----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 2/ /1962

MRS. DIGOSKI

Greenwood--Mrs. Josephine Digoski, 69, Willard, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Thursday afternoon following a short illness.

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. The Rev. Sylvester Mirko will officiate and burial will be made in the church cemetery.

The body is reposing at the Hill Funeral Home. A general rosary service will be held there at 2 p.m. Sunday.

The former Josephine Moras was born May 16, 1893 in Poland. She was married July 14, 1910 in Europe to Paul Digoski, who died Nov. 12, 1934. Shortly after their marriage, they came to the United States and settled in Kalamazoo, Mich. In May of 1920 the family came to this area and settled on a farm six miles northwest of Willard, Clark County, where she had resided since. She was a member of Holy Family Church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James (Frances) Moore, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Chester (Caroline) Przyhylski, Thorp four sons, John, Peter and Joseph of Willard and Walter of Neillsville 7 grandchildren a great-granddaughter and a sister, Mrs. Millie Waleneck, Poland.