DENVER, N.C. - LaVerne Ann Trzaska Waskielis, age 79, of Denver, passed away on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

A celebration of LaVerne’s life will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 11, 2024, at Community in Christ Lutheran Church, 7621 Norman Island Drive, Cornelius, NC  28031, with Pastors Michael and Lisa Beery officiating.  The family will greet friends over coffee and fellowship following the service.

Mrs. Waskielis was born July 30, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, to the late Casmir and Irene Zolkowski Trzaska.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Thomas Waskielis, and sister Susan Trzaska.  She worked as an accountant.

Those surviving her are a daughter, Angela Matousek and husband Michael of Denver; grandsons, Thomas Matousek and wife Mackenzie, and David Matousek of Charlotte; great-grandsons, Maverick and Thayer Matousek; and sisters, Frances Wesley and Lorraine Pramik and husband Bob, all of Shefield Lake, Ohio. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen, PO Box 315, Huntersville, NC  28078.

Warlick Funeral Home of Lincolnton, N.C. is serving the Waskielis family.