Submitted by: Dan Rich

Patrick J. Fitzgerald

Feb. 26, 1914 - April 8, 1996

South Bend Tribune 4/10/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Patrick J. ''Packy'' Fitzgerald, 82, of Roosevelt Street, who died at 8:15 p.m. Monday in Memorial Hospital, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to American Lung Association.

Mr. Fitzgerald retired in 1975 as parts inspector for Bendix Corp. after 38 years of service. He was born Feb. 26, 1914, in Chicago.

On April 15, 1944, in South Bend, he married Love Groninger. She survives with a daughter, Frances Darlington of Greenwood, Ind.; four sons, Joseph P. of Madisonville, Ky., Eugene P. of Indianapolis, and Kevin T. and Kerry D., both of Helsingborg, Sweden; 10 grandchildren; a sister, Ellen Brooker of Chicago; and a brother, Robert Sr. of Medford, Wis. He was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church, played for the former Bendix Brakes semi-professional softball team, and was the press-box spotter for the field announcer for Notre Dame football games for 35 years.