Obituaries
Klara Pogány 1918 - 2005
A memorial Mass for Klara Elisabeth de Jeney Pogány, 87, will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. She was to be cremated.Mrs. Pogány died Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.She was born Oct. 4, 1918, in Nagyvarad, Transylvania, Hungary, the daughter of Rudolf and Elisabeth Banyay de Jeney.In 1936, she graduated from Notre Dame de Sion in Budapest, Hungary. She attended medical school for two years in Budapest.During World War II, Mrs. Pogány and her family survived the bombing of Budapest by hiding in a cellar with other families for many months. The Pogánys left Hungary in 1948, living first in Rome, then Como and Milan in Italy. During these years, Mrs. Pogány was a homemaker.In 1969, she and her husband emigrated to the United States to join their two sons, who were already living in the country. They lived in Chicago, where Mrs. Pogány worked as an international teller for various foreign banks. She and her husband retired in 1983 and moved to Lawrence.She married Nicholas Pogány in March 1940. He died in 1993.A daughter, Klara Pogány, died in 1963.Survivors include two sons, Stefano Pogány, Lawrence, and Miklos Pogány, Boston; and four grandsons.The family suggests memorial contributions to the St. Lawrence Center and the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Society, 3 Westwood Drive, Lexington, MA 02420.
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