Source: Scrapbook for Mary Urban

Sladich, Frank Russell (12 SEPT 1922 - 17 JUL 1957)

Services will be held Monday at 8:30 a.m. at the Hill Funeral Home here and at 9:30 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard for Frank Russell Sladich, 34 year old route 1 Greenwood farmer and the father of 5 children, who died of leukemia Wednesday night, July 17, 1957.

Death occurred at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where he had been a patient since July 10. He had been in ill health for 11 months.

A rosary will be said at 8 o'clock Sunday night at the funeral home, where friends may call beginning Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Augustine Svete will be celebrant of the funeral Mass Monday and interment will be in the parish cemetery.

Mr. Sladich was born in Greenwood, September 12, 1922 and graduated from St. Mary's and Greenwood High Schools. He served in the Army from 1941 to 1945 and following his discharge lived in California. He married Anna Volovsek July 31, 1947 in Willard. They lived in Chicago and Curtiss before moving to their present farm, 5 1/2 miles southwest of here, six years ago.

Their children are Katherine 8, Frank Jr. 7, James 5, Bernard 3 and Daniel 2. Other survivors are his mother, Mrs. Johanna Sladich, Fayette City, Pa. and a sister and five brothers, Mrs. Anna Platnik, Fayette City Alvin, Monnesen, Pa Rudolf, Willard Phillip, Klamath Falls, Ore. Ignatz, Greenwood and Joseph address unknown. His father died March 20, 1953. four brothers and one sister also preceded him in death.