Ann Manka, 92, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, at the Life Care Center in Casper, Wyo. She was born to the late Nicola and Stana Bukovich on April 20, 1924, in Keewatin.
She graduated from Hibbing High School. After high school she worked in Chicago, and was an original “Rosie the Riveter” to support the World War II effort. After the war she married George Dicklich and started a family in Kinney and Buhl.
Ann worked as an aide at the Buhl nursing home, as a housewife, a Serbian Sister and a loving mother.
She is survived by her children: Eli (Barb) Dicklich, Georgann Lanzrath, Dan (Nancy) Dicklich, and Joan (Garold) Nobblit; grandchildren: Christy, Lee, Melissa, Nick, Dustin and Jessie; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul and siblings: Dan, Mike, Peter, Eli, Mildred, Mary and Angeline.
Burial at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery.
She graduated from Hibbing High School. After high school she worked in Chicago, and was an original “Rosie the Riveter” to support the World War II effort. After the war she married George Dicklich and started a family in Kinney and Buhl.
Ann worked as an aide at the Buhl nursing home, as a housewife, a Serbian Sister and a loving mother.
She is survived by her children: Eli (Barb) Dicklich, Georgann Lanzrath, Dan (Nancy) Dicklich, and Joan (Garold) Nobblit; grandchildren: Christy, Lee, Melissa, Nick, Dustin and Jessie; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul and siblings: Dan, Mike, Peter, Eli, Mildred, Mary and Angeline.
Burial at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery.
Ann Manka, 92, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, at the Life Care Center in Casper, Wyo. She was born to the late Nicola and Stana Bukovich on April 20, 1924, in Keewatin.
She graduated from Hibbing High School. After high school she worked in Chicago, and was an original “Rosie the Riveter” to support the World War II effort. After the war she married George Dicklich and started a family in Kinney and Buhl.
Ann worked as an aide at the Buhl nursing home, as a housewife, a Serbian Sister and a loving mother.
She is survived by her children: Eli (Barb) Dicklich, Georgann Lanzrath, Dan (Nancy) Dicklich, and Joan (Garold) Nobblit; grandchildren: Christy, Lee, Melissa, Nick, Dustin and Jessie; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul and siblings: Dan, Mike, Peter, Eli, Mildred, Mary and Angeline.
Burial at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery.
She graduated from Hibbing High School. After high school she worked in Chicago, and was an original “Rosie the Riveter” to support the World War II effort. After the war she married George Dicklich and started a family in Kinney and Buhl.
Ann worked as an aide at the Buhl nursing home, as a housewife, a Serbian Sister and a loving mother.
She is survived by her children: Eli (Barb) Dicklich, Georgann Lanzrath, Dan (Nancy) Dicklich, and Joan (Garold) Nobblit; grandchildren: Christy, Lee, Melissa, Nick, Dustin and Jessie; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul and siblings: Dan, Mike, Peter, Eli, Mildred, Mary and Angeline.
Burial at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery.
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