Submitted by: Todd Nowicki

Josephine V. Odynski: (South Bend Tribune 4/19/1985)

Josephine V. Odynski, 72, of 1524 W. Poland St., died at 9:20 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph’s Medical Center. She was born March 12, 1913, in South Bend and lived here all her life. On April 2, 1929, in South Bend, as Josephine V. Michalski, she married John Odynski, who died June 9, 1976. She is survived by a daughter, Lorraine Taberski of South Bend; a son, James Ornat of South Bend; and five grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Casimir’s Catholic Church, and burial will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday in the Kaniewski and Sons Funeral Home, where a parish rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Senior Citizens of St. Casimir’s of which she was a member, will lead a rosary at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. She was also a member of the Ladies Civic Club and the Rosary Society of the church.