David Vozniak, in Fairmont; and his granddaughter, Emily.

Joe once was on the Marion County Rescue Squad and the Monongah Volunteer Fire Department. He continued helping others after moving south as an environmental specialist with the Florida Health Department. 

Downing Funeral Home in Spring Hill is handling the arrangements.

Kristen went from Monongah to Central High School in Brooksville, Florida to Spring Hill, where she is in a relationship with Anthony Cowles.

The late Chester Vozniak is Mitch's brother. Chester's widow is Mildred Paknik Vozniak, Class of 1948.

 

Mitch Vozniak was on the 1952 Monongah High state football championship team and an auto racing mechanic.

 

Barbara’s aunt, the late Amelia Ann Yerace Prezioso (The Canned Peppers Lady), ran Prezioso Grocery at the top of Jackson Street with her husband, Roman Prezioso, Sr.

Amelia and Roman, Sr. are the parents of State Sen. Roman Prezioso, Jr., Class of 1967, who lives in Fairmont with wife Deborah.

I met Mitch and Barbara again within the past decade at Murv and Emily McDowell’s Mountaineer Tailgater party in the Light Blue Lot outside Mountaineer Field before a WVU football game.

Spring Hill is on the Gulf Coast of Florid, 70 miles west of The Villages where Paula and I stay from January through April before heading back to our other home in Tallmadge, Ohio, and 40 miles south of Clearwater.

Deltona Corporation and the Mackle Brothers first started plunking retirement homes down in Spring Hill in 1968. Now there are 92,144 residents, which would make it the largest city in West Virginia.