Obit: Gosar, Sister Mary Antonia (26 DEC 1914 - 22 FEB 1986)

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Surnames: GOSAR BALTUS SLADICH STROINSKI ARTAC TRUNKEL SHAW REMZGAR REMSGAR KUZNACIC

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Gosar, Sister Mary Antonia (26 DEC 1914 - 22 FEB 1986)

Sister Mary Antonia Gosar, S.S.M., 71, formerly of St. Elizabeth Hospital, Wabasha, Minn. died at 4:50 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, 1986, at St. Joseph's Hospital Hospice Care Unit, where she was admitted Jan. 27.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Willard. The Rev. Emil A. Hodnik, of St. Bernard's Catholic Church, Abbotsford, will officiate. Music will be provided by Holy Family Catholic Church Choir with Barbara Baltus, organist, and Margaret Gosar, soloist. Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery in the town of Hendren, Clark County.

Pallbearers will be nephews Anton Gosar, Jr., Michael Sladich, John R. Stroinski, Bernard Artac, Jack Trunkel, and Thomas Shaw.

The former Frances Gosar was born De. 26, 1914 in Greenwood to Frank and Mary A. (Remzgar) Gosar. She attended Willard-Greenwood area schools.

She became a noviciate at the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother Convent in Milwaukee Aug. 1, 1937, graduating from Sorrowful Mother High School May 31, 1941. She graduated as a registered nurse from Mercy School of Nursing in Oshkosh in 1945. Her career included: floor supervisor, Rhinelander Hospital, Aug. 27, 1945 to June 1, 1949 floor supervisor, St. Michael's Hospital, Stevens Point, from June 1, 1949 to March 16, 1968 and a hospital in Wabasha, from March 16, 1968 to Sept. 21, 1985.

She celebrated her silver jubilee of the member of the order in Augsut, 1965.

She moved to Marshfield Sept. 21, 1985 for medical treatment and has resided here since.

Surviving are six sisters, Mrs. Frank (Mary) Artac, and Mrs. Anne Sladich, both of Greenwood Mrs. John F. (Sophie) Trunkel, Willard, Mrs. John (Julie) Kuznacic, Sheboygan, Mrs. Elton (Cecelia) Shaw, Marshfield, and Mrs. Roman (Angie) Stroinski, Thorp and one brother, Anton Gosar, Sr., Greenwood.

She was predeceased by her parents and one brother, Frank, who died in infancy.