Obit: Kropiwka, Eva (1920 - 2011)

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Surnames: Kropiwka, BoDoky, Kopecky

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI) 06/07/2011

Kropiwka, Eva (19 DEC 1920 - 2 JUN 2011)

Eva Kropiwka, 90, formerly of Granton and Fairchild, died Thursday, June 2, 2011, at Sunrise Nursing Home in Rochester.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, 2011, at Buchanan Funeral Home, Neillsville. Burial will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Visitation will from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Eva was born Dec. 19, 1920, in new Castle, Czechoslovakia, to Andreas and Katherine (BoDoky) Kopecky. She married Ivan Kropiwka on Nov. 17, 1945, at a Russian Orthodox Church in Austria. He preceded
her in death June 29, 2000.

The couple came to the United States in 1949 to Chicago. The family then lived in Mauston, Granton and Fairchild.

She is survived by three sons, Thomas (Judith) of Rochester, Minn., Andy (Laurie) of Apple Valley, Minn., and Michael (Diane) of Mauston; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Buchanan Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.