Roseau County, Minnesota Obituaries

Victoria (nee Perkerewicz) Blawat NEWSPAPER: Grafton Record [North Dakota] DATE: December 29, 1979, Saturday Submitted by Kathie Marynik Mrs. Victoria Blawat, 77 Greenbush, Minn., a native of Warsaw, died Sunday at the Greenbush Nursing Home. Services will be at 10 AM (today) Saturday at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Greenbush, with burial in the church cemetery. Victoria Perkerewicz was born on Nov. 16, 1902, in Warsaw. After her marriage to Severyn Blawat in Warsaw on Nov. 16, 1902, the couple farmed near Greenbush until retiring into the town in 1953. Her husband died in November 1970. Survivors include two sons, Tony and Frank, both of Greenbush; one sister, Mrs. Frances Blawat, Drayton; and four grandchildren. J.B. Graveel Yesterday evening the remains of the late J. B. Graveel were brought here from Roseau for interment. Mr. Graveel died on Tuesday, October 21 at his home near Roseau, Minn., after an illness of about three weeks, paralysis of the throat being the immediate cause of death. Mr. Graveel was born in Wisconsin of French parents 43 years ago last March, but resided in Minnesota during the last eight or ten years. Until less than a year ago he lived in Minneapolis, but failing health led to his removal to a claim near Warroad, where he has develop a property of considerable value. Besides a wife and four children, two boys and two girls, he leaves his mother, Mrs. Mary Graveel of Fessenden, and the following brothers and sisters; Charles and Paul at Grand Rapids, Minn., Eugene at Lakota, N.D., Gus and Lucien at Fessenden, Mrs. L. Prescott at Grand Forks, Mrs. Bessinett at Park River, and Mrs. Gilmore in Minneapolis. He was a member in good standing of Crystal lodge A. O. U. W. of Minneapolis, and carried $2,000 insurance in that order. The funeral arrangements are not yet completed, but the interment will be in the Grand Forks cemetery on Friday, and services will be held on that day in St. Michael’s Catholic church. Detailed announcement will be made in the morning. [Grand Forks, ND Herald, 20 October 1902 -- Contributed by James Van Der Mark]

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