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Crescentia “Sancy” Marie Krajewski, age
90 of Ogallala, passed away on Thursday,
August 18, 2011 at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home in Grant.
A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, August 22nd at
St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Ogallala with Father Bryan Ernest as
celebrant. Burial will be in the Ogallala Cemetery. Rosary will be
recited at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 21st at St. Luke’s Catholic
Church.
Sancy was born May 5, 1921, at David City, Nebraska, the daughter of
John and Antonette (Styskal) Reznicek. The family moved to Pender
where she graduated from the Pender High School with the class of
1938. She was proficient in Debate as well as Creative Speaking, and
won many awards. She played drums in the school band, and later
played in a local dance band.
Sancy attended business school in Omaha and under government
approval in 1940, was accepted for a position at the Pentagon in
Washington, DC. She was a private secretary to General John Koch for
five years.
On April 21, 1945, she married Lt. Norbert Krajewski in the Naval
Chapel on the Patuxen River in Maryland. After Norbert’s discharge
in November, 1945, they returned to their farm ten miles southwest
of Ogallala, where they conducted a farming and cattle operation.
The couple purchased and operated a fly-in hunting and fishing lodge
in northern Manitoba, Canada. In 1980 they semi-retired and spent
winters in their home at Arizona City, Arizona, where they enjoyed
playing golf.
Sancy was a member of St. Luke’s Catholic Church and the Altar
Society, the Franciscan Third Order, and was an associate of the
Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, Kentucky. She served as a Pink Lady
at the Ogallala Community Hospital for many years and delivered
Meals on Wheels in Ogallala. Each election year Sancy volunteered
her time as a member of the local election board. She was also a
member of the Elks DOES, Legion of Mary and Nebraska Cowbelles. She
participated in Bible Study groups for several years and traveled
overseas many times on trips including to the Holy Land.
Survivors include three daughters, Margaret Fries of Ogallala,
Jeanette and husband Ted Richardson of Derby, KS, and Susan and
husband Glenn Behrens of Templeton, IA; five sons, Toney and wife
Barb Krajewski, David and wife Diane Krajewski, Gary and wife Diane
Krajewski and Robert Krajewski of Ogallala, and Col. James and wife
Brenda Krajewski of Alamogordo, NM; twenty two grandchildren and
twenty five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband
of sixty-two years, Norbert; one grandson, Brett Behrens; and three
sisters, Magdalene, Marcella and Charlotte.
A memorial has been established in her memory. Visitation will be
held from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Sunday at the Gubser Funeral
Home and at the church prior to the Rosary and Funeral Mass. Gubser
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