Sophia Rita Sowa

1918 - 2007  (88 years)

• Name	Sophia Rita Sowa
  Born	25 Nov 1918	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Sophia Rita Harnack
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-213983
  Died	25 May 2007	Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Buried	New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I213983	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John Sowa,   b. 1895, , Poland ,   d. 30 Mar 1975, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (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 ,   d. 17 Jan 1977, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada  (Age 66 years)
  Children	1. Joseph Harnack,   b. 2 Sep 1957, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Sep 1957, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  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

  [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

  Born - 25 Nov 1918 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 25 May 2007 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth