Submitted by: Dan Rich

Elsa Mantei Jeske

Sept. 21, 1909 - July 29, 2001

South Bend Tribune 7/31/2001

Elsa Mantei Jeske, 91, of Saint Paul's Retirement Community, passed away at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, July 29, in her residence. She was born Sept. 21, 1909, in RudyKopf, Russia, to the late Edward Rohde and Lydia Kremin. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Richard Mantei, who died in 1965. They had been married in Kenosha, Wis., on May 4, 1927.

On Sept. 16, 1982, in Benton Harbor, Mich., she married Julius Jeske, who died in 1990. She is survived by her daughters, Patsy Elaine (Charles) Stewart, Delores Ruth (Charles) Jeske of South Bend and Linda Lou (Michael) Kuruzar of Chandler, Ariz.; a son, Richard D. (Bernadine) Mantei of Edwardsburg, Mich.; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; and by two brothers, Eric Rohde of Pennsylvania and Richard Rohde of Michigan.

Mrs. Jeske retired from the South Bend Medical Foundation where she had worked for 20 years. While living in Benton Harbor she belonged to St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. After coming to South Bend she joined the Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Services will be held at 12 noon on Wednesday, Aug. 1, in the WELSHEIMER FUNERAL HOME NORTH, 17033 Cleveland Road, with Pastor Steven Mischke officiating. Burial will follow at Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today, July 31, in the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul's Retirement Community.