H0333
The study's number for this person. Cite it and it will always lead here, whatever the spelling.Joseph Jankola
died in 2014.
died before 23 Nov 2014
Life story
Joseph Jankola was the husband of Katherine "Kay" Worek, a lifelong resident of Joliet, Will County, Illinois, and a daughter of Martin and Margaret Worek. He died before her: when Kay died in November 2014, her obituary named him first among those who had gone before her.1 When and where he was born, when they married and when he died have not yet been found.
What we know
Proven
- Death, 2014
What's still open
- Parents. Not yet identified.
Sources
Source 1
1 Katherine Jankola, 2014
"Katherine Jankola," obituary, The Herald-News (Joliet, Illinois), 25 November 2014, p. 16: Katherine "Kay" Jankola (Worek), 89 years, passed away Sunday, November 23, 2014, at Silver Cross Hospital; survived by one brother, Joseph Worek of Joliet, and nieces, nephews and cousins; preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Jankola, her parents, Martin and Margaret Worek, two brothers, Stanley (late Irene) and Andrew (late Helen) Worek, two sisters, Julia (late Frank) Bahor and Mary Farnsworth, and one nephew, Dan Bahor; born in Joliet and a lifelong resident; an employee of Gerlach & Barklow Printing for 35 years; a member of the former SS. Cyril & Methodius Church; funeral Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. from the Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd., to the SS. Cyril & Methodius Cemetery Chapel for Mass, interment SS. Cyril's Cemetery; image, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com/image/182282970), read 27 September 2026. Indexed in "U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s–current," Ancestry.com (Katherine Jankola, maiden name Worek).
More sources are in the evidence below.
Family
Records
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- 25 Nov 2014 confirmed Obituary of wife Katherine “Joseph Jankola”, husband (deceased) Joliet, Will County Newspapers.com · O06312
The evidence 1 facts with their grades, 1 sources, and the research notes
Facts
| Fact | Date | Place | Grade | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death | before 23 Nov 2014 | proven | 1 |
Research notes
- Sources: He is known only from his wife's obituary (Joliet Herald-News, 25 Nov 2014; image read), which calls him "her husband, Joseph Jankola" and says he preceded her in death.1 The old family tree has him as her husband with no dates or records.
- Living status: Deceased (before 23 Nov 2014), on the evidence of the obituary. He was earlier treated as possibly living.
- To find: the Social Security Death Index and claims index, an Illinois death index or obituary (Joliet Herald-News), Find a Grave (Joliet cemeteries, including SS. Cyril and Methodius, where Kay was buried), and the couple's marriage record (Will County, probably 1940s or later). No children are named in Kay's obituary.
Working notes
- DECEASED before Nov 2014 (his wife's obituary)
Sources
- 1
"Katherine Jankola," obituary, The Herald-News (Joliet, Illinois), 25 November 2014, p. 16: Katherine "Kay" Jankola (Worek), 89 years, passed away Sunday, November 23, 2014, at Silver Cross Hospital; survived by one brother, Joseph Worek of Joliet, and nieces, nephews and cousins; preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Jankola, her parents, Martin and Margaret Worek, two brothers, Stanley (late Irene) and Andrew (late Helen) Worek, two sisters, Julia (late Frank) Bahor and Mary Farnsworth, and one nephew, Dan Bahor; born in Joliet and a lifelong resident; an employee of Gerlach & Barklow Printing for 35 years; a member of the former SS. Cyril & Methodius Church; funeral Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. from the Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd., to the SS. Cyril & Methodius Cemetery Chapel for Mass, interment SS. Cyril's Cemetery; image, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com/image/182282970), read 27 September 2026. Indexed in "U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s–current," Ancestry.com (Katherine Jankola, maiden name Worek).