Obit: Cook, Patricia (1941-1981)

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Surnames: Cook, Bartosiak, Droster, Potocnik, Sierra, Zowal, Schrock

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (6 February 1981)

Cook, Patricia Elaine (8 May, 1941-6 February 1981)

WITHEE-- Mrs. Harry (Patricia Elaine) Cook, 39, Route 1, died this morning at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she was admitted Monday.

The funeral will be Monday at First United Church of Christ, Owen. The Rev, Margaret Shepherd is to officiate. Burial will be in Colby Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at Maurina Funeral Home, Owen.

The former Patricia Bartosiak was born May 8, 1941 in Stanley, She graduated in 1959 from Owen-Withee High School and worked as a nurse aide in Chicago. She later lived in Florida and California, then moved to rural Athens to farm before moving here in 1967. Her last employment was with Dan's Department Store in Owen.

Her marriage to Harry Cook took place February 1, 1961 in Chicago. He died June 3, 1968.

Survivors include four children, Linda, Michael, Anthony and Brian, all of Withee; two brothers, Robert of Owen and Jeffrey of Windsor, Wisconsin; three sisters, Mrs. Fred (Dorothy) Droster of Verona, Mrs. James (Carol) Potocnik of Owen and Mrs. Joe (Phyllis) Sierra of Milwaukee; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley (Phoebe Schrock) Bartosiak of Owen; and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Zowal of Owen.