Zenia Bohl

Zenia Bohl, Athens, passed away March 9, 2025, while at Our House Senior Living, Medford, where she was recovering and working on rehab therapy after a stroke on January 10. Zenia was 85. Surviving Zenia is her husband, Dennis L. Bohl, Athens. They would have celebrated 65 years of marriage on September 10 of this year.

Zenia was born June 20, 1939, in Chicago, 111., to parents Mary and Henry Bronowicz who migrated from Poland. She graduated high school from Bronson, Mich., as a senior class officer in 1957. In 1958, she traveled to Athens with her father to buy the Bronowicz farm. In 1959, her mother, brothers Hank and Edwin and sister Irene arrived at the farm located about a mile south of Pioneer Bar, owned by Dennis’s family. The story is that Dennis first saw her working in the field on the Bronowicz farm, they dated and eventually married in 1960 and the Bohl family began!

Zenia cherished her family. She was an excellent seamstress, exterior and interior painter and wood stainer. She enjoyed working outside mowing the lawn, and keeping her flower beds flourishing. When the kids were young, she grew a huge garden, and raised strawberries and raspberries. She worked as a waitress at Skylight Supper Club during the late 1970s and later at Schaetzl Oil Company in Athens. Having her own motorcycle for years, she also enjoyed traveling to her son, Steve, and her brother Hank’s motocross events. She was an avid Elvis and Neil Diamond fan. She loved to watch the Packers and enjoyed word search puzzles. She had a great sense of humor. Zenia loved a tasty Southern Comfort old fashioned once in a while, and certainly would not turn down any chocolates or Cool Whip!

Surviving children include daughters: Wanda (James) Norge, Lorene (Thomas) Mueller, Tracy (Dale) Westfall and Georgine Bohl (Gary) Albrecht, and son, Steven (Jessica) Bohl. Also surviving are two grandsons: Tanner Westfall and Marcus Bohl; several step-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Zenia is also survived by her younger brother, Hank (Jane) Bronowicz, Athens, and sister, Irene Busier, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.

Preceding her in death were her parents, daughter, Mary; her youngest brother, Edwin; grandson, Tucker Westfall; niece, Kristie Snyder, and several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law.

An interesting note is that her mother, Mary Bronowicz, passed away on the same date at 90 years of age on March 9,1993.

An informal celebration of life gathering will be held Saturday, March 15, at The Milkhaus (3rd driveway) on Miltrim Farms, 115315 Township Road, Athens. Visitation will start at 10 a.m. with lunch planned at 11:30 a.m. The family will be available until 2 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Progress Athens Foundation, Inc.

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