The Konoza Family Website
Originally from Paternopoli near Naples, Italy where he had been a farmer, Francesco (Frank) Ruzzo settled in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.�
Ruzzo married Sophia Eisenhard and had six children.� The two oldest died very young, perhaps from the flu of 1917 or consumption--before "Sis" Sophie was born in 1921.� Frank worked at the Ford plant in Chester, PA.�
The Ruzzos lived at 7th and Flower Streets and later moved to 7th and Lloyd Streets, when the kids were older.� They later moved to Lindsay Street, where they spent their golden years.
The Eisenhards were from Bonn, Germany.� Sophia was born in the USA.
June 24, 1922
July 28, 1999
The Konoza Family
Tree for later generations
May 1, 1921
April 11, 1890
August 10, 1982
Her Army training was at Oglethorpe, Georgia and then she was stationed in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Later she was transferred to Camp Stoneman, California, which is a half-hour from Oakland.� She was a Mess Sergeant there.
This is where she met John S. Konoza.� They were married in Monterey, California on November, 1 1947.
The couple moved to Chester, PA, where they lived in an apartment.� John managed to get assigned to Temple University to teach Russian for the military.� Geri and Pat were born during this time.
Next, John was shipped out to the Korean War until it's end in 1953.� Then the family moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where Konoza was assigned to Special Forces,� the "Green Berets".� His specialties were medical, demolitions and intelligence.
From there he was sent to Bad Tolz, Germany taking the family with him.� During this time John Joseph was born prematurely and lived for only about a week.
The family later returned to Fort Bragg, where the rest of the kids (Barb, Mike and John C.) were born.
John S. retired from the Army in 1961 and went to work for the CIA in Langley, VA. He and the family moved to Springfield, VA to live at that time. In 1963, an infant son was stillborn to Sophie and then buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
October 27, 1890
January 31, 1986
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April 24, 1918
January 30, 1917
February 25, 1994
January 11, 1986
January 9, 1955
October 18, 1993
August 2, 1919
April 10, 1956
December 25, 1926
May 14, 2005
January 14, 1988
August 9, 1957
November 14, 1990
February 17, 1923
April 10, 2003
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1921
1916
1916
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September 23, 1929
1888
March 29, 1973
1846
buried February 4, 1929
October 10, 1925
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