OBIT: Wanda Marie (KOWALCZYK) TOKAR, 1997, Somerset, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by John C. Oester. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ TOKAR Wanda Marie Tokar, 57, Somerset, died Dec. 1, 1997, at her residence. Born March 5, 1940, in Boswell, daughter of Stanley A. and Thelma M. (Albright) Kowalczyk. Preceded in death by father. Survived by mother, Boswell; and husband, William George Tokar, to whom she was married for 36 years, and these children: Mrs. Mark J. (Pamela) Ickes of Somerset, William G. Tokar Jr. of Somerset. Robert C Tokar of Louisville, Ky.; two grandsons, Bradford Ickes and Terrell Ickes; brother, Joseph J. Kowalczyk of Boswell. Member of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Life member and board member of Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County; Pennsylvania State Historical Volunteer of the Year in 1994. She was a 1957 graduate of Jenner-Boswell Joint High School. Also graduate of Shippensburg University. Owner of School Days since 1987. Friends received from 2-4 and 7-9 Wednesday at the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at St Peter's Church, Somerset, with Msgr. Samuel J. Tomaselli as celebrant. Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to St. Peter's Catholic School, 433 W. Church St., Somerset, Pa. 15501, or Windber Hospice, 600 Somerset Ave., Windber, Pa. 15963. Wake service will be held at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Daily American, December 2, 1997 [T404]