Submitted by: Dan Rich

Stella Lesiuk

Aug. 16, 1904 - April 14, 1996

South Bend Tribune 4/16/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Stella Lesiuk, 91, of Reno, Nev., formerly of South Bend, who died at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Physicians Hospital, Reno, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road.

Mrs. Lesiuk was born Aug. 16, 1904, in Austria. On Aug. 31, 1919, in Detroit, as Stella Seidel, she married Joseph Lesiuk. He died in 1962. She is survived by two daughters, Irene Card of South Bend and Janice Carr of Reno; a son, Richard of South Bend; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mary Stawski of Shelby Township, Mich. Two sons, Ernest J. and Eugene, and a grandchild preceded her in death. She was a former church member.