Chester K. Stranczek (1929-2015)

Chet Stranczek was born 19 November 1929 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States to Kanty Stranczek (1894-1984) and Josephine Unknown (1905-1981) and died 5 September 2015 Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States of unspecified causes. He married Diane D Buksa (c1940) .

Children

Offspring of Chet Stranczek and Diane D Buksa (c1940)^¢
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Robert Kanty Stranczek (c1964)
Michael E Stranczek (c1966)

‡ General

Mayor of Crestwood, Illinois from 1969 till 2007, succeeded by his son Robert.
Despite obvious non-English ancestry, he put his name to a misspelled village sign proclaiming that people should learn the village language, English. According to Wikipedia, "The top five ancestries reported in Crestwood as of the 2000 census were Irish (29.4%), German (23.8%), Polish (19.8%), Italian (12.0%) and English (4.8%)." His family was Polish. St Benedict Cemetery in Worth Township records Kanty and Josephine Stranczek (the only people with that surname). Cook County, Illinois Birth Index records a Chester Stranczek born 19 November 1929.
Chester K. Stranczek at Find A Grave
http://chicagoargus.blogspot.com/2009/04/crestwoods-tainted-water-cover-up-not.html
Wikipedia:Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois
http://buyo.blogspot.com/2007/06/mayor-chester-stranczek.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-02-22/features/9802220404_1_crestwood-minor-base
http://readingonwaldenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/crestwood-mayor-chester-stranczek-americas-best-small-town-mayor-plans-to-resign/
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=stranc001che
http://www.canisius.edu/alumni/magazine/fall07/canisius_develop.pdf
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ssghs.org%2Fworth_township_R-Z.htm

¢ Children

Diane D Stranczek (age 69; relatives: Michael E Stranczek, Chet Stranczek, Chester Stranczek, Chester K Stranczek, Barbara A Stranczek)

Chester Stranczek

Chester K Stranczek

Barbara A Stranczek (age 44; relatives: Chester K Stranczek, Ashley Stranczek, Dawn M Gess, Donald T Bertram, Betty J Bertram)

Lora Ann Brady (no record in Illinois)

There was also a Chester Stranczek aged 71 with the same relatives as the 81-year-old except for Robert K (above) replacing Chet. Chet's only listed relatives were Diane D Stranczek and Chester K Stranczek.