Bertha L Sobiesiak

Longtime Meiers Corners resident Bertha L. Sobiesiak, 89, a retired secretary and the loving matriarch of three generations, died Sunday in Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, where she had resided for about a year and a half.

Born and raised Bertha Mandrik in Travis, she graduated from Port Richmond High School. After she and Eugene Sobiesiak married in 1948, the couple settled in Meiers Corners.

Mrs. Sobiesiak was a homemaker and was a secretary for nearly two decades. After her children were in school, she took a job with Post Exterminators in St. George, then worked for the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. She retired in 1982 after more than a decade at the Seamen’s Society for Children and Families in St. George.

Mrs. Sobiesiak was an active parishioner of St. Rita’s R.C. Church, Meiers Corners, where she was a member of the Rosary Society, the Ladies Guild and the quilters group.

She also volunteered to help with patient activities at Clove Lakes Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Castleton Corners, and was a member of the AARP.

“She was very much into her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” said her son, James Sobiesiak.

Mrs. Sobiesiak was a skilled cook and seamstress who took pride in her home, her family said.

Eugene, her husband of 55 years, died in 2003.

Surviving, along with her son, James, are her son, Eugene Jr.; her daughters, Christine O’Connor and Manya Pettersen; eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be tomorrow from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a mass at 10 a.m. in St. Rita’s Church. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery, Castleton Corners.