Victor Chmielewski MEERS

6 NOV 1889 - 21 OCT 1926

• OCCUPATION: Lineman I & M Electric
  
• RESIDENCE: 1815 West Washington
• RELIGION: St. Stanilaus Catholic Church
  
• BIRTH: 6 NOV 1889, Chicago IL
• EVENT: Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Electrocution
• BURIAL: Swan Lake Memorial Gardens, Michigan City In
• DEATH: 21 OCT 1926, South Bend, IN - St. Joseph County

• MARRIAGE: 5 MAY 1925, South Bend, IN

1. +Helen Marie MEERS

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[N10470] Victor Chmielewski Ran away to join the Navy in WW1 and was underage. His false identification bore the name "Meers" and it stuck for his lifetime. He was trained in the navy as an electrician mate and Joined I& M Electric after the war.

He was electrocuted in 1926 when his body came in contact with a 37000-volt line.

In 1936 his wife Helen Hosinski Meers will adopt the children of Frank and Laura Piechorowski and change thier name to "Meers". Her act of kindness kept this family of Orphan children together but ended the male line of the Piechorowski family originally decended from Joseph Piechorowski, brother of Jan, son of Andrew and Josepha Tzebratowska.

Source: Ann Timm Rimkus, Chantilly, VA 20151-2450. The oldest daughter of Jerome Joseph Timm and Helen Marie Meers Timm. Thus, her maternal grandmother was Helen Hosinski Meers. Dec 2004

Our grandfather, Victor Chmielewski Meers, was originally interred in Cedar Grove Cemetary as you report. However, in 1964, after my parents bought plots at Swan Lake Memorial Gardens, my grandma decided she wanted to be buried next to my mom. Thus, she bought the two plots next to my parents and had my grandfather's body moved there. My mother died August 29, 2003, and is buried next to her mother.