Submitted by: Jeannie Kowalik

The South Bend Tribune, Wednesday, November 28, 1973

Boleslaus (Bill) Cholewczynski, 77, of 2422 Poland St., died at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He retired from the Studebaker Corp. in 1961. Born Dec. 5, 1895, in South Bend, he married Stella Zalewski, who survives. Also surviving are a son, Norbert of South Bend; five daughters, Miss Teresa, at home, and Mrs. Adaline Hes, Mrs. Virginia Kilesiak, Mrs. Gertrude Van Laere, and Mrs. Dorothy Kujawski, all of South Bend; 16 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Leo of South Bend, and two sisters, Mrs. Helen Wasikowski and Miss Mary Cholewczysnki, both of South Bend.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from noon to 9 p.m. Friday in the St. Joseph Funeral Home. Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Adalbert Catholic Church with Rev. Eugene J. Kazmierczak, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery. Mr. Cholewczynski was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Adalbert Church. A parish rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.