Obit: Orszanski, Luba (1915 - 2011)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Orszanski, Kulaga, Fildes, Wojcik

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., WI.) June 15, 2011

Orszanski, Luba (27 September 1915 - 13 June 2011)

Luba Orszanski, age 95, of Withee, passed away Monday June 13, 2011, at Ministry St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.  Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 18, 2011, at the Holy Assumption Orthodox Church in Lublin, WI.  Father Ted Wojcik will officiate.

A visitation will be held on Friday, June 17, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Maurina Schilling Funeral home in Owen.  On Saturday, June 18, visitation and prayer service will be at 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home in Owen followed by procession to the church.  Burial at Holy Assumption Orthodox Cemetery will follow the service.  A celebration of life luncheon will be held after the service at the church.  Please stay for lunch to celebrate Luba’s life.

Luba was born on September 27, 1915, to Vincent and Tekla Kulaga in Sadova, Belarus.  Luba and her husband, Mike, moved to Wisconsin in 1949 and purchased a farm in Taylor County in 1956 where they raised their family.

Luba is lovingly survived by her children: Leokadia "Lea" (Larry) Fildes of Colby, WI, Alice Orszanski of Marshfield, WI, and Leon (Cathy) Orszanski of Clinton, WI; and her granddaughter, Larissa Fi8ldes of Hudson, WI.  Luba is further survived by her nephew, Roman Orszanski of Melbourne, Australia, and many cousins in Canada and Europe.

She is preceded in death by: her parents; her husband, Mike; one sister and four brothers.