Margaret Catherine Buchta was born on November 1, 1909 in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, according to her birth certificate. Her parents are listed as John Buchta and Mary Macuth. Her middle name has also been found as "Kathryn."

At the time of the 1920 Federal Census, Margaret C. Buchta, 10, born in Indiana, lived with her family in Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her parents are listed as John H. and Mary M., both born in Vienna, Austria. They immigrated in 1902 and had become Naturalized Citizens in 1914. (The immigration details vary in later census records.) Margaret's siblings in 1920 were Rudolph T., Agnes E., and Leonard J. Two other children, Andrew J. and Mary Z. Shofskey, were apparently Mrs. Buchta's children from a previous marriage. (In 1910, Margaret had three half-siblings, Andrew, William and Mary, surname Matiashofsky. Margaret Buchta was 6 months, and her brother, Rudolph Buchta, was 1 1/2.)

In the 1930 census, Margaret Buchta, 20, was a student nurse, living at the Nurses' Residence at St. Francis Hospital. The record indicates she was born in Indiana and her parents were born in Austria.

The obituary of Margaret's half-brother provides the information about her married name, Skudneski. ["Step brother" is incorrect in the obit, since they had the same mother.]

BROTHER'S OBITUARY: Andrew J. Shofsky, 58, of Washington Hotel, Charleroi, died last night at 8:30 in the Charleroi-Monessen Hospital following a long illness. - He was born in Stockdale on Feb. 1, 1900. He was a member of St. Jerome R. C. Church and the Knights of St. George. He was a retired bookkeeper of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. - He is survived by his stepfather, John Buchta; two step brothers, Rudolph and Leonard Buchta, Charleroi; one sister Mrs. Frank (Mary) Pogoda, Charleroi, and one stepsister, Mrs. Edmond (Margaret) Skudneski, Natrona. - Friends are being received at the Michael A. Malinchak Funeral Home, Charleroi, from 1 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. [Monessen Daily Independent, Thursday, March 6, 1958]

Margaret Buchta married Edmund Skudneski, the brother of another graduate of the St. Francis Class of 1931, Helen Skudneski. John Skudneski, a brother of Helen and Edmund, married Anna Marie Filip, yet another graduate of the Class of 1931.

Helen Skudneski, born October 28, 1906, died in 1962.

Margaret Buchta Skudneski died suddenly on August 22, 1972. Edmund Skudneski, born January 31, 1909, died in May 1979.