Halina M. (nee: Rogozinski) Salapatek, 93, died Thursday evening, March 21, 2019, at Brookside Care Center.

The daughter of the late Stanislaw and Marianna Rogozinski, Halina was born in the Village of Tuzany in the Gmina Inowroclaw, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivdeship, Poland on August 2, 1925. She attended school in Poland and lived in Germany after WW II.

She married Stanley Salapatek in Cologne, Germany on February 23, 1949. Halina and Stanley immigrated to the USA on the General C H Muir through Ellis Island in 1951.  They became naturalized American citizens in 1958.

She was a homemaker and worked at St. Catherine’s Hospital and Jockey International.

She was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church and the former St. Casimir Catholic Church.

She had a beautiful singing voice and was gregarious, outgoing, and enjoyed being around people. A widow for 30 years she had an active role in the lives of her 5 grandsons.

Surviving are her daughters, Renata (Michael) Curran – Hortonville and Mary Anne (Norman) Frederick – Mount Pleasant; grandsons, Josh (Krystin Valentine) Frederick, Aaron (Megan) Curran, Chris (Amanda Jackson) Frederick, Andrew Curran, and Marcus Frederick; and great granddaughters, Julia and Molly Frederick, Alexis Frederick, and Ida Curran.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley.

Service Info

Funeral services honoring the life of Halina will be held on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, beginning with a prayer service at 11:30 a.m. from the Piasecki-Althaus Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 12:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 2224 30th Avenue. Interment will follow in St. Casimir Cemetery.