Joan L. Bajgier

October 25, 1939 - August 12, 2021

Joan L. (Stadnicki) Bajgier passed away on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Joan was born October 25, 1939 in Griswold, CT to her loving parents, Tadeusz and Anna (Kurpaska) Stadnicki. She was a 1957 graduate of Griswold High School and graduated in 1959 from Bay Path College in Longmeadow. Joan worked at Kaman Aircraft in Moosup, CT until her marriage to Casimir Bajgier on July 4, 1961 at St. Mary’s Church in Jewett City, CT. She then worked at American Bosch in Springfield from 1961 until 1964, when she left to become a stay-at-home mom. Joan was an active mom taking her sons to the many sporting activities they played in the St. Stanislaus youth leagues during the 1970s. Later she worked at Elms College in Chicopee for seventeen years until retiring in 1998 to spend time with her husband, who had also recently retired. Joan was a communicant of the Basilica of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr. She enjoyed playing cribbage at the Chicopee Senior Center, summer vacations in Maine and Cape Cod, and road trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. But most of all, Joan enjoyed going to her grandsons’ sporting and school events and loved being called Babci. Joan was predeceased by her beloved husband of fifty-nine years, Cas Bajgier, and by her sisters, Madeline Zielonka of Chicopee, Eugenia Millovitsch and Julia Pepin, and brother, Stanley Stadnicki all of Jewett City. She leaves behind her loving sons, Paul S. Bajgier and wife Nella, of Cromwell, CT, and Thomas M. Bajgier of Chicopee; cherished grandchildren, Aaron and Zachary Bajgier; step-grandchildren, Jonathan, Michael and Christina D’Amico, and great-grandsons, Matteo and Aiden D’Amico; brother in-law, Edward Bajgier and wife Janice of South Deerfield; and 10 nieces, 5 nephews and many great nieces and nephews. Calling hours are Wednesday from 9-10:45AM at Kozikowski Funeral Home, 565 Front St., Chicopee, followed by a funeral home service at 11AM. Burial will follow in St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Stanislaus School, 534 Front St., Chicopee, MA 01013. kozikowskifuneralhome.com