HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Margaret Louise Ochmanski, 99, passed away on Jan. 31, 2024. She was born in April 1924 in Houlton, Maine to the late Frank and Gertrude McMonigle.

Mrs. Ochmanski graduated from Houlton High School in 1942. She was selected to be the Senior Class Queen that year. She left Houlton to work for the Federal Government as the secretary for the Base Commander at Bradley Army Air Field, Conn. There she met Stanley P. Ochmanski and they were married at Bradley Army Air Field, Conn. in 1945. Mrs. Ochmanski was a military wife and traveled with her husband and family to various Air Force installations around the world and participated in the Officer’s Wives Club at these locations. She was a devoted mother that held her family together while her husband was deployed many times during his Air Force career.

Mrs. Ochmanski was predeceased by her husband Stanley, her brothers James, Francis, Eugene and Louis and sisters Mary, Anna, Alice and Mildred.

Mrs. Ochmanski is survived by her son Stanley Jr., daughter Nancy and husband William, daughter Paula, son Thomas and wife Laurie and daughter Susan; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews from both sides of the family.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on June 6, 2024, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, 41 Western Ave., Augusta, Maine. Interment will follow at noon at the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 143 Blue Star Ave. Augusta, Maine. Funeral services have been entrusted to Plummer Funeral Home, 16 Pleasant St, Augusta, Maine. Condolences, stories and photos may be shared by visiting http://www.plummerfh.com.

In lieu of flowers,

donations in Margaret’s name may be made to:

The American Heart Association or:

The Humane Society

of the United States



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