Grand Rapids, Michigan
Pawelka, Karl Karl Frank Pawelka, age 85, passed away December 6, 2015 after a short illness in Florida. He was born in the Czech Republic and lost both of his parents during the war when he was 15 years old. He spent many years living in Heidelberg, Germany before he immigrated to New York and...
Read MoreI have many fond memories of playing tennis with Karl. He was a wonderful friend. It was special when we got together over wonderful food with his family. Miss him. Al Meder, Lincoln, Ne, but formerly of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Al Meder
December 05, 2024 | Friend
Dear Hildegarde and family
Our sincere condolences and prayers in this time of grief. You have had the pleasure of spending the majority of your lives with Karl.
I first met Karl when I took a trip to the East Coast to interview this engineer who was working at Lever Bros as I recall. We hit it off and Karl and family made the move to Amway and Grand Rapids. Our families became good friends and we had many evenings of playing cards along with the Bakers. We shared Christmases...
December 27, 2015
Our deepest sympathy to you and your entire family, Hildegard. We feel lucky to be your neighbor and it has been so great to get to know Karl. We thought the world of him. I always loved to see him drive away with his bicycle loaded on his bike rack. He had a wonderful spirit and we will miss him. Please let me know if we can help you with anything in the coming months.
Sincerely, Cheryl, Tom, Abigail & Joe
Cheryl Carpenter
December 18, 2015 | East Grand Rapids, MI
Our deepest sympathies to the Pawelka family. Heaven has welcomed a most principled and caring man.
Greg & Pam Grochoski
December 18, 2015 | Ada, MI
My condolences to the Pawelka family. I always enjoyed listening to Karl, and will remember the musical and poetic qualities of his voice, tone, and cadence of speech.
Mark Siehling
December 18, 2015 | Walker, MI
Walt and the Palwelka family, We are sorry to hear about the passing of your dad. I only met him a few times but from our conversations, he was quite a guy.
Mary and Steve Kretschman
Mary Kretschman
December 17, 2015 | Grand Rapids, MI
Hildegard, Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Terry & Roswitha Vander Laan
December 17, 2015 | Fort Myers, FL
Our sincere condolences to the Pawelka family,
Stefanie & Donovan Anderson
Stefanie Anderson
December 17, 2015 | Allendale, MI
Our sincere condolences to Hildegard and the Pawelka family. Karl was a mentor and a friend of mine since Day 1 at Amway. I enjoyed the many stories and jokes he'd tell on our weekly Friday team lunches...it was always entertaining with Karl. I was with him for two major events; watching MSU's 1979 Basketball Championship game(while on a business trip in California)and the night Reagan was elected President (while were playing cards at his house)...with Rex his dog standing guard at the...
Neal & Mimi Brophy
December 16, 2015 | Menifee, CA
