BLAIR MAN’S FATHER BURIED IN OMAHA

Funeral services were held at Luther Memorial Church in Omaha on Saturday, April 18, for Leopold Schwartz, 74, who died suddenly at University Hospital in Omaha on Wednesday, April 15, 1981, of a heart attack.

Rev. Harlan Brei conducted the services. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery in Omaha.

Leopold August Schwartz was born Leopold August Cznarik in Poland on May 26, 1905, to Wilhelm and Olga Hoffmann Szarnik. On August 15, 1937, he married Klara Ida Steinke and the couple resided in Lodz, Poland, where he and his brothers had a lumber yard.

He served with the Polish Army and was a veteran of both World War I and World War II in his homeland. It was during World War II that the family name was legally changed from Czarnik to Schwartz.

In 1944, his wife and their four children, born in Poland, traveled from their homeland to Austria. He joined them in Rohrback, Austria, after the war where he was a carpenter.

In September, 1956, he brought his wife and six children to Omaha to make their home. He and his family became citizens of the United States in May, 1962.

He was employed by Builder’s Supply Company until his retirement in 1976. He was foreman of the cabinet shop at the time of his retirement.

He is survived by his wife, Klara, of Omaha; three sons, Guenther Swartz of Blair; Hans Schwartz of Omaha; Dieter Schwartz of San Diego, California; and three daughters, Marita (Mrs. Jerry) Alberts of Columbus, Nebraska; Kaethe (Mrs. Thomas) Hopkins of Glendale, Missouri; and Anne (Mrs. Ernst) Groedl of Papua, New Guinea. Two brothers, Oskar Schwartz and Waldemar Schwartz, and one sister, Ellie Schwartz, all of West Germany; and fifteen grandchildren also survive him.

Swanson-Golden Mortuary in Omaha was in charge of arrangements for the services.