From  Rick Berkheiser

"South Bend Tribune", Tuesday, March 8, 2005

John J. Bentkowski
July 30, 1911 -- March 6, 2005

     MISHAWAKA -- John J. Bentkowski, 93, of East Fourth Street, died Sunday in Miller's Merry Manor, LaGrange. Survivors include his wife, Bertha C.; two daughters, Sandra K. Albert of Mishawaka and Karen L. Banks of Leander, Ky.; and a sister, Stella Flowers of South Bend. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Joseph Catholic Church. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Thallemer, Goethals & Wells Funeral Home, where a rosary will be said at 4 p.m.