Walter LEPKOWSKI

30 MAR 1885 - 1 FEB 1967

• BIRTH: 30 MAR 1885, Grajewo, Poland
• DEATH: 1 FEB 1967, South Bend, St Joseph, IN

• MARRIAGE: 23 JAN 1917, St Joseph County, IN

1. +Helen LEPKOWSKI

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[N22292] Walter Lepkowski

Birth 30 Mar 1885
Poland

Death 1 Feb 1967 (aged 81)
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MI

Burial
Saint Joseph Cemetery
South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN
Plot Section H
Memorial ID 187476000

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From the SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, February 3, 1967, page 8:

Services for Walter Lepkowski, 81, formerly of 811 Napier St., who was pronounced dead on arrival at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Hedwig's Catholic Church. Rev. Sigmund A. Jankowski, C.S.C., pastor of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Mr. Lepkowski's brother-in-law, will officiate. Mr. Lepkowski had resided with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Wood, 3816 Borgess Dr., Kalamazoo, for the last three months. He was born on March 31, 1885, in Grajewo, Poland. He was a retired Studebaker Corp. employee. His wife, Mary, died last Oct 9.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Sobecki of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Irene Anderson of Springboro, Ohio, Mrs. Helen O'Parker of Detroit and Mrs. Wood; two stepdaughters,, Mrs. Ruth Kubiak and Mrs. Sophie Kazmierczak, both of South Bend; 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Mr. Lepkowski was a member of Group 79, St. Vincent de Paul Polish Roman Catholic Union.

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