The Topeka Daily Capital Friday February 29, 1952 John Kolasinski. John KOLASINSKI, 56, stepfather of Leon KIRK of Topeka, died Wednesday night in a veterans hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Cleveland and was a World War I veteran. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther Kolasinski, Cleveland; two stepsons, Leon KIRK, Topeka and Norman Kirk, Albuquerque, N.M.; two grandchildren and a brother, Joe Kolasinski, Cleveland. The funeral will be held at 8 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Assumption with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary.