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Since 1919 on the firm's account · directory-verified 1956 – 1971 · in South Bend today
The roster's unnamed pair, tested:Kaniewski is the Polish west side's house. The firm's own published account claims service to families for over 100 years and across five generations, and its directory listings date the founding 1919; a Better Business Bureau profile gives 1968, a file-start date that the directory record itself contradicts, since the classified of 1956 already carries the firm at two addresses: "KANIEWSKI V K & SON MORTUARY, 1032 W Washington av (ATlantic 7-0444); 614 Arnold (ATlantic 7-7000)." The two dates stand printed together; the directories govern the firm's presence.
The directory course: The 1963 alphabetical names the proprietor in his own line — Bernard V. Kaniewski, "(Ernestine, Kaniewski & Son Mortuary)" — and by 1971 the classified carries "KANIEWSKI & SONS FUNERAL HOME," with the family's second generation in the officers' lines: a president whose wife is Ernestine, Joseph V. as vice-president, a Robert as vice-president, and a secretary-treasurer. The house stands in South Bend today at 3545 North Bendix Drive, with a second house at New Carlisle (201 South Filbert Street) — the county's house boundary-printed at its size. One caution the record itself teaches: the owners roster's Kaniewski lines are a hardware dealer of 1921 and a furniture man of 1949, not this firm; the funeral house enters the record on the classified and the firm's own account, not on the roster.
Sources:
- Polk's South Bend and Mishawaka City Directory, 1956, classified — "KANIEWSKI V K & SON MORTUARY, 1032 W Washington av (ATlantic 7-0444); 614 Arnold (ATlantic 7-7000)."
- Polk's South Bend City Directory, 1963, alphabetical — Bernard V. Kaniewski's line, "(Ernestine, Kaniewski & Son Mortuary)."
- Polk's South Bend City Directory, 1971, classified and alphabetical — "KANIEWSKI & SONS FUNERAL HOME"; the officers' lines (Joseph V., vice-president; Robert, vice-president; the president's wife Ernestine).
- The firm's published account — "helping families for over 100 years and five generations"; the present houses at 3545 N. Bendix Dr and 201 S. Filbert, New Carlisle; the founding given as 1919 in its directory listings.
- Better Business Bureau profile — "in business since 1968"; printed against the directory record.