Joseph John Milkowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 27, 1928 to the well-to-do Eugene Milkowski and Zofia Milkowski.
Joseph’s young childhood was spent in Warsaw with his sister Sofia. One of the most vivid recollections he had of that time was of the house his father built in the suburbs of Warsaw in 1938. The house was yellow surrounded by greenery and had a large pool. They lived there until WWII broke out and they had to flee Poland.
Joseph would recount their escape often since this changed life as he knew it. As Air Commander in the Polish Air Force, his father, Eugene was bringing 50 aircrafts to Poland on an ocean freighter. Joseph, his sister and mother were in southern Poland. When the Nazis invaded, they slipped into Bulgaria. Soon there after, his father joined them. They dressed as locals and managed to get to Bucharest Hungry even though the Bulgarians were told by the Germans to contain any Poles and keep them from going elsewhere to fight. From there, they managed to head through Northern Italy to France. North of Paris the family was able to find shelter at the Red Cross. Joseph would recall the hotel the Red Cross put them into and a bench he sat in overlooking the ocean. Later in life he would go in search of that spot with his wife Betty and locate it.
His father became a trainer of French pilots in Lyon, France and the family lived there until the Nazis invaded France in the spring of 1940. They fled through Spain to Lisbon Portugal. From Lisbon, they made it to Gibraltar and finally to England. In England, Eugene was a Wing Commander with the Free Polish attached to the RAF and would also eventually own a hotel in Blackpool. Joseph attended St. Edmund’s School for Boys High School. He subsequently got the equivalent of a mechanical engineering degree at a technology school. He was a popular, handsome teen and his group of friends would often go dancing in Earl Square. On one specific night they had met some girls and decided to all go skinny-dipping in Hyde Park in the lake clearly signed, NO SWIMMING. He recalls fondly that the Police just walked by, waved at them and laughed.
Joseph’s mother passed away in 1945 and at the request of Joseph and Sofia (who was married by now), the family immigrated to Canada in the fall of 1947. They arrived to the general area around Edmonton Alberta Canada. Let’s just say it was a shock for the Milkowski’s as they were used to the culture of Warsaw and London and the new home was rugged pioneer territory.
Joseph, like his dad was a car aficionado. He and his life long friend, Zygmunt, would always be tinkering with some fast sports car. His father, Eugene, had the first Gharmin Ghia in Edmonton. Joe painted the roof of the red car white so it looked like the Polish flag. Joe continued to “paint” cars until his advanced age, his wife Betty recalls him always wanting to touch up all of the cars and he had a personal project car that he worked on as the paint faded he would endeavor to “paint” it.
Chris Tworek, Joseph’s nephew in Canada recalls when his mother Sophia died in May 1958 what a great comfort Joe offered to both him and his sister. He spent a lot of time with them and would come with gifts. Shortly After Sofia’s death Joseph and his father decided that there were better prospects elsewhere and would once again be on the move but this time to Los Angeles, in the United States of America. He would always continue to travel back and forth from the United States to Europe. On his trips to Europe he would buy a car to drive while he was there and bring it back to the U.S. to sell here and pay for the trip.
Within several years he was recruited by Union Oil Company of California and worked there for 23 years. He held several positions there from Technical Surveyor, to Engineering Specialist. One of his co-workers described him as generous and kind hearted. Whenever there was a collection for a baby shower or birthday he would be the first to contribute generously. This was not a sentiment that would be shared by all. Joe had very strong ethics about money and was very frugal for the majority of his life. He never lived beyond his means. He did not believe in owing people money and would always say, “if your going to borrow, from yourself” a saying he got from his father.
Joseph appreciated beautiful young women and would always be a romantic. He said from a very young age he wanted to be married. Through out his young life he would have many beautiful girl friends and loved to collect pictures of them. He would keep this album his whole life. He endeavored 4 different Marriages. The first marriage was to a French brunette named Christiane, the marriage lasted 1 year. The second one was Maryla, a blonde Polish woman, that marriage lasted 3 months. In the spring of of 1971 he met Alicia, a beautiful Polish woman who would become the mother of his only son Thomas Milkowski. Their marriage lasted 10 years. They eventually divorced in 1981. Alicia recalls, “the summer before a I met Joe I sitting on a Park bench wishing that a guy in a sports car from America would come and marry me”. The following year Alicia met Joe, who had a Porsche at the time. Joe was 20 years her senior. He wasted no time in proclaiming his love and 1 year later they were married. In 1986 he met the woman who he would grow old with, Betty, a Colombian beauty who was very different from all of his previous wives.
Betty had been dating his friend Henry for about 8 days before she met Joe. The minute they met, Joe began to pursue Betty resulting in the demise of Henry and Joe’s friendship – they did not speak for 2 years. Betty and Joe were married 1 year later. The 80’s for Joe was a decade full of significant life markers, in 1981, his divorce, in 1984 the death of his father, in 1986 retirement, and in 1987 his marriage to Betty, and his son Tommy moving to Poland.
Betty and Joe would live in several small but quaint houses through out Los Angeles, one of them was a beautiful little guest bungalow that had a wall of windows that faced a view of downtown Los Angeles. This was the guest house in the back of Alicia’s house (which was acquired through the divorce), the other would be his Cousin Sophia’s guest house in the San Fernando Valley. Right around the time Joe and Betty were getting married, Alicia and Thomas (Tommy) would move back to Poland. Joe was very sad about this and would make it a point to go back to Poland often to see Tommy.
Joe was offered a “Golden Handshake” retirement from Union Oil in 1986 and accepted. He was 58 years old. One year later Joe and Betty were married and set off to see the world. This was the beginning of their 30 year union marked by travel. They were an active couple and Betty remembers Joe having great physical strength. Joe would always say that he loved Betty because she was always up for anything fun. Betty said the same exact thing about Joe. The couple was full of energy and would always be doing something they would dash around the city in Joes Brown Fiat convertible. They would ride bikes in Santa Monica, Roller Skate, go dancing, and go on road trips to pass the time but their most beloved trips of all were always the ones back to Poland. They continued to go back there well into Joe’s 80s. Betty’s daughter Pamela remembers they were constantly on the go, and if they were not on the go, they were on the beach or on a plane to either Europe or Colombia. In 1995 Joseph purchased their beach bungalow in Oceanside, California. Eventually his son Tommy and his wife Eva moved back to the U.S. and lived with Joe and Betty while they got settled.
Joe would spend the rest of his life there surrounded by loving friends, family and neighbors until his death on August 16, 2015.
Joseph’s young childhood was spent in Warsaw with his sister Sofia. One of the most vivid recollections he had of that time was of the house his father built in the suburbs of Warsaw in 1938. The house was yellow surrounded by greenery and had a large pool. They lived there until WWII broke out and they had to flee Poland.
Joseph would recount their escape often since this changed life as he knew it. As Air Commander in the Polish Air Force, his father, Eugene was bringing 50 aircrafts to Poland on an ocean freighter. Joseph, his sister and mother were in southern Poland. When the Nazis invaded, they slipped into Bulgaria. Soon there after, his father joined them. They dressed as locals and managed to get to Bucharest Hungry even though the Bulgarians were told by the Germans to contain any Poles and keep them from going elsewhere to fight. From there, they managed to head through Northern Italy to France. North of Paris the family was able to find shelter at the Red Cross. Joseph would recall the hotel the Red Cross put them into and a bench he sat in overlooking the ocean. Later in life he would go in search of that spot with his wife Betty and locate it.
His father became a trainer of French pilots in Lyon, France and the family lived there until the Nazis invaded France in the spring of 1940. They fled through Spain to Lisbon Portugal. From Lisbon, they made it to Gibraltar and finally to England. In England, Eugene was a Wing Commander with the Free Polish attached to the RAF and would also eventually own a hotel in Blackpool. Joseph attended St. Edmund’s School for Boys High School. He subsequently got the equivalent of a mechanical engineering degree at a technology school. He was a popular, handsome teen and his group of friends would often go dancing in Earl Square. On one specific night they had met some girls and decided to all go skinny-dipping in Hyde Park in the lake clearly signed, NO SWIMMING. He recalls fondly that the Police just walked by, waved at them and laughed.
Joseph’s mother passed away in 1945 and at the request of Joseph and Sofia (who was married by now), the family immigrated to Canada in the fall of 1947. They arrived to the general area around Edmonton Alberta Canada. Let’s just say it was a shock for the Milkowski’s as they were used to the culture of Warsaw and London and the new home was rugged pioneer territory.
Joseph, like his dad was a car aficionado. He and his life long friend, Zygmunt, would always be tinkering with some fast sports car. His father, Eugene, had the first Gharmin Ghia in Edmonton. Joe painted the roof of the red car white so it looked like the Polish flag. Joe continued to “paint” cars until his advanced age, his wife Betty recalls him always wanting to touch up all of the cars and he had a personal project car that he worked on as the paint faded he would endeavor to “paint” it.
Chris Tworek, Joseph’s nephew in Canada recalls when his mother Sophia died in May 1958 what a great comfort Joe offered to both him and his sister. He spent a lot of time with them and would come with gifts. Shortly After Sofia’s death Joseph and his father decided that there were better prospects elsewhere and would once again be on the move but this time to Los Angeles, in the United States of America. He would always continue to travel back and forth from the United States to Europe. On his trips to Europe he would buy a car to drive while he was there and bring it back to the U.S. to sell here and pay for the trip.
Within several years he was recruited by Union Oil Company of California and worked there for 23 years. He held several positions there from Technical Surveyor, to Engineering Specialist. One of his co-workers described him as generous and kind hearted. Whenever there was a collection for a baby shower or birthday he would be the first to contribute generously. This was not a sentiment that would be shared by all. Joe had very strong ethics about money and was very frugal for the majority of his life. He never lived beyond his means. He did not believe in owing people money and would always say, “if your going to borrow, from yourself” a saying he got from his father.
Joseph appreciated beautiful young women and would always be a romantic. He said from a very young age he wanted to be married. Through out his young life he would have many beautiful girl friends and loved to collect pictures of them. He would keep this album his whole life. He endeavored 4 different Marriages. The first marriage was to a French brunette named Christiane, the marriage lasted 1 year. The second one was Maryla, a blonde Polish woman, that marriage lasted 3 months. In the spring of of 1971 he met Alicia, a beautiful Polish woman who would become the mother of his only son Thomas Milkowski. Their marriage lasted 10 years. They eventually divorced in 1981. Alicia recalls, “the summer before a I met Joe I sitting on a Park bench wishing that a guy in a sports car from America would come and marry me”. The following year Alicia met Joe, who had a Porsche at the time. Joe was 20 years her senior. He wasted no time in proclaiming his love and 1 year later they were married. In 1986 he met the woman who he would grow old with, Betty, a Colombian beauty who was very different from all of his previous wives.
Betty had been dating his friend Henry for about 8 days before she met Joe. The minute they met, Joe began to pursue Betty resulting in the demise of Henry and Joe’s friendship – they did not speak for 2 years. Betty and Joe were married 1 year later. The 80’s for Joe was a decade full of significant life markers, in 1981, his divorce, in 1984 the death of his father, in 1986 retirement, and in 1987 his marriage to Betty, and his son Tommy moving to Poland.
Betty and Joe would live in several small but quaint houses through out Los Angeles, one of them was a beautiful little guest bungalow that had a wall of windows that faced a view of downtown Los Angeles. This was the guest house in the back of Alicia’s house (which was acquired through the divorce), the other would be his Cousin Sophia’s guest house in the San Fernando Valley. Right around the time Joe and Betty were getting married, Alicia and Thomas (Tommy) would move back to Poland. Joe was very sad about this and would make it a point to go back to Poland often to see Tommy.
Joe was offered a “Golden Handshake” retirement from Union Oil in 1986 and accepted. He was 58 years old. One year later Joe and Betty were married and set off to see the world. This was the beginning of their 30 year union marked by travel. They were an active couple and Betty remembers Joe having great physical strength. Joe would always say that he loved Betty because she was always up for anything fun. Betty said the same exact thing about Joe. The couple was full of energy and would always be doing something they would dash around the city in Joes Brown Fiat convertible. They would ride bikes in Santa Monica, Roller Skate, go dancing, and go on road trips to pass the time but their most beloved trips of all were always the ones back to Poland. They continued to go back there well into Joe’s 80s. Betty’s daughter Pamela remembers they were constantly on the go, and if they were not on the go, they were on the beach or on a plane to either Europe or Colombia. In 1995 Joseph purchased their beach bungalow in Oceanside, California. Eventually his son Tommy and his wife Eva moved back to the U.S. and lived with Joe and Betty while they got settled.
Joe would spend the rest of his life there surrounded by loving friends, family and neighbors until his death on August 16, 2015.
Joseph John Milkowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 27, 1928 to the well-to-do Eugene Milkowski and Zofia Milkowski.
Joseph’s young childhood was spent in Warsaw with his sister Sofia. One of the most vivid recollections he had of that time was of the house his father built in the suburbs of Warsaw in 1938. The house was yellow surrounded by greenery and had a large pool. They lived there until WWII broke out and they had to flee Poland.
Joseph would recount their escape often since this changed life as he knew it. As Air Commander in the Polish Air Force, his father, Eugene was bringing 50 aircrafts to Poland on an ocean freighter. Joseph, his sister and mother were in southern Poland. When the Nazis invaded, they slipped into Bulgaria. Soon there after, his father joined them. They dressed as locals and managed to get to Bucharest Hungry even though the Bulgarians were told by the Germans to contain any Poles and keep them from going elsewhere to fight. From there, they managed to head through Northern Italy to France. North of Paris the family was able to find shelter at the Red Cross. Joseph would recall the hotel the Red Cross put them into and a bench he sat in overlooking the ocean. Later in life he would go in search of that spot with his wife Betty and locate it.
His father became a trainer of French pilots in Lyon, France and the family lived there until the Nazis invaded France in the spring of 1940. They fled through Spain to Lisbon Portugal. From Lisbon, they made it to Gibraltar and finally to England. In England, Eugene was a Wing Commander with the Free Polish attached to the RAF and would also eventually own a hotel in Blackpool. Joseph attended St. Edmund’s School for Boys High School. He subsequently got the equivalent of a mechanical engineering degree at a technology school. He was a popular, handsome teen and his group of friends would often go dancing in Earl Square. On one specific night they had met some girls and decided to all go skinny-dipping in Hyde Park in the lake clearly signed, NO SWIMMING. He recalls fondly that the Police just walked by, waved at them and laughed.
Joseph’s mother passed away in 1945 and at the request of Joseph and Sofia (who was married by now), the family immigrated to Canada in the fall of 1947. They arrived to the general area around Edmonton Alberta Canada. Let’s just say it was a shock for the Milkowski’s as they were used to the culture of Warsaw and London and the new home was rugged pioneer territory.
Joseph, like his dad was a car aficionado. He and his life long friend, Zygmunt, would always be tinkering with some fast sports car. His father, Eugene, had the first Gharmin Ghia in Edmonton. Joe painted the roof of the red car white so it looked like the Polish flag. Joe continued to “paint” cars until his advanced age, his wife Betty recalls him always wanting to touch up all of the cars and he had a personal project car that he worked on as the paint faded he would endeavor to “paint” it.
Chris Tworek, Joseph’s nephew in Canada recalls when his mother Sophia died in May 1958 what a great comfort Joe offered to both him and his sister. He spent a lot of time with them and would come with gifts. Shortly After Sofia’s death Joseph and his father decided that there were better prospects elsewhere and would once again be on the move but this time to Los Angeles, in the United States of America. He would always continue to travel back and forth from the United States to Europe. On his trips to Europe he would buy a car to drive while he was there and bring it back to the U.S. to sell here and pay for the trip.
Within several years he was recruited by Union Oil Company of California and worked there for 23 years. He held several positions there from Technical Surveyor, to Engineering Specialist. One of his co-workers described him as generous and kind hearted. Whenever there was a collection for a baby shower or birthday he would be the first to contribute generously. This was not a sentiment that would be shared by all. Joe had very strong ethics about money and was very frugal for the majority of his life. He never lived beyond his means. He did not believe in owing people money and would always say, “if your going to borrow, from yourself” a saying he got from his father.
Joseph appreciated beautiful young women and would always be a romantic. He said from a very young age he wanted to be married. Through out his young life he would have many beautiful girl friends and loved to collect pictures of them. He would keep this album his whole life. He endeavored 4 different Marriages. The first marriage was to a French brunette named Christiane, the marriage lasted 1 year. The second one was Maryla, a blonde Polish woman, that marriage lasted 3 months. In the spring of of 1971 he met Alicia, a beautiful Polish woman who would become the mother of his only son Thomas Milkowski. Their marriage lasted 10 years. They eventually divorced in 1981. Alicia recalls, “the summer before a I met Joe I sitting on a Park bench wishing that a guy in a sports car from America would come and marry me”. The following year Alicia met Joe, who had a Porsche at the time. Joe was 20 years her senior. He wasted no time in proclaiming his love and 1 year later they were married. In 1986 he met the woman who he would grow old with, Betty, a Colombian beauty who was very different from all of his previous wives.
Betty had been dating his friend Henry for about 8 days before she met Joe. The minute they met, Joe began to pursue Betty resulting in the demise of Henry and Joe’s friendship – they did not speak for 2 years. Betty and Joe were married 1 year later. The 80’s for Joe was a decade full of significant life markers, in 1981, his divorce, in 1984 the death of his father, in 1986 retirement, and in 1987 his marriage to Betty, and his son Tommy moving to Poland.
Betty and Joe would live in several small but quaint houses through out Los Angeles, one of them was a beautiful little guest bungalow that had a wall of windows that faced a view of downtown Los Angeles. This was the guest house in the back of Alicia’s house (which was acquired through the divorce), the other would be his Cousin Sophia’s guest house in the San Fernando Valley. Right around the time Joe and Betty were getting married, Alicia and Thomas (Tommy) would move back to Poland. Joe was very sad about this and would make it a point to go back to Poland often to see Tommy.
Joe was offered a “Golden Handshake” retirement from Union Oil in 1986 and accepted. He was 58 years old. One year later Joe and Betty were married and set off to see the world. This was the beginning of their 30 year union marked by travel. They were an active couple and Betty remembers Joe having great physical strength. Joe would always say that he loved Betty because she was always up for anything fun. Betty said the same exact thing about Joe. The couple was full of energy and would always be doing something they would dash around the city in Joes Brown Fiat convertible. They would ride bikes in Santa Monica, Roller Skate, go dancing, and go on road trips to pass the time but their most beloved trips of all were always the ones back to Poland. They continued to go back there well into Joe’s 80s. Betty’s daughter Pamela remembers they were constantly on the go, and if they were not on the go, they were on the beach or on a plane to either Europe or Colombia. In 1995 Joseph purchased their beach bungalow in Oceanside, California. Eventually his son Tommy and his wife Eva moved back to the U.S. and lived with Joe and Betty while they got settled.
Joe would spend the rest of his life there surrounded by loving friends, family and neighbors until his death on August 16, 2015.
Joseph’s young childhood was spent in Warsaw with his sister Sofia. One of the most vivid recollections he had of that time was of the house his father built in the suburbs of Warsaw in 1938. The house was yellow surrounded by greenery and had a large pool. They lived there until WWII broke out and they had to flee Poland.
Joseph would recount their escape often since this changed life as he knew it. As Air Commander in the Polish Air Force, his father, Eugene was bringing 50 aircrafts to Poland on an ocean freighter. Joseph, his sister and mother were in southern Poland. When the Nazis invaded, they slipped into Bulgaria. Soon there after, his father joined them. They dressed as locals and managed to get to Bucharest Hungry even though the Bulgarians were told by the Germans to contain any Poles and keep them from going elsewhere to fight. From there, they managed to head through Northern Italy to France. North of Paris the family was able to find shelter at the Red Cross. Joseph would recall the hotel the Red Cross put them into and a bench he sat in overlooking the ocean. Later in life he would go in search of that spot with his wife Betty and locate it.
His father became a trainer of French pilots in Lyon, France and the family lived there until the Nazis invaded France in the spring of 1940. They fled through Spain to Lisbon Portugal. From Lisbon, they made it to Gibraltar and finally to England. In England, Eugene was a Wing Commander with the Free Polish attached to the RAF and would also eventually own a hotel in Blackpool. Joseph attended St. Edmund’s School for Boys High School. He subsequently got the equivalent of a mechanical engineering degree at a technology school. He was a popular, handsome teen and his group of friends would often go dancing in Earl Square. On one specific night they had met some girls and decided to all go skinny-dipping in Hyde Park in the lake clearly signed, NO SWIMMING. He recalls fondly that the Police just walked by, waved at them and laughed.
Joseph’s mother passed away in 1945 and at the request of Joseph and Sofia (who was married by now), the family immigrated to Canada in the fall of 1947. They arrived to the general area around Edmonton Alberta Canada. Let’s just say it was a shock for the Milkowski’s as they were used to the culture of Warsaw and London and the new home was rugged pioneer territory.
Joseph, like his dad was a car aficionado. He and his life long friend, Zygmunt, would always be tinkering with some fast sports car. His father, Eugene, had the first Gharmin Ghia in Edmonton. Joe painted the roof of the red car white so it looked like the Polish flag. Joe continued to “paint” cars until his advanced age, his wife Betty recalls him always wanting to touch up all of the cars and he had a personal project car that he worked on as the paint faded he would endeavor to “paint” it.
Chris Tworek, Joseph’s nephew in Canada recalls when his mother Sophia died in May 1958 what a great comfort Joe offered to both him and his sister. He spent a lot of time with them and would come with gifts. Shortly After Sofia’s death Joseph and his father decided that there were better prospects elsewhere and would once again be on the move but this time to Los Angeles, in the United States of America. He would always continue to travel back and forth from the United States to Europe. On his trips to Europe he would buy a car to drive while he was there and bring it back to the U.S. to sell here and pay for the trip.
Within several years he was recruited by Union Oil Company of California and worked there for 23 years. He held several positions there from Technical Surveyor, to Engineering Specialist. One of his co-workers described him as generous and kind hearted. Whenever there was a collection for a baby shower or birthday he would be the first to contribute generously. This was not a sentiment that would be shared by all. Joe had very strong ethics about money and was very frugal for the majority of his life. He never lived beyond his means. He did not believe in owing people money and would always say, “if your going to borrow, from yourself” a saying he got from his father.
Joseph appreciated beautiful young women and would always be a romantic. He said from a very young age he wanted to be married. Through out his young life he would have many beautiful girl friends and loved to collect pictures of them. He would keep this album his whole life. He endeavored 4 different Marriages. The first marriage was to a French brunette named Christiane, the marriage lasted 1 year. The second one was Maryla, a blonde Polish woman, that marriage lasted 3 months. In the spring of of 1971 he met Alicia, a beautiful Polish woman who would become the mother of his only son Thomas Milkowski. Their marriage lasted 10 years. They eventually divorced in 1981. Alicia recalls, “the summer before a I met Joe I sitting on a Park bench wishing that a guy in a sports car from America would come and marry me”. The following year Alicia met Joe, who had a Porsche at the time. Joe was 20 years her senior. He wasted no time in proclaiming his love and 1 year later they were married. In 1986 he met the woman who he would grow old with, Betty, a Colombian beauty who was very different from all of his previous wives.
Betty had been dating his friend Henry for about 8 days before she met Joe. The minute they met, Joe began to pursue Betty resulting in the demise of Henry and Joe’s friendship – they did not speak for 2 years. Betty and Joe were married 1 year later. The 80’s for Joe was a decade full of significant life markers, in 1981, his divorce, in 1984 the death of his father, in 1986 retirement, and in 1987 his marriage to Betty, and his son Tommy moving to Poland.
Betty and Joe would live in several small but quaint houses through out Los Angeles, one of them was a beautiful little guest bungalow that had a wall of windows that faced a view of downtown Los Angeles. This was the guest house in the back of Alicia’s house (which was acquired through the divorce), the other would be his Cousin Sophia’s guest house in the San Fernando Valley. Right around the time Joe and Betty were getting married, Alicia and Thomas (Tommy) would move back to Poland. Joe was very sad about this and would make it a point to go back to Poland often to see Tommy.
Joe was offered a “Golden Handshake” retirement from Union Oil in 1986 and accepted. He was 58 years old. One year later Joe and Betty were married and set off to see the world. This was the beginning of their 30 year union marked by travel. They were an active couple and Betty remembers Joe having great physical strength. Joe would always say that he loved Betty because she was always up for anything fun. Betty said the same exact thing about Joe. The couple was full of energy and would always be doing something they would dash around the city in Joes Brown Fiat convertible. They would ride bikes in Santa Monica, Roller Skate, go dancing, and go on road trips to pass the time but their most beloved trips of all were always the ones back to Poland. They continued to go back there well into Joe’s 80s. Betty’s daughter Pamela remembers they were constantly on the go, and if they were not on the go, they were on the beach or on a plane to either Europe or Colombia. In 1995 Joseph purchased their beach bungalow in Oceanside, California. Eventually his son Tommy and his wife Eva moved back to the U.S. and lived with Joe and Betty while they got settled.
Joe would spend the rest of his life there surrounded by loving friends, family and neighbors until his death on August 16, 2015.
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