Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....Leppek , Martha S. (Salowitz February 17, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Norma Novick fox2157@aol.com January 24, 2012, 3:47 pm February 18, 2010 HURON DAILY TRIBUNE Martha S. (Salowitz) Leppek November 1, 1910 – February 17, 2011 Mrs. Martha S. (Salowitz) Leppek, 100, of Deckerville and formerly of the Utica area, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Autumnwood of Deckerville. She was born November 1, 1910 in Paris Township to the late Leo and Mary Salowitz. She married Edmund Leppek on January 10, 1931 at St. Mary Catholic Church in Parisville. He preceded her in death December 17, 1989. She was a graduate of the St. Mary Elementary School of Parisville. She worked as a seamstress during WW II at the Willow Run Bomber Plant making seat covers for the bombers. She moved to Wayne in 1943 and lived there until she moved to the Utica area in 1952. She was a parishioner at St. Lawrence Parish in Utica. She then moved to Deckerville in 2002 and has resided there since. Martha is survived by one daughter, Audrey L. Gayda and her husband, William, of Shelby Township; two sons, Edmund L. Leppek and his wife, Diane, of Alpena, William W. Leppek and his wife, Jean, of Raleigh, North Carolina; one son-in- law, Eugene Swartz of Macomb Township; 13 grandchildren, 30 great- grandchildren, eight great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Aeriellia Swartz; two grandchildren, Lynne and Michael; two great- grandchildren, Jennie and Eric. The funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Monday, February 21, 2011 at St. John Catholic Church in Ubly. The Rev. Joseph Griffin, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery in the spring. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday at the St. John Church in Ubly. Care has been entrusted to the Zinger-Smigielski Funeral Home in Ubly. Published February 18, 2010 HURON DAILY TRIBUNE File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/huron/obits/l/leppek17508nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb