Funeral services for Mrs. Olive May Gorzkiewicz, 78, lifelong resident of Leavenworth who died in a Kansas City hospital Tuesday afternoon, will be Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Max Deweese, pastor of the First Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Muncie Cemetery.
Mrs. Gorzkiewicz was born in Leavenworth Dec. 1 1978, the daughter of Fred and Mary Tuttle. She was reared in Leavenworth and attended schools here. On March 5, 1896, she married Joseph G. Gorzkiewicz, who was a well know police officer and merchant patrolman in Leavenworth for many years. Mr. Gorzkiewicz died Jan 30, 1934.
She was a member of the Christian Church and AOUW. She was made a life member of the Central Labor Union Auxiliary last year.
Her health began failing about seven years ago and she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. LaVera Munday, Kansas City, Mo., since that time.
Surviving her are Mrs. Munday, and two sons, Louis M. Gorzkiewicz, composing room foreman at The Leavenworth Times, and Joseph J. Gorzkiewicz, pressman at the American Printing Co.; one sister Mrs. Alberta Spindler, 765 Olive; two brothers, Russell Tuttle, 920 S. 5th St., and Edwin A. Tuttle, Omaha, Neb.; four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
From The Leavenworth Times, Wednesday, May 23, 1956.
Funeral services for Mrs. Olive May Gorzkiewicz, 78, lifelong resident of Leavenworth who died in a Kansas City hospital Tuesday afternoon, will be Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Max Deweese, pastor of the First Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Muncie Cemetery.
Mrs. Gorzkiewicz was born in Leavenworth Dec. 1 1978, the daughter of Fred and Mary Tuttle. She was reared in Leavenworth and attended schools here. On March 5, 1896, she married Joseph G. Gorzkiewicz, who was a well know police officer and merchant patrolman in Leavenworth for many years. Mr. Gorzkiewicz died Jan 30, 1934.
She was a member of the Christian Church and AOUW. She was made a life member of the Central Labor Union Auxiliary last year.
Her health began failing about seven years ago and she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. LaVera Munday, Kansas City, Mo., since that time.
Surviving her are Mrs. Munday, and two sons, Louis M. Gorzkiewicz, composing room foreman at The Leavenworth Times, and Joseph J. Gorzkiewicz, pressman at the American Printing Co.; one sister Mrs. Alberta Spindler, 765 Olive; two brothers, Russell Tuttle, 920 S. 5th St., and Edwin A. Tuttle, Omaha, Neb.; four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
From The Leavenworth Times, Wednesday, May 23, 1956.
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