CHICAGO — Regina Michalski made homemade kolaczki and planted beautiful flowers in her Northwest Side backyard every year. Born in Poland in 1926, the “very smart” 96-year-old retired Motorola technician was fluent in German and Russian and lived through the Nazi occupation during World War II, her relatives said.
Many “wonderful’' but distant memories are all that remain Wednesday after Michalski’s body was found in a freezer earlier this week and her daughter has been charged with concealing a death, Chicago police said.
Eva Bratcher, 69, was additionally charged with possessing a fraudulent ID card, police said in a statement. Bratcher was scheduled to appear before a judge on Thursday, police said.
