Surnames: BEZLYK BODNER

----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) 07/19/1984, P.20

Bezlyk, Maria (27 OCT 1903 - 18 Jul 1984)

Granton, Clark County, Wis. - Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church at Lynn for Mrs. Anton (Maria) Bezlyk Sr., 80, of Route 1, Granton, who died early Wednesday at the home of her son, Tony, in the Town of Fremont, Clark County.

The Very Rev. Nikolai Hodynski will officiate and burial will be in Neillsville Cemetery. Son and grandsons will be pallbearers.

Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. today at Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, where a prayer service will be at 8 tonight.

Mrs. Bezlyk was born Oct. 27, 1903 in the Ukraine, where she was educated. She taught school for six years and on May 9, 1924 she and Anton Bezlyk were married.

They came to the United States in Sept. 1949 and lived in Chester, Pa., until 1956, when they located in the Granton area, operating a farm in the Town of York. (The rest of my copy was cut off)

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Obit: Bezlyk, Maria #2 (1903 - 1984)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Bezlyk, Berrshna, Hodner, Konrad, Hodynski

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/26/1984

Bezlyk, Maria (27 October 1903 - 18 July 1984)

Maria Bezlyk, 80, a Granton area resident since 1958, died at her son’s rural Chili home on Wednesday, July 18.

The deceased was born in the Ukraine on October 27, 1903, to Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Berrshna. After her education, she taught schools in Ukraine. On May 9, 1924, she married Anton Bezlyk, Sr., in Ukraine ceremonies.

In 1947, the family moved to the United States, settling in the Chester, Pennsylvania, area. In 1956, they moved to the Granton area and farmed in the Town of York. After her husband’s death on May 15, 1973, Mrs. Bezlyk continued to live in the Town of York. For the past few years she resided with her son. She was a member of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Surviving her are three sons, John of Loyal, Anton of Chili and Alexander of the Ukraine in the Soviet Union; two daughters, Mrs. Michael )Zena) Bodner of West Chicago, Illinois, and Mrs. Eugene (Lida) Konrad of Park Ride, Illinois; 12 grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren. She was preceded in death, besides her husband, by five brothers, four sisters and a son.

Funeral services were held on Friday morning, July 20, from Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Lynn with the Very Rev. Nikolai Hodynski officiating. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. The Gesche Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers were sons and grandsons.