Genevieve Marie Yanacheak 1918-1998

YANACHEAK SHEA SCHELOSKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/18/2012 at 20:39:28

Genevieve Marie Yanacheak, 79, of Anthon died Friday, Feb. 27, 1998, at Correctionville Nursing and Rehab Center in Correctionville, Iowa.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon with the Rev. David Hogan officiating. Burial will be in Mt. St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today with a parish rosary at 3:30 p.m. and a vigil wake service at 7 p.m. at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Anthon.

Mrs. Yanacheak was born March 31, 1918, in Erie, Penn., the daughter of Ralph and Katherine (Shea) Scheloske. She grew up and was educated in Erie and as a young woman performed there as a singer under the name of Norma Jean Rogers.

She married Cleo Yanacheak on July 27, 1942 in Erie. The couple moved to their farm in rural Anthon in 1946. She entered Correctionville Nursing and Rehab Center in Correctionville in April 1997.

She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon.

Survivors include her husband; five sons, David and his wife, Mary of New Hudson, Mich., Norman and his wife, Sherry, of Anthon, Ralph and his wife, Carol, of Le Mars, Iowa, Art of St. Paul, Minn., and Frank of Anthon; a daughter, Nedra and her husband, Rex Haley of Des Moines, Iowa; 17 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a brother and his wife, Robert and Thelma Scheloske, of Erie; and several other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three grandchildren; a brother, Ralph; and a half brother Kenneth.