Obit: Ecke, Jeannette ‘Jenny’ A. (1920 – 2005)
Poster:  Crystal Wendt
Email:  crystalwendt@aol.com

Surname: Ecke, Stoetzel, Herrick, Kwasiborski

Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Tue, Jun 7, 2005

Ecke, Jeannette 'Jenny' A. (21 Sept. 1920 – 4 June 2005)

SPENCER -Jeannette "Jenny" A. Ecke, 84, of Marshfield died Saturday, June 4, 2005, at Riverview Hospital in Wisconsin Rapids.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 10, 2005, at Christ the King Catholic Church in Spencer. Burial will be in West Spencer Cemetery in the town of Sherman in Clark County. The Rev. Charles Stoetzel will officiate.

Visitation will be at from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 9, 2005, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Friday, both at Community Funeral Home in Spencer. A prayer service will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Jeannette was born Sept. 21, 1920, in Chicago to Zygmundt and Anastasia (Herrick) Kwasiborski. She attended St. John Berchman School through eighth grade. Jeannette entered the novitiate of the Dominicans in St. Catherine, Ky., in 1933. She was a nun for seven years. After leaving the convent, she taught school in Kentucky and Brooklyn, N.Y. Moving back to Chicago in 1944, she worked at Signods Steel Strapping until 1946. She married Harland Ecke on Jan. 12, 1946, and they moved to Marshfield, where she worked at Roddis. In 1953, they moved back to Chicago, later they moved to Spencer. Jeannette, after being in Spencer for a while, moved to and taught school at Abbotsford in Special CESA 6 until 1971. She then worked at Land-O-Lakes in Spencer until retiring in 1982. She worked part time at Figis after retirement.

She is survived by four sons, Daniel (Diana) Ecke of Ontario, Wis., Louis (Carol) Ecke of Calumet City ,Ill., David (JoAnn) Ecke of Vesper and Lester "Les" (Debra) Ecke of Marshfield; 13 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

Jeannette was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harland (July 12, 1999); seven brothers; and three sisters.