Submitted by: Dan Rich

Leona Mae Lechtanski

June 25, 1921 - July 2, 2007

South Bend Tribune 7/5/2007
SOUTH BEND - Leona Mae Lechtanski, 86, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, formerly of 32nd Street, South Bend, IN, died Monday, July 2, in her home in Chandler Place, Rock Hill. Leona Mae was a resident of the Carolinas since May 2000, and had lived in South Bend for 56 years. She was born June 25, 1921, in Chillicothe, Missouri, to Arthur R. and Ruth Mae (Sipes) Garlick, who preceded her in death.

On March 28, 1946, in Long Beach, CA, she married Alex Lechtanski, who died November 7, 2000. She is survived by a son, Frank Angotti of Parkville, MO; two grandsons and three great-granddaughters, all in California; two nieces, Janet Smith of Fort Mill, SC, and Pat Peters of Charlotte, NC; a sister, Shirley Miller of Kansas City, MO; and by a sister-in-law, Harriet Konopinski of Charlotte (former resident of South Bend for 80 years). A special thanks to Hospice of Rock Hill & Home Care caregivers for their devotion in her last few months.

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 6, in the Riverview Cemetery Mausoleum, 2257 N. Portage Road, South Bend. Entombment will follow. There will be no visitation. Leona Mae was a former member of St. Anthony de Padua parish, South Bend. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to Hospice. The HICKEY Funeral Homes, 3516 E. Jefferson Blvd., South Bend, is in charge of arrangements.