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a 14 The South Bend Tribune, Monday, April 16, 1962.1 Michael R. Koken Dies at Age of 53 Michael R. Koken, 53, South Bend- trucking firm executive and former University of Notre Dame football player, died of a heart attack early Sunday while at the South Bend Country Club. Koken, a 1933 graduate of Notre Dame, was vice president in charge of sales for Tucker Freight Lines Inc. where.

he had worked since 1938. He won three monograms as a halfback on Notre Dame's football team from' 1930 to 1932 and played on Knute Rockne's last team in 1930. Koken served as president of the Notre Dame Monogram Club in 1952-53. Born in Butler, Pa. He was born April 5, 1909, in Butler, and came to Notre Dame from South High School in Youngstown, O.

where he starred in football, basketball and baseball under coach Rusty Ashbaugh He married the former Maxine Sayre, of Elkhart, 'on Dec. 26, 1934, in the Log Chapel on the Notre Dame campus. His wife survives with their two children, Diane and Michael, both at home, 19181 Oakmont Park S. Drive. Before going into business, Koken coached basketball and was assistant coach of football John Carroll University in Cleveland, O.

He was also assistant to Hunk Anderson at North Carolina State. He received the Purple Heart after he was wounded in action Aug. 7, 1944 while serving with the field artillery. He entered the Army Sept. 27, 1943 during World II.

Koken started with Tucker Freight Lines as a sales representative in 1938, coming there from the Motor Express of Ohio. He served as district manager and sales manager for the company and headed the freight line's s. special steel transportation division which was created in 1949. C. F.

Hatfield Dies After Brief Illness Charles F. Hatfield, 91, of 1730 Robinson died at 5 a.m. today in St. Joseph's Hospital after a short illness. He was the father of Harold M.

Hatfield, classified advertising manager of The Tribune. Mr. Hatfield was born on Dec. 22, 1870, in Niles and came to South Bend 52 years ago. He married Myrtle Armstrong here on Feb.

25, 1896. She died in 1949. Also surviving are five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Orvis Funeral Home, where services will be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Arnold J.

Wibbert, rector of St. Matthew's Co-Cathedral, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles. SAILORS LIVE ON LIFE RAFT BOMBAY-Thirteen. Indian seamen, who spent a nightmarish 36 hours on the high seas some 30 miles from here, were rescued by the crew of the Scienda Navigation Company's Jalaoharti, on her way to Bombay from the U.S.A.

The seamen were stated to have survived the by clinging to the splintered remnants. of their countrycraft which set out: from Saurashtra for this port. The Day's Record. Birtns. CARROLL Mr.

and Mrs. James P. Carroll, 17434 State Rd. 23, son, April 14. St.

Joseph's Hospital. GARD Mr. Mrs. Raymond Gard, 54132 Quince daughter, April 15. St.

Joseph's. Napier son, April -14, MeRYAN VA Mr. and Mrs. Truman Ryan, I morial Hospital, MEYERS Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Meyers, 54875 Pear son, April Memorial: 'JARONIK Mr. a and Mrs. Richard J. Jaronik, 902 Cottage Grove, son, April 14, Memorial. KRYCH Mr.

and Mrs. J. Krych, 420-N. Walnut Str, daughter, A April BREWER 14, Memorial. Mr.

and Mrs. April 14, -Kenneth MeF. Brewer, Granger, son, morial. EVANS Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse Evans, 406 Wenger son, April 15, Memorial. GAFILL Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gafill, 2810 Marine daughter, April 15, Memorial. WILEY Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Wiley, 58791 Locust son, April 14, St. Joseph's. BEYRER Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Beyrer, 2827 Fir Lane, son, April 14. St. Joseph's. JAGMIN Mr. and Mrs.

'Marion Jagmin S. Walnut daughter, MANLEY April 14, St. Mr. Joseph's. and Mrs.

Jamies Manley, 2845 Rockne 'son, April 14. St. Joseph's. BICE Mr. Mrs.

Donald Bice, 54373 Terrace Lane, son, April 15, St. Joseph's. DOUGLASS Mr. and Mrs. James Douglass, 615 E.

Colfax son, April 15. St. Joseph's. EATON Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Eaton. 315 S. 36th son, April 16, St. Joseph's. PIEDMONT.

Mr. and. Mrs. Piedmont, Apt. E.

11, University -Village, daughter, April 16, St. Joseph's. JANKOWSKI Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Jankowski, 622 Johnson daughter, April 16, St.

Joseph's. GERMANO Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Germano, 3110 E. Jefferson son, April 14, Osteopathic Hospital, LAYMAN Mr.

and Mrs. John Layman, Union Mills, daughter, April 15, Osteopathic, False alarm; Box 425, 11:13 p.m. April 14, University of Notre Dame field house, Companies 3. 7, Squad. 21, Aerial Truck 1 and Unit 102.

Telephone alarm. 3:28 p.m. 15, 400 block W. Ewing grass fire, no damage. Company 10.

Telephone alarm, 3:32 p.m. April 15. 35th St. and the Grand Trunk railroad crossing, grass fire, no damage, pany 9. Dunham and Liberty trash Telephone alarm, 8:25 p.m.

April 15.60 from undetermined. cause, no damage, Companies 8, 12, Squad 22, Aerial Truck 2 and Unit 103. False telephone alarm, 8:48 p.m. April 15, 100 block N. Studebaker Squad 22.

LOCAL OBITUARIES. Mrs. Mary A. Nemeth. Mrs.

Mary A. Nemeth, 5 58, of 125 E. David Roseland, died at 8:15 a.m. Sunday in St. Joseph's Hospital.

She was born here on April 1, 1904. In November, 1921, Mary Vargo, she was (to Stephen A. Nemeth, who survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Emery L.

Gulyas, Mrs. Emery Vanslager and Mrs. Thomas Radecki, all of South Bend; 18 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Anna Wayne, and three brothers, Louis G. Vargo of South Bend, Ernest Vargo of North Webster, and Stephen Vargo of Paducah, Ky.

Friends may, call after 7 p.m. today the Nemeth Funeral Home, where the rosary will be. recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Services will be at 9 a.m.

Wednesday in Christ the King Catholic Church, Rev. Clement H. Funke, C.S.C., pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Funeral Notes.

ZAEHNLE Pallbearers at services today for Mrs. Bessie Zaehnle, 807. E. Colfax who died last Thursday, were Percy Zentz, Ralph and John Frick, William Mohler, Louis Ba and Alfred Daveline. Services were held at 9:30 a.m.

in St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Rev. Joseph Murphy, C.S.C., pastor, officiating. Burial was in Highland Cemetery. Indiana-Michigan OBITUARIES.

Indiana. Bly Roath. ELKHART Bly Roath, 3818 Helen died in his home. was Saturday Saturday, afternoon I by a neighbor. He was born Jan.

15, 1897, in Etna Green. He was a veteran of World War Land a member of Barracks 750, Veterans of World War II. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Roy 0. Bibler, Warsaw.

Friends may call after 7 today in the White Funeral 'Home, where services, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Rev. Harvey E. Brooks will officiate.

Burial will be in Green. Perfessor Hill. Perfessor Hill, of 913 W. Indiana died at 2 a.m. in Elkhart General Hospital.

He was born March in Bolton, Miss. He married' Maggie Carter, June 6, 1922. She died in 1954. Surviving are four sons, Marshall, Ernest, and To my Joe, all of Elkhart, and Porterla Hill; of Detroit; three daughters, Marie Allen, Elkhart, Mrs. Esther, Harper, South Bend, and Mrs.

Gussie Turnery, Milwaukee, Wis. Friends may call after noon Tuesday in the muth Funeral Home. The body will be taken at noon Wednesday to the. Canen Baptist Church for services there at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Rev. W. H. Turner ficiate. Burial will be in Rice Cemetery.

Mrs. Ernest D. Lutes. Mrs. Catherine Elisabeth Lutes, 1628 Hastings died at 1:15 p.m.

Sunday in Elkhart General Hospital. She was born -July 31, 1916, in New Bedford, Mass. She was married to Ernest D. Lutes Oct. 11, 1945.

Surviving are the husband; two daughters, a and Pamela, at' home; four sons, Ernest D. David Robert and Paul at home; two brothers, Joseph and Stanley Rakowski, of West Roxbury, two sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Klemansky and Mrs. Elisabeth Zakenski, both of Pittsfield, Mass.

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Walley Funeral Home, where services will be Statistics. Marriage License Applications 1, Bourbon. Births. PLYMOUTH Mervin Lapp, 3, Nappanee, and Amanda Borkholder, Rt.

3, Nappanee, James Watters, Rt. 2, Wol cottville, and Barbara Rust 830 College ferson Culver; David Rapp, 1425 W. Reichert; JefRt. Kokomo, and Linda PLYMOUTH Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Berger, Plymouth, daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Houin, Plymouth. son, April 15; Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Howard, -Plymouth, son, April 15; and Mrs. Roger Allen Pike, Knox, son, April 16, ROCHESTER all in Parkview Mr. and Hospital. Mrs. Robert Kale, 515 W.

6th son, April 14; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ludwig, Rt. 1, ter, son, April 14, in Woodlawn Hospital. GOSHEN Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Smith, 105 Grabill daughter, April 14: Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Ryan and 4101 W.

Mrs. Wilden Larry D. Hall, son, 2307 April W. 14; Wilden Mr. daughter, April 14; Mr.

and Mrs. L. Boshart, 105 Fairlane son, April West. Mr. and Mrs.

April Jerry 14; L. Mr. Inbody, and son, Mrs. Lewis W. Farris, Rt.

4, daughter, 14, Mr. and Mrs. J. Schrock, Mr. Rt.

1, Mrs. Ligonier, Pabl daughter, April 14; Paris, son, and April 14; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin' Miller, 902 N. Main son, April ELKHART 16, all in Goshen General Hospital.

Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Schlosser, 2006 Lane son, April 14, Mr. and Mrs. John Benn, 1614 Lane son, April 14; Mr.

and Mrs. Rich-lard Truex, Mr. RE. Wakarusa, John "daughter, April and Mrs. Mitchell, 344 Pierre Moran daughter, 15; Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence, Sweazy, 4. Cassopolis, daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Larry "Singleton, 1012 Streeter Aver, daughter, 'April 15; Mr.

and Mrs: Wilton -Bonds. 617 W. Garfield daughter, April 15; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smeltzer.

Goshen College, Goshen, daughter, 16, all in Elkhart GenHospital. LAPORTE Mr. and Mrs. Larry Luther, Division son, April 14. Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Ribordy, Rt. 2. ter, April 14; Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Wallace, Rt. 3, son, April 14; Mr. and Mrs. George Ritter. Rt.

5, son, April 14; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sowards, 201 Willow son, April 15, all in Community 102 Hospital, State April 14; Mr. and Mr. and Mrs.

Duane Phillips, Mrs. George Lucas, son, April 14; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Feece, LaCrosse, daughter, April North 14; Mr. and Joseph Allsop, Liberty.

-son, April 14; Mr. and Mrs. James Bora, Harrison. son, April 15; Mr. and Lloyd Singleton, North Liberty, son, April 16, -all in Holy Family Hospital.

MICHIGAN CITY Mr. and- Mrs. Neil Purtha. Rt: 1, Box 64, La Porte, daughter, Edwards, April Rt. 14; Mr.

Box and Mrs. ter 7, 417, daughter, April 14: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Attar, Chicago St. son, April 15; Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Tingle, Franklin St. daughter, April 16: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hoder, 15 N.

Whitaker, New Buffalo, son, April 16; all in St. Anthony's Hospital. at 11 a.m. Wednesday, James Elliott will, officiate. Bur(ial will be in Rice Cemetery.

She was a member of the St. Thomas the Osolo Apostle Fire Catholic Department Church Aux- and iliary. Frank. A. Zahrt.

LAPORTE Frank A. Zahrt, 73, of 506 died at 7:55 a.m. Sunday in Holy Family Hospital, following an illness of eight months. He was born June 14, 1889, in LaPorte. wife, Belva, survives.

Other Warren survivors are daughter, Mrs. Freese, of LaPorte; one son, Dr. Frank H. Zahrt, Princeton, 11 grandIrwin Ludwig, of LaPorte, and children; stepdaughters, Mrs. Mrs.

Owen Lempke, of Mill Creek; one -stepson, Wayne Lange, Bangor, and one sister, Mrs. Peter Bernth, of LaPorte. Friends may call in the Otto E. Giese Funeral Home until the funeral there at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Rev. Edward A. Meyer, of St. John's Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be in St.

John's Lutheran Cemetery. Vito Anthony Andreano. Vito Anthony Andreano, 74, of 203 Ohio LaPorte, died at night Sunday in his home an illness of one month. He operated the Tony Andreano Shoe Repair Service in LaPorte for 45 years. He was a member of St.

Peter's Catholic Church, The Holy Name Society, and the LaPorte Council.1542 of the Knights of Columbus and a member the Father Sorin General Assembly the fourth degree Knights of Columbus. He was born Jan. 22, 1888 in S'Agata di Puglia, Italy, ing to the United States in 1905. He was married May 22, 1912, in Michigan City to Elizabeth Koch, who survives. Other survivors are three daughters, Mrs.

Lucille McGhee of LaPorte; Mrs. Rose HorChesterton; and Mrs. Pearl Ingwaldson of Cuba, N.M;. and nine grandchildren. Friends may call today at the Essling Funeral Home in LaPorte.

Services will be at St. Peter's Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Rev. Lawrence T. Grothouse, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery in LaPorte. Gerald Storey. WALKERTON Gerald Storey, 44, of Rt. died at 6:45 a.m.

Sunday in Holy Family Hospital in LaPorte following a heart attack. He was on March 1918, in Ionia, and married on Nov. 30, 1949, in Walkto Eudora Zahrn. He was veteran of World War II and member of the Walkerton American Legion Post. are his wife; three daughters, Jerelyn, Cynthia and Melissa, and son, Douglas, at home; his father, William Storey of Knox, and brother, William Storey Chelsea, Mich.

Funeral services will held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, in the Walkerton Methodist Church, Rev. J. Kemp Tunis, pastor, officiating. Burial be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Nusbaum Funeral Home from 2 p.m. today until 12 noon Wednesday and then at the church. Arthur B. Harrison. Funeral services for Arthur B.

Harrison, Rt. 3, who died Saturday in LaPorte Community pital, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Nusbaum- Funeral Home, where friends may call. Rev. Paul Loucks, pastor of the Koontz Lake United Missionary Church, will officiate, and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery with Masonic rites.

Mr. Harrison was born on March 13, 1889, in Kansas City, and was married on June 10, Chicago to Amelia Guthorle. He was president of the Koontz Lake-Oregon Twp. Volunteer Fire Department and the Koontz Lake Conservation Club and a member of Walkerton Lodge 619, Surviving besides his wife, two daughters and four grandchildren are sister, Mrs. Agnes Harrison, -of Woodstock, and a brother, Wil- liam Harrison, of Chicago.

Mrs. Ona Longcor. GOSHEN Mrs. Ona Longcor, 80, of 119 N. 3rd died at 7:05 a.m.

Sunday in her home after a year's illness. Born in LaGrangelliams County, Aug. 22, 1881, she had lived in Goshen for nine years. Her marriage to Harley Longcor, a prominent auctioneer in the LaGrange County area, took place Jan. 31, 1900.

He died March 6, 1952. She was a member of the Topeka Methodist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Poyser, Goshen, and Mrs. Ralph Emrick, Helmer, two grandchildren; one brother, Glen Bailey, Benton, and one sister, Mrs.

Cora Crary, Hammond. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Yoder-Culp Funeral Home, where services be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rev. James Gentry Topeka officiating.

Burial will be in the Eden Cemetery, Topeka. Alpha A Kauffman. Funeral services for Alpha A. Kauffman, who died Saturday Kirtnight in the home of son; Andrew in Sheldon, will p.m. Tuesday.

in the North Goshen Mennonite Church. Rev. Russell Krabill and Rev. Henry Weaver will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call after 10 Tuesday in the Yoder-Culp Funeral Home, Goshen. Mr. Kauffman was a retired farmer from the Goshen area. Mrs. Reinhold Roeske.

BOONE GROVE Mrs. Emilie Roeske, 71, of Boone Grove, died Saturday night in Porter Memorial Hospital, Valparaiso. She was ill two years. She was born in 1 Chicago May 12, 1890. She lived in the Boone Grove area a the past 34 years, from Palos Park, a Chicoming, cago.

She was married to Rein- hold Roeske April 6, 1913, in Ill. She was a member of Paul's Lutheran Church, Kouts, and the Ladies' Aid Society of Surviving are her husband; her mother, Mrs. Ottilie Sonnenburg, of Oak Lawn, three daughters, Mrs. Wilbur Lootes, of Crown Point; Mrs. Ellis Anderson, of Valparaiso, and Mrs.

Carl Wood, of South Bend; four sons, Edwin, Carl and liam, all of Boone Grove, and Herbert, of Hebron; one brother, William Sonnenburg, of Oak Lawn, and 22 grandchildren. Services will 1 be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Kouts, Rev. Luther P.

Koepke, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends a call in the Kosanke Bros, Funeral Home, Kouts. Elmer H. Luken.

SAN PIERRE Elmer H. Luken, 57, of Rt. 1, San Pierre, died a heart attack at 5:45 Saturday in his farm home southwest of San Pierre. He was on this same farm Feb. 26, 1905, and lived there his entire life.

He was a member of the San Pierre Lions Club and the San Pierre Conservation Club. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Helena Luken; two brothers, Edward Luken, of San Pierre, and Harold Luken of LaPorte, and two sisters, Mrs. Luella Koch and Miss May Luken, both of Elgin, Ill. Funeral services will be held in the McCormick Funeral Home in North Judson at 2:30 Tuesday.

Rev. Carl Beuschlein, of La, Crosse, will officiate. Burial will be in St. -Mark's Lutheran Cemetery, Medaryville. Friends in the funeral home after 4 p.m.

today. Mrs. Charles Gates. WAWAKA Mrs. Estella May Gates, of Wawaka, died at 10 a.m.

Sunday of a heart attack enroute to the LaGrange County Hospital. She was born May. 22, 1888, in Wawaka, where she was married in June, 1906, to Charles Gates. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Ellis Gates, of Wawaka, and Donald Gates, of Kalamazoo; two daughters, Miss Doris Gates and Mrs.

Louise Randolph, of Wawaka; three sisters, Mrs. Marvin Stump and Mrs. Val Miller, of Goshen, and Mrs. Knox Stetler, of Syracuse. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday in the Ulery-Sedgewick Funeral Home in Ligonier, where friends may call after 3 p.m. today. Rev. Fred Hill will officiate, and burwill be in Oak Park Harry L. Vandermark.

WARSAW Funeral services for Harry L. Vandermark, of Rt. 4, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Atwood Evangelical United Brethren Church, instead of 2 p.m. as originally announced.

Michigan. Nathan Preston. BENTON HARBOR Nathan Preston, 72, of 473 Onondaga -at 11:30 p.m. Saturday in his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born Oct.

19, 1889, St. Joseph and was a lifelong resident of the area. He formerly operated the Preston Insurance Co. Besides his widow, the former Ella Lindt, whom married July 21, 1926, in St. Joseph, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Martha La Barge, Holland, two sons, William and Francis, both of Springfield, two brothers, John and Theodore, both of St. Joseph, and two grandchildren. Mr. Preston was a 32nd Degree. Mason and member of, the Calvin Britain Chapter No.

72, Royal Arch Masons, and a life member of Blue Lodge. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the First Congregational Church, St. Jo seph, with Rev. Edward Lewis, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call in the KerlikowskeStarks Beatty Funeral Home, St. Joseph, until 9 a.m. Tuesday. William Erastus Tritt.

-Services for William Erastus Tritt, :82, of 234 Pine Benton Harbor, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Florm Funeral Home. Rev. Myron Wilof the Chapel Hill Evangelical United Brethren Church, Sodus, will officiate. Mr.

Tritt died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Hospital, Benton Harbor after an extended illness. He was born Jan. 23, 1880; in Nebraska and, moved here 46 years ago. Besides his widow, Jennie, he is survived by four stepsons, Oscar Barker, Oakview, Forrest Barker, St.

Joseph, William Barker, Benton Harbor, and States in Germany; a Victor Barker, with the a United stepdaughter, Mrs. A Alfred Tolles, Eau Claire, and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Steward, Boise, Idaho. Burial will be in Crystal Springs Cemetery. Mrs.

Bertha Moore. "ST. JOSEPH -Mrs. Bertha Moore, 84, of 2716 Sunnydale died at A.M. Sunday Campy's Convalescent Home here where she had been a patient two months.

She was, born Aug. 25, 1877, in Benton Twp. and had been a lifelong resident. of. the community.

She is: survived by three sons, Victor, Donald and Ronald, all of St. Joseph; two daughters, Miss Eileen, Joseph, and Mrs. Dorothy Cornwell, Millburg; sisters; Mrs. Barbara Nichols and Mrs. Ellen Doyle, both of Ft.

Lauderdale, 11 grandchildren and 12 grandchildren. Services will be held at 2. P.M. Wednesday in the Dey Bros. Funeral Home in St.

Joseph, with Rev. H. Stewart Ross, pastor of St. Paul's Church, officiating." Burial will be in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton Harbor. Joseph V.

Leach. Joseph V. Leach, 48, of 912 Broad St. Joseph, died p.m. "Sunday in the South-' western Michigan Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Kalamazoo, where he had been a patient two years.

He was born July. 20, 1913, in Muskegon. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lucille Leach, St. Joseph.

Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the DeyBros. Funeral Home in St. Joseph with Rev. L.

H. Broker, pastor of the. First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Mrs.

Beatta Berry. CASSOPOLIS Mrs. Beatta Casterline Berry, 76, Rt. 1, Penn Cass County, died 1:15 p.m. Sunday in South Bend Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for one week.

She was born Sept. 18, 1885 in Penn where she was a lifetime resident and a former school teacher. She was married in 1909 to Floyd H. Berry, who died in 1931. She is survived by two brothers, T.

J. Casterline and Gordon CasIterline, both of Penn and a sister Mrs. Lyle Beardsley of Battle Creek. She was a member of the Bethel Church in Penn being an active teacher and musician. Services will be held 2 p.m.

Wednesday at the Connelly Funeral Home in Cassopolis, with Rev. Charles O'Connor pastor of the United Church in Cassopolis, officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery, visit Cassopolis. Friends may the funeral home after p.m. today.

Reuben T. Rosebrook. WHITE PIGEON Reuben T. Rosebrook, 76, White Pigeon, died at 11:35 p.m. Saturday in the Walters Nursing Home in Sturgis.

He was born in White Pigeon 26, 1885, and had lived all his life in this area. He had married Katherine M. Blue, who died in 1960. He owned and operated a service station in Sturgis for several years and was last employed by the Eddy Paper Corp. in White Pigeon.

He was a meber of B.P.O.E. -No. 1381 at Sturgis and a life member and a 50-year member of -Masonic Lodge and 104 in White Pigeon. His only survivors are nieces and nephews. Services will be held in the rand-Coats Funeral Home, White Pigeon, at 2 p.m.

Tuesday with Rev. George Wingard, pastor of the Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in White Pigeon Cemetery. Mrs. Lucille M.

Durand. DOWAGIAC Mrs. Lucille M. Durand, 61, Rt. 1, Dowagiac, died Saturday night in the Lee Memorial Hospital here.

She a born Nov. 13, 1900, in Wheeling W. Va. She married Robert Durand July 12, 1930, in Joliet; Ill. He died June 15, 1960.

Suryiving. is a son Raymond, Dowagiac; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hinz, Campbell, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Phillips, Dowagiac, and Mrs. Beatrice Koehler, Chicago.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Holy Maternity of Mary Catholic Church, with Rev. Phillip Cook officiat-stitute ling: Burial will be in Mission Hills Memorial Gardens, Sumnerville. The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at the McLaughlin Funeral Home.

William H. Long. BUCHANAN William H. Long, 92, Rt. 4, Niles, died at 11 a.m, Sunday in Buchanan Community Hospital.

He was born March 24, 1870, in Harrisburg. and had lived here for 70 years. He was married Nov. 17, 1902, to Della Korn who died in 1954. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Portage Prairie Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Survivors are a step-son, Claude Korn, South Bend; two grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Walter Eldred will conduct services at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Portage Burial will be in the church Friends may after. 7.p.m. today in the Swem Funeral Home.

Mrs. David Wilson. COLOMA Mrs. Gladys Wilson, 63, Rt. 3, Coloma, died at a.m.

today in her home after being ill for a year. She was born March 12, 1899, in Westmoreland, England, and came to the United States in January, 1949. She had lived in Chicago until April, 1961. She is survived by her husband; David, to whom she was married Jan. 17, 1921; a son, David, a daughter, Mrs.

Robert Coloma, and three grandchildren. Services will held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Davidson Funeral Home, Coloma, with. Rev. A.

F. Marks, pastor of the Lakeshore Bible Church, officrating. Burial will be in North Shore Memory Gardens. Gregory J. Boyer.

NILES Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. today for 8- month-old Gregory J. Boyer, of Mr. and Mrs. Donald C.

Boyer, 2127. Lewis who died at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, in Pawating Hospital. G. Carlton, pas: tor of the Trinity Episcopal Church, was to officiate at the burial in Oakridge Cemetery, Buchanan.

The child had undergone heart surgery March 15 in Chicago. He was born July 21, 1961. Surviving besides the parents a are the paternal grandparents, Mr. Mrs. George Barnes, and a great Mrs.

Mina Barnes, Paw Paw. Mrs. Joseph Youngstrom. BRIDGMAN Mrs. Joseph Youngstrom, 74, Bethany Beach, "Sawyer, died at 2:05 a.m, today in Memorial Hospital, St.

Joseph, where she had been admitted at'7 p.m. Sunday. The body was taken to the Boyd Funeral Home here. (ADVERTISEMENT). BUSINESS INDUSTRY SMELSER WORK of Portable Concrete, Corp.

of Mishawaka, Ill. The building, which chitect, Eero Saarinen, as the administration ment Co. Saarinen has building. The Smelser 15,000 yards of concrete AT SAARINEN BUILDING--Employees a subsidiary of the Smelser Concrete concrete at a building site at pour Moline, was designed by the world-renowed arwill be nine stories high and will serve center for the John Deere Farm Impleincorporated a unique design into the Company's subsidiary is supplying the for the building. MICHAEL R.

KOKEN. He was a member of many! trucking industry organizations including the South Bend Transportation Club and Northern Indiana Motor Carriers Assn. Others Survive. Besides his widow and two children, two brothers and seven sis-. ters survive.

The brothers are John Koken, of Los Angeles and Harry Koken, of Youngstown. His sisters are Mrs. George Herman, Mrs. Kathryn Grieshaand Mrs. George Turner, all of Los: Angeles; Mrs.

Stephen Mrokovich, and Mrs. Robert Beck, of Youngstown, and Mrs. Kenneth Zimmerman and Miss Helen Koken, both of Chicago Heights, Ill. Services will be in the Sacred Heart Church on the campus at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Burial will be in the St. Joseph Valley Memorial Cemetery. Members of the Notre Dame Club of St, Joseph Valley will say the rosary at the Hickey Home at 7:30 p.m. today. may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m.

today. GENERAL OBITUARIES. GENERAL OBITUARIES. MANILA (P) days of official for fiery Mayor He died of a heart attack last night at the age of 49, Deputy Mayor Antonio Villegas succeeded Lacson, one of the best known politicians in the Philippines. Ville gas ordered Philippine flags at half staff in the cap- Manila began 30 mourning today Arsenio Lacson.

ital for the LACSON. mourning period and requested all Catholic churches to offer a requiem mass daily. Lacson's, body was moved to the City Hall to lie in state until the funeral Wednesday. A former newspaperman, Lacson was a fearless guerrilla fighter during the Japanese occupation, Lacson was elected to Congress in the late 1940s. He became Manila's first elective may; or in 1951 and reportedly planned to seek the presidential nomination in 1965.

A foe of corruption, he broke with President Carlos P. Garcia's Nacionalista Party before the presidential election last November, and became a leading campaignfor Diosadado Macapagal of the Liberal party. Macapagal in a statement last night credited Lacson with helping to bring about his victory, but recently the mayor had accused the president. of not living up to his campaign pledges. Macapagal called him the "na: tional sentinel of the public mor- ality." Mother Mary Vera Dies.

VATICAN CITY (P) Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, member of the Vatican Curia, will officiate the funeral of Mother Mary superior general of the Sisalters of Notre Dame who died Saturday in Rome. Mother Mary Vera, 60, was born in Toledo, O. She was elected mother superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame Dec. 23, 1946. Mrs.

Esther Minciotti. NEW YORK UP Mrs. Esther Minciotti, 74, veteran character actress who had appeared in many films, stage and television productions, died Sunday. Mrs. Minciotti, who was born in Italy, appeared as leading lady in the repertory troup that also starred her husband, Silvio, who died last year.

They first came to the United States in ,1908. Mrs. Selma E. F. Goldsmith.

WASHINGTON Mrs. Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith, 50, chief of the income and statistics branch of the Bureau of the Census, died Sunday after an illness of two months. Before joining the Census Bureau, Mrs. Goldsmith was chief of the income section of the National Income Division, Department of Commerce. She was born in New York Rt.

Rev. Jason R. Kappanadze. AKRON, O. (P) Rt.

Rev: Jason R. Kappanadze, 87, of Cleveland, a leading Russian Orthodox clergyman who retired in 1957 years in the ministry, a killed Sunday in a traffic His wife, Mary, 81, a passenger in the car driven by Alex Kwatkowick, 71, also was killed. Smelser Subsidiary Started at Moline The Smelser Concrete has set up a subsidiary business for a new nine-story building tect, Eero Saarinen. The Smelser subsidiary has the contract to furnish the 15,000 yards of concrete for the new Moline building. The Huber, Hunt and Nichols 'Construction Co.

of Indianapolis is' the general contractor for the building. Roger Haines, general manager of the -Smelser Company, said that Wilfred Gerou of Wakarusa, a Smelser employee, has been named to head the Moline subsidFar-liary. Haines said the name of the subsidiary is Portable Concrete, Inc. Use Portable Unit. A portable.

concrete plant has been set up by the subsidiary company near the Moline, building site. The concrete ingred- lients are driven to portable plant and mixed right at the building site. The Moline building will serve as the general administration center for John Deere Farm Implement Co. The building is of a unique design, featuring an exposed, unpainted steel framework. Some of Saarinen's more wellknown building designs include the U.

S. Embassy Buildings at London, Osolo, Norway; the. Milwaukee County War Memorial; auditorium and chapel at the Massachusetts Inof Technology, Cambridge, the General Motors Technical Center, Warren, and the women's dormitory, dining hall, science and pharmacy buildlings and campus plan at Drake For information regarding this page Call Mr. Mulholland CEntral 3-6161 Ext. 270 The Tribune 14420 E.

Jefferson Mishawaka, at Moline, to supply concrete designed by the world-renowned archi- University, Des Moines, Iowa. Saarinen died last Sept. 1. Concrete Mixed at Site. The Smelser Company also has a portable batching plant in the South Bend-Mishawaka area for use in the Northern IndianaSouthern Michigan area.

The portable batching plant enables Smelser to perform large scale concrete work at a saving because of the added effeciency of having the concrete mixed right building site. The Smelser Company has performed a great work in the South Mishawaka area. Recent jobs include supplying concrete for the Town and Country Shopping Center, and for the newly-completed high school at Dowagiac. DUKANE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS for SCHOOLS BUSINESS INDUSTRY INDIANA ELECTRONIC CO. of South Bend, Inc.

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MAIN ST. 1820 MISHAWAKA ST. AT 7-6519 South Bend CO 4-4946, ELKHART WHITE CHINA FOR CHINA DECORATORS I new shipment of the latest styles and shapes in white china. Salad plates, vases, jugs, cig. boxes, sugar bowls, creamers, soup bowls, dinner plates, chop plates, cut work plates and bowls plus many other pieces.

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