----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/ /1973

VINCENT F. SOWIEJA

Greenwood--Vincent F. Sowieja, 80, of Greenwood, Clark County, died at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 7, 1973 at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwood. Officiating will be the Rev. Leander Koopman, pastor, and burial will be made in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Visitations may be made beginning Friday afternoon at the funeral home, where a general rosary service will be held at 8:45 p.m. Friday.

Mr. Sowieja was born July 18, 1892 in Poland and came to the United States with his parents at the age of six. He received his education at Swanville, Minn. and was married there Feb. 10, 1920 to the former Mary Zwilling, who survives him. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1970.

After their marriage, the couple farmed there until 1925 and for several years they remained at Swanville, where he was employed as a garage mechanic.

Then they moved to Little Falls, Minn., where they operated a theater, later moving to Duluth, Minn., where he was a welder, In 1929 they moved to Milwaukee, where he was a welder until the couple moved in 1950 to Atwood. There they operated the Hilltop Tavern for 15 years. In 1965 they retired and moved to Greenwood.

In addition to his wife, survivors include four sons, Ambrose Sowieja, Hartland Jerome Sowieja and Eugene Sowieja, both of Greenwood, and James Sowieja, Owen two daughters, Mrs. John (Ramona) Pavlow, Rhinelander, and Mrs. Allen (Eleanor) Lindenberg, West Allis a brother, John Sowieja, Dodge Center, Minn. three sisters, Mrs. Kay Jendro, Little Falls, Minn. Mrs. Marian Stanton, Palm Springs, Calif. 25 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

A brother and two sisters preceded him in death.