Submitted by: Georgia Gill-Elkins

Kolesiak, Szweda, Smith, Phillips, Kern, Mc Candless, Rudynski
 
South Bend Tribune Jan. 25, 1993 p. B 6

Raymond J. Kolesiak
June 24, 1911 - Jan. 23, 1993
MISHAWAKA - Raymond J. Kolesiak, 81, of Jamestown Court South, died at 5:50 p.m. Saturday in St. Joseph's Medical Center, South Bend, after an illness.  Mr. Kolesiak was an employee of the former Studebaker Corp. and was an employee of the former Wyman's Department Store in the receiving department.  He was  born June 24, 1911, in South Bend, and was a lifelong area resident. In South Bend, he married Alfreda Szweda.  She died Jan. 12, 1969. On Oct. 6, 1973 in South Bend, he married Mary Liszewski. She survives with four daughters, Patricia Smith, of Lincoln, Ill.,  Diane Phillips of Missouri, Kathy Kern of Dowingtown, Pa., and Lynn Mc Candless of Egg Harbor N. J.; two sons, Wayne Liszewski and Paul Liszewski, both of South Bend; eight grandchildren; and a sister, Honorata Rudynski of Mishawaka. He was a member of Holy Name Society of St. Matthew Cathedral, South Bend.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Matthew Cathedral. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Kaniewski & Sons Funeral Home, South Bend, where a parish rosary will be said at 4 p.m.