Longtime head of San Antonio's Kiolbassa Smoked Meats, Robert Kiolbassa, dies, leaving an enduring sausage legacy
Skip to main content Longtime head of San Antonio's Kiolbassa Smoked Meats, Robert Kiolbassa, dies, leaving an enduring sausage legacy FacebookTwitterEmail Robert (left), Sandra and Michael Kiolbassa pose at their Kiolbassa Smoked Meats sausage plant in 2005.Staff file photo Robert Kiolbassa, a leading figure in the transformation of the San Antonio-based Kiolbassa Smoked Meats company into a sausage powerhouse, died Tuesday surrounded by friends and family. He was 84. From 1960 to 2021, Robert’s career arc at the company his parents Rufus and Juanita founded in 1949 took him from sweeping ...