Submitted by Nadine Hardin

Name in Obituary:  Leo Deka <Sr.>

Names mentioned:  Deka, Niedzielski, Hinschoot, Bartkowjak, Peterson

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

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.