[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Okay, it's time to introduce you to the Great Plains Bisons' current General Manager, Joe Wolniewicz. This may be a moderately long profile, but we'll hvae to see here, of course, folks. If it's a bit long for your tastes, please try and bear with me at least a little, just the same.

Joe Wolniewicz was born on July 31, 1889 in Gordon, Nebraska to his parents Paul and the former Katerina Karlstrom. He is three-quarters Caucasian, one-quarter American Indian (Native American), in terms of his ancestry. The American Indian (Native American) part of his ancestry comes through his paternal grandmother, who was one-half Oglala Sioux (Lakota), one-eighth Cheyenne, one-eighth Blackfoot, one-eighth Ute, one-sixteenth Micmac, and one-sixteenth Aztec, as far as anyone in his family can currently tell well enough in their lives, or could tell in them. His father's paternal side was all from Europe, in terms of ancestral origin, mostly from northern and central Europe, especially from Poland and several nearby countries. Like Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, for example. As for his mother's part of his ancestral heritage, while much of it is of Scandinavian origin, there are some ancestors of his from other parts of the world, such as Australia, for example, prior to them eventually immigrating to the United States decades before his birth.

Joe is now an only child, born when his parents were both not yet in their twenties, even. He had several siblings born after him, but they all died either in infancy or childhood, for various reasons, some of them health-related. He was the only one of his parents' children somehow to survive into adulthood. His parents were married off by their respective parents when they were still only 17 years old at most, and 15, at least. Joe was born within a year of his parents' marriage. His parents eventually had five more children born by the time Joe became a teenager, but all of them died before having lived at least eleven years in their lives. Finally Paul and Katerina told their respective parents they would no longer try to produce children for multiple reasons, some of them surely health-related by that time. Joe's maternal grandparents were the most upset by such a declaration, and complained a good deal about it, among other things, but his parents stood firm with their decision, even so. And they then spent the next ten or so years of their lives sticking to their position relating to children, or the idea of even trying for more, until all four of Joe's grandparents had each died in their proper times. But that in no way meant that Paul and Katerina didn't like children around them at all, of course.

Joe grew up loved very much by his parents. They gave him a lot, but also expected a lot from him, in return. Not necessarily financially, mind you, but a lot in other ways, and not just in relation to them or others who were sufficiently close to them in their lives. Among the things they expected him to do often was to serve more than he sought service from others when he didn't need it at a particular time in his life, often telling him "Christ came to serve, not to be served," when needed. Consequently, Joe is the kind of man who more often than not gives help to those who truly need it and who doesn't ask for it from others when he doesn't actually need it.

He helps support his parents mainly with the income he makes from various business ventures, mainly because they have had various unfortunate events happen to them both in the last several years, some business-related or war-related, for example. They all live about halfway between Lincoln and Omaha, near Ashland, on a small farm, with a few dozen small animals, mainly chickens, geese, cats, dogs, and rabbits, with a few other types of animals.

Joe has never married to this point, but he hopes to eventually do so, Lord willing. There had been several women he spent time with in his younger days who he'd asked to marry, but they all turned him down as gently as they could, for various reasons. So he's still waiting on the Lord to see if he'll ever be a husband and father. He spends much of his free time reading whatever he can get his hands on, no matter what it may be. A picture or pictures of him will come later, if and whenever possible, necessary, desired, and/or appropriate, of course, folks.

The next post should hopefully help you get introduced to the Great Plains Bisons' current manager, Andy Deitz, to at least some degree, if all goes sufficiently to plan here, obviously. Please stay tuned for his introductory profile to be posted at some point, as time allows and all here. Okay? Until next time, then, I'll close this. CD out.

P.S. Team-related items that will be seen here in this thread for the Great Plains Bisons are the creation of low. I will try to have them posted by the time I finish introducing the Great Plains Bisons' main personnel, at the very least. Please stay tuned. Thank you. CD out.