Waterloo Region Generations
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Sophia Rita Sowa

Female 1918 - 2007  (88 years)


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  • Name Sophia Rita Sowa 
    Born 25 Nov 1918  Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Name Sophia Rita Harnack 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-213983 
    Died 25 May 2007  Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I213983  Generations
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Father John Sowa,   b. 1895, , Poland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1975, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Caroline Shoemaker,   b. 1889,   d. 1953  (Age 64 years) 
    Family ID F252836  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Stanley Elmer Harnack,   b. 15 Jul 1910, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jan 1977, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Children 
     1. Joseph Harnack,   b. 2 Sep 1957, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1957, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F14229  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • HARNACK, SOPHIA RITA (Nee Sowa)

      On Friday, May 25, 2007, at Guelph General Hospital, in her 89th year. Wife of the late Stanley Harnack (1977). Mother of Murray Harnack (Nina); Cecilia Broderick (Ron); Leonard Harnack (Andrea); Marianne Sloane (Thomas); Janice Breckenridge (Cal); Carol Harnack (Amos); Norman Harnack (Lydia); Mary-Jane Harnack; Ron Harnack (Lyne); Helen Harnack; David Harnack (Donna); and the late Joseph. Grandmother of Jason, Jennifer, Rochelle, Jeff, Lisa, Simon, Michelle, Renee, Liane, Thaidra, Suzanne, Katherine, Caroline, Michael, Derek, Alyssa, Jasmine, Karen, Joshua, Adam, Olivia, Wolfgang and Hope. Greatgrandmother of sixteen. Predeceased by her parents, Caroline and John Sowa and siblings, Johanna Murawski, Stanley and Joseph Sowa and Agnes Hagey. Also survived by many nieces and nephews and sisters-in-law, Irene Bitschy, Vera Schnurr, Mabel Harnack and Mary Sowa. Sophie was very devoted to her Catholic faith and to her family. She married Stan in 1941 and together they raised their family on a farm known as the "Garden of Puslinch" Funeral mass was celebrated at St. Mary's Church, 16 Cooper St. in (Hespeler) Cambridge on Sat., June 2 at 11, with interment to follow at New Hope Cemetery.

      A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
      Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

  • Sources 
    1. [S3231] Find A Grave, Cemetery, N., America, N., Municipality, W., & Cemetery, N. (1980). Sophia Rita “Sophie” Sowa Harnack (1980-2007) -... Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94481553.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 25 Nov 1918 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 25 May 2007 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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