Submitted by: Dan Rich
Joseph John Guentert Jr
Feb. 13, 1918 Dec. 19, 1994
South Bend Tribune 12/21/1994
SOUTH BEND - Joseph J. Guentert Jr.,
76, of Corby Boulevard, who became prominent as a spokesman for
Fair Tax Inc., died at 1:49 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph's Medical
Center. As Fair Tax spokesman from the mid-1980s through the
early-1990s, Mr. Guentert was a frequent and determined critic of
tax funding for various city projects. Mr. Guentert retired in
1976 as a senior engineer technician for the Bendix Energy
Controls Division after 35 years of service. He was born Feb. 13,
1918, in South Bend and was a lifelong area resident.
On Dec. 30, 1944, in Mishawaka, he married
Mary Ellen Frank. She survives with five daughters, Anne Cassler
of Humble, Texas, Louise Springer of Menasha, Wis.,
Christine Morningstar of Rocky Mount, N.C., Mary Claire Kopp
of Greenlawn, N.Y., and Margaret Simmons of Fort Myers,
Fla.; four sons, Joseph J. III of San Ramon, Calif., Lawrence of
West Lafayette, Ind., Andrew of South Bend and Dr. Paul of
Longview, Texas; 20 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; four
sisters, Genevieve Tiede of Martinsville, Ind., and
Rosemary Ziolkowski, Cecelia Lowman and Adelaide Remmo,
all of South Bend; and three brothers, Bert of California, Roman
of South Bend and Frank of Niles. He was a member of St. Anthony
de Padua Catholic Church and a three-time candidate for state
representative.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in St.
Anthony de Padua Catholic Church. Burial will be in Highland
Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday
in McGann Funeral Home, 2313 E. Edison Road, where a parish wake
will be at 4:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the
Muscular Dystrophy Association of St. Joseph County, Right to
Life of St. Joseph County or St. Anthony School.
Editor: He is the son of Joseph John
Guentert and Johanna Jennie Schueller.