Obit: Smagacz, Pearl (1896 - 1970)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Smagacz, Michalak, Healy, Morrissey, Duty, Hodges

----Source: Banner Journal (Black River Falls, Jackson Co, WI) 1/28/1970

Smagacz, Pearl (12 September 1986 - 19 January 1970)

Mrs. Pearl Smagacz, age 73, of 1224 Van Buren St., Black River Falls, passed away Monday evening, January 19, 1970 at the Black River Memorial Hospital. She was born on September 12, 1896, in City Point, Wisconsin. She and her husband, Michael, operated a cranberry marsh for many years in the City Point area before retiring to Black River Falls.

Mrs. Smagacz is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Anne Healy and Mrs. Susan Morrissey, both of Minneapolis; Mrs. Denver Duty of Bakersfield, Calif., three brothers, Frank Michalak of Black River Falls, Walter of City Point, and Adolph of Minneapolis. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services for Mrs. Smagacz were held Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. from the Langlois-Galston Funeral Home, Black River Falls, and 10:00 a.m. from Martyr’s Chapel, City Point. Rev. Fr. Hodges of Pittsville officiated. Interment was in the church cemetery. Friends called at the Langlois-Galston Funeral Home on Wednesday afternoon and evening. A Prayer service was conducted there Wednesday evening.