Joyce Wans jwans@ix.netcom.com

Taken from Stevens Point Daily Journal August 10, 1976

Benedict P. ROGALLA

Benedict P. Rogalla, 80, Route 1, Eland, died Monday evening at a Wausau
Hospital. He was the father of Mrs. Ronald (Barbara) Worzalla, Stevens Point.
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Ladislaus Catholic
Church, Bevent. The Rev. Bernard Nowak will officiate. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Schmidt-Schulta Funeral Home, Wittenberg. A parish rosary will be said at 3 p.m.
Mr. Rogalla was born Aug. 8, 1896 in the Town of Elderon, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Rogalla. He married Helen Dallman on Nov. 10, 1925, in Bevent.
He was a dairy farmer and formerly was a stone mason and carpenter.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Herbert, Edward and Clarence, all of Route 1, Eland, and Robert, Rothschild; four daughters, Mrs. Worzalla, Stevens
Point, Mrs. Douglas (Violet) Balkam, Chicago, Ill., Mrs. James (Natalie) Kavajecz, Glens Ferry, Idaho, and Mrs. Stanley (Arlene) Brzezinski, Route 1, Hatley; one sister, Mrs. Helen Buchkowski, Route 1, Hatley; 27 grandchildren and
one great-grandson.