Life story Adam Urbanik 86 of Madison Indiana, passed at Kings Daughters Hospital on Wednesday, 7 September 2011. Loving husband, father, and grandfather, he was a devout Roman Catholic and a longtime member of Madison's Catholic Community, including St. Patrick and Prince of Peace parishes. Mr. Urbanik was an accomplished sausage maker who mastered his tradecraft in Czechoslovakia and Poland and worked in Madison's Pearl Packing Company until it closed in 1972. In the past three decades local area hunters came to know him for his smoked venison sausage. Mr. Urbanik's eventful and productive life was almost evenly split between Europe and the United States. In addition to speaking and writing in Polish and in English, he was proficient in German, Czech, and Russian. Born on the outskirts of Krakow, Poland on 28 October 1924 he was conscripted into forced labor in 1939 to toil on a farm in Sudetenland, (present day Czech Republic). In the winter of 1944, he was incarcerated with a multinational horde of slave laborers and POW's in a makeshift labor camp on Hungary's lake Balaton to erect anti-tank obstacles on the Russian front. Having barely survived the ordeal, including a brief stay in a concentration camp, Mr. Urbanik was liberated by General Patton's Third Army in 1945. He remained in post-war Czechoslovakia apprenticing as a butcher until his expulsion by the Communist authorities to Poland in 1947 where he started a family and worked in state owned meat industry for the next two decades. Benefiting from a brief thaw in the Cold War and "Family Reunification Act" passed by the US Congress in 1965, Mr. Urbanik emigrated to Madison Indiana on 9 Sep. 1966, sponsored by his sister Suzanna and brother-in-law Albin Koczergo. He and his wife Wanda proudly become naturalized US citizens in 1976. His Madison area employers included: Pearl Packing Company, Williamson Heater, Hanover College, and Ranch Grocery. He continued to remain active and industrious after his formal "retirement" in the mid 1980's working as a handyman/repairman and frequenting Kentuckiana flea markets, and sale barns. Hardened by life experiences Mr. Urbanik possessed a wicked sense of humor, which sustained him through vicissitudes of life. He was a voracious reader of history and philosophy and maintained a keen interest in world affairs throughout his active life. Immediate family includes: wife Wanda Urbanik of Madison In; daughters Margaret Bridgeford of Madison In. and Julie Rowland of Covington Ky; son Andrew of Ashburn, Va; and sister, Emilia Marciniak of Krakow, Poland. Mr. Urbanik has six grandchildren - John Adam and Kelli Hoffman; Margaret and Michael Urbanik, Ava and Lilly Rowland. He is survived by two great grandchildren, Kayli and Gracie Hoffman, and was preceded in death by his sister Susanna Koczergo in Madison and brothers Witold and Marian, in Krakow, Poland. Mr. Urbanik also enjoyed a close relationship with his niece Veronika Koczergo-Feltner currently of St. Augustine, Florida and his sister-in-law Helena Stocka of Chicago, Illinois. Funeral services will be conducted by Father Chris Craig at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at St Patrick's Church with interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Madison, Indiana. Visitation will begin at 10 AM also at St. Patrick's. Friends and family are invited to lunch at Pope John XXIII immediately after the services. Wieczne odpoczywanie racz mu dac Panie a swiatlosc wiekuista niechaj mu swieci na wieki wiekow. Amen. Eternal rest grant him o Lord and may the eternal light forever show him the way. Amen. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Adam Urbanik, please visit our floral store.