Patricia Piekarzcyk Wielgos January 18, 1971 – January 28, 2019 Share this obituary Send Flowers Upload Photo| View/Sign Guest Book| Send Sympathy Card Patricia Ann Veronica Piekarzcyk Wielgos, age 48, a longtime resident of Wheaton, passed away on Monday, January 28, 2019, at RML Hospital in Hinsdale, Illinois. She was born January 18, 1971 in Chicago to Joseph and Agnes Piekarzcyk. Patty grew up in Wheaton and graduated from St. Francis High School.
She earned Bachelor’s Degrees in Sociology and Religious Studies from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. She married Tim Wielgos on September 15, 2007. Patty worked as a job coach for Little Friends.
As a job coach, Patty helped disabled adults learn the job skills necessary to work and provide independence and dignity to developmentally disabled adults. Her faith was an important part of her life; she worked extensively in her youth with The Happening in Christianity, an area Catholic youth retreat program. Later, she briefly taught religion at St. Francis High School before returning to Little Friends.
In 2002, she was diagnosed with Leukemia, and kicked its butt, then diagnosed with melanoma, and kicked its butt, then diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, and kicked its butt. All in all, Patty beat 5 different types of cancer and precancer over 17 years, and finally, after 17 years of health struggles and perseverance, she fought until the last of her strength gave out. Cancer is not what took her life; her heart simply was no longer strong enough to fight.
As she fought to free herself from a ventilator after a terrible bout of pneumonia and ancillary infections, her heart was no longer able to sustain her body. The Lord called her home to rest. Patty was a creative, kind person with a generous heart.
This showed in her personal and her professional life. Patty was a true fighter. Patty is survived by her husband, Timothy Wielgos of Wheaton, her son Ayden, her parents, Joseph and Agnes Piekarzcyk and one brother, Joseph T. (Cheryl) Piekarzcyk.
A visitation will be held on Sunday, February 3, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Hultgren Funeral Home, 304 N. Main St., Wheaton, IL. A funeral mass will be held on Monday, February 4, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Thomas Church, 1500 Brookdale Rd, Naperville, IL 60563. Interment will follow at Assumption Cemetery in Winfield.
Memorials may be directed to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, PO Box 98018, Washington DC 20090-8018 or Holt International, P.O. Box 2880, Eugene, OR 97402 Family and friends may sign a guest book at hultgrenfh.com. For more information, please call Hultgren Funeral Home at 630-668-0027.
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