PAUL A NESLUSAN

�� Paul A. Neslusan was born in Zastranie, Slovakia to Martin and Sophia[Micah] Neslusan.His father immigrated to America and earned money to bring his family when Paul was five.The family moved from the coal mines of Pa. to Waterbury Ct., where an infant sister to Paul is buried, to Webster MA. It was in Webster,where Martin and Sophia opened a grocery market and had to more sons Martin and Jozeph and one daughter Susan. Paul attended Bartlett H.S. and left to join the U.S. Navy as soon as he could after the attack at Pearl Harbor. He earned the rate of Petty Officer 3rd Class and trained with the British Commando forces and drove an LST during the Normandy invasion. After the war he married Helen[Hanzarak]and bought a home in North Oxford. They had four children : Paul, Joyce, Mark and Cheryl. Mr. Neslusan was a machinist. He worked at Jamesbury for two years and Whitin Machine Works for over twenty five and was forced to retire because he developed esophogeal cancer. He was a devout member of Saint Ann’ s Roman Catholic Church, a 3rd Degree member of the Webster Knights of Columbus, a union steward for the United Steelworkers of America, a member of the Slovak Sokol, and what he was most proud of, a naturalized citizen of the USA.