Obit: Blaskowski, John Sr. (1897 - 1962)

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Surnames: Blaskowski, Kapilas, Ratulowski, Long, Counsell, Potankus, Kelly

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 1, 1962

Blaskowski, John Sr. (23 April 1897 - 26 February 1962)

John Blaskowski, Sr., 64, Rt. 2 Neillsville, died Monday noon at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., where he had been a patient since February 11.

A requiem high mass will be read Saturday at 9 a.m. in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Neillsville. The Rev. Fr. Bernard T. Kelly will officiate.  Burial, with military rites, will be made in the parish cemetery. A general rosary will be said Friday at 8:45 p.m. at the Bergemann Funeral Home.

Mr. Blaskowski, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Blaskowski, was born April 23, 1897, in Detroit, Mich. He received his education in Wisconsin and was a World War I veteran. On November 14, 1928, he was married to the former Catherine Kapilas in Chicago, Ill.

Mr. Blaskowski was employed as a truck driver until 1949, when he started farming.  The family lived in Plainfield for a year before moving onto a farm in the Town of Weston.  In 1960, they moved onto a farm in the Town of Levis.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and Haugen-Richmond Post, No. 73, American Legion.

Mr. Blaskowski is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. Andrew (Genevieve) Ratulowski, Raymond and Edward, of Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. James (Theresa) Long, Pocahontas, Ill.; John, Frederick, Mrs. Jack (Joan) Counsell and Stanley all of Neillsville; and Theodore with the armed forces in Germany.  Seven grandchildren and two sisters, Catherine Blaskowski and Mrs. Mary Potankus, both of Chicago, Ill., also survive.