Sofia Agnes Nowakowski Seaberg

Sofia Nowakowski Seaberg, age 89, born in Monongalia County, WV to the late James Anthony and Hazel Javosky Nowakowski, died on July 10, 2020 in Greensboro, NC. A private interment will be in Westminster Gardens.

Sofia grew up on a farm and certainly knew the value of hard work. She moved to Greensboro in 1958 and worked as a cashier and bookkeeper for Big Bear Grocery and later as a bank teller. Her friends and family remember her as very lady like with a sweet and quiet demeanor happiest tending to her yard and flower garden. When her children were young, she remained at home to provide a loving upbringing and refined her skills as a gifted seamstress, painter and baker.

Surviving Sofia are her son, Gene Seaberg, Jr., and wife Ann of Angier, NC and daughter, Cindy Butner of Greensboro; grandchildren, Emily Smouse and husband Bryan, Beth Sauer and fiancé R.J. and Christie Brown and husband Jeremy and their families; sister, Hazel Ann Laskody of Hartville, OH; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, her sister, Mary Frances and Lithisia and son-in-law, Jim Butner preceded her in death.

Her family extends special thanks to the staff of Guilford House in Greensboro and the “angel nurses” of the Green Valley Campus Covid Hospital. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to Alzheimer’s Association, www.alz.org, Alzheimer’s Association - Western Carolina Chapter, 4600 Park Road, Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209, National MS Society, www.nationalmssociety.org, P.O. Box 91891, Washington DC 20090-1891, or AuthoraCare, 2500 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC 27405.

Advantage Funerals & Cremations is assisting the Seaberg Family.