Thaddeus S. Ted Bialack died Friday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was born on May 17, 1919, in Meriden and lived in Stamford until moving to Branford in 1987.
Bialack left high school in 1936 and attended the Yale & Town Apprentice Training School in Stamford, receiving a certificate of apprenticeship in die making in 1940. He went to night school while working for Yale & Town and earned his high school diploma in 1946.
He served in the Armys 34th Engineer Construction Battalion from October 1946 until May 1947, and served in Korea for three months during peacetime. After military service he returned to Yale & Town and stayed until 1954, when he went to work for The Excelsior Hardware Company, from which he retired in 1984.
Bialack is survived by his wife, Anna Sandor Bialack; two daughters, Barbara Mazzarella and her husband Raymond, and Dolores "Lorie" McLaughlin and her husband, Steven; five grandchildren, a great-granddaughter and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brothers, Walter and Otto Bialack, and by his sisters Sophie, Janet and Emeliana.
A Mass will be celebrated Friday, June 24, at 11 a.m. in St. Mary Church in Branford. There will be no calling hours, and interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in Bialacks name to the Alzheimers Association, 2911 Dixwell Ave., Hamden, CT 06518, or the American Heart Association, 5 Brookside Drive, PO Box 5022, Wallingford, CT 06492-7522.
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