Zofia Matusiak Szostak passed away peacefuly on April 20, 2016 after a long illness. She is preceded in death by her husband, Emilian Marian Szostak, and her oldest daughter, Ursula Maria Szostak Killingbeck Luker. She is survived by her children: Eleonora Kazimiera Jolanta Tysiąc (husband, Lawrence), Ewa Maria Drafta (husband, Ronald), and Marysia Irena Bogusława Sitko (husband, Marek); her grandchildren: John Marian Killingbeck, Michael Freeman Luker, Jimmy Lawrence Tysiac, Cassie-Marie Regina Tysiac (husband, Thomas J. Martinez), Stephanie Lynn Wangler (husband, Edwin M. Wangler Jr), Krystyn Sitko-Kudla (husband, Paul), Jessica Sitko (fiance, Dawid Dechnik), Benjamin Drafta (wife, Carmen), and Theresa Drafta. Her great-grandchildren: Kristen Luker, James T. Killingbeck, Jackson Daniel Tysiac, Olivia Lynn Wangler, Emmett Michael Wangler and Emma Rose Martinez.Zofia Szostak was born 05/10/1924 in Gniszewo, Poland to Leokadia Złotowska and Stanisław Sokołowski and shortly thereafter was adopted by Stefania Widuchowska-Matusiak and Władysław Matusiak and lived in Tczew, Poland and Bochnia, Poland prior to the start of WWII and later her marriage to Emilian Marian Szostak on December 26, 1945 in Murnau, Germany. Between the years 1939 and 1945 she lived in many places and lost her family home to a fire and her parents within 30 days of each other as well as many of her school friends to the atrocities of war. As a proud patriot of her homeland she was a member of Związek Harcerstwo Polskiego (Polish Scouting Organization), Narodowe Odziały Wojskowe Kobiet (National Military Party for Women) as well as a registered member of Armia Krajowa / AK (Polish Underground Army). As a devout Roman Catholic she volunteered as lector for St. Florian Church, was a member of a charismatic group “Spirit of Love” at Our Lady of the Woods Church and was a member of St. Stephens Church in New Boston, Michigan.
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