Florian G. "Ray" Jednorski, a retired brewery worker and World War II veteran, died Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications from a fall.
The Parkville resident was 94.
The son of John Jednorski, a General Motors Corp. autoworker, and Helen Jednorski, a homemaker, Florian Gilbert Jednorski was born in Baltimore and raised in Canton.
He was a 1939 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington, and paid his tuition while working as a $3-a-week copy boy at The Baltimore Sun at night, family members said.
Mr. Jednorski enlisted in the Navy in 1943. After completing gunsight training at Solomons Island, he was sent to the V-12 program at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He joined the crew as a gunner's mate aboard the heavy cruiser USS St. Paul.
Discharged at war's end, he went to work at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River. He joined the old National Brewing Co. on Dillon Street in East Baltimore in 1953, where he rose to become an assembly line foreman and supervisor.
He retired in 1984.
In 1957, he married Audrey Mantler, who died in 2002.
The former longtime Overlea resident, who moved to Oak Crest Village in Parkville in 2004, had been a Boy Scout leader.
He was a communicant and usher at St. Michaels the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, and had served as president of the Holy Name Society.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at his church, 10 Willow Ave., Overlea.
Mr. Jednorski is survived by his five sons, Chris Jednorski of White Hall, Paul Jednorski of White Marsh, Steve Jednorski of North East, Michael Jednorski of Forest Hill and Mark Jednorski of Leesburg, Va.; two brothers, Charles Jednorski of Parkville and Bill Jednorski of Perry Hall; a sister, Helen Campbell of Laurel; 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and his longtime companion, Eula Griffin of Parkville.
— Frederick N. Rasmussen