Submitted by:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Joseph Boktor

South Bend Tribune:  October 09, 1979

Surnames mentioned:  Boktor, Toth, Molnar, Bogovich, Borondich, Kakcsa

South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries; Tuesday, October 9, 1979.

Joseph Boktor.

Joseph Boktor, 90, of 617 E. Napoleon, died shortly after 11 p.m. Monday in Memorial Hospital of self-inflicted gunshot and stab wounds according to St. Joseph County Deputy Coroner Dr. L. Grwinski, who ruled the death a suicide.  He was a retired employee of the South Bend Lathe Co.  He was born May 14, 1889 in Hungary, and had lived in South Bend for 68 years.  In 1935 in South Bend, he married Juliet Toth, who died in 1959.  Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Julia Molnar and Mrs. Veronica Bogovich, both of South Bend, and Mrs. Margaret Borondich and Mrs. Mary Kakcsa, both of Yugoslavia, and a brother, John of Yugoslavia.

Services will be at 10 am. Thursday in the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.  Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Zahoran Funeral Home.  Memorial contributions may be made to the church memorial fund.