A Mass of Christian Burial for Clement ?Clem? Konwinski will be celebrated on Thursday June 30, 2005 at 10am at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church. Pallbearers will be members of Knights of Columbus Council #3684. Interment, with military honors, will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens, Langley. A Christian Wake service will be held on Wednesday at 6pm at George Funeral Homes Historic Downtown Chapel 211 Park Ave. SW Aiken. The family will then receive friends until 8pm. Mr. Konwinski, 94, of Aiken, died June 26, 2005. He was born November 22, 1910 in Dunkirk, N.Y. to his parents S. Edward and Hattie Konwinski. His wife for 67 years, Mary G. Konwinski, died January 19, 2002. Clem was the first-born of the family. He was followed by Mildred Rutkowski, Henrietta Borowski and Angeline Anderson, all of Dunkirk, N.Y. and Dr. Edward Konwinski of Bradford, PA. Clement received his grade school education at St. Hyacinth?s Catholic School, Dunkirk, NY. He graduated from Dunkirk Public High School in 1928. He began his employment in the City Engineers Office, Dunkirk, NY. There, he was introduced to Civil Engineering Drafting and Rudiments of Surveying, serving variously as Rodman and Instrument man on survey crews. In 1939, he began his career in Federal Civil Service as an assistant draftsman with the Corps of Engineers in Kingston, PA. In 1943, upon completing his first project as resident engineer, he volunteered for induction in World War II. As a member of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, he served in the Pacific area on Guam, Angaur in the Palaus, and on Okinawa, building airfields and associated facilities for the U.S. Air Force. Upon discharge from the U.S. Air Force on January 15, 1946, he reported to the Syracuse N.Y. District Office of the Corps of Engineers. He was called back to Federal Civil Service on February 1946, serving initially as a construction cost estimator. The entire Syracuse staff was transferred to Baltimore, MD. Eventually, he was employed on a project at Dana Industries, which was the precursor for the heavy water facility at SRP. He served as Chief, Project Engineering Branch at SRP until his retirement from Federal Civil Service in 1969. Clem was one of the last surviving charter members and a Past Grand Knight of Knights of Columbus Msgr. George Lewis Smith Council #3684 and a Past Faithful Navigator of Msgr. George Lewis Smith Assembly #1074. Clem was a communicant of St. Mary?s Help of Christians Church and was a living example of what it means to be a ?Catholic Gentleman?. He was a past instructor for the Aiken County Adult Education Program, Meals on Wheels and he was a member of the Midland Valley Golf Club.