Friday, September 4, 2020

My Aunt turned 90 in Hungary; Fenyeslitke

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Widow. We greeted Sándorne Csimbók on her 90 th birthday

Short resume of aunt Anna

Parents: Ferenc Bakajsza and Mária Fekete were a farmers. Religious, Roman Catholic family, whose father was a respectful village judge who was a  greatly honored . Seven of their twelve children lived  to adult age: Two male and five girls. Only Anna is alive today, who was born on 1930. August 27 in Fényeslitke, lived here and worked through her active age.
Anna Bakajsza completed a further 4years of education after the 6th elementary school years, in the civil school of Szent László High School in Kisvárda, where the nuns of St. Orsolya were educated at that time. Based on her good study results, she wanted to continue her study and was also admitted to the teacher training school, however, her parents took her out of school in 1946. During the world war II many people visited the village judge's house, refugees, who needed help, soldiers, gunmen, who they had to fear. With her cousin Black Juliska, (who still lives in Kisvárda at the age of 95) they stood in front of the Russian machine guns when they were looking for  guns in the family home. After the war,the parents needed the working hands at home even more, the 28 hectares of land had to be cultivated.  The penalties for owning land included the sweeping of the attic for the last kernel of grains and confiscation of lands  into government owned collective farm.  Aunt Anna drove a horse, harvested, plowed, sowed with her parents while she could. Then love came and at the age of 18, she said yes to Sándor Csimbók and yes to the building and manufacturing furniture store at Christmas of 1948 . Four children were born in the marriage:  Sándor, who was suddenly lost at the age of 63, Attila 1953, Ildikó in 1958 and then Zsolt in 1964 Aunt Anna as a good wife helped her husband's business cooked and baked for carpenter s' helpers and journeymen working in the workshop; together they built the family home with her husband, they installed the doors, windows, furniture. Then the government took the father's machines in the communist system.  They took the industry away from the sawmill to the collective estate tsz. The family's life was crushed as a result of the the great socialist transformation. In the miserable years that followed, in order to make a basic day's livelihood, Aunt Anna took the local milk delivery job after the retirement of  a lady by the name of Szabó . For 25 years, she went to the dairy hall every dawn and night, because the 100-200 cows in the village gave milk even during Christmas, and they had to be milked, cooled, inspected, analyzed, measured, written accounted for, payed, etc. In addition to caring for her little children, in Jászberény, in 1961, she completed several weeks of boarding milk treatment school, chemistry, arithmetic, She received an honorary  certificate. She lost her husband in 1980, and she has been a widow since she was fourty nine years of age.  The four children were still at home, Anna had to see them through finishing their education  and direct them into adulthood. She retired in 1985. She always lived sacrificially for the family. Her children stayed close to her. Aunt Anna pulled together the extended  as well; everyday working together, helping each other. She built a house for 2 boys, raised 7 grandchildren, helping their parents and bringing the family together for events and  the holidays.

During her lifetime she always had compassion on those who were suffering and lacked.  She came in contact with many walks of life and she poured her heart out to them.  She was ′′ everyone's Aunt Anna's ′′ She gave advice and encouragement. Later in her life for the duration of 10 years, she lived with her widow sister Icaneni in Fényeslitke and Kisvárda, and after the death of Aunt Ica, she returned home to her place of birth Fenyeslitke, where she now resides independently close to her son and family.
An honorary event took place on March 15,2001 at the Fényeslitke Primary School. She and the mayor, together carried the flag of the country which was brought to the village from the secretary of state.
Her love for humanity is unbroken.   She spends her days in deep meditation and faith, continually waiting for a visitor to stop by and talk about life's joys.

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