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Sara Jo Bilancia, age 54, of Kenosha passed away surrounded by family and friends, on Tuesday, July 27th,2021 at Froedtert South Pleasant Prairie Campus. Sara was born on November 14th,1966 in Ishpeming, MI to Rigu and Josie (Isaacs) Jylha. Sara graduated from Republic-Michigamme High School in 1984 and moved to Kenosha in 1987. She married Bradley Bilancia on December 22nd,1989 in Highbridge, WI. Sara worked for GPI Anatomicals for over 20 years. She was a longtime member of the Independent Apostolic Lutheran Church. Sara was very artistic by nature, which showed in her love of photography, writing and painting. She was extremely clever and witty and was loved by everyone who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her father.
Sara is survived by, three sons, Zack (Amber) Bilancia, Joe Bilancia and Deton (Allie) Julius; her mother, Josie Jylha; two siblings, Cindy (Richard) Altergott and Jake Jylha; a niece, Mallory Olson; a nephew, Troy (Trish) Altergott; a grandniece, Hannah Altergott; her ex-husband, Bradley Bilancia; other family and many friends and a host of brothers and sisters in faith.
Funeral services for Sara will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 31, 2021, at Independent Apostolic Lutheran Church (6721 -156th Avenue) with interment to follow at Bristol-Paris Cemetery. A visitation will be held on Saturday at the church from 11:00 A.M. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family would be appreciated.
Sara’s family would like to express their sincerest gratitude to the staffs of the Froedtert South Pleasant Prairie Cancer Center and the hospital’s ICU for the wonderful and compassionate care.
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Kay says:
It is with a deep saddest to learn of Sara’s passing, my condolences to her family.
Sara was a very good friend of my husband, Baron. They had befriended each other through an online writer’s forum and became best friends.
We had the pleasure of spending time with her when she had came to California to attend the writer’s symposium and several times she stayed with us.
Her visits generally coincided with Halloween and what a spooktacular time too. There were all these scary, spooky Halloween Haunts to attend and we had the opportunity to take Sara out on these haunts. She would scream in fright when a “monster” jumped out from the darkness, but had a belly full of laughter afterwards.
Sara was a kind and truly lovely person. She was thoughtful and cared deeply for her sons, family, and friends. She will always be remembered fondly. 💕✨
Cindy Altergott says:
Hello Kay,
This is Sara’s sister, Cindy. Thank you for sharing your memories of Sara. She enjoyed her trips to California and cared deeply for both you and Baron as well. She spoke of you both often. We did try to reach out to Baron through text and Instagram but weren’t sure if we had the right accounts. It is strange, I almost feel like I know Baron, even though we never met.
Mark Niemi says:
I can’t believe it has been two years. I just found out from Tim V that she had passed. I was very fond of her back in highschool and we along with the Vial brothers used to hang out quite a bit. I am deeply saddned to hear of her passing and that I never got to catch up with her. RIP