----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; TRIBUNE-RECORD-GLEANER 9/25/1991

EVA LESAR

Memorial services were held Saturday, Sept. 28, 1991, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Ely, Minn., for Eva Lesar, 73, who died Monday, Sept. 23, 1991, at St. Mary's
Hospital, Duluth, Minn.

Eva Bogdonovich was born Dec. 23, 1917, in Mayville, to Eli and Stephania (nee Papesh) Bogdonovich. She grew up in the Willard, Clark County area and attended rural schools. The family moved to Gary, Ind., in 1926 and returned to Willard in 1931. On Jan. 23, 1941, she married Louis Lesar Sr., at Willard. He survives. The family moved to Ely, Minn., in 1951. She lived there until her death.

Survivors include her husband two daughters, Barbara, Anoka, Minn.; and Carol, Ely; three sons, Bob, Ely Ron, St. Paul, Minn.; and Jim, St. Paul, Minn.; two brothers, Robert Bogdonovich, Willard; and Edward Bogdonovich, Willard; seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents one sister, in infancy a brother, Peter and a son, Louis Jr.