Leona Kruk was the daughter of Stanley Kruk, born in Poland, and Mary, born in Pennsylvania. At the time of the 1930 Federal Census, Joseph and Mary lived in McKees Rocks with the following children: Francis, 16, Stanley, 15, Leona, 12, Florence, 9, Marianna, 6, Joseph, 3 and Andrew, newborn. The father, Joseph, was a watchmaker at a jewelry store.

In 1940, Leona was a student nurse at St. Francis Hospital and she lived at the Nurses' Residence.

The mother, Mary Krub Kruk, died in January 1944. Leona Kruk, a resident of Butler St., Pittsburgh, provided the information for the death record.

Stanley Kruk died in 1948. His obituary indicates that Leona's married name was DiGirolamo. Her husband was James V.Digirolamo, and children were Barbara, James, Joyce, and Alexandra.

Leona Kruk Digirolamo, born on October 4, 1917 in Clymer, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, died January 17, 1988. Her last residence was Sacramento, California. Her husband died in 1999. They are interred at Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.

HUSBAND'S OBITUARY: SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST JAMES DIGIROLAMO PIONEERED CRISIS INTERVENTION IN CAPITAL - Through his work as a school psychologist, James Victor DiGirolamo recognized the need for a crisis center in Sacramento in the 1960s. So he started the Crisis Intervention Hotline in Sacramento with 15 telephone lines in his home. - Mr. DiGirolamo, 83, died of cancer Sunday at his Carmichael residence. - "We would get people who were passing through town and barely had the change to call," said his son, James Anthony DiGirolamo of Sacramento. "People could call 24 hours a day, seven days a week." - With his first wife, the former Leona Barbara Kruk - a registered nurse who died in 1988 - and other volunteers, Mr. DiGirolamo helped callers in crisis to cope with suicide, abuse, depression and stressful relationships. - "He began to see there was a greater need out there in the community that just wasn't being met. We take it for granted now 30 years later, but back then it was a lot different . . . This was the day before WEAVE was available. There was nowhere to go. We were it," his son said. - As a result of efforts like Mr. DiGirolamo's, crisis intervention hotlines are available today supported by government and private funding, his son said. - Mr. DiGirolamo was born in Barnesboro, Pa., to Fioentino Rocco DiGirolamo and Raffaela Mongelluzzo, who both immigrated from Nusco, Italy. After earning a master's degree in biology and educational psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Mr. DiGirolamo first served as a psychologist for the U.S. Army. - He next taught high school in Pennsylvania for 15 years, and then moved to California. After several years as a teacher with the San Juan Unified School District, Mr. DiGirolamo moved to Sacramento City Unified School District and he worked there as a school psychologist for 13 years. - Mr. DiGirolamo also taught psychology at American River and Sacramento City colleges. His ARC course, "Making the Most of Marriage" was an innovative class at the time, his son said, and would draw up to 100 students in a class. - In addition to his son, Mr. DiGirolamo is survived by his wife, Dale; daughters, Barbara L. Martins of Rochester, N.H., Joyce Ann Coker of Roseville, and Alexandra Ruth Bell of Laguna Hills; brothers, Henry DiGirolamo of Long Beach and Anthony DiGirolamo of Barnesboro; sisters, Antonette Gesser of Pittsburgh, and Carmaline Belgin of Barnesboro; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson. - Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Ignatius Parish. -- Sacramento Bee, The (CA) - Thursday, March 25, 1999.