ALEXANDER PROHODSKI 76ALEXANDER PROHODSKI, A LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF NEEDHAM DIED ON FRIDAY JAN 23, AT THE BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER. BORN IN NEWTON, ALEXANDER GRADUATED FROM NEEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL IN 1945 AND AT THE AGE OF 17 ENTERED THE MARITME SERVICE FROM 1945-1947 AND THEN THE U.S. ARMY WITH THE FIRST OCCUPATIONAL TROOPS IN JAPAN. AFTER THE MILITARY, HE ATTENDED NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY. DUE TO HIS FATHERS ILLNESS, ALEXANDER ENTERED THE FAMILY BUSNESS IN 1950 TO HELP HIS DAD AND RAN THE 70 YEAR OLD BUSNESS, ‘THE HIGHLAND MARKET’ UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1995. MR. PROHODSKI WAS A MEMBER OF MANY TOWN COMMITTEE’S AND A DIRECTOR OF THE NEEDHAM CO-OPERATIVE BANK. HE ESPECIALLY TOOK INTEREST IN COMMITTEE’S THAT HONORED VETERANS AND HIS COUNTRY. ALEXANDER WAS THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF FIFTY YEARS TO HIS WIFE NINA (RUDENKO) AND WAS THE DEAR FATHER OF PAUL AND HIS WIFE ANN OF MILLIS, ALEX AND HIS WIFE BETH OF AMHERST N.H. AND SUSAN NAUM AND HER HUSBAND JEFF OF AUBURN ME. ALEX IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER HELEN KRAWIECKI OF NEEDHAM AND WAS THE LOVING GRANDFATHER OF ALEX AND PAUL PROHODSKI AND JACOB AND CAITLIN NAUM. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY JAN 31, 11:00 AM AT THE CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH CHAPEL, 1132 HIGHLAND AVE. NEEDHAM. PLEASE OMIT FLOWERS, MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE IN ALEX’S NAME TO HONOR OUR FLAG FUND, C/O JOE BORRELLI, 100 BORDER RD. NEEDHAM, MA 02492. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE EATON FUNERAL HOME OF NEEDHAM.