Peter Paul Kamysz
Marriages
Vilma Zavacky - 1949
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 6A - January 11, 2023
Peter P. Kamysz, Sr., 93,
passed away peacefully
in his Grand Junction
home on November 28,
2022. Peter was born in
Lancaster, New York,
four months shy of the
1929 stock market crash. A proud Marine Corporal
who served during the late 1940s as a rifleman, Peter
then earned a Bachelor of Business Administration
from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. He worked as a
CPA at various major corporations including Pennwalt
and Lockheed. Later, after acing the Bob Bondurant
School of High Performance Driving, he started a
private limo service in the San Francisco Bay Area for
GE and other corporate executives, which thrived for
12 years until he retired and moved to Colorado. Peter
was an accomplished accordion player in his youth,
and as an adult became a trophy-winning bowler and
an avid fisherman who travelled as far north as the
Yukon Territories to catch arctic char. Peter met his
sweetheart, Vilma Zavacky, in Central Park, New York
City. They were married for 63 years until her passing
in 2012. He is survived by his son, Stephen Kamysz,
Sr. and daughter, Patricia Kamysz. A military service
will be held January 23 2023 at 1 pm at the Veterans
Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.
