Submitted by: Dan Rich

Matthew L. Palatin

Sept 6, 1919 – July 2, 1991

South Bend Tribune 7/3/1991

SOUTH BEND – Matthew L. Palatin, 71, of Bryon Drive, died at 11:52 p.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Medical Center. He was retired from AM General Corp., and was employed by the former Studebaker Corp. He was born Sept. 6, 1919 in Minnehoff, Austria, and lived in South Bend for 68 years.

His first wife Margaret Lemmerarth died in 1967. On July 17, 1976 in South Bend, he married Catherine Agostino. She survives with three daughters, Barbara Palatin and Patricia Palatin, both of South Bend, and Margaret Palatin of Fornery, Texas; two stepsons, James Augustino of Osceola and Robert Agostino of Niles; six step-grandchildren; and a step-great-grandchild. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of Disable American Veterans Chapter 6 and United Auto Workers Local 5.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in St Matthew Catholic Cathedral. Burial will be in Highland cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday in Zahoran Funeral Home where the rosary will be said at 4 p.m.