Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 9/9/2007

Surnames:  Jozwiak – Lechtanski – Pinkowski – Sherman

Cemetery:  St Joseph Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, Granger

Patricia Ann Pinkowski

August 4, 1940 – September 6, 2007

GRANGER - Patricia Ann Pinkowski, 67, passed away at 4:50am Thursday, September 6, in Hospice House.

Patricia was born August 4, 1940, in South Bend, to the late Emil and Cassie (Lechtanski) Jozwiak.  On June 8, 1963, as Patricia Jozwiak, she married Raymond Pinkowski in St Adalbert’s Catholic Church, Raymond survives.  Also surviving are a daughter, Laura (Rodney) Sherman of South Bend; a son. Robert (Jennifer) Pinkowski of Granger; three grandchildren, Melissa Sherman, Grant Sherman and Zachary Pinkowski.  Patricia had worked for Conn Selmer Musical Instruments in Elkhart for 30 years.  She was a member of ST Pius X Catholic Church and was a 1958 graduate of Washington High School.

Funeral services will be at 10:30am Monday in St Pius X Catholic Church, 52553 Fir Road, Granger, with Rev. William C. Schooler officiating.  Burial will follow at St Joseph Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, Granger.  Friends may call from 2 to 6pm today in the Welsheimer Family Funeral Home, 17033 Cleveland Road, and one hour prior to the services in the church on Monday.

We little knew that morning that God

Was going to call your name.

In life we loved you dearly,

In death we do the same

It broke our hearts to lose you

You did not go alone

For part of us went with you

The day God called you home

You left us peaceful memories

Your love is still our guide

And though we cannot see you

You are always at our side

Our family chain is broken

And nothing seems the same

But as God calls us one by one

The chain will link again.