Obituary of Catharyn Pilaczynski

Catharyn PilaczynskiCRESWELL — The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene for Catharyn Louise Pilaczynski of Creswell, who died Sept. 1 of age-related causes. She was 91.A private family committal will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Eugene.She was born Jan. 3, 1920, in Tracy, Minn., to Benjamin and Ilah Miller Trout. She married Sylvester Pilaczynski on Oct. 5, 1938. He died previously.She graduated from Tracy (Minn.) High School in 1938. She was a homemaker. She also worked as a librarian and was owner of South 2nd Street Grocery Store in Springfield.Survivors include eight daughters, Doris Hale of Rainier, Rita Solecki of Lawrence, Mich., Karen Herron of Salem, Margaret Vilarino and Teresa Blanton, both of Eugene, Ilah Pilaczynski and Joan Davis, both of Creswell, and Susan Dutton of Canby; three sons, Robert of Elmira, Martin of Dexter, and Richard of Yuba City, Calif.; two sisters, Elsie Heacock and Inez Siolkowski, both of Minneapolis; four brothers, Lyle Trout of Hastings, Minn., Henry Trout of Wilmar, Minn., Roger Trout of New York, and Gordon Trout of Wallkill, N.Y.; and 34 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.Two sons, Joseph and Michael, three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren died previously.Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene.Remembrances to the Presbyterian Church of Creswell.