Obit: Nos, Sawka (1893 - 1976)

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

Surnames: Nos, Ruchlida, Berez, Yarmolovich

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 10/28/1976

Nos, Sawka (11 January 1893 – 24 October 1976)

Sawka Nos, 83, of Rt. 1, Granton, died at approximately 6:45 p.m. Sunday, October 24, when he was struck by a car while crossing County Trunk W near his home in the Town of Lynn.

Funeral services were to be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. from Ukranian Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in the Town of Lynn with the Very Rev. Nicholas Yarmolovich of Minneapolis officiating. Burial was to be in the Lynn Cemetery. The Gilbertson Funeral Home at Granton was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Nos was born January 11, 1893, in Ukrainia and was married there in 1918 to the former Oksana Ruchlida. He came to the United States in 1949 and settled in Chicago. In 1954, they moved to a farm in the Town of Lynn. Mr. Nos became a United States citizen in 1956. He was a member of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church.

Survivors, in addition to his wife, include one daughter, Mrs. John (Maria) Berez of Granton; and four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.