Submitted by: Dan Rich
Dr. Stanley Michael Koscielski
April 15, 1932 - March 18, 1996
South Bend Tribune 3/20/1996
SOUTH BEND - Dr. Stanley Michael
Koscielski, 63, of East Jefferson Boulevard, died at 11:37
a.m. Monday in his home after an illness. Dr. Koscielski had
served as a staff member at St. Joseph's Medical Center, Memorial
Hospital and Healthwin Hospital and Nursing Home and became St.
Joseph County coroner in 1971, serving until 1976. He was born
April 15, 1932, in South Bend.
On June 27, 1959, in South Bend, he married
Catherine Germano. She survives with a daughter, Marie Gerken
of South Bend; three sons, Mark A. of Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Matthew
F. of South Bend, and Paul J. of Indianapolis; four
grandchildren; four sisters, Alice Lesniewski, Eleanor Koscielski
and Elizabeth Griffin, all of South Bend, and Jeanette Zakrzewski
of New Carlisle. Dr. Koscielski was a board member of Hospice of
St. Joseph County Inc. and past president of Northern Indiana
Historical Society. He was a graduate of Chicago College of
Osteopathic Medicine and also attended the University of Notre
Dame and Indiana University. He was a Korean War veteran.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in
Sacred Heart Basilica. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. today in Our Lady
Chapel of the basilica, where a rosary-wake service will be at 8
p.m. Hickey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorial
contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc.