Funeral Service for Oscar will be held at 11 AM, on Saturday May 19, 2012 at the North Crow River Lutheran Church North of Cokato.
Visitation: 5-7:30 PM on Friday at Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home of Cokato
Interment will be at the Cokato Finnish Cemetery
Oscar Erven Jatko, age 90 of Cokato passed away on May 15, 2012. He was
born to proud parents Arthur and Hilda Jatko at their home in Cokato
township. Oscar’s mother passed away in
1929, when Oscar was 7 years old, which split the family up, at that time Oscar
was raised by foster parents Ernest and Sophie Kallunki until he entered into
the army in 1942. He served in the
Pacific Theater until the end of the war.
Oscar later married Helen Gunderson on May 8, 1948. He worked as a milkman, construction worker
for Truck Crane inc. of Minneapolis, and Payco Seed Co. of Dassel. Oscar enjoyed working around the yard, gardening,
sawing and splitting wood, ice fishing in his spear house and having good conversations with just about
anyone he met. He was a special husband,
father and grandfather who left everlasting memories for each of them. Survived by children Suzanne (Delaino)
Schafer of Darwin and Michael (Connie) Jatko of Buffalo, 6 grandchildren John (Shannon) McClure, Bryan
McClure, Scott (Tina) McClure, Sarah (Jeff) Layton, David (Kim) Jatko
and Sonja (Chris) VanKeulen along with 16 great-grandchildren. Proceeded in death by parents Arthur and
Hilda Jatko, wife Helen, brothers Adler, Henry and William and sisters Ida and
Julia,