Nicolau Bajczuk was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil on December 30th, 1934, son of Arseni and Maria Bajczuk. He was the oldest of three brothers, Pedro and Sergio. He moved alone to the United States in 1963 and married his beloved wife of 50 years in 1967.
He was a loving husband, father and grandfather. Nick was a man of great integrity, with a keen wit, who loved a good time with family and friends. He was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2017 and was just beginning to learn to live with the disease. Nick will be missed dearly by his family and friends.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today. The Foundation is the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research, with more than $800 million in high-impact research funded to date.
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