Mrs. Helen Merchlewitz, 74, 111 Hamilton St., died Friday t 1:30 p.m. at Community Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient just one day.
She was born April 20, 1895 to Joseph and Mary Knopick Zaborowski and lived in this area all her life. She was married to Peter Merchlewitz who died Jan. 25, 1956.
She was a member of St. Stanislaus Church, holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, Third Order of St. Francis societies and St. Helen Guild.
Survivors are: Four sons, Leonard, Richard, Frank and Robert, all of Winona; four daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Irene) Janikowski, Winona; Mrs. Donald (Marge) Kohner and Mrs. Gerald (Celia) Wondrow, Goodview, and Mrs. Alan (Phyllis) Helgemoe, Rochester; 37 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one brother, Walter Zaborowski, Winona, and two sisters, her twin, Mrs. Agnes Sula, Winona, and Mrs. Theodora (Laura) Stinson, Fountain City, Wis.
Funeral services will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. at Watkowski Funeral Home and at St. Stanislaus Church at 10. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, the Rev. Donald Grubisch officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home today after 2 p.m. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. by the church societies and at 8 by Father Grubisch.
Winona Daily News, May 1969

Mrs. Helen Merchlewitz, 74, 111 Hamilton St., died Friday t 1:30 p.m. at Community Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient just one day.
She was born April 20, 1895 to Joseph and Mary Knopick Zaborowski and lived in this area all her life. She was married to Peter Merchlewitz who died Jan. 25, 1956.
She was a member of St. Stanislaus Church, holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, Third Order of St. Francis societies and St. Helen Guild.
Survivors are: Four sons, Leonard, Richard, Frank and Robert, all of Winona; four daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Irene) Janikowski, Winona; Mrs. Donald (Marge) Kohner and Mrs. Gerald (Celia) Wondrow, Goodview, and Mrs. Alan (Phyllis) Helgemoe, Rochester; 37 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one brother, Walter Zaborowski, Winona, and two sisters, her twin, Mrs. Agnes Sula, Winona, and Mrs. Theodora (Laura) Stinson, Fountain City, Wis.
Funeral services will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. at Watkowski Funeral Home and at St. Stanislaus Church at 10. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, the Rev. Donald Grubisch officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home today after 2 p.m. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. by the church societies and at 8 by Father Grubisch.
Winona Daily News, May 1969