Leo Edward Blaschka

1895 - 1979  (84 years)

• Name	Leo Edward Blaschka
  Born	5 Mar 1895	Township of Sun Praire, Dane Co, WI
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Oct 1979	Seattle, WA
  Buried	Calvary Mausoleum Seattle, WA
  Person ID	I11975	CB_9_7_2017
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2003

  
  

  Father	Edward John Blaschka,   b. 29 Aug 1869, Waterloo Twp, Jefferson Co, WI ,   d. 19 Jan 1920, His Home, Township Of Sun Prairie, Dane County, WI  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Frances Mary Cook,   b. 18 Oct 1873, Town of Sun Prairie, Dane Co, WI ,   d. 25 Aug 1960, Sun Prairie, Dane Co, WI  (Age 86 years)
  Married	10 Apr 1894	Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary Catholic Church, Sun Prairie, Dane Co, WI
  Family ID	F3920	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Angeline Florida Stibre,   b. 17 Jun 1901, Grand River, Gaspe Peninsula, Province of Quebec, Canada ,   d. 27 Dec 1993, Fresno, CA  (Age 92 years)
  Married	24 Nov 1920	Seattle, WA
  	Type: Annulled
  Children	1. Edward Xavier Blaschka,   b. 13 Jan 1922, Home In Sun Prairie, Dane County, WI ,   d. 3 May 1999, Florida  (Age 77 years)   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living   5. Living   6. Carl Leo Blaschka,   b. 8 Dec 1929, Columbus Hospital, Columbus, Columbia Co, WI ,   d. 6 Oct 1994, Spokane, WA  (Age 64 years)   7. Living   8. Living   9. Living   10. Living
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2003
  Family ID	F4148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  FROM THE FARM TO THE CITY - A BLASCHKA ADVENTURE 1920-1940 dated: 12/1992 by Maire, Stella, Martha Leo and Angeline were married in Seattle, WA. After their wedding they returned to Wisconsin in 1920. They lived in the same house on the farm with Leo's mother Frances Blaschka and the 4 younger children, (who were Leo's brothers and sisters). Leo's mother and 3 youngest moved in Oct. 1921 to Sun Prairie, WI. Leo and Angeline stayed on the Cottage Grove farm until 1925. All along, Leo wanted to buy the farm from his mother but she would not sell it to him. After he moved to the Waterloo farm, his mother sold the farm to his brother Clarence (Peanuts) in 1925 or 1926. (Peanuts got his name because he really liked peanuts; he fell in a well, broke his back and died in 1935. Comment by Angeline on Clarence "he was rough and tough, swore like a longshoreman and his mother was afraid of him.") In 1925, Leo and Angeline bought the 160 acre Waterloo farm, from Mr. Coles, which was 3 miles out from Waterloo. They lived there from 1925-1934. During that time, the first 3 children were born at home (Ed, Martha, Bill), the next 6 children (Joe through Jordan) were born in a hospital at Columbus, WI.; the last child (Mary Carmel) was born in Mother Cabrini Hospital, in Seattle, July, 1935. In November 1934, Uncle Peanuts held a going away party on his farm for Leo and Angeline, with the relatives, lots of beer and good food. It was a cold, rainy day. Angeline said she cried with joy to be leaving the farm, they had lost everything because of the depression and the drought. They moved to Seattle by train, 9 children (from 12 years to 9 months). They had a free sleeper car available for the 3 day trip west. Angeline was told that the sleeping cars were being moved west for army use. They arrived in Seattle in November, 1934. Angeline had written to her younger brother, Armand, 27 years old and married to Emma to make arrangements for housing. Here Leo was employed at the Bethlehem Steel Mill. He worked there until he was got polio in 1938. Leo could no longer work at his previous job. He went to work for the Sisters of the Good Shephard doing laundry until he retired. Leo and Angeline were divorced in the 1940"s.