Obit: Rogus, Sophia (1866 – 1939)
Poster: Stan
Email: posted4u@charter.net 

Surnames: Rogus, Jarosz, Lobacz, Nowak, Antosik, Dranginis

---Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 12/07/1939

Rogus, Sophia (2 FEB 1866 – 5 DEC 1939)

Mrs. Jacob Rogus Sr., 73, a resident of this village (Thorp, Clark Co., Wis.), passed away at the home of her son, Jos. Rogus, in the town of Reseburg on Tuesday evening, after a very short illness. Funeral services will be held on Saturday morning at ten o’clock at St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church. An obituary will be published next week.

(Follow on in 12/14/1939 Thorp Courier)

Mrs. Jacob Rogus, a resident of this village, passed away at the home of her son Joe in the town of Reseburg, on Tuesday, Dec. 5th, after a short illness.

Sophia Jarosz was born in Poland on Feb. 2, 1866, the daughter of Bartholomew and Agata Jarosz, and had reached the age of seventy-three years. She came to America in 1888 and on June 18th of that year was united in marriage to Jacob Rogus at Chicago, Ill. In the year 1895 she returned with her husband to Poland, where they resided until 1913 when they again came to this country and settled on a farm in the Township of Reseburg. This became her home and where she and her husband reared a family of nine children. A sons and one daughter preceded her in death. She had been a resident of this village for the past ten years and was a devoted member of St. Hedwig’s Catholic Parish and of the Ladies Holy Rosary Society.

Just a year ago Mr. and Mrs. Rogus had the pleasure of celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

Besides many friends and neighbors who mourn her departing, she is survived by her husband, three sons, Joe of Greenwood, John of Thorp and Peter of Chicago; four daughters, Mrs. Victor Lobacz of Greenwood, Mrs. Stanley Nowak and Mrs. Stanley Antosik of Chicago, and Mrs. Frank Dranginis of Withee; one brother, Anton Jarosz of Thorp, and one sister, Mrs. Jacob Rogus of Thorp, thirty grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at St. Hedwig’s Church on Saturday morning at ten o’clock, Rev. F.A. Kulig and Rev. Thomas Adamiak officiating, and interment following in the parish cemetery. Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased, John, Michael, Joe and Stanley Lobacz, Stanley Rogus and Matt Nowak.