June
14,
1926
14,
1926
January
09,
2011
09,
2011
Louise Antoinette Lonski, age 84, of Cecil, died at 5AM Sunday January 9, 2011, in her home. She was born in Maastricht, Holland June 14, 1926, the daughter of Gustaf and Beatrice LaGrange. When she was four years old, her Mother and Father moved to Darmstadt, Germamay, to join her grandfather, Anton, who was employed as court tailor to the royal court of Hessen. Mrs. Lonski attended the academy of music and drama in Darmstadt where she studied acting and learned to play classical piano , in addition to her academic courses. Her studies were interrupted by World War II. When the war ended, she won a starring role in the first post war play to be produced at the Darmstadt town theater. Amazingly the play was written by an American. Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" premiered March 31, 1946 to excellent reviews. However, her acting career was cut short when she was swept off her feet by a handsome Ameriacn officer. She married Frank Joseph Lonski June 21, 1947.
The next, breathtaking fifteen years Mrs. Lonski, now an army wife, packed up and moved her household eleven times. She also managed to become an American citizen and she always proudly pointed out that she was meant to be American, because she was born on flag day. There was one more big change in her life when, in 1992, after instruction by Father William Scholtz of Holy Rosary Church in Muse, she became a Roman Catholic.
When Frank retired from the office of the Adjutant General of the Army in Washington D.C., she persuaded him to move one more time... to Western Pennsylvania... so that he could be with his extended family. And that's how they came to Cecil. After his stroke in 1999, she nursed Frank at home until he died in June of 2004.
Wherever she went she was a wife, mother, and homemaker first, but she always found time to be active in her community, and later as the executive director of, first public relations, and then plant operations, at Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries plant and regional headquarters in Washington D.C. At that time, the plant employed over one hundred handicapped people. At home, her hands were never idle. She was an artist with her knitting and needlepoint and she continued to play the piano.
Surviving are daughter, Louise Ann Lonski of Cecil and a sister, Annie Carius of Darmstadt, Germany and many nieces and nephews on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Friends are welcome on Wednesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Salandra Funeral Service, Inc., Joseph P. Salandra owner/supervisor, 304 West Pike Street Canonsburg 724-745-8120, where a Blessing Service will be held at 9:15 AM on Friday, January 14, 2011. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 10:00 AM in St. Mary's Church in Cecil. Interment will follow in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, McMurray.
The next, breathtaking fifteen years Mrs. Lonski, now an army wife, packed up and moved her household eleven times. She also managed to become an American citizen and she always proudly pointed out that she was meant to be American, because she was born on flag day. There was one more big change in her life when, in 1992, after instruction by Father William Scholtz of Holy Rosary Church in Muse, she became a Roman Catholic.
When Frank retired from the office of the Adjutant General of the Army in Washington D.C., she persuaded him to move one more time... to Western Pennsylvania... so that he could be with his extended family. And that's how they came to Cecil. After his stroke in 1999, she nursed Frank at home until he died in June of 2004.
Wherever she went she was a wife, mother, and homemaker first, but she always found time to be active in her community, and later as the executive director of, first public relations, and then plant operations, at Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries plant and regional headquarters in Washington D.C. At that time, the plant employed over one hundred handicapped people. At home, her hands were never idle. She was an artist with her knitting and needlepoint and she continued to play the piano.
Surviving are daughter, Louise Ann Lonski of Cecil and a sister, Annie Carius of Darmstadt, Germany and many nieces and nephews on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Friends are welcome on Wednesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Salandra Funeral Service, Inc., Joseph P. Salandra owner/supervisor, 304 West Pike Street Canonsburg 724-745-8120, where a Blessing Service will be held at 9:15 AM on Friday, January 14, 2011. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 10:00 AM in St. Mary's Church in Cecil. Interment will follow in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, McMurray.
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