Submitted by Nadine Hardin

 

Name in Obituary: Anna Agnes Kertai (Mrs. Emery A. Kertai)

Names mentioned:  Kertai, Racz, Kertai, Conjalka, Zsedely, Baichley, Pajor, Varga

 

Indiana; South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries; Monday, December 17, 1979.

Mrs. Anna Agnes Kertai, 93, of 1244 N. Eclipse, died at 8:48 p.m. Sunday in St. Joseph's Hospital after a lengthy illness.  She was born on July 26, 1886, in Raba Patona, Gyor-Megye, Hungary, and had lived in South Bend since 1908, having come from Hungary.  On December 11, 1908, as Anna Agnes Racz, she married Emery A. Kertai, who died on May 1, 1953.  Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Velma Conjalka of Pompano Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Anna Zsedely, Mrs. Irma Baichley and Mrs. Mary Tajar (Pajor), all of South Bend, three sons, Ernest, Rudolph, and Emery H., all of South Bend; 18 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Agnes Varga of Hungary, and two brothers, Erno Racz and Laci Racz, both of Hungary.

Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Kaniewski and Sons Funeral Home.  She was a member of St. Stephen's Catholic Church.

 

Indiana; South Bend Tribune, Funeral Notes; Tuesday, December 18, 1979.

KERTAI - Services for Mrs. Anna Agnes Kertai, 93, of 1244 N. Eclipse, who died at 8:48 p.m. Sunday, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Stephen's Catholic Church.  Msgr. Elmer G. Peterson, pastor, will officiate.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.  Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Kaniewski and Sons Funeral Home, where a wake service will be observed at 7 p.m. Wednesday.