Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sweeney  , Bertha (Sofka) February 13, 2013
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February 19, 2013 Huron Daily Tribune
Bertha (Sofka) Sweeney  
March 29, 1918 - February 15, 2013
Bertha Sweeney, 94, of Ubly, died on Friday, February 15, 2013, at Courtney 
Manor Nursing Home in Bad Axe. She was born on Good Friday, March 29, 1918 in 
Paris Township to Martin and Anna (Grzybowski) Sofka.
She attended a one room rural school house in the Ubly area before moving to 
the Detroit area to work in her late teens and early twenties.  On Thanksgiving 
Day, November 26, 1942, she married Martin Sweeney and began a life of farming 
in Huron and Sanilac counties.  Bertha raised chickens, sold eggs, had a 
bountiful garden every year, always baked her own bread, sewed most of the 
clothes for her growing family and made many beautiful quilts.  She was an 
active member of St. Columkille Catholic Church, where she served as president 
of the Christian Mothers and spent many hours performing charitable works and 
visiting the sick.  In her later years she and Martin wintered in Bradenton, 
Florida, where she learned a new hobby, painting.  Bertha was an avid reader 
her whole life and in her final years at Courtney Manor she could always be 
found with a book in her lap.
Bertha is survived by her children, Kathryn (Michael) Taff of Rainbow City, 
Alabama, Nancy (Thomas) Collins of Allegan, Brian (Sally) Sweeney of Ubly and 
Kevin Sweeney of South Lyon; her seven grandchildren, Julie, Jennifer, J. 
Stewart, Sara, Janice, Paula, and Roger; 17 great-grandchildren; one sister-in-
law, Virginia Sweeney; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Martin; and her three 
siblings, Adrianna Wasierski, Henry Sofka, and Marcella Cieslinski.
Mass of Christian burial will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 at St. 
Columbkille Catholic Church in Sheridan Corners. The Rev. Joseph Griffin, 
pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery in the spring.  
Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. on Friday at the Zinger-Smigielski Funeral 
Home in Ubly and from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday at the church only.  There will 
be a parish vigil service at 7 p.m. on Friday evening at the funeral home.    
Memorials have been requested to the Courtney Manor Activities Fund.     
Published February 19, 2013 Huron Daily Tribune
Page 400 Roads We Have Traveled


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