Frank John Wysocki

Frank Wysocki, a former Portage County resident, died at 11:25 p.m. Friday at Theda Clark Hospital in Neenah. He was 88. Mr. Wysocki lived in Menasha with a daughter, Mrs. Clare (Lucy) Wyman. He was active until entering the hospital Wednesday.

Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10:30 at St. Mary of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church, Fancher, with burial later in the parish cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at the Dzikoski funeral home where the rosary will be said Sunday night at 8 .

Mr Wysocki, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wysocki Sr., was born near Polonia Jan. 30, 1881. He married Anastasia Rinka at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Polonia, on Nov. 28, 1905, and they lived on a farm in the Town of Buena Vista for 16 years. Then Mr. Wysocki lived in Michigan, farmed near Waupaca and was a carpenter in Waupaca until retiring at the age of 70. After that he lived in Waupaca, Fancher and Rosholt until moving to Menasha three ago.

He is survived by his wife: four daughters, Mrs. Andrew (Regina) Jacowski, Of Lanark, Miss Esther Wysocki, Stephensville, Mrs. Raymond (Angeline) Rehbein, Neenah, and Mrs. Wyman; three sons, Edmund, Menasha, Carl, Appleton, and Ernest, Lanark; 25 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson. Four brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. [within that he had four half-siblings]

Stevens Point Journal; 24 Jan 1970

The Frank Wysocki Family

Frank Wysocki and his wife, Mary Szmaglik, were born in Lesno parish, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

They had their first two children, John and Josephine, while still living in Poland. They came to America between 1865 and 1868 and apparently lived in New York for a short time and then in Chicago where their son, Joseph, was born. They moved to Portage County between 1870 and 1875.

The family farmed in the town of Stockton. The children of this couple were John F. (Johanna Fierkus), Josephine, Joseph (Mary Bluma), Charles (Edith), Antonia (John Polly), Frank John (Anastasia “Stella" Rinka) and Monica who died shortly after birth.

Mary Szmaglik Wysocki died soon after the birth of her last child. Frank Wysocki then married Elizabeth Jakubowski who was born at Suleczyno in Poland. They had three children, Anton (Antonia Cieminski), Helen (Anton Mroczynski) and Frances (Michael Karcz).

Frank Wysocki farmed all his life and lived in the town of Stockton until he died.

The descendants of his son Frank John and “Stella" Rinka will have a reunion at Lake Emily on July 11, 1992.

Submitted by

Diane Wysocky Anderson

Poulsbo, Wash