Obit: Konik, Steven Roy (1900 - 1978)
Email: bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: HAUPT, KOCH, KONIK, MILYKO

----Sources: Sheboygan Press, Saturday, October 21, 1978

Konik, Steven Roy (20 Aug 1900 - 21 Oct 1978)

Steven Konik

Steven Konik, 78, of Route 1, Cleveland, died early today at Sheboygan Memorial Hospital.

He was born Aug 20, 1900, in Charloir, Pa., a son of the late John and Julia Milyko Konik, and moved to Wisconsin with his family in 1907.

While he was a young man he served in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army.

On June 26, 1930, he married Adeline Awe in Neillsville, Wis. The Couple resided in Owen, where he operated a blacksmith shop until moving to the Cleveland area in 1942.

Mr. Konik worked at the Manitowoc Shipyards until 1944, and then was employed at the Kohler Co. until his retirement in 1967.

He was a member of St. John and St. Peter Lutheran Church, Cleveland, and a past member of the Cleveland Lions Club.

Surviving are his wife; five sons, Dennis of Newton, Steven of Phoenix, Ariz., Robert of Fond du Lac, Jerome of Sheboygan and John of Route 2, Sheboygan; one daughter, Mrs. Arlie (Marlene) Haupt of Route 1, Cleveland; 18 grandchildren; five step grandchildren; on great grandchild and one brother, Andrew of Owen, Wis.

He was preceded in death by one daughter, one grandson, two brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. John and St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cleveland, the Rev. Henry F. Koch, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Saxon Cemetery in the Town of Centerville.

Friends may call at the Stoltenberg Funeral Chapel in Cleveland after 4 p.m. Monday and on Tuesday until 11 a.m. and then at the church from noon until the time of services.

A memorial fund has been established in Mr. Konik’s name.

Responses

Contact:  Janet Buss Holmes
Email: holmes@strato.net

Hello--My Dad, Oscar Buss, was one of Steve's best friends. All of us--my sister, Carol Buss Raatz, and my brother, Robert Buss (Diane Buss Lulloff came along in 1954) loved Steve and Adeline, we all (the Koniks and us) lived near each other outside of Owen, and then in Southern Wisconsin, we lived in Sheboygan Falls, and then back up to Owen, Wis. But Steve was a hilarious man, and Adeline just went along with it. Dad and Steve always were together, and Mom, Esther Buss, and Adeline always loved doing things together. I remember playing with the "kids", and loved being at their home, because they had more kids than we did. Its always nice going back in time and reading of those whom we've remembered from "years back", Robert (Lipprandt) thanks for the rembrance of the Koniks. Janet Buss Holmes