Obit: Cieslik, Frank (1913 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Cieslik, Fliss, Bladl, Bowe, Gehrke, Lebenseder, Cattanach, Sowieja, Kovaloski, Gumm, Rust

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 14 Apr 1976

Cieslik, Frank (11 Jul 1913 – 8 Apr 1976)

Business people and employees of Foremost Foods of Owen and a wide circle of Frank Cieslik’s friends were stunned late Thursday night and Friday morning when they learned of his sudden death.

He had been at his office in the plant as usual Thursday, and in apparent good health and spirit. However, while enroute to his home in Chippewa Falls that evening he suffered an apparent heart attack and died. He was found in his car parked on the shoulder of the roadway near Bateman by a motorist.

Final rites were conducted at 11 a.m., Monday, April 12, 1976, for Frank Cieslik, 62, at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Owen, with Father Richard Fliss officiating. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

Pallbearers were Paul Bladl, Sr., Roger Bowe, Ronald Gehrke, Dr. Kenneth Lebenseder, Bert Cattanach and James Sowieja.

Mr. Cieslik was born July 11, 1913 in Gilman and attended the Withee area school. He also attended the former Stevens Point State College, where he majored in elementary education. He had worked for the Carnation Condensing Milk Co. at Owen before beginning his employment at Foremost Foods, where he has been employed the past 30 years. Of late years he had served as plant manager of the firm’s Owen office.

He was a member of St. Charles Catholic Church of Chippewa Falls, Knights of Columbus of Owen, and the Owen Holy Name Society. He also was formerly a member of the Owen Kiwanis Club and past president, and a member of the Owen-Withee Volunteer Fire Department.

Mr. Cieslik married the former Helen Kovaloski on August 12, 1938. She died June 3, 1964. He later married Agnes Gumm on September 24, 1968, at Owen. They then made their home in Chippewa Falls the past seven years. She survives.

Other survivors include a son, Richard, Chippewa Falls; a daughter, Mrs. Herman (Patricia) Rust, Chippewa Falls; his mother, Mrs. Anna Cieslik, Thorp; a step-son, Robert Gumm, Roseville, Minn.; two grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father, Frank Cieslik.