Paula Mulligan Kostycz was born on this date in the City of Pawtucket to the late Margaret Ernestine Riley (1910-1989) and the late Walter Francis Xavier Mulligan (1906-1957).
Paula grew up in and went to elementary school in Pawtucket, and later graduated from St. Mary’s Academy – Bay View in Riverside, East Providence, RI.
Paula is the youngest of the three Mulligan girls. His sisters are Judy (1938-1962), and Martha. She has one brother, Kevin. Their father Walter died at the age of 51 and their mother Margaret passed back in 1989.
The story I have been told is that while working for the “telephone company” and on a vacation in Florida, Paula “met somebody”. That somebody was a teacher from Chicago, John Kostycz. A couple of years later, on June 20, 1970, Paula and John were married in St. Joseph’s Church on Walcott Street in Pawtucket.
After moving to Chicago, Paula worked with that new telephone company, A T & T, from which she eventually retired. Paula and John have been living in Florida for quite some time, enjoying the sunshine and the OJ.
Here’s to a Happy Birthday and Florida sunshine.
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