Wallace J. Wasieleski

Wallace J. “Wally” Wasieleski, 87, Stevens Point, died at his home Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at St. Bronislava Catholic Church in Plover, with the Rev. Edward Shuttleworth officiating. Burial will be at a later date in the parish cemetery.
Visitation will be at the church from 9:30 a.m. Wednesday until the Mass.
Pisarski Community Funeral Home of Plover assisted with
arrangements.Condolences may be offered online at www.pisarskifuneralhome.com.
Mr. Wasieleski was born June 1, 1929, in Cudahy, a son of
the late Nicholas Wasieleski and Francis Disher Wasieleski. As a child, he
moved with his parents to the Plover area.
He was married to Dorothy Podolski Sept. 17, 1949, at St.
Bartholomew Catholic Church in Mill Creek. She died June 21, 2010.
After their marriage, they moved to Milwaukee where he
worked at Briggs & Stratton for 13 years. They then moved their children
back to the Stevens Point area.
He began his farming career by purchasing his first farm in
the Mill Creek area. In 1964, they purchased his grandmother Matilda “Tilly”
Disher’s homestead from 1917 where he continued to farm for more than 52 years.
The son of a Polish immigrant, he and his wife traveled
numerous times to visit his father’s family in Poland.
He was self-taught to play the saxophone and trumpet and
played in numerous bands with his brothers, Leonard, Ervin and Ernie. He
started a polka band with his children in the late 1970s.
Survivors include six children, David, Gary, Joyce (Tony)
Karpinski, Arnie (Bev), Shari (Quintian) Cieslewicz and Cori (Randy) Studinski;
one brother, Ernie;14 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters, Dorothy
Mozuch, Gladys Glodowski and Leona Grasel; three brothers, Leonard, Ervin and
Nicholas Jr.; and one grandson.