2 JULY 1973
Funeral services for Max Grudzinski, 90, who died Monday
afternoon, July 2 at the Rose Lane Nursing Home in Loup City, were conducted
this Thursday morning at 10:30 at the Mt. Carmel Catholic Church at Paplin.
The Rev. Milan Kopushar and Ray Kosmicki con-celebrated the Mass of the
Resurrection with interment in the parish cemetery. Music for the service was
provided by Mrs. Gertrude Lukasiewicz, organist.
Casketbearers were grandsons, Stanley J. Grudzinski, Isadore Jonak, Laverne
Kosmicki, Richard Grudzinski, Jerome Kosmicki, and Frank Jonak Jr.
Visitations were conducted Wednesday afternoon and evening with the parish
rosary being recited at 8 p.m. in the chapel of the Steele-Pospisil Funeral
Home.
Mr. Grudzinski was born Oct.12, 1882, six miles north of Ashton, on a
homestead, the son of Joseph and Theodora (Sydow) Grudzinski. He received his
primary education in the Sherman County Schools and the Paplin parochial school.
On Aug. 12, 1906, at Posen, he was united in marriage to Lottie Moraczewski.
They farmed in Sherman County until her death in 1940. Mr. Grudzinski then
moved to Loup City and for the past 20 years had made his home with a daughter,
Agnes, (Mrs. Frank Jonak Sr.) at Ashton until failing health required
hospitalization and for the past year, he had been a resident of Rose Lane
Home. Mr. Grudzinski was a life long member of the Mt. Carmel Catholic Church
at Paplin.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Frank (Agnes) Jonak
Sr. of Ashton, Mrs. Frank (Cashmere) Kosmicki of Alliance, Mrs. Elroy (Monica)
Furby of Grand Island; two sons, Louie of Watertown, Wis., and Leonard of
Phillips; 41 grandchildren; 95 great grandchildren and one great great
grnadchild and two sisters, Mrs. Alex (Clara) Cynova of Spruce, Colo., and Mrs.
Paul (Anna) Woitaszewski of Loup City as well as other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife, two daughters, two sons, three
grandchildren, five brothers, one sister, one step-brother and one step-sister
as well as his parents.