Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT – April 5, 1997

Arlene A. Lipak

April 3, 1997

Arlene A. (Wnuk) Lipak of Farm Lane, South Bend, Ind., died on Thursday, April 3, in St. Joseph Medical Center.

Mrs. Lipak was born on June 16 in Winona, Minn., and had lived in the South Bend area since 1986, coming from Latrobe, Pa.

On Feb. 20, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wis., she married Mark G. Lipak, who survives. She is also survived by two daughters, Maribeth L. Spittler of Wheaton, Ill., and Lisa M. Woodson of Ashburn, Va.; two sons, Edward J. Kacik of Menominee Falls, Wis., and Mark T. Lipak of Granger, Ind; nine grandchildren; a sister, Maude Lachner of Menominee Falls; and a brother, Leonard Wnuk of Milwaukee.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. on Monday in The Basilica of the Sacred Heart - Notre Dame. Entombment will follow at St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park in Granger.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday in the Hickey Funeral Home, 17131 Cleveland Road, where a Rosary will be said at 7 p.m.

Memorials may be made to the Leukemia Society of America