Florian Bernard (Joannes) Wicka's immediate family

My father's parents (my grandparents) were Vincent Wicka (Wika), born on December 4, 1867 and died on July 14, 1948 and Mary Prondzinski born on November 20, 1876 and died on January 10, 1946 in Dodge, Wisconsin . She had resided in the Dodge vicinity for 38 years. (I was two plus years old when my grandmother died but I have absolutely no recollection of her.) My grandmother's obituary in the Winona Republican Herald says that she was born in Zelewc, Poland. (Though this is the quest for Wicka roots, I note that at the time of her death, my grandmother had these siblings: Mrs. Michael Smegal, Viriginia, MN, Mrs. Anna Janaszak, Hibbing, MN, Mrs. Agnes Rirchell, Richmond, CA and Mrs. George Doell, Duluth, MN. The names I recollect from my youth are the Smegal and Doell surnames.)



My grandparents had nine children: Celia born on October 24, 1895, Veronica born on July 6, 1897, Robert born on May 24, 1899, Martha born on Jan 30, 1901, Frank born on August 4, 1904, Rose born on March 11, 1907, Florian born on Dec 27, 1911, Edward born on September 26, 1913, and Adeline born on May 20, 1919. (For the longest time, I held the incorrect notion that my dad, Florian, was the youngest of his family. Martha died at the age of four before I was born. Edward was born disabled and lived most of his adult life in a Sanatorium in Whitehall, Wi.I remember going with my dad to visit him. I remember that we always bought a watermelon and all of us ate it while we were on the grounds of the Sanatorium.)