Obit: Briski, Mathew (1878 - 1953)
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: BRISKI ZAGAR VIVODA MALNAR STIMAC GULCZINSKI MALASUK LENDOSKY KESELY GASPARAC

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06 / /1953


BRISKI ZAGAR VIVODA MALNAR STIMAC GULCZINSKI MALASUK LENDOSKY KESELY GASPARAC


Briski, Mathew (1878 - 1953)


GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mathew Briski, 75, died at his home here Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. following a heart attack. Among survivors are 14 children.


Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, the Rev. Edward Hartung officiating. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.


The body will repose at the Schiller Funeral Home until Friday, when it will be taken to the Briski home, where a general rosary will be said at 8:30 p.m.


A native of Yugoslavia, Mr. Briski was born Jan. 6, 1878, and came to this country in 1901. He married Katherine Zagar on Feb. 2, 1902, then moved to Chisholm, Minn., where they lived until 1918.


That year they moved to a farm near here, where they remained until Nov. 1948, when they moved here following his retirement.


He was a member of St. Mary's Church, and the SNPJ Lodge 198 of Willard.


His wife and the following children survive Mathew, Chicago Anton and Mrs. Joseph (Julia) Vivoda, Berwin, Ill. Mrs. Matt (Mary) Malnar, Willard Mrs. Matt (Elizabeth) Stimac, Cicero, Ill. Albert and Mrs. Steven (Katherine) Gulczinski, Minneapolis Mrs. Florian (Angeline) Gulczinski, Theodore, Frank Robert and John, Greenwood Mrs. Stanley (Rosa) Malasuk, and Mrs. Stanley (Delores) Lendosky, Thorp.


Other survivors include 21 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two sister, Mrs. Frances Kesely, Hibbing, Minn., and Mrs. Josephine Gasparac, Yugoslavia. Eleven brothers and sisters preceded him in death.

 

 


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