Obit: Buhl, Cornelia M. (1917 - 2018)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Bakos, Buhl, D’Agostino, Dickinson, Gilleo, Jacob, Tomlinson
----Source: Life Tributes Funeral Home (Spencer, WI) 7/03/2018
Buhl, Cornelia M. (Bakos) (20 FEB 1917 - 1 JUL 2018)
Cornelia M. Buhl, age 101, passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday, July
1, 2018 at Colonial Center in Colby under the tender care of Ministry Home Care
Hospice.
In accordance to Cornelia’s wishes a private celebration of life will be held.
Cornelia Marie Bakos was born in Trenton, NJ on February 20, 1917 the fourth of
eight children. Her father died when she was young, and she spent her first 14
years between the farms in New Jersey and her aunt’s apartments in New York
City. At 14 years of age she left school to work in the Horseman Doll Factory in
Trenton. Eventually she went to New York, where her aunts taught her dressmaking
skills. Her first dressmaking job was for Bergdorf Goodman in New York.
She married Frederick Buhl and moved to Newark, NJ where they had three
daughters. In her early 30s, she was a widow with three young children. To make
ends meet Cornelia took in dressmaking for wealthy women. As her children got
older she worked full time in exclusive women’s dress shops in Newark, New
Brunswick and Millburn, NJ. The family moved to New Brunswick, NJ in 1958. After
her daughters had grown and left home, she moved back to Trenton where most of
her family still lived.
Cornelia was always doing something, knitting, crocheting, making soft dolls and
clothes for her family. When she wasn’t creating or reading (she was an avid
reader), she was taking buses or local trains just to see where they went. She
rarely looked back, she was always interested in the future and in space travel.
After the death of her brothers she moved to Fairfax, VA in 2003. In 2008 she
moved to Spencer, WI, where a daughter, son-in-law, grandsons and
great-grandchildren lived. Although she spent the last 2 ½ years in a nursing
home, she was till feisty and curious till the end.
Cornelia is survived by her three daughters: Evelyn Buhl of Spencer, Margaret
(William) Dickinson of Spencer and Barbara Higgins of Boonton, NJ; her
grandchildren: William (Ann) Dickinson of Appleton, Chris (Angie) Dickinson of
Stratford, Bonnie Tomlinson of Silver Springs, MD and Lori (Mike) D’Agostino of
Andover, NJ and her eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and her siblings Margaret
Bakos, Charles Bakos, Al Bakos, Evelyn Gilleo, Edwin Jacob and Joseph Jacob.
Her arrangements are under the care of Life Tributes Funeral Home – Spencer.
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