Veronica Mary Niewiadomski, 85, Plover, WI, died Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Saint Michael's Hospital, Stevens Point. She had been battling various cancers for the last two & one half years. She was born September 15, 1929, in the town of Buena Vista, daughter of the late Bernard V. & Verona (Meronk) Bannach. She attended Stewart School in Buena Vista & graduated from P.J. Jacobs High School in 1947.
Growing up in the Great Depression, Veronica worked & played on the family farm using horse drawn equipment & milked their cows by hand. She had experienced a few close calls on the farm & became a much stronger & wiser person because of them. Her loving memories of her family & stories of growing up on the farm included kerosene lamps, the wood cook stove, & listening to the radio shows that would entertain the family in between chores, as television did not yet exist. After leaving the farm before graduation, she held various waitressing jobs. One of them being at the F. W. Woolworth Co. in Stevens Point where she met her future husband. She was married to Sylvester J. (Silver) Niewiadomski, September 11, 1948, in Chicago, IL. Together they had five children.
Upon returning to Wisconsin, they managed a few taverns in the North Central part of the state before settling in Plover. There they owned & operated the Sil-Vic Mink Ranch in the 1960's. Together with four of their five children who had been born, they worked very hard to make the business a success before closing it a few years later. Veronica also tied fishing flies for the Worth Co. for quite some time after this. Veronica loved to sew, crochet, & embroider, but her favorite things to do were to garden & to preserve its bounty by canning. She was also an excellent cook & one of the first things she would ask her children when they would visit is "Are you hungry? Can I make you something to eat?" With food preservation being somewhat of a lost art in today's society, she taught her children how to can. The knowledge she has passed on to her children will never be forgotten.
She is survived by her children, Michael, California, Roger (Heidi) Rosholt, Helen (Tim) Grosskopf, Almond, Silver (Bonnie), Plover, & Veronica (special friend Brian Zimmerman) Dorshorst, Almond; two sisters, Florence Brown, Scottsdale, AZ, Helen (Bert) Trzebiatowski, Plover; one brother, Leonard Bannach, Plover; & three sisters-in-law. She is also survived by many grand & great-grandchildren & many nieces, nephews, & great nieces & nephews.
She was preceded in death by one son-in-law, Robert (Bob) Dorshorst; three brothers, Bernard M, John, & Emil Bannach; & two sisters, Eleanor Lueck & Frances Bannach.
No services will be provided. A private burial took place in the Guardian Angel Cemetery, Stevens Point.
Published in Stevens Point Journal on Nov. 12, 2014
Veronica Mary Niewiadomski, 85, Plover, WI, died Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Saint Michael's Hospital, Stevens Point. She had been battling various cancers for the last two & one half years. She was born September 15, 1929, in the town of Buena Vista, daughter of the late Bernard V. & Verona (Meronk) Bannach. She attended Stewart School in Buena Vista & graduated from P.J. Jacobs High School in 1947.
Growing up in the Great Depression, Veronica worked & played on the family farm using horse drawn equipment & milked their cows by hand. She had experienced a few close calls on the farm & became a much stronger & wiser person because of them. Her loving memories of her family & stories of growing up on the farm included kerosene lamps, the wood cook stove, & listening to the radio shows that would entertain the family in between chores, as television did not yet exist. After leaving the farm before graduation, she held various waitressing jobs. One of them being at the F. W. Woolworth Co. in Stevens Point where she met her future husband. She was married to Sylvester J. (Silver) Niewiadomski, September 11, 1948, in Chicago, IL. Together they had five children.
Upon returning to Wisconsin, they managed a few taverns in the North Central part of the state before settling in Plover. There they owned & operated the Sil-Vic Mink Ranch in the 1960's. Together with four of their five children who had been born, they worked very hard to make the business a success before closing it a few years later. Veronica also tied fishing flies for the Worth Co. for quite some time after this. Veronica loved to sew, crochet, & embroider, but her favorite things to do were to garden & to preserve its bounty by canning. She was also an excellent cook & one of the first things she would ask her children when they would visit is "Are you hungry? Can I make you something to eat?" With food preservation being somewhat of a lost art in today's society, she taught her children how to can. The knowledge she has passed on to her children will never be forgotten.
She is survived by her children, Michael, California, Roger (Heidi) Rosholt, Helen (Tim) Grosskopf, Almond, Silver (Bonnie), Plover, & Veronica (special friend Brian Zimmerman) Dorshorst, Almond; two sisters, Florence Brown, Scottsdale, AZ, Helen (Bert) Trzebiatowski, Plover; one brother, Leonard Bannach, Plover; & three sisters-in-law. She is also survived by many grand & great-grandchildren & many nieces, nephews, & great nieces & nephews.
She was preceded in death by one son-in-law, Robert (Bob) Dorshorst; three brothers, Bernard M, John, & Emil Bannach; & two sisters, Eleanor Lueck & Frances Bannach.
No services will be provided. A private burial took place in the Guardian Angel Cemetery, Stevens Point.
Published in Stevens Point Journal on Nov. 12, 2014
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