James Zyzda, 1933 - 1996

ZYZDA, LUSK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 6/14/2024 at 20:42:32

Sioux City Journal
15 November 1996

James Zyzda, 63, of Sioux City died unexpectedly Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996, home.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the St. Frances Catholic Church, with the Rev. Paul Louis Arts of St. Frances Catholic Church and Rev. Richard Zenk of St. Patrick's in Akron, Iowa officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, with a parish vigil service at 7 p.m. by Rev. Chris Van Oosbree, followed by a rosary, at the Christy, Smith and Hockenberry Morningside Funeral Home.

Mr. Zyzda was born July 2, 1933, in Drohohycz, Poland. He moved to the United States as a teenager and had lived most of his life in Sioux City. He married Gladys Marie Lusk on Aug. 1, 1959, in Jackson, Minn. He was an electrician for 35 years, retiring in 1993. He was a U.S. Army veteran having served during the Korean.

Mr. Zyzda was a member of the St. Frances Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife of Sioux City; three sons and their wives, Dr. Mike and Margie of Littleton, Colo., Jeff and Jeanne and Chris and Jamie all of Sioux City; one brother and his wife, Walter and Marilyn of Sioux City; four grandchildren, Haleigh, Aaron, Melissa and Nick; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and an infant daughter, Sandy.