Lottie Dolecki Biography

Lottie DOLECKI was born 26 May 1902 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Her parents were Frank and Maryanna (LASZEWSKI) DOLECKI.

"Gramma Ross farmed out Lottie to Kate LASZEWSKI. She hated it. She was sent back home by Kate. Kate said Lottie was sick too often." [*?]

Joseph LANGNER and Lottie DOLECKI were married 12 Jun 1920, in Cicero, Cook County, Illinois. They had one child, a son, Herbert (1923). Joe died in January of 1930. He was only 35 years old.

"After my father died, my mother and I were living with Gramma Ross in her house on 29th Avenue and Cicero Street for about nine to ten months. We had a bedroom with a double bed and one chair." [*HJL]

12 Jun 1920
Joseph & Lottie (Dolecki) Langner

1933
Lottie, Herb, and Wally

"My mother remarried in October 1930 to my Dad’s best friend [Walter WIENCEK]." [*HJL]

1942 Jun 07
"Dad" Walter Weincek, "Graduate" Herb, "Mom" Lottie

"He [Walter WIENCEK] only lived to 1943. He was 43 when he died of cancer." [*HJL]

"After Walter died, Aunt Lottie began as a fortune teller. She knew everyone in town. She was always ailing." [*RML]

"Auntie Lottie had psychic ability. She would have these little psychic flashes." [*MPQ]

"For a while, Lottie would receive hurtful letters from some anonymous person who warned her that Jenny hated Lottie and was going to boot her out of their home." [*MPQ]

"Gram said she got messages from good spirits. I don’t believe they were good spirits because they told her I didn’t like her. I loved her." [*JFL]

"She used to give readings. She used regular cards. I used to do readings with Tarot cards. She asked to see my cards. I took them over to her and she looked through the cards. She asked if she could keep them. She said she was going to ask her personal friendly spirits to bless those cards and guide them. So that any time I would use them they would read right. After a week or so she gave them back to me." [*MPQ]

"When I first moved to California, every time I would leave she would whisper something in my ear. One thing I can remember her telling me when I was with Pat Nolan. She said, 'He is going to leave you. He has someone else. Put money aside.' So I started putting money aside that no one knew about. When I had about $200, sure enough, I found a letter from a girlfriend in San Jose. Within two months, he was out of the house. Another thing she told to me and Dale. 'Don’t sell your house cleaning business yet. It is going to be a real stable, good business.' Dale was thinking of getting into comic books, but she said it wouldn’t be good for us. Sure enough, we had the cleaning business for about ten years. We finally sold it for about $18,000." [*MPQ]

1921
~ Dolecki Sisters ~
Bess Langner
Mae Piasecki
Lottie Langner

"Auntie Lottie had a green thumb, she gave me a Christmas Cactus that still blooms profusely. I think about her every time I see the cactus." [*MPQ]

"I remember once being in her garden in Fountain Valley. Herb and Jenny were in Connecticut. I would go over a couple of times a week. I would help her bath her dogs. Maxie was a sausage dog. I’d help squeegee her windows off for her, stuff like that. She used to tell me stories about things like the first time she ever saw a helicopter in the sky. I really enjoyed visiting her in Fountain Valley." [*MPQ]

Left to right:
Lottie Dolecki Langner Wiencek
Lottie Puk (Jean Piasecki's mother)
Mae Dolecki Piasecki
Jenny Franczkowski Langner
Front and center:
Herb Kenneth Langner

"Lottie had to have matching hat, purse, and shoes. She would wear dresses once and say she didn’t have anything to wear." [*?]

"Aunt Lottie was always well dressed. When we were visiting her in California there was a man who wanted to marry her. She was always getting marriage proposals, but she wasn’t interested in cleaning and cooking for any man." [*KPL]

"A lot of people would write letters to her. She wrote more letters in one year than I wrote in a life time. People were always asking her advice." [*HJL]

"She talked a lot about friends and correspondents in lots of far away places. She got lots of letters and kept them real private." [*MPQ]

"Auntie Lottie was a hypochondriac, she always thought she was around the corner from death for as long as I knew her." [*MPQ]

"I would look in Auntie Lottie’s eyes and see my dad and my grandma. We had a real special relationship." [*MPQ]

"Around Thanksgiving Day in 1987 is when Gram started feeling sick. She was becoming jaundice. She had a little tumor on the liver at the trunk of the bile system. She past away on December 22, 1987. She was buried in Illinois at Woodlawn Cemetery [Forest Park, Cook County], where Gramma Ross’ and Joe Langner and Wally Wiencek, Harry, Marie, Aunt Bessie, and Marty Langner are buried." [*JFL]

[*HJL Herbert Joseph Langner, *JFL Jenny Franczkowski, *KPL Katharine Prevenas Langner, *MPQ Marsha Piasecki Quick, *RML Raymond Martin Langner]

Lottie DOLECKI

1902 - 1987