Submitted by:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  John Kolat <Jr.>

South Bend Tribune:  February 19, 1982

Surnames mentioned:  Kolat, Woolverton, Songer, Vuckis, Gaul

South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries; Friday, February 19, 1982.

John Kolat, 75, of 24260 W. Edison, died at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.  He was retired in 1969 from the Bendix Corp.  Born on Dec. 2, 1906, in McKees Rock, Pa., he had lived here for 41 years after coming from Chicago.  On Aug. 18, 1928, in Crown Point, he married Gladys Woolverton.  She survives, along with a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Songer of Mishawaka; a son, John A. of South Bend; three grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mary Gaul and Mrs. Ann Vuckis, both of South Bend.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Twin City Baptist Church, Mishawaka.  Rev. Mike Randall will officiate  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.  Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William.  He was a member of the church and the Jolly 60 Club of the church, the Michiana and St. Joseph Valley Beagle Clubs, the Bendix Christian Club, and Bendix Local 9, UAW.