FENDRYCH, Zygmunt 'Ziggy' Antoni

Passed away peacefully at St. Joseph's Health Centre, Guelph on
Wednesday, October 14, 2020. Zygmunt Fendrych, in his 95th year,
was the beloved husband of the late Krystyna (née Rutkowska) Fendrych
(2015). He is survived by many nieces and nephews.
Ziggy was the beloved Wujeck and Dziadziu Ziggy to his family in Canada
and Poland.

A funeral mass will be held at the Sacred Heart Church, 98 Alice Street,
Guelph on Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. A rosary will be held
at the church at 10 a.m. Social distancing rules must be observed and
masks must be worn. Friends and family are invited to leave their names
and information on the RSVP button or call the funeral home (519-822-4731)
to attend the mass. Private entombment at Our Lady Immaculate Mausoleum,
Marymount Cemetery, Guelph.

Zygmunt Antoni was born on January 17, 1926 in Warsaw to Szczepan and
Lucyna Fendrych. He spent his early childhood in Warsaw and then moved to
Piaseczno in 1928 where he finished his seven-grade elementary schooling
in 1940. During the war, he continued his education secretly in Piaseczno
and then in Warsaw. In 1942, he joined the Maczynski Battalion, part of
the underground Polish resistance movement (Armia Krajowa), actively
participating the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

After the WWII, the Soviet-installed communist government of Poland
outlawed the AK, forcing many to flee in order to avoid prosecution.
Zygmunt left Poland in 1945 and travelled to Italy where he joined General
Anders-Polish 2nd Corps. Between 1946 - 1951, he lived in England and
later immigrated to Canada. In 1964, he was granted a Canadian Citizenship
which allowed him to visit Poland and his family a number of times over
the next five decades. He married in Poland and sponsored his wife to
Canada in the 1960s as well.

Zygmunt spent 30 years in Toronto where he initially worked as a factory
worker and where he later opened a dry cleaning service. He retired from
the workforce in 1982 and moved to Guelph, where he lived for the
remainder of his life. He was an active member of the Polish Catholic
Church in Guelph, and the Polish Alliance of Canada (Group XI), which he
leaded as President for three years.

Friends and family will remember Zygmunt for his kindness, his captivating
smile and his fondness for good-natured jest. Zygmunt had lived a rich and
beautiful life filled with love and adventure, and while his curiosity had
taken him around the world to visit many remarkable places, he had always
returned to where he felt most at home: his family.