{"id":1040200,"date":"2018-09-15T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1040200"},"modified":"2018-09-15T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T14:00:38","slug":"attila-farkas-83-hungarian-pastry-expert-st-ignatius-soccer-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/attila-farkas-83-hungarian-pastry-expert-st-ignatius-soccer-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Attila Farkas, 83, Hungarian pastry expert, St. Ignatius soccer coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attila Farkas, master of Hungarian pastry<\/strong>, influential soccer coach and possessor of seemingly unlimited gusto, died Aug. 31 after a long illness. He was 83. His family held a private ceremony on Tuesday at St. Colman Catholic church in Cleveland. An informal public memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Ohio City bakery that still bears his name.<\/p>\n

A native of Budapest, Hungary, Farkas leaves behind his wife, Ilona, daughter Katherine Berente Laraway of Cleveland, son Nicholas Berente of South Bend, Ind., their spouses and five grandchildren. To that last group he was chauffeur, Hungarian language teacher and sports coach.<\/p>\n

Within a day of announcing his passing, the bakery\u2019s\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page received more than 100 expressions of condolence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Attila in 2001 with son Nicholas, daughter Katherine and wife Ilona. Believing he was denied admission to college by the Communist government in Hungary, he encouraged his children to get their degrees. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI remember going to his shop around the corner when I was a girl with my parents,\u201d wrote Marge Williams. \u201cWe all spoke in Hungarian. He was so nice and charismatic. Lovely man. If I tell Mom, she will cry.\u201d
\nSaid fan April Baer: \u201cOne of the happiest times of my life was living a few blocks away from Farkas and dropping in on Saturday mornings for nut rolls, walnut squares, pork crackling biscuits, and, oh, dear God, those Napoleons [layered custard and whipped cream puff pastry squares].
\n\u201cTo have fed so many people, and warming us all with his conversation, Attila, a glass of Tokay [Hungarian wine] in your honor this weekend. You gave us so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas, around 1981. He sailed with a club out of Cleveland, despite his lack of experience. “But who wouldn’t want Atti on their crew,” said family friend George Muhoray. (Photo by John Szilagyi from “To Market, To Market” by Joanne Lewis, permission courtesy Steve Szylagyi.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mike Harrison, who currently runs Farkas Pastry Shop at 2700 Lorain Ave., a short walk from West Side Market, said he sought a blessing from Farkas before taking over his shop several years ago. He got more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe became something of a father figure for me, besides teaching me all his recipes. He agreed to come in and work Tuesdays and Saturdays. Then it was just Saturdays, which became the highlight of my week.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people loved him,\u201d Harrison added. \u201cOld ladies would come in with hearts in their eyes. Attila could be abrasive, but he just melted into a sweetheart when a customer was there. He was so much larger than life . . . He made people feel good about themselves. What more can you say about a person<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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St. Ignatius 1989 soccer team, Farkas at top left. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Farkas also had impact in the sports arena, serving as assistant soccer coach for more than a decade at St. Ignatius High School and, later, John Carroll University. The St. Ignatius relationship evolved in a singular way, said family friend George Muhoray.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had his big stainless steel table in front of window when the shop was on West 28th Street,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looked onto the [St. Ignatius] soccer field. One day he just showed up at practice, and then he kept coming. Dr. Greg Knittel [the head soccer coach] never told him to stop coming, so it was a little more like a metamorphosis into the job.\u201d Sometimes, Farkas, a former club soccer player, would coach in his baker\u2019s apron. School staff and players gathered regularly at his shop to eat and talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cFind any Ignatius soccer player from the 1980s, and you\u2019ll get a big smile on face if you mention Attila Farkas,\u201d added Muhoray. \u201cHe was tough, funny, smart, had wit, and the Hungarian accent made it all that much better. He wasn\u2019t our parent, our teacher. He could give it to you straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made you want to work really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Coaching team at St. Ignatius: From left, Tom Healey, Dr. Greg Knittel, Mike McLaughlin, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAttila had a fiery passion in the way he approached everything,\u201d said Mike McLaughlin, a Farkas team member and now head soccer coach at the school. \u201cHe would say things like, \u2018Are you gonna be a ballerina or a boxer?\u2019 He preferred you were boxer.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, our soccer program is one of the top in the country, and he really laid the foundation for what we\u2019re doing today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sandor Farkas, emigre with his son, Attila, from Hungary’s 1956 anti-Communist revolution. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Farkas was the son of Sandor Farkas, a Budapest baker who ran a 15-member staff at his own pastry caf\u00e9. When Russia\u2019s Communist government appropriated the shop, father and son immigrated to the United States. Their first American store, in Maryland, tried to mimic American pastries, and failed. They moved to Cleveland to be part of the city\u2019s bustling Hungarian refugee population. Many fled their home country after the failed anti-Communism revolution in 1956. Sandor took a job with Kaase Bakery. But when his wife, Klara, arrived in town she pointed husband and son toward their own business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWord spread quickly,\u201d Farkas wrote in Joanne Lewis\u2019 1981 book on the West Side Market, \u201cTo Market, To Market.\u201d \u201cHungarians love good food and when our pastries first came out, I mean, it went like wildfire and it just burned on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n

People know, he added, \u201cthe difference between vegetable oil and sweet butter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas served in the U.S. Army between the Korean and Vietnamese wars. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ilona, Attila\u2019s wife, lost her first husband soon after she had two children, Nicholas and Katherine. She later dated the bachelor Farkas. \u00a0Nicholas remembers thinking he talked Farkas into marrying his mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to a restroom with him one day when I was about 7,\u201d he said. \u201cI told him, \u2018Hey, if you want be my dad, all you have to do is marry my mom, you know?\u2019 And he started laughing. Next thing you know, they\u2019re married.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a wonderful father to us,\u201d Nicholas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember way he always talked in superlatives,\u201d he added. \u201cEverything was \u2018the best\u2019 or \u2018the worst.\u2019 I was always the strongest and my sister was the most beautiful. There was never a middle of the road. It was fun, part of his charm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas remembered that his father read the entire dictionary to sharpen his English.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas worked on pastries most of the week, then sold at the shop on Fridays and Saturdays. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kathy recalls that he gave sports reports on Hungarian radio shows, broadcast on the now defunct WXEN.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was such an avid sportsman,\u201d she said. \u201cYou could find him lying in bed, watching a game on television, wearing headphones to listen to sportscasts on radio and reading the sport pages, all at the same time. That\u2019s not an exaggeration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sought-after kremes, or stacked puff pastry Napoleons. Family friend George Muhorey says he’s made comparisons across Europe, and still thinks this one is the best. (Photo by Allison Carey\/The Plain Dealer)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When the family held its memorial, they celebrated in style.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had\u00a0kremes [KREM-ess]<\/em>,\u201d Kathy said of the Hungarian name for the Napoleons. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the last time I ate a whole one. They were just always around. We took them for granted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christmas, 2015 with, top row from left, Mathias Doherty, Mat Adcox, Danny Sherry and Mike Harrison. Front row, from left, Brandon Pfeiffer, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s so neat that they\u2019re still making them in his name,\u201d she said. \u201cIt speaks to a longstanding tradition in Cleveland. We want it to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas and his kremes, before slicing. (Photo by Lynn Ischay\/The Plain Dealer)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Muhoray said a friend of his has a standing joke about Farkas and his gift for conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d say, \u2018I was in Attila\u2019s shop the other day and I said that magic word that got him going.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yeah,\u2019 someone would reply. \u2018What was the word?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHello,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Attila Farkas, master of Hungarian pastry<\/strong>, influential soccer coach and possessor of seemingly unlimited gusto, died Aug. 31 after a long illness. He was 83. His family held a private ceremony on Tuesday at St. Colman Catholic church in Cleveland. An informal public memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Ohio City bakery that still bears his name.<\/p>\n

A native of Budapest, Hungary, Farkas leaves behind his wife, Ilona, daughter Katherine Berente Laraway of Cleveland, son Nicholas Berente of South Bend, Ind., their spouses and five grandchildren. To that last group he was chauffeur, Hungarian language teacher and sports coach.<\/p>\n

Within a day of announcing his passing, the bakery\u2019s\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page received more than 100 expressions of condolence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Attila in 2001 with son Nicholas, daughter Katherine and wife Ilona. Believing he was denied admission to college by the Communist government in Hungary, he encouraged his children to get their degrees. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI remember going to his shop around the corner when I was a girl with my parents,\u201d wrote Marge Williams. \u201cWe all spoke in Hungarian. He was so nice and charismatic. Lovely man. If I tell Mom, she will cry.\u201d
\nSaid fan April Baer: \u201cOne of the happiest times of my life was living a few blocks away from Farkas and dropping in on Saturday mornings for nut rolls, walnut squares, pork crackling biscuits, and, oh, dear God, those Napoleons [layered custard and whipped cream puff pastry squares].
\n\u201cTo have fed so many people, and warming us all with his conversation, Attila, a glass of Tokay [Hungarian wine] in your honor this weekend. You gave us so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas, around 1981. He sailed with a club out of Cleveland, despite his lack of experience. “But who wouldn’t want Atti on their crew,” said family friend George Muhoray. (Photo by John Szilagyi from “To Market, To Market” by Joanne Lewis, permission courtesy Steve Szylagyi.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mike Harrison, who currently runs Farkas Pastry Shop at 2700 Lorain Ave., a short walk from West Side Market, said he sought a blessing from Farkas before taking over his shop several years ago. He got more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe became something of a father figure for me, besides teaching me all his recipes. He agreed to come in and work Tuesdays and Saturdays. Then it was just Saturdays, which became the highlight of my week.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people loved him,\u201d Harrison added. \u201cOld ladies would come in with hearts in their eyes. Attila could be abrasive, but he just melted into a sweetheart when a customer was there. He was so much larger than life . . . He made people feel good about themselves. What more can you say about a person<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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St. Ignatius 1989 soccer team, Farkas at top left. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Farkas also had impact in the sports arena, serving as assistant soccer coach for more than a decade at St. Ignatius High School and, later, John Carroll University. The St. Ignatius relationship evolved in a singular way, said family friend George Muhoray.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had his big stainless steel table in front of window when the shop was on West 28th Street,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looked onto the [St. Ignatius] soccer field. One day he just showed up at practice, and then he kept coming. Dr. Greg Knittel [the head soccer coach] never told him to stop coming, so it was a little more like a metamorphosis into the job.\u201d Sometimes, Farkas, a former club soccer player, would coach in his baker\u2019s apron. School staff and players gathered regularly at his shop to eat and talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cFind any Ignatius soccer player from the 1980s, and you\u2019ll get a big smile on face if you mention Attila Farkas,\u201d added Muhoray. \u201cHe was tough, funny, smart, had wit, and the Hungarian accent made it all that much better. He wasn\u2019t our parent, our teacher. He could give it to you straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made you want to work really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Coaching team at St. Ignatius: From left, Tom Healey, Dr. Greg Knittel, Mike McLaughlin, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAttila had a fiery passion in the way he approached everything,\u201d said Mike McLaughlin, a Farkas team member and now head soccer coach at the school. \u201cHe would say things like, \u2018Are you gonna be a ballerina or a boxer?\u2019 He preferred you were boxer.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, our soccer program is one of the top in the country, and he really laid the foundation for what we\u2019re doing today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sandor Farkas, emigre with his son, Attila, from Hungary’s 1956 anti-Communist revolution. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Farkas was the son of Sandor Farkas, a Budapest baker who ran a 15-member staff at his own pastry caf\u00e9. When Russia\u2019s Communist government appropriated the shop, father and son immigrated to the United States. Their first American store, in Maryland, tried to mimic American pastries, and failed. They moved to Cleveland to be part of the city\u2019s bustling Hungarian refugee population. Many fled their home country after the failed anti-Communism revolution in 1956. Sandor took a job with Kaase Bakery. But when his wife, Klara, arrived in town she pointed husband and son toward their own business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWord spread quickly,\u201d Farkas wrote in Joanne Lewis\u2019 1981 book on the West Side Market, \u201cTo Market, To Market.\u201d \u201cHungarians love good food and when our pastries first came out, I mean, it went like wildfire and it just burned on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n

People know, he added, \u201cthe difference between vegetable oil and sweet butter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas served in the U.S. Army between the Korean and Vietnamese wars. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ilona, Attila\u2019s wife, lost her first husband soon after she had two children, Nicholas and Katherine. She later dated the bachelor Farkas. \u00a0Nicholas remembers thinking he talked Farkas into marrying his mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to a restroom with him one day when I was about 7,\u201d he said. \u201cI told him, \u2018Hey, if you want be my dad, all you have to do is marry my mom, you know?\u2019 And he started laughing. Next thing you know, they\u2019re married.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a wonderful father to us,\u201d Nicholas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember way he always talked in superlatives,\u201d he added. \u201cEverything was \u2018the best\u2019 or \u2018the worst.\u2019 I was always the strongest and my sister was the most beautiful. There was never a middle of the road. It was fun, part of his charm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas remembered that his father read the entire dictionary to sharpen his English.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas worked on pastries most of the week, then sold at the shop on Fridays and Saturdays. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kathy recalls that he gave sports reports on Hungarian radio shows, broadcast on the now defunct WXEN.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was such an avid sportsman,\u201d she said. \u201cYou could find him lying in bed, watching a game on television, wearing headphones to listen to sportscasts on radio and reading the sport pages, all at the same time. That\u2019s not an exaggeration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sought-after kremes, or stacked puff pastry Napoleons. Family friend George Muhorey says he’s made comparisons across Europe, and still thinks this one is the best. (Photo by Allison Carey\/The Plain Dealer)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When the family held its memorial, they celebrated in style.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had\u00a0kremes [KREM-ess]<\/em>,\u201d Kathy said of the Hungarian name for the Napoleons. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the last time I ate a whole one. They were just always around. We took them for granted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christmas, 2015 with, top row from left, Mathias Doherty, Mat Adcox, Danny Sherry and Mike Harrison. Front row, from left, Brandon Pfeiffer, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison)<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s so neat that they\u2019re still making them in his name,\u201d she said. \u201cIt speaks to a longstanding tradition in Cleveland. We want it to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farkas and his kremes, before slicing. (Photo by Lynn Ischay\/The Plain Dealer)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Muhoray said a friend of his has a standing joke about Farkas and his gift for conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d say, \u2018I was in Attila\u2019s shop the other day and I said that magic word that got him going.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yeah,\u2019 someone would reply. \u2018What was the word?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHello,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was 83. His family held a private ceremony on Tuesday at St. Colman Catholic church in Cleveland. An informal public memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Ohio City bakery that still bears his name. A native of Budapest, Hungary, Farkas leaves behind his wife, Ilona, daughter Katherine Berente Laraway of Cleveland, son Nicholas Berente of South Bend, Ind., their spouses and five grandchildren. To that last group he was chauffeur, Hungarian language teacher and sports coach. Within a day of announcing his passing, the bakery\u2019s\u00a0Facebook\u00a0page received more than 100 expressions of condolence Attila in 2001 with son Nicholas, daughter Katherine and wife Ilona. Believing he was denied admission to college by the Communist government in Hungary, he encouraged his children to get their degrees. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas) \u201cI remember going to his shop around the corner when I was a girl with my parents,\u201d wrote Marge Williams. \u201cWe all spoke in Hungarian. He was so nice and charismatic. Lovely man. If I tell Mom, she will cry.\u201d Said fan April Baer: \u201cOne of the happiest times of my life was living a few blocks away from Farkas and dropping in on Saturday mornings for nut rolls, walnut squares, pork crackling biscuits, and, oh, dear God, those Napoleons [layered custard and whipped cream puff pastry squares]. \u201cTo have fed so many people, and warming us all with his conversation, Attila, a glass of Tokay [Hungarian wine] in your honor this weekend. You gave us so much.\u201d Farkas, around 1981. He sailed with a club out of Cleveland, despite his lack of experience. "But who wouldn't want Atti on their crew," said family friend George Muhoray. (Photo by John Szilagyi from "To Market, To Market" by Joanne Lewis, permission courtesy Steve Szylagyi.) Mike Harrison, who currently runs Farkas Pastry Shop at 2700 Lorain Ave., a short walk from West Side Market, said he sought a blessing from Farkas before taking over his shop several years ago. He got more than that. \u201cHe became something of a father figure for me, besides teaching me all his recipes. He agreed to come in and work Tuesdays and Saturdays. Then it was just Saturdays, which became the highlight of my week. \u201cSo many people loved him,\u201d Harrison added. \u201cOld ladies would come in with hearts in their eyes. Attila could be abrasive, but he just melted into a sweetheart when a customer was there. He was so much larger than life . . . He made people feel good about themselves. What more can you say about a person St. Ignatius 1989 soccer team, Farkas at top left. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin) Farkas also had impact in the sports arena, serving as assistant soccer coach for more than a decade at St. Ignatius High School and, later, John Carroll University. The St. Ignatius relationship evolved in a singular way, said family friend George Muhoray. \u201cHe had his big stainless steel table in front of window when the shop was on West 28th Street,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looked onto the [St. Ignatius] soccer field. One day he just showed up at practice, and then he kept coming. Dr. Greg Knittel [the head soccer coach] never told him to stop coming, so it was a little more like a metamorphosis into the job.\u201d Sometimes, Farkas, a former club soccer player, would coach in his baker\u2019s apron. School staff and players gathered regularly at his shop to eat and talk. \u201cFind any Ignatius soccer player from the 1980s, and you\u2019ll get a big smile on face if you mention Attila Farkas,\u201d added Muhoray. \u201cHe was tough, funny, smart, had wit, and the Hungarian accent made it all that much better. He wasn\u2019t our parent, our teacher. He could give it to you straight. \u201cHe made you want to work really hard.\u201d Coaching team at St. Ignatius: From left, Tom Healey, Dr. Greg Knittel, Mike McLaughlin, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin) \u201cAttila had a fiery passion in the way he approached everything,\u201d said Mike McLaughlin, a Farkas team member and now head soccer coach at the school. \u201cHe would say things like, \u2018Are you gonna be a ballerina or a boxer?\u2019 He preferred you were boxer. \u201cRight now, our soccer program is one of the top in the country, and he really laid the foundation for what we\u2019re doing today.\u201d Sandor Farkas, emigre with his son, Attila, from Hungary's 1956 anti-Communist revolution. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) Farkas was the son of Sandor Farkas, a Budapest baker who ran a 15-member staff at his own pastry caf\u00e9. When Russia\u2019s Communist government appropriated the shop, father and son immigrated to the United States. Their first American store, in Maryland, tried to mimic American pastries, and failed. They moved to Cleveland to be part of the city\u2019s bustling Hungarian refugee population. Many fled their home country after the failed anti-Communism revolution in 1956. Sandor took a job with Kaase Bakery. But when his wife, Klara, arrived in town she pointed husband and son toward their own business. \u201cWord spread quickly,\u201d Farkas wrote in Joanne Lewis\u2019 1981 book on the West Side Market, \u201cTo Market, To Market.\u201d \u201cHungarians love good food and when our pastries first came out, I mean, it went like wildfire and it just burned on and on.\u201d People know, he added, \u201cthe difference between vegetable oil and sweet butter.\u201d Farkas served in the U.S. Army between the Korean and Vietnamese wars. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas) Ilona, Attila\u2019s wife, lost her first husband soon after she had two children, Nicholas and Katherine. She later dated the bachelor Farkas. \u00a0Nicholas remembers thinking he talked Farkas into marrying his mother. \u201cI remember going to a restroom with him one day when I was about 7,\u201d he said. \u201cI told him, \u2018Hey, if you want be my dad, all you have to do is marry my mom, you know?\u2019 And he started laughing. Next thing you know, they\u2019re married. \u201cHe was a wonderful father to us,\u201d Nicholas said. \u201cI just remember way he always talked in superlatives,\u201d he added. \u201cEverything was \u2018the best\u2019 or \u2018the worst.\u2019 I was always the strongest and my sister was the most beautiful. There was never a middle of the road. It was fun, part of his charm.\u201d Nicholas remembered that his father read the entire dictionary to sharpen his English. Farkas worked on pastries most of the week, then sold at the shop on Fridays and Saturdays. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) Kathy recalls that he gave sports reports on Hungarian radio shows, broadcast on the now defunct WXEN. \u201cHe was such an avid sportsman,\u201d she said. \u201cYou could find him lying in bed, watching a game on television, wearing headphones to listen to sportscasts on radio and reading the sport pages, all at the same time. That\u2019s not an exaggeration.\u201d Sought-after kremes, or stacked puff pastry Napoleons. Family friend George Muhorey says he's made comparisons across Europe, and still thinks this one is the best. (Photo by Allison Carey\/The Plain Dealer) When the family held its memorial, they celebrated in style. \u201cWe had\u00a0kremes [KREM-ess],\u201d Kathy said of the Hungarian name for the Napoleons. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the last time I ate a whole one. They were just always around. We took them for granted. Christmas, 2015 with, top row from left, Mathias Doherty, Mat Adcox, Danny Sherry and Mike Harrison. Front row, from left, Brandon Pfeiffer, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) \u201cIt\u2019s so neat that they\u2019re still making them in his name,\u201d she said. \u201cIt speaks to a longstanding tradition in Cleveland. We want it to continue.\u201d Farkas and his kremes, before slicing. (Photo by Lynn Ischay\/The Plain Dealer) Muhoray said a friend of his has a standing joke about Farkas and his gift for conversation. \u201cHe\u2019d say, \u2018I was in Attila\u2019s shop the other day and I said that magic word that got him going.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yeah,\u2019 someone would reply. \u2018What was the word?\u2019 \u201cHello,\u201d he said.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/attila-farkas-83-hungarian-pastry-expert-st-ignatius-soccer-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-15T13:57:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-15T14:00:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cba_farkascollage.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta 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His family held a private ceremony on Tuesday at St. Colman Catholic church in Cleveland. An informal public memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Ohio City bakery that still bears his name. A native of Budapest, Hungary, Farkas leaves behind his wife, Ilona, daughter Katherine Berente Laraway of Cleveland, son Nicholas Berente of South Bend, Ind., their spouses and five grandchildren. To that last group he was chauffeur, Hungarian language teacher and sports coach. Within a day of announcing his passing, the bakery\u2019s\u00a0Facebook\u00a0page received more than 100 expressions of condolence Attila in 2001 with son Nicholas, daughter Katherine and wife Ilona. Believing he was denied admission to college by the Communist government in Hungary, he encouraged his children to get their degrees. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas) \u201cI remember going to his shop around the corner when I was a girl with my parents,\u201d wrote Marge Williams. \u201cWe all spoke in Hungarian. He was so nice and charismatic. Lovely man. If I tell Mom, she will cry.\u201d Said fan April Baer: \u201cOne of the happiest times of my life was living a few blocks away from Farkas and dropping in on Saturday mornings for nut rolls, walnut squares, pork crackling biscuits, and, oh, dear God, those Napoleons [layered custard and whipped cream puff pastry squares]. \u201cTo have fed so many people, and warming us all with his conversation, Attila, a glass of Tokay [Hungarian wine] in your honor this weekend. You gave us so much.\u201d Farkas, around 1981. He sailed with a club out of Cleveland, despite his lack of experience. \"But who wouldn't want Atti on their crew,\" said family friend George Muhoray. (Photo by John Szilagyi from \"To Market, To Market\" by Joanne Lewis, permission courtesy Steve Szylagyi.) Mike Harrison, who currently runs Farkas Pastry Shop at 2700 Lorain Ave., a short walk from West Side Market, said he sought a blessing from Farkas before taking over his shop several years ago. He got more than that. \u201cHe became something of a father figure for me, besides teaching me all his recipes. He agreed to come in and work Tuesdays and Saturdays. Then it was just Saturdays, which became the highlight of my week. \u201cSo many people loved him,\u201d Harrison added. \u201cOld ladies would come in with hearts in their eyes. Attila could be abrasive, but he just melted into a sweetheart when a customer was there. He was so much larger than life . . . He made people feel good about themselves. What more can you say about a person St. Ignatius 1989 soccer team, Farkas at top left. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin) Farkas also had impact in the sports arena, serving as assistant soccer coach for more than a decade at St. Ignatius High School and, later, John Carroll University. The St. Ignatius relationship evolved in a singular way, said family friend George Muhoray. \u201cHe had his big stainless steel table in front of window when the shop was on West 28th Street,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looked onto the [St. Ignatius] soccer field. One day he just showed up at practice, and then he kept coming. Dr. Greg Knittel [the head soccer coach] never told him to stop coming, so it was a little more like a metamorphosis into the job.\u201d Sometimes, Farkas, a former club soccer player, would coach in his baker\u2019s apron. School staff and players gathered regularly at his shop to eat and talk. \u201cFind any Ignatius soccer player from the 1980s, and you\u2019ll get a big smile on face if you mention Attila Farkas,\u201d added Muhoray. \u201cHe was tough, funny, smart, had wit, and the Hungarian accent made it all that much better. He wasn\u2019t our parent, our teacher. He could give it to you straight. \u201cHe made you want to work really hard.\u201d Coaching team at St. Ignatius: From left, Tom Healey, Dr. Greg Knittel, Mike McLaughlin, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike McLaughlin) \u201cAttila had a fiery passion in the way he approached everything,\u201d said Mike McLaughlin, a Farkas team member and now head soccer coach at the school. \u201cHe would say things like, \u2018Are you gonna be a ballerina or a boxer?\u2019 He preferred you were boxer. \u201cRight now, our soccer program is one of the top in the country, and he really laid the foundation for what we\u2019re doing today.\u201d Sandor Farkas, emigre with his son, Attila, from Hungary's 1956 anti-Communist revolution. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) Farkas was the son of Sandor Farkas, a Budapest baker who ran a 15-member staff at his own pastry caf\u00e9. When Russia\u2019s Communist government appropriated the shop, father and son immigrated to the United States. Their first American store, in Maryland, tried to mimic American pastries, and failed. They moved to Cleveland to be part of the city\u2019s bustling Hungarian refugee population. Many fled their home country after the failed anti-Communism revolution in 1956. Sandor took a job with Kaase Bakery. But when his wife, Klara, arrived in town she pointed husband and son toward their own business. \u201cWord spread quickly,\u201d Farkas wrote in Joanne Lewis\u2019 1981 book on the West Side Market, \u201cTo Market, To Market.\u201d \u201cHungarians love good food and when our pastries first came out, I mean, it went like wildfire and it just burned on and on.\u201d People know, he added, \u201cthe difference between vegetable oil and sweet butter.\u201d Farkas served in the U.S. Army between the Korean and Vietnamese wars. (Photo courtesy Ilona Farkas) Ilona, Attila\u2019s wife, lost her first husband soon after she had two children, Nicholas and Katherine. She later dated the bachelor Farkas. \u00a0Nicholas remembers thinking he talked Farkas into marrying his mother. \u201cI remember going to a restroom with him one day when I was about 7,\u201d he said. \u201cI told him, \u2018Hey, if you want be my dad, all you have to do is marry my mom, you know?\u2019 And he started laughing. Next thing you know, they\u2019re married. \u201cHe was a wonderful father to us,\u201d Nicholas said. \u201cI just remember way he always talked in superlatives,\u201d he added. \u201cEverything was \u2018the best\u2019 or \u2018the worst.\u2019 I was always the strongest and my sister was the most beautiful. There was never a middle of the road. It was fun, part of his charm.\u201d Nicholas remembered that his father read the entire dictionary to sharpen his English. Farkas worked on pastries most of the week, then sold at the shop on Fridays and Saturdays. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) Kathy recalls that he gave sports reports on Hungarian radio shows, broadcast on the now defunct WXEN. \u201cHe was such an avid sportsman,\u201d she said. \u201cYou could find him lying in bed, watching a game on television, wearing headphones to listen to sportscasts on radio and reading the sport pages, all at the same time. That\u2019s not an exaggeration.\u201d Sought-after kremes, or stacked puff pastry Napoleons. Family friend George Muhorey says he's made comparisons across Europe, and still thinks this one is the best. (Photo by Allison Carey\/The Plain Dealer) When the family held its memorial, they celebrated in style. \u201cWe had\u00a0kremes [KREM-ess],\u201d Kathy said of the Hungarian name for the Napoleons. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the last time I ate a whole one. They were just always around. We took them for granted. Christmas, 2015 with, top row from left, Mathias Doherty, Mat Adcox, Danny Sherry and Mike Harrison. Front row, from left, Brandon Pfeiffer, Attila Farkas. (Photo courtesy Mike Harrison) \u201cIt\u2019s so neat that they\u2019re still making them in his name,\u201d she said. \u201cIt speaks to a longstanding tradition in Cleveland. We want it to continue.\u201d Farkas and his kremes, before slicing. (Photo by Lynn Ischay\/The Plain Dealer) Muhoray said a friend of his has a standing joke about Farkas and his gift for conversation. \u201cHe\u2019d say, \u2018I was in Attila\u2019s shop the other day and I said that magic word that got him going.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yeah,\u2019 someone would reply. \u2018What was the word?\u2019 \u201cHello,\u201d he said.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/attila-farkas-83-hungarian-pastry-expert-st-ignatius-soccer-coach\/","og_site_name":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio","article_published_time":"2018-09-15T13:57:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-09-15T14:00:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cba_farkascollage.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bocskai 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