MUSKEGO- Born to Eternal Life on Thursday, September 26, 2024.  Age 92.  Loving mother of Judy (Jim) Prochnow, Sharon Yesko and Jean (John) Pachowitz.  Dear grandmother of Amy, Heather (Andy), Melissa (Kate), Kyle (Emily), Zack (Elizabeth) and Eric (Melissa); and great-grandmother to Annalyse, Bentley, Landon, Dylan, Hensley, Palmer and Harrison.  Dear sister of Margaret Krebs, Clara Scharpf and John (Kay) Walter.  Further survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. 

Preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Gerald “Jerry” Lentz; her son-in-law, Dan Yesko; her sisters, Mary, Dorothy, Eleanor and Ann; her brother, Franklin; her sister-in-law, Marie and her brothers-in-law, Mike, Bob, Lyle, Jack and Ray. 

Visitation Monday, October 7, 2024 from 10:30am until Time of Memorial Service at 12:00 Noon at Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home, 10121 W. North Avenue, Wauwatosa.  Private interment Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Union Grove.  

Theresa was a long-time resident of Wauwatosa, Wind Lake and lived the past 12 years at the Stoney Creek Adult Community in Muskego where she met many people and forged many friendships. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Theresa's name to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) appreciated.  Theresa was a two-time survivor of breast cancer.