Joseph Issac RATAJCZAK

19 JAN 1889 - 21 MAR 1945

• RESIDENCE: FEB 1915, 1316 North Napier, South Bend
• BIRTH: 19 JAN 1889, Reading, Berks, PA
• BURIAL: St Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, In
• DEATH: 21 MAR 1945, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 11 FEB 1917, St Adalberts, St Joseph County, IN

1.  Alfred Ray - RATAJCZAK
2.  Esther RATAJCZAK
3. +Dorothy RATAJCZAK

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[N7476] Birth: Jan. 18, 1893
Reading
Berks County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Mar. 21, 1945
South Bend
St. Joseph County
Indiana, USA

Joseph I. Ratajczak, aged 52,of 114 North Olive street, died at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in Epworth hospital after an illness of two days. He was born in Reading, Pa., Jan. 18, 1893, and came here 40 years ago. On Feb. 6, 1912, he was married in St. Adalbert's Roman Catholic church to Miss Frances Przybylska, who survives. Also surviving are a son, Alfred (Ray) Ratajczak, of Mishawaka; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Paszek and Mrs. Esther Moore, both of South Bend; four brothers, Michael, Vincent and Casimir Ratajczak, all of South Bend, and Rev. Louis Ratajczak of Hobart, Ind.: two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Kryza and Mrs. Victoria Przybylska, both of South Bend, and six grandchildren.
Friends will be received in the home after 6 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholic church by Rev. Anthony J. Rosewicz, C.S.C., pastor, in the absence of Father Ratajczak, who is seriously ill. Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery.

Published in The South Bend Tribune, Thursday Evening, March 22, 1945.

Family links:
Parents:
Francis Peter Ratajczak (1860 - 1938)

Spouse:
Frances H Przybylski Ratajczak (1894 - 1957)

Alfred John Ray (1916 - 1998)*
Esther Mary Ratajczak Moore (1918 - 1986)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Saint Joseph Cemetery
South Bend
St. Joseph County
Indiana, USA