Submitted by Nadine Hardin

Name in Obituary:  Ernest S. Kertai

Names mentioned:  Kertai, Stricker, Baichley, Pajor, Conjalka

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries:  Local Obituaries, Thursday, April 21, 1983.

Ernest S. Kertai, 72, of 1244 N. Eclipse, died at 12:15 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.  He was a former Studebaker Corp. employee.  He was born on Oct. 10, 1910, in South Bend, and lived in the South Bend area all his life.  On July 3, 1943, in North Carolina, he married Mary Frances Stricker.  She died on April 30, 1970.  He is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Anna Zsedely, Mrs. Irma Baichley and Mrs. Mary Pajor, and Mrs. Velma Conjalka of Pompano Beach, Fla.; and two brothers, Rudolph and Emery, both of South Bend.

Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Kaniewski and Son Funeral Home.  Burial will be Saturday afternoon in the Charlestown

(Ind.) Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.  He was a veteran of World War II.

South Bend Tribune, Death Notices; Friday, April 22, 1983.

KERTAI - Graveside services for Ernest S. Kertai, 72, of 1244 N. Eclipse, who died Thursday in Memorial Hospital, will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Charlestown Cemetery in Charlestown, Ind.  Friends may call until 9 p.m. today in the Kaniewski and Sons Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be conducted at 7 p.m. today.  Rev. Paul F.

Doyle, C.S.C., pastor of St Joseph Catholic Church, will officiate.  Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.