Donald Joseph Karczmarczyk Sr.

Donald Karczmarczyk Sr. FORT MADISON, Iowa #45;- Donald Joseph Karczmarczyk Sr., 51, of 1215 32nd St., Fort Madison, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003, at Fort Madison Community Hospital, Fort Madison. Memorial services are 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fort Madison. The Rev. Willa Goodfellow will officiate. His body was cremated. The family will meet friends after the services. A memorial has been established for Narcotics Anonymous. Barr Memorial Chapel, Fort Madison, is handling the arrangements. Mr. Karczmarczyk was born on Feb. 8, 1951, in Fort Madison, the son of Peter Paul and Stella Josephine Giemec Karczmarczyk. He married Phyllis Stoops. He then married Donni Sue Sylvester on Aug. 7, 1993, in Fort Madison. After his mother died he was raised by his aunt, Helen Lyttaker, of Fort Madison. He was a lifelong resident of Fort Madison and an a member of the Christian faith. He did automotive body repair work, retiring in 1990. He was a sponsor of the Fort Madison Narcotics Anonymous program and was affiliated with the programs in Muscatine, Burlington and Keokuk. He was a self taught computer enthusiast and maintained several Web sites on r...[more]

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very and spirituality. He loved his animals and cooking. Survivors include his wife, Donni; three sons, Donald Karczmarczyk Jr. and his wife, Kara, of Peoria, Ill., Anthony Huber and his wife, Rachel, of Ames and Jamie Gravett and his wife, Jessica, of Fort Sill, Okla.; two daughters, Kristy Karczmarczyk of Peoria and Rosie Griffith of Fort Madison; a brother, Peter Karczmarczyk and his wife, Marty, of Arkansas; three brothers-in-law, Edwin Day of Missouri, Donald Sylvester and his wife, Debra, of Wever and Pat Roxlau of Montrose; a father-in-law, Bill Roxlau of Donnellson; a granddaughter, Deanna; an uncle, Walter Karczmarczyk of Chicago, Ill.; two nieces; and four nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Anna Day; and a sister-in-law, Mary Ann Roxlau.