Obit: Zajac, Sophie (1890 - 1978)

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

Surnames: Zajac, Hennion, Ziegler, Sell, VandeBerg, Kraly

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/22/1978

Zajac, Sophie (2 February 1890 – 7 June 1978)

Mrs. Sophie Zajac, 88, of Marion, passed away June 7, in Marion. Mrs. Zajac was born February 2, 1890, and was married in Chicago in 1922, to John Zajac. The couple moved to Neillsville in the early 1930’s and farmed. Later they built the Moraine Motel, still located on U.S. 10, west of Neillsville.

Funeral services, officiated by the Rev. Joseph Kraly, were held Saturday, June 10, from the Rhodes and Beil Funeral Home in Marion. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery the following Monday.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Joan Hennion, South Bend, Ind.; and Mrs. Marion Ziegler, Marion; and two sons, Thad, Neillsville, and Casimer of Bethlehem, Penn. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Pallbearers at the services included Dennis Zajac, Dwight Ziegler, Dwayne Ziegler, Eldon Ziegler, Eric Sell and Bruce VandeBerg.