Halina Bogumiła Jaworski was born in Antopol, Poland on August 25, 1926. She had a normal childhood living in the Polish countryside with her parents, brother, sister, and grandmother. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland marking the start of World War II. The family fled east to their relatives only to be displaced again when the Soviets also invaded Poland on September 17, 1939. They secured a very small apartment in the town of Kobryn. On February 10, 1940, they were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Archangel in the far reaches of northern Siberia. Their only crime was that they were Polish. Halina’s father was separated from the rest of the family upon arrest and sent to the Northern Railway Camp in the Kotlas region. The family never saw him again. The other five spent two years in a forced labor camp under subhuman and brutal conditions. Almost two years to the day later, they, along with hundreds of thousands of Poles, were given amnesty as if they were criminals. They made the long and difficult trip out of the Soviet Union assisted by the pre-war Polish government in exile in London. Their perilous journey took them south to Kazakhstan not far from the Chinese border, east to Krasnovodsk, across the Caspian Sea on a crowded ship full of thousands of other Polish deportees to Persia (now Iran), then across the mountainous north of Iran to Tehran. 

Halina’s grandmother died in Tehran from typhoid and other illnesses brought on by years of incarceration and starvation in Siberia. Halina’s brother enlisted in the Polish Army under British command, trained in Iraq and Scotland. Halina, her mother, and her sister joined other Polish refugees and ended up in Tanzania in East Africa. There, she began to shed the anguish of her Siberian experience with a somewhat normal life and what remained of her childhood. Her sister passed away in Africa shortly after their arrival. After seven years, Halina and her mother traveled to London where she went to school, learned the English language, and met her future husband, Tadeusz Jaworski. The three of them went to the United States in search of a new life and a new beginning. They were later joined by Tadeusz’s mother, Krystyna Jaworska. Tadeusz and Halina were married in Chicago on February 16, 1952. 

They had two children Thomas and Richard. They enjoyed a wonderful life together, both working in the field of accounting for major firms in Chicago. The family of six later moved to Bevent, Wisconsin where together, they engaged in Tadeusz’s life-long passion for rural life and animal husbandry. Halina and Tadeusz were married for 54 years until her husband’s death in April of 2006. Halina spent the rest of her life living in Bevent in the farmhouse she and her husband purchased. She retired from the Stevens Point Daily Journal after many years as their bookkeeper. Halina stayed engaged in the community, the church, and the Rosary Society. She loved singing and enjoyed being a member of St. Ladislau’s choir very much. The friendships she cultivated and maintained in the Bevent community and beyond were priceless to her and dearly cherished.

Halina was preceded in death by her grandmother Zofia Scibło, Father Konstanty Skowroński, Mother Anna Skowrońska (Scibło), brother Ryszard Skowroński, sister Elwira Skowrońska, husband Tadeusz Jaworski, mother-in-law Krystyna Jaworska, and son Thomas Jaworski. She is survived by her son Richard (Heidi Soergel), her grandchildren Roger Jaworski, (Alicia Jaworski (Stone)), Jessica Deford (Nathaniel), Brian Jaworski, and Sonia Jaworski (Thomas Jaworski and Mother Cathy Sweeney). She is also survived by her six great-grandchildren Joseph Jaworski, Ana Jaworski, Arwen Jaworski, Amele Jaworski, Alina Jaworski, and Landen DeFord.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Halina will be at St. Ladislaus Catholic Church, 173141 State Highway 153, Hatley (Bevent) at 11:00 AM on Friday June 12, 2026, with Fr. Francis Diaz officiating. Visitation will be from 9:30 AM until the time of services at the church. Burial will follow the mass in the parish cemetery. Pisarski Funeral Homes are honored to be serving the Jaworski Family. To offer online condolences, please visit www.pisarskifuneralhome.com