Angeline Rozner

Angeline Lillian Veronica Rozner (Byczynski) was born in a farm house in Amherst, Wisconsin on a cold winter day on January 3, 1933. She was 93 years old and moved on to heaven on August 24, 2026. She now lives in heaven where she joined her beloved parents Anton and Elizabeth Byczynski and her sisters Dorothy and Pearl and baby brother, Anton. Her sister Betty, and brothers Bob and Vic are still with us. Angie had thirty-five nieces and nephews. She had five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Angie grew up on several farms and attended the Stevens Point Area School District. She met Louis Anton Rozner of Plover at a dance hall called Club L & A in the Mill Creek area. They married on April 26, 1952. Together they had Louis P. Rozner, Ann M. Rozner, Liz A. Atkinson and Michael A. Rozner. The family had a dairy farm and later raised beef cattle on 280 acres on the Buena Vista Marsh, south of Plover. Angie often mothered baby animals that needed special care. Newborn calves were her favorite. She hated snakes.

She helped to bring much needed extra income to the farm. She was one of the first waitresses at Sky Club. They were known as the "Angels." Making and selling various arts/crafts, custom combining oats/wheat crops and working at the Hungry Lion and Bulls Eye Country Club were several jobs she had over the years. Angie owned her own catering business for weddings and private parties. She sold Permanent Stainless Steel cookware, hosted Stanley Home parties and also worked for a local Christmas tree business designing and creating wreaths and centerpieces.

Volunteering was part of her interests. She founded a goat club, and belonged to a Polish Club, St. Bronislavas Rosary Society, the local school PTA and helped at many St. Lawrence Parish fish fries.

Family and cooking/baking were her passions in her life. Angie loved to make large dinners, suppers and family parties on the farm around her large dining room table. Neighbors and out of town relatives stopped by or stayed for vacations on the farm. Three homemade meals a day plus snacks in between for everyone was a year round experience. The state game warden would circle the farm and land his plane in the field for a drop in visit and meal. The local warden came to visit also. Fran and Fred Hamerstrom came over for coffee and dessert when they were driving through to work on their Prairie Chicken research on the Buena Vista Marsh. Two of the most delicious and flavorful Polish foods Angie cooked were golabki (cabbage rolls) and sauerkraut or cottage cheese pierogies (filled dumplings). Angie created dishes with wild game. The family hunted together. (One time, while deer hunting, she shot a buck right through the eye. What an expert Marksman!) As a room mother for her children's school classes, she baked and delivered treats to their elementary school parties and birthdays. Classmates looked forward to her homemade cookies, cupcakes and many sweet treats. Baking hundreds of cookies each year for different holidays meant that her giving heart sent plates of food and cookies home with many of the farm guests. She froze and canned foods she grew in her many gardens. It was necessary to raise a large vegetable garden.
Later in life Angie earned her G.E.D. Although she did not attend a four year college she continued her life long love of learning. A 600-800 cookbook collection strengthened her pleasure to study and read during cold and snowy winter days. Collecting and hand copying an estimated five thousand recipes, was a great desire in her many years of cooking and baking.

Everyone has something favorite in their life. Angie loved the color blue. She liked Lilly-of-the-Valleys and Dahlias. Her favorite perfume was Chanel No. 5 and she loved Polish polkas as well as Johnny Cash music.

Being such a creative woman, Angie seemed to be able to work on a wide range of activities. She could wallpaper, lay flooring, sew clothing, create recipes, design salad bars and make jewelry. Self-taught, Angie played the organ, accordion and wrote and sang songs on the guitar. She smoked meat, cured corned beef and made sauerkraut the old fashioned way. Her batches of blackberry, raspberry, dandelion and grape wines were enjoyed by everyone that liked a glass or two. Angie even made root beer. Thinking of the future, she bottled a special batch of wine just for her own funeral. It was an adventure to go along with her in the woods to forage for edible mushrooms. Driving the family Chevy Station wagon down country dirt roads to hunt for wild grapes, plums, elder blossoms, pine cherries and asparagus were summer and fall family outings.

Old things that we now call vintage or antiques would catch her eye. Angie loved to cook and bake on a very old wood cook stove along with her modern gas stove. She also always had a pot belly or parlor wood stove in the farm house as a supplemental heat source. Stringing up wild mushrooms on a cotton string was common as they hung behind the wood stove to dehydrate. This special pine mushroom was the main ingredient in the traditional Polish Christmas Eve soup for supper.

After more than twenty-five years of marriage she divorced. Angie moved to a farm in Rudolph in 1978 to raise her youngest son, Michael. Whatever Angie put her mind to, she was able to persevere. She was a woman with natural curly hair and blue eyes. Angie was powerful and confident. She loved life and did not let anyone try to define her. She was loved and is still loved by many.