Sunday, July 24, 2022
My first recollection of Paul was in Germany after the war where my father was given a place to produce medicines after the war to prevent an epidemic in Brake am Weser in West Germany. When we reached school age, we went to a Latvian Displaced Persons camp in Oldenburg, where Paul went to first grade. Within half a year there, we went to Ithaca, NY, where my father got a job with a florist until he learned enough English to be able to get a job in chemistry.His job was in Syracuse and we lived initially near Phoenix and then closer to Baldwinsville in our own house in Little Utica. Paul and I finished our schooling there until Paul went to university of Chicago and then Rutgers.He got a job in Nevada afterwards working as a chemical analyst in the mining industry, until he moved back to the East.Here he worked for Ledoux & Co. as a chemist, until retirement. He married Gunta Kivulis, who was from Brooklyn, and moved back to her family home after having spent his work years living in Highland Park. Paul loved his family as well as bridge and chess. He had three children John, Astrida and Laila.