BioA: Graikowski, Mr./Mrs. Mike (70th - 1972)
Transcriber:
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Surnames: Graikowski, Lesniewski, Orlik, Winter, Arndt, Wisniewski, Jasinek
----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 20 Jan 1972
Graikowski, Mr./Mrs. Mike (70th - 19 JAN 1972)
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graikowski, rural Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.), observed their 79th
wedding anniversary on January 19, 1972.
Mike Graikowski, 91, came from Poland with his family at the age of 3, and lived
in Illinois for a short time, and then came to Wisconsin. Josephine (Lesniewski)
Graikowski, 87, came by train from Pennsylvania to Chicago when young, and then
to Wisconsin. Mike Graikowski and Josephine Lesniewski were married January 19,
1902 at St. Hedwig's Church by Father Ignatz Orlik. They will reside in rural
Thorp, where they farmed all their married life.
They had six children, three boys and 3 girls, John Graikowski, Thorp, route 1,
Mike Graikowski, Chicago, (Evelyn) Mrs. Adam Winter, Thorp, (Sophie) Mrs. Henry
Arndt, Hanover Park, Illinois. Stanley and Lottie are deceased. They also have
20 grandchildren and 57 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Graikowski has one sister, Mrs. Frances Wisniewski, Waterford, Wisconsin,
and Mrs. Graikowski has to brothers and one sister, Adam Lesniewski, Thorp, Mike
Lesniewski, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Edna Jasinek, Thorp.
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