South Milwaukee – Fili Kapocius (nee: Kasparaitis) passed away Oct. 20, two months before she would have celebrated her 102ndbirthday.
Born in Meldinis, Lithuania in 1907, she was the last survivor of 12 brothers and sisters. She traveled to the United States to see her brother and to see the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair. While here, she met and married George Kapocius the same year. Fili assisted her husband in his meat market on Washington Ave. until the store closed at the end of WWII. Active in promoting Lithuanian causes, the couple sponsored 10 refugee families to resettle from Europe. She retired from Moxness. Fili continued to live in Racine until she was 98. Since 2006, she resided at Franciscan Villa nursing home in South Milwaukee.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1975, and is survived by her sons, Al Kapocius, and Vyto (Diane) Kapocius of Greendale; grandchildren Michael (Katy) Kapocius and Tim Kapocius of Appleton, Kara (Steve) Waddell of Mequon, Tom (Leslie) Kapocius of Richfield, Minn., and Municipal Judge Mark (Kerry) Kapocius of Greendale, and 11 great grandchildren. She is further survived by nieces Ann (Stanley) Budrys of Racine, Danute Leonard of Franklin and Milda Getspudas of Des Moines, Iowa as well as relatives in Lithuania.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, Oct. 27 2109 at St. Lucy Catholic Church, 3101 Drexel Avenue, at 11 a.m., with the Rev. John Puodziunas officiating. Relatives and friends may meet with the family at the church from 10 am. until the Mass. Internment will be held at Holy Cross Cemetery, Highway 32.
The family wishes to give special thanks to the staff at Franciscan Villa in South Milwaukee, and to Aseracare Hospice for their loving care.
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