Francis T. Pinkowsky, 86, Lakewood, a retired U.S. Army major and father of a Stevens Point woman, died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2000, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. John Lutheran Church in Townsend with the Rev. Gary Bratz officiating. Interment will be in Lakewood Forest Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
The Suminski Funeral Home in Wabeno assisted the family with arrangements.
Mr. Pinkowsky was born Sept. 8, 1913, in Marinette, a son of the late Otto George and Emma (Raisler) Pinkowsky.
He was married to Carol Bosacki of Minocqua in 1941.
He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served in the Corps of Engineers until retiring in 1962 as a major. He served in World War II and the Korean Conflict.
They moved to the Lakewood area in 1967.
He was a member of the Lions Club and received the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award for his work on the Holt Balcom Logging Camp at McCauslin Brook.
He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Frances (David) Melton, Stevens Point, and Sandra Dunkelberger, Harrisburg, Pa.; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by a brother, David, and a sister, Mildred.
