Submitted by: Dan Rich

William J. Santa Sr.

July 8, 1929 - Nov. 22, 1995

South Bend Tribune 11/24/1995

SOUTH BEND - Services for William J. Santa Sr., 66, of Eclipse Place, who died at 11 a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph's Medical Center, will be at noon Saturday in St. Joseph Funeral Home. Cremation will take place with entombment in St. Joseph Cemetery Mausoleum. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Mr. Santa retired in 1984 from the U.S. Postal Service. He was born July 8, 1929, in South Bend.

In 1953, in Michigan City, he married Mercedes Kalczynski. She survives with four daughters, Patti Kobalski and Roxanne Cohan, both of South Bend, Paulette Richardson of North Liberty and Mary Thomas of Niles; four sons, Ronald, Kenneth, and William J. Jr., all of South Bend, and Paul of New Carlisle; 11 grandchildren; and a sister, Mary Muths of Columbus, Ohio.