This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2666 Message Board Post: Benjamin Zaleski STRATFORD - Benjamin J. "Ben" Zaleski, 83, of 302 North St., Apt. 2, in Stratford, died at 7:55 a.m. June 10, 2001, at the House of the Dove Hospice Home where he had been admitted on June 1. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church with the Rev. Thomas J. Rudolph, pastor, officiating. Florence Kaiser will be the organist for St. Joseph Church Funeral Choir. Burial will be in St. Adalbert's Cemetery in the Town of McMillan in Marathon County. Serving as pallbearers will be Dennis, Brian, and Jason Bredemann, Patrick Zaleski and Tyler and Tanner Kattre. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Sauter/Kundinger Funeral Home and from 10 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the church. St. Joseph's PCCW Rosary Service will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Mr. Zaleski was born May 11, 1918, in the town of Eau Pleine in Marathon County to Walter and Lottie (nee Gawlikoski) Zaleski. He attended the town of Eau Pleine School. He married Evelyn M. Gliniecki on Sept. 15, 1945, at St. Adalbert's Catholic Church. After his marriage to Evelyn, Ben played for and managed the Little Rose baseball team. Following that he began farming on the homestead farm in the town of Eau Pleine in Marathon County. Ben later left farming and began working at Stratford Homes in Stratford and finally retired from there in 1980. Ben loved spending time with his family and his grandchildren. He enjoyed watching or listening to the Brewers and the Cubs baseball teams or to any sporting event that his grandchildren were involved in. Ben loved to play cards with his family and friends. He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Surviving Mr. Zaleski are his wife, Evelyn Zaleski of Stratford; two daughters and four sons, Christine (Dennis) Bredemann of Stratford, Kenneth (Charlotte) Zaleski of Marshfield, Allan (Susan) Zaleski of Stratford, Daniel (Nancy) Zaleski of Boyington Beach, Fla., Cheryl (Gil) Kattre of Abbotsford and Ben Jr. (Carmen) Zaleski of Stratford; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; his sister, Monica Fedak of Gary, Ind., and his brother, Harry Zaleski of Granton. He was predeceased by a daughter, Nancy Ann Zaleski on Aug. 21, 1974; by his parents, two brothers and three sisters.