Submitted by: Todd Nowicki
Liszewski, Golubska, Kusk, Beaghan
Sylvester Liszewski: (South Bend Tribune 11/28/1942)
20-FOOT FALL KILLS WORKER
Sylvester Liszewski Dies After Plunge Off Balcony
After a fall of 20 feet to a concrete floor in the power plant of
Drewrys Limited, U.S.A. at 1408 Elwood avenue, Sylvester J.
Liszewski, aged 38, rural route No. 3, box 33, died in Epworth
hospital at 8:10 p.m. Friday. Police who investigated said
Liszewski fell from a balcony where a time clock is located.
Previous to the accident, they said, he evidently had been
sitting on a rail waiting to report for work. He was found by
police lying in front of a large clock near the power plant
pumps. A basal skull fracture caused his death, it was stated.
Mr. Liszewski was born in South Bend May 14, 1904, and was
married Aug. 7. 1923, in St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic
church, Terre Coupe, this county, to Miss Sophine Golubska, who
survives. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Theophial Kusk; two
children, Theodore Robert Liszewski and Miss Helen Liszewska, at
home; two brothers, Walter and Ernest Liszewski, and a
step-brother, Edward Kush, all of South Bend. Friends may call st
St. Joseph funeral home. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m.
Tuesday in Holy Cross Roman Catholic church with Rev. Philip V.
Beaghan, C.S.C., pastor, officiating. Burial will be in St.
Josephs Polish cemetery.