Robert A.       Kopnicky

Robert Andrew Kopnicky, 73, of Newtown, died on July 23 in Danbury Hospital after a long illness.

Born in Stratford to the late Joseph and Elizabeth (Dugas) Kopnicky, he was a graduate of Stratford High School, class of 1947, where he was very active in sports. He had worked as a mason contractor, and excelled in duckpin bowling, for which he won many awards.

He was predeceased by a son, Wayne, two brothers, Richard and Joseph, and a sister, Lilian Miller.

Mr Kopnicky is survived by his loving wife, Shirley (Munich) Kopnicky; two sons, Steven of Newtown, and Alan and his wife, Mary; two grandchildren, Joseph Kopnicky and his fiancé, Cassandra Kolenich, and Nancy Kopnicky and her fiancé, Brian Jones, all of Ohio; also Sharon Kopnicky of Danbury, and four stepchildren, Rachel and Jennifer Greene, and Amy and D.J. Salazar; two brothers, Clement Kopnicky and his wife, Joan, of Newtown, and Reginald Kopnicky and his wife, Frances, of Stratford; four sisters, Margaret Cheever and her husband, Edward, of Bridgeport, Florence Reiland of Milford, Betty Bayliff and her husband, Clarence, of California, Joan Snyder of Florida, and sister-in-law Valerie Kopnicky, of Newtown; as well as many nephews and cousins.

A Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, July 27, at 10 am at St Stephens Church, 6948 Main Street, Trumbull, with burial to follow at St Rose of Lima Cemetery, Newtown.

Calling hours were scheduled on Thursday, July 26, from 4 to 8 pm in the Lesko Miner Funeral Home, 155 Main Street (Route 25) Monroe.

The Newtown Bee         July 27, 2001