EILEEN A. KRAJEWSKI passed away October 30, 2010 in Westlake, OH. She was born in the southeast side of Cleveland to the late Anna (nee Langa) and William Beznoska
on January 10, 1928 during the Prohibition Era with lots of bathtub gin and sandlot baseball. She attended Holy Name and South High during the Depression years. Her father was active in county Democratic politics, eventually campaigning for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Her mother raised the family in the Polish-Czech Broadway-Fleet Avenue neighborhood. Eileen was kid sister to Roy and Billy (both deceased) and dearly loved them both. When she was 13, war broke out and changed their lives. Her brother, Bill, served in the U.S. Navy during WWII while Roy stayed in Cleveland working in the factories supporting the war effort. During the war, Eileen met PFC Henry J. Krajewski. After fighting in Normandy, France and the Rhine River of Germany, Henry returned to the U.S. from a British military hospital and married Eileen in 1946. They raised their two children, Daniel Henry and Linda Anne, in Garfield Hts. during the '50s and '60s. In 1957, Eileen and her family survived Hurricane Audrey, a category F4 hurricane. Eileen and Henry had been married for 47 years at the time of his passing in 1993. For many years, Eileen worked hard as a waitress alongside her favorite sister-in-law, Sylvia, as well as with other family members Helen, Stella and Irene at Pete's Wayside Inn. She also worked for many years at Ray Weiss's Spanish Tavern in Brecksville. After settling down in Seven Hills, Eileen became a devoted grandmother and spent her later years helping her husband and grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling to Quebec, Canada. Eileen had a special place in her heart for her daughter-in-law, Carol, and her late son-in-law, Jim Spuhler. Aunt of Tom, Marlene, Donna, Rusty, Buzz, Ken, Patty, Bill Jr., Tracie and Gerri. Eileen was a lifelong friend of Sylvia, Stella, Irene, Harriet and Helen/Ed, Nancy/Ken and Pat/Ray. You've come a long way, baby, from a Harvard schoolyard to Las Vegas and back. Eileen was a very happy, wonderful person and will be missed but not forgotten. Funeral Mass FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010, CHURCH OF ST. CLARENCE (30106 LORAIN RD., NORTH OLMSTED) AT 10 A.M. WHERE FRIENDS MAY CALL ONE-HALF HOUR PRIOR TO MASS. Interment St. Mary Cemetery (E. 71st St.).