Leon W DEKA

28 MAR 1885 - 9 AUG 1947

• BIRTH: 28 MAR 1885, South Bend, IN
• DEATH: 9 AUG 1947, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 24 JUN 1913, St Hedwig, St Joseph County Indiana

1. +Leo DEKA
2.  Casimir A DEKA
3.  Loretta DEKA

INDEX

[N22860] Leo Deka

Birth 28 Mar 1885
South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN

Death 9 Aug 1947 (aged 62)
South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN

Burial
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Notre Dame, St. Joseph County, IN
Plot Section D north, lot 553
Memorial ID 51418168

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Indiana South Bend Tribune, Local Obituary; Sunday, August 09, 1947.

Leon W Deka.
Leo Deka, Aged 62, of 529 N. Blaine Avenue, died in St. Joseph Hospital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday after an illness of five weeks. Mr. Deka was born in South Bend March 28, 1885, and had lived here all his life. He is survived by the widow, Stella, two sons, Leo Jr., and Casimir; a daughter, Loretta: three brothers, Anthony, Stanley, and Walter; four sisters, Mrs Martha Niedzielski, Mrs. Pearl Hinschoot, Mrs. Mary Bartkowjak, and Mrs. Lottie Peterson, and three grandchildren, all of South Bend. The body has been taken to the Kaniewaki Funeral Home. Funeral arangements are incomplete.

Funeral Notes: South Bend Tribune; Last rites for Leo Deka, of 529 N. Blaine Avenue, who died Saturday night, will be held at 10 a.m. in St. Hedwige's Catholic Church. Rev. Michael Gadacz, pastor of Holy Family Church, of Gary, Ind., will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Notes: Leo Deka's obit states he has three brothers, Anthony, Stanley, and Walter, and four sisters, Mrs. Martha Niedzielski, Mrs. Pearl Hinschoot, Mrs. Mary Bartkowiak, and Mrs. Lottie Peterson; children, Leo Jr., Casimir, and Loretta are children from his first marriage to Rozalia Manuszak.

Birth in the obituary conflicts with the birth as transcribed from the birth index, March 28, 1885 verses March 28, 1884.

Some research papers document Leo Deka's name as Leon W. Deka.