Elizabeth A. Wincelowicz

1922 - 2021

Elizabeth A. Wincelowicz October 2, 1922 - August 16, 2021 (age 98) Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio to Frank and Elizabeth Kohler on October 2, 1922, Elizabeth moved to St. Petersburg, FL in June of 1980. She was a graduate of Mt. Carmel Nursing School in Columbus, Ohio and received her BSN from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York in 1977. In 1944 she joined the Army Nurse Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant and was assigned to the 5th Auxiliary Surgical Corps, which as a team assisted at the front lines and were first to receive the wounded soldiers. She served in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and Germany. After peace was declared she went to Korea via a Hospital ship and worked in a General Hospital near Seoul. Once the commanders were certain there would be a breakthrough from the North, all females were sent home. She resigned from the service and a few months later married Charles Wincelowicz on May 10, 1948. She remained active in Nursing and worked at S.I Hospital on Maternity and Newborn, the U.S Marine Hospital in Stapleton in their Recovery-ICU, and as an Assistant Director of Nursing in Corpus Christi, Texas and finally retiring after 12 years at St. Anthony's Hospital from a busy day surgical unit. She was a Eucharistic minister and Lector in her parish at Transfiguration Church. She belonged to the Secular Franciscan Order and volunteered at their Daystar Life Center in Pinellas County. She was the cherished mother of Vincent (Kathy) of Evergreen Colorado, William of Loganville, Georgia, Patricia Tanzi (John) and Michael Wincelowicz (Nancy) of Staten Island, New York, James (Marilyn) of Hampstead, Maryland, Charles (Lori) and Thomas Wincelowicz and Susan Dobbs of St. Petersburg, Florida. She is also survived by her youngest sister, Jane Steining of Wapakoneta, Ohio. Her husband Charles and sons Frank and Daniel preceded her in death. She is survived by 20 grandchildren and 27 great- grandchildren. Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at Blessed Sacrament Church on Manor Road at 10 am on Monday, August 30. Interment at St Peter's Cemetery, Staten Island, New York. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Elizabeth's name to the Alzheimer's Society.