Gertie Christina Skolas and Francis Sutherland Gombar

FRANCIS SUTHERLAND GOMBAR, son of FRANCES MARIA SUTHERLAND and DAVID GOMBAR, was born August 17, 1897 in Brodhead, Green, Wisconsin,⁴⁵⁶ and died October 6, 1965 in Monroe, Green, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brodhead, Rock, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶

He married GERTIE CHRISTINA SKOLAS on July 2, 1921 in Waukegan, Lake, Illinois.⁸⁵⁴⁸ She was born May 20, 1898 in Stoughton, Dane, Wisconsin,⁴⁵⁶ and died August 2, 1962 in Monroe, Green, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brodhead, Green, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • Joseph Baker Descendant Report (Ancestor of Francis S. Gombar)
  • William Sutherland Descendant Report (Ancestor of Francis S. Gombar)
  • Samuel Stanley Descendant Report (Ancestor of Francis S. Gombar)

Francis S. Gombar

• was a Veteran of World War I⁸⁵⁴⁸
• was a surveyor⁸⁵⁴⁸
• was a member of the American Legion⁸⁵⁴⁸

Janesville Daily Gazette, August 2, 1962¹²²⁶⁶

Mrs. Francis Gombar

BRODHEAD — Mrs. Francis Gombar, 64, died unexpectedly this morning in St. Clare Hospital, Monroe.

The former Gertie Christina Skolas, daughter of Martin and Julia Nelson Skolas, was born May 29, 1898, in Stoughton. She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Her marriage to Francis Gombar took place July 2, 1921, at Waukegan, Ill.

Surviving are her husband; a son, Francis Jr.; three grandchildren; a brother, Arthur Skolas, Rochester, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. Lester Galvin, Madison.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Newcomer Funeral Home, the Rev. Lyle G. Stephenson, Methodist pastor, officiating. BUrial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening.

Janesville Daily Gazette, October 6, 1965⁸⁵⁴⁸

Francis S. Gombar

BRODHEAD — Francis S. Gombar, 68, well-known surveyor in the Brodhead area, died unexpectedly at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Clare Hospital, Monroe. He underwent surgery there three weeks ago and had expected to return to his home this week.

Born Aug. 17, 1897, in Brodhead, the son of David and Frances Sutherland Gombar, he was a graduate of Brodhead High School and of the University of Wisconsin in 1922. He received a UW letter in track, one of Brodhead's few letterman, and was a member of the Wisconsin Alumni Club.

Mr. Gombar and Gertie Christina Skolas were married July 2, 1921, in Waukegan, Ill. She died in 1962.

He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Legion, American Congress of Surveyors and Maps, Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors and the Society of Cincinnatus.

Surviving are a son, Francis S., of rural Brodhead; and three grandchildren.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Newcomer Funeral Home, the Rev. Lyle Stephenson, Brodhead Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday evening at the funeral home.