Submitted by: Nadine Hardin

 

Name:  Wallisch, John (Heinie)

Names in Obituary:  Wallisch, Hafner, Jankowski, Kallinger, Kandlstorfer,

 

Indiana South Bend Tribune; Thursday, October 6, 1949.

John (Heinie) Wallisch, aged 63, of 306 N. Walnut street, a baseball pitcher in South Bend for several years, died at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Billings Hospital, Chicago, after an illness of two months. He was born in Burgenland, Austria, Sept. 8, 1888, and came here 61 years ago from that country.  He was married April 10, 1918 in South Bend to Miss Martina Hafner, who survives.  Mr. Wallisch was employed as an assembler by the Singer Manufacturing Company here.  Surviving are his widow; two children, Leo and Mrs. Kathryn Jankowski, and one stepson, Frank Kallinger, all of South Bend; four brothers, Michael, Paul, and Joseph, all of South Bend, and George, of St. Paul, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. Anthony Kandlstorfer, of Dowagiac, Mich. Friends may call in the residence after 7 p.m. today until funeral services at 9 a.m. Saturday in St. Mary's Catholic Church.  Rev. Frank C. Brown, C.S.C., pastor, will officiate . Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. He was a member of the St. Anthony's society, the Deustscher Fortbildung Verien, and served in the United States army from 1910 until 1913.