Obit: Potaczek, Mary Katherine (1924 - 2001)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Dassow, Krystofiak, Meulemans, Pogodzinski, Potaczek, Seidl, Title, Vach, Waldhart

----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 8/16/2001

Potaczek, Mary Katherine (Pogodzinski) (30 MAR 1924 - 9 AUG 2001)

Mary K. Potaczek, 77, died August 9, 2001, at Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Medford, where she has resided for the past month.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Medford. Burial will be in the Holy Rosary parish cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Hemer Funeral Home where there will be a 6:30 p.m. prayer service.

She was born March 30, 1924, in Thorp, the daughter of John and Rose (Krystofiak) Pogodzinski. Mary and Henry Potaczek were united in marriage August 25, 1953, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Thorp. She was a homemaker and mother.

She is survived by her husband Henry Potaczek of Jim Falls; a daughter, Carol (Bob) Vach of Jim Falls; two sons, Ted (Carol) Potaczek of Athens and John Potaczek of Mosinee; six grandchildren; a sister, Sophie Potaczek of Medford; and two brothers, Walter and Stanley Pogodzinski, both of Thorp.