Real Stories of an Oley Valley School Bus Driver!
Now Available on Amazon!
Jean Kazmierczak
July 18, 1937 - February 21, 2020
To the greatest Mom & best friend a daughter could ever have!
THE LEGACY OF JEAN KAZMIERCZAK
Born in Kenhorst, PA, she was the daughter of the late Michael and Anna Kazmierczak. She worked for 34 years as a school bus driver serving the Oley Valley School District last driving in June 2008. Her school bus numbers over the years were 45 & 8.
She also spearheaded the annual school bus driver's safety poster contest, which back in the 90's was funded through her leadership of the operation of the Oley Valley Haunted House which took place on the second floor of the Oley Fire Company, where all attendees received a "I survived the Oley Valley Haunted House" sticker. The project was also staffed by school bus driver volunteers and their family and friends. All participants always had a lot of fun doing the haunted house. In recent years, she enjoyed many of the ghost hunting shows on the Travel Channel network. A decade ago, she also authored and illustrated three books titled "National Chrome, National Chrome 2: The Good, The Bad & The Indifferent and National Chrome 3: School Bus Antics". Those titles fell out of print a few years ago and were replaced in 2019 with a compilation book titled "The Diaries of Bus 8" available on Amazon which combines all books in the National Chrome Series. The name National Chrome was the actual name of the yellow school bus paint color at one point years ago. In her earlier work life, she worked on Penn Street in Reading at Pomeroy's and later Camp Hosiery. She was the dear mother of her only child, Roberta "Bobbi" Jean Nye also of Temple and is survived also by many pets at home who will also deeply miss her. An avid pet lover her entire life, she had horses, dogs, cats, birds among other pets to include her bedside fish tank in her later years. A special mention was that decades ago she was accepted to attend the Philadelphia Police Training Academy, but chose other paths in life at the time instead.
-This biography was part of what I wrote for Mom for her obituary in the Reading Eagle newspaper as submitted by Bean.
https://www.beanfuneralhomes.com/obituary/Jean-Kazmierczak
https://www.facebook.com/bobbi.nye.1/videos/3280001435362061 (Mom's Graveside Service / Eulogy Video)
Charles Evans Cemetary Reading, PA
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/readingeagle/obituary.aspx?n=jean-kazmierczak&pid=195502509&fhid=6154
Mom organized the Oley Valley Haunted House back in the 1990's, which was held on the Oley Fire Company second floor.
Here is a link to her haunted house photo album:
https://www.facebook.com/bobbi.nye.1/videos/3811646455530887/