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Submitted: 12/14/24 • Approved: 12/17/24 • Last Updated: 12/20/24 • R610625-G610623-S3
Adam Walter
1937 - 2022
Rose Miriam
1931 - 2006
*Obituary
Adam Walter Cywar was born in Kearny, New Jersey on March 14, 1937 and died in Austin, Texas on June 25, 2022. He was 85 years old. He was the only son to second generation Polish immigrants, Adam and Sophie Cywar (nee Kurak) and the little brother to his only sibling, Martha McSherry, predeceasing him in August, 2015.
He started his career at Colgate Palmolive and Lionel Trains and ultimately retired from IBM (Boca Raton, FL) in 1993 after 30 years of service. Prior to his retirement from IBM, he pioneered the establishment of Activity Based Management (ABM) concepts. He subsequently ran a consulting business focused on ABM. His career brought extensive travel as well as moves from New York to Texas and Florida and ultimately back to Texas.
He leaves behind his three children, Victoria, Douglas and Sophia; five grandchildren, Erica, Adam, Gino, Robin and Maria; niece Norma Tortorello (nee McSherry) and her family. Our family was very lucky and blessed by Adam as a father, grandfather, uncle, friend, character… and mentor. He was truly a fine example, in Tom Brokaw's words, of the greatest generation. To say he will be greatly missed, is an understatement.
After a lengthy battle with kidney cancer and more recent setbacks, he is at peace.
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Rose Cywar was born Rose Miriam Kelly in New York City on March 30, 1931. She passed away on May 21, 2006, at the Heartland Health Care Center in Austin, Texas.
Orphaned at birth, she grew up in foster homes in Brooklyn, NY, and the Poughkeepsie, NY, area. Rose was a real estate broker for Canterbury Realtors in Poughkeepsie.
Rose was married to Adam W. Cywar in 1973, in Poughkeepsie, and is survived by him and her three stepchildren, Vicky, Douglas and Sophia. Her son from a previous marriage predeceased her.
Services: Memorial Chapel of Cook-Walden/Capital Parks Funeral Home, Pflugerville
Inurnment of ashes: Capital Parks Hill Country Cremation Garden
Memorials: Charity of your choice
Excerpted from Austin American-Statesman, May 23, 2006
Hill Country Garden
Photo courtesy of Annette Shaw
Contributed on 12/14/24 by hawkinsdonna48
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