Viola Louise Hojnacki, 98, of Pine Island, died February 25, 2025, after a short illness.

Born June 6, 1926, she was one of 12 children born to Polish immigrants Bronislaw and Regina Sendlak Gayewski who settled in Pine Island.

Upon graduation from Warwick Valley High School, she was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. where she met her husband, World War II Navy veteran and Michigan native Walter Stanley Hojnacki.

The couple returned to Pine Island in the early 1950s to build a life around family and farm growing onions, carrots and lettuce before retiring to Leesburg, Fla. They returned to Warwick in the early 1990s to live out their days. Walter Hojnacki died Dec. 31, 2000.

She is survived by one son, Stanley Walter Hojnacki of Monroe, NC, and one sister, Regina Bastek of Westtown, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her brothers, Barney and John Gayewski, and sisters, Apolonia Gayewski, Jean Lupinski, Mary Schreibeis, Charlotte Tomaszewski, Genevieve Tomaszewski, Frances Shaw, Stella Wesolowski and Josephine Wesolowski.

Visitation will be on Thursday, February 27th from 3-6pm at T.S. Purta Funeral Home, 690 County Route 1. Pine Island, N 10969.

A funeral mass will be celebrated 10:30AM on Friday, February 28th at St. Stanislaus Church in Pine Island.

Burial will be in St. Stanislaus Cemetery, Pine Island.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905. or to St. Stanislaus Church c/o St. Joseph Church, 14 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY 10921.