Obit: Koci, Julia (1908 - 1976)

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Surnames: KOCI KOHLNHOFER DISHAW OPERLE FICK BALLIS

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 2/25/1976

MRS. JULIA KOCI RITES SAID AT GREENWOOD

Mrs. Julia Koci, 67, Greenwood, Clark County, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital following a heart attack on Feb. 20, 1976.

Mrs. Koci was born Feb. 26, 1908, at Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. She came to America in 1914 when she was 5. Her marriage to Frank Koci took place in 1930. They lived in Phillips, Wis. and Milwaukee until 1947, when they moved to rural Loyal and farmed and built what is now known as K-Korners tavern. In 1950, she moved to Greenwood. She worked as a bookkeeper at Clark Electric Cooperative from Oct. 16, 1954 to July 1971, when she retired. She received her education at South Milwaukee High School and graduated from Metropolitan Business College in Milwaukee.

Services were held on Feb. 23 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Greenwood with burial at St. Mary's Cemetery. Reverend Robert Houston officiated, with Rinka Funeral Home in charge of services.

Mrs. Koci was a member of St. Mary's Church, St. Ann's Society, Royal Neighbors and the Greenwood Auxiliary.

Her parents and one son are deceased. Surviving Mrs. Koci are one daughter, Mrs. Francis (Carolyn) Kohlnhofer, Route 2, Greenwood two sons, Robert, Bordeaux, France and James, Milwaukee, Wis. four sisters, Mrs. Lydia Dishaw, Oak Creek, Mrs. Larry (Ann) Operle, South Milwaukee, Mrs. Myron (Mary) Fick, South Milwaukee, and Mrs. David (Margaret) Ballis, South Milwaukee.

Pallbearers were Francis Brey, Clayton Kohlnhofer, John Speich, Adolph Wessel, Bernie Kitzhaber and Joe Herr.