Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Leonard Mrozinski Sr.

Sept. 21, 1916 - Feb. 6, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 2/7/1996

SOUTH BEND - Leonard Mrozinski Sr., 79, of Lake Street, died at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph's Care Center-West. Mr. Mrozinski retired in 1974 from Bendix Corp. He was born Sept. 21, 1916, in South Bend.

 

On Feb. 26, 1938, in South Bend, he married Eleanor Chyla. She survives with three daughters, Llona Jerzakowski of El Paso, Texas, Donna Conway of North Liberty, and Rita Imel of South Bend; four sons, Ray, Hillary and Mel, all of South Bend, and Leonard Jr. of Osceola; 15 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Hildegard Gilbert of Stevensville, and Harriet Steinbrunner, Alice Cencelewski and Irene Epperson, all of South Bend. A daughter, Pauline Lewandowski, died Sept. 25, 1990. He was an Army veteran of World War II.

 

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Adalbert's Catholic Church. Entombment will be in Resurrection Gardens Mausoleum of St. Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph Funeral Home, where a parish rosary will be said at 4 p.m.