LEONA SUKOWATY

Pvt. Leona Sukowaty, 21, member of the WAC, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sukowaty, of route 1, Valders, died suddenly early Sunday morning at the Holy Family hospital.
Private Sukowaty, who has been stationed in the WAC training center at Avon Park, Fla., in recent months was taken ill with a stomach ailment and suffered a nervous breakdown. She was sent back to the farm home, three miles northwest of St. Nazianz to recuperate and Saturday her condition forced her removal to the hospital where she died early the next morning.
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the St. Gregory's Catholic church, St. Nazianz. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Miss Sukowaty was born at the farm home in Eaton in 1924 and attended the St. Gregory's parochial school. She was a member of the Ladies Sodality of the congregation. Later she located in Chicago and before enlisting in the Woman's Auxiliary corps was employed in the plant of the Douglas Aircraft corporation in Chicago.
She took her basic training at Des Moines, Iowa, after enlisting in January, 1945, and later was transferred to Florida.
Survivors are the parents, seven sisters, Sister M. Elinore of Chicago, Mrs. Ray Leonhard of Kohler, Irene of this city, Mrs. Frank Wellert of Sheboygan, Marcella of Park Ridge, Ill., Evelyn and Imelda on the home farm; four brothers, Tech. Sgt. Herbert, gunner on a B-29 bomber in the south Pacific, Seaman 2/c Raymond also in the south Pacific, Edward and Andrew on the home farm.
The body may be viewed at the Kellenbenz funeral home in St. Nazianz, where the rosary will be recited Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Manitowoc Herald Times Monday, June 18, 1945 pg. 2
****************
Submitted By; Rose Mohnsam (#47105797)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~