Lawrence Bukoski

Funeral Information

Mass of Christian Burial for Lawrence Bukoski will be Saturday, October 3, 2026 at Good Shepard Parish Catholic Church in Ubly at 11:00 am with Fr. Kumar officiating, with burial to follow at St. John’s Cemetery, north of Ubly. Visitation will be held on Friday, October 2, 2026, at the MacAlpine Funeral Home in Bad Axe, from 2-6 PM, with the rosary at 4 PM. Visitation will also be held one hour prior to the service at Good Shepard Parish Catholic Church in Ubly. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that any donations be made to Compassus Hospice of Cass City. compassuslivingfoundation.org Condolences may be offered to the family at www.macalpinefuneralhome.com

Family of the Deceased

Larry was preceded in death by his parents, Vincent and Agnes (Peruski); brothers, John, Raymond, Sylvester; sister, Eleanor (Paszkowski); brother, Melvin; sister, Marie (Wasierski); brother, Harry; and sister, Lillian (Wojtas). Larry is survived by his loving wife of 74 years, Marlene (Lubeski); son Jerome (Heidi), son, Glenn (Sherry), daughter, Michelle Cassens (John), son, Terry (Amanda); grandchildren, Jay, Alex (Sarah), Megan, Bradley (Brooke), Christopher (Natalie), Brandon (Bucek), Cole, Cameron; great-granddaughters, Harlow, Banner, Blakely, Brynn, Charlotte; and sister, Betty (Ward).

Biography

Lawrence “Larry” Bukoski, 96, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family at his home in Ubly, Michigan, on September 28, 2026. Larry was born on the family farm in Bingham Township east of Ubly on April 2, 1930. Larry spent his entire life living in and around the Ubly area and was thought to be one of the oldest and longest living residents of Ubly at the time of his passing. Larry proudly served his country in the Armed Services (Army) getting drafted in 1951. After completing Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri, Larry returned to Ubly to marry Marlene on December 28, 1951, before being shipped out to Germany for 18 months of active duty. After several years of duty in the reserves Larry was honorably discharged in 1959. Larry’s work life included a series of interesting ventures that started with short stints of sailing on the Great Lakes and working as a carpenter on the construction of the St. John’s Catholic school in Ubly. His first long tenure job started in 1954 when he took a job in the testing lab at the Nestle’ milk processing plant in Ubly. Soon after starting at the plant, Larry became a union steward (he served as a union steward for over 14 years) and was very proud of the contract negotiations he was a part of with the corporate lawyers from New York that resulted in improved work hours and good pay increases for all his fellow workers at the plant. In 1971 when Nestle’ decided to close the Ubly plant, rather than moving his family to New York, Larry decided to retire from Nestle’ and become self-employed and started Bukoski Drywall. Larry truly was a master craftsman and artisan with the tools of his trade, and his drywall and ceiling texturing services were sought out by contractors and clients throughout the Tri-County area. Larry continued to selectively do drywall work into his mid 70’s (he did stop hanging drywall well before then because, as he would say, “that is a young guy’s job”) until the wear and tear of the work on his shoulders forced him to hang up his trowels. In 1984, while still operating Bukoski Drywall, Larry took a custodian job at the Huron County Building because the job provided better healthcare benefits for him and his family. Larry was well liked by the judges that worked in the building and he ended up doing drywall work for many of them in their homes. In 1994 Larry proudly retired from county service. Although he was a busy man with his work, Larry did enjoy several leisure time seasonal activities with his family and a circle of close special friends (Marvin and Stashia Fisher, Jerry and Marie Grifka, Mary Ann and “Brownie” Brown, Eugene and Dorothy Grifka, Donnie and Shirley Kulish, “Calvin” and Bertha Grifka). In the summer it was camping and fishing (Light House Park, Port Crescent State Park, and Jones Lake Rustic Campground were some of his favorite places), and there were many good times had on the annual “parents only” canoe trips on the Rifle River. In the winter Larry enjoyed snowmobiling wherever there was snow, or out on the ice on Saginaw Bay at Mud Creek when there wasn’t much snow, trips to Trout Lake in the UP, and the occasional “parents only” trips to Tip-Up Town on Houghton Lake. Larry and Marlene shared a common love for gardening, landscaping and caring for their yards. Larry especially liked hunting for large granite rocks he would haul home and split by hand to build retaining walls, foundation fascias, and landscape hardscapes. Larry proudly cut his own lawn until August of this year when his health forced him off his riding mower. The family is grateful for the kind and compassionate care Larry received from the wonderful caregivers from Compassus Hospice of Cass City. The love and hugs Larry and all the family received from Christy, Tammy, Robin, and Courtney warmed our hearts and helped all move through the difficult time.

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