Wozniak, Lillian Viola

LILLIAN WOZNIAK

Lillian Viola Wozniak, 97, formerly of Muscatine, died Sunday, April 28, 2013, at Willow Gardens Care Center in Marion. Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home, Muscatine. Casket bearers will be her grandchildren. Burial will take place in St Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the Jesus Mission.

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Lillian was born April 22, 1916, in Columbus, Texas, the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Bolter Hentschel. She married Raymond Wozniak on Aug. 30, 1940, at St. Isidore Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. The family moved to Muscatine in 1966.

She worked at Muscatine General Hospital as a technician. She was a volunteer at the Laura Musser Art Museum and the Hospital Auxiliary. She was very active in churches and was also involved in a garden club.

Those left to honor her memory include four sons, Douglas Wozniak and wife Margaret of Beulah, Mich., John Wozniak and wife Lyn of Clayton, N.C., Philip Wozniak and wife Carol of Olympia, Wash. and Robert Wozniak and wife Peggy, of Cedar Rapids; one daughter, Teresa Tallman and husband Robert of Anthem, Ariz. 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; one brother, Eugene Hentschel of Michigan; and one sister, Betty Negrich of Michigan.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1994; three sisters, Ann, Blanche and Marie; and six brothers, George, Tony, Rommie, Ervin, Dicky and Jimmie.

Published in The Gazette April 30, 2013.