Patrick Milewski

Pat’s journey has come to an end. He peacefully joined the Milewski family, as the youngest of 19 children, in Heaven on September 24, 2019. Pat was born on a farm in Lena, Wisconsin (town of Little River) on March 16, 19298 and grew up in Milwaukee, where he loved to follow the Milwaukee Braves baseball team (later, the Milwaukee Brewers). During World War II, when his older brothers joined the military, Pat left Milwaukee Boys Tech school (at the age of 16) and joined the Merchant Marines. He was an “oiler” on a supply ship which traveled across the Atlantic three times to ports in Europe. Unfortunately, he contacted tuberculosis and became hospitalized on his return to the States in various sanatoriums-at the ages of 17-18. He developed his love of fishing, however, in the Tomahawk, Wisconsin at one of the tuberculosis camps. From then on, fishing became the focus of his leisure time. He completed his remaining two- year Army commitment, during which he acquired acclaim for aircraft maintenance at De...