Alexander Joseph Welk (Alex)

Ipswitch, SD

1938-39, 793, Tigerville, F-15,
1941, 2754, Wall, NP-2,

A Mass of Christian Burial for Alex J. Welk, the former administrative assistant at Mount St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston, was offered today in St. Columba Catholic Church, Bloomsburg, Pa. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna.

Mr. Welk, 72, died Sunday (Aug. 23, 1992) at his Bloomsburg, PA home. He was a nephew of bandleader Lawrence Welk, who died May 17 at age 89.

Born in Strasburg, ND on January 19, 1920, he served with the Army Air Forces during World War II. A gunner on a B-24, he flew 50 missions over Europe. He also served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Black Hills and Badlands of South Dakota in 1940 and 1941. He was a past post commander of Catholic War Veterans.

Mr. Welk was a custodial engineer in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda school system from 1948 to 1952; superintendent of buildings and grounds for the University of Buffalo from 1952 to 1966 and administrative assistant at the Lewiston hospital from 1966 to 1982.

He was a member of St. Columba's Church in Bloomsburg and a former member of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Amherst. He was past president of Curia with the Legion of Mary and a past eucharistic minister at St. Columba's and St. Leo's.

Welk was past president of the St. Vincent DePaul Society in the Buffalo Catholic Diocese and past president of St. Leo's Holy Name Society. He was a member of the parish councils at St. Columba's and St. Leo's. He served on the Buffalo Council of Catholic Men and was a former tour guide at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in New Jersey.

Survivors include a daughter, Lois of Coming; three sons, Francis of Bloomsburg, Lawrence of Alexandria, Va., and Allen of Marietta, Ga.; four sisters, Margaret Schramm of Minneapolis, Teresa Weisgram of Grand Forks, ND, Alice Deffendall of Lebanon, Tenn., and Bertha Wetzler of Boulder, Colo.; two brothers, Bernard of Medford, Ore., and Eugene of Aberdeen, S.D., and four grandchildren.

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