Constantinescu services

Mr. Constantinescu died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002, at Baldwin Care Center. He was cremated.

He was born Nov. 1, 1921, in Bucharest, Romania, the son of Jon and Catherine (Bucurescu) Constantinescu. He attended school in Romania and graduated in 1933. He then trained as a millwright in a Romanian trade school.

Mr. Constantinescu joined the Romanian Army at 18 and fought on the Russian front in World War II. He moved to Austria after the war and to the United States in August 1951. He and his family lived in the Lake Latawana, Mo., area until 1954, when they moved to Baldwin. He worked at Sunflower Ammunition Plant, owned a mechanics garage in Baldwin, and worked for the Ship-Winter Chevrolet dealership in Lawrence before starting with General Motors in 1963. He remained with General Motors until he retired in 1987.

He was a member of United Auto Workers Local Union No. 31. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Abdullah Shrine Temple in Kansas City, Kan., and Shriners Antique Car Club.

He married Karin Garher on Feb. 12, 1948, in Linz, Austria. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include a son, Marion, Baldwin; a daughter, Diana Gates, Lawrence; a brother, Gheorghe, Romania; a sister, Stephania Tudor, Romania; and two grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Douglas County Hospice, Cottonwood Inc. or to the church, sent in care of Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.