Palestine High School Alumni Association

01 / 10 / 1939  02 / 25 / 1996

Services for Walter “Sonny” Kaudelka Jr., 57, of Palestine, will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church with the Rev. Paul E. Johnson officiating. Burial will be at New Addition Cemetery under the direction of Bailey & Foster Funeral Home.

Mr. Kaudelka died Sunday at Memorial Hospital.

He was born in Palestine on January 10, 1939. He was a former building contractor, and at the time of his death, was caretaker of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3907.

Mr. Kaudelka was a 1956 graduate of Palestine High School. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War and received the Bronze Star. He was a life member and Past Commander of VFW Post 3907. Mr. Kaudelka also was a member of the American Legion and Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ingeborg Ponkratz Kaudelka; his mother, Margareta Elizabeth Schuh Kaudelka; and a sister, Helen Dorothy Kaudelka.

He is survived by his father, Walter Kaudelka Sr. of Palestine; son, Walter Kaudelka III of Lewisville; daughter, Christina Knox of Carrollton; sisters, Freida Keck of Kansas City, Kansas, and Rose Kasparik and Elizabeth Kaudelka, both of Houston; brother, Rudy Kaudelka of Palestine; and four grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be member of VFW Post 3907.

Condolence calls will be received from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 02-27-1996