The Independent-News, Volume 103, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 December 1977 — Page 4

DECEMBER 8, 1977 THE INDEPENDENT NEWS

J OBITUARIES INE ANT KOMON Funeral services for Das id Wayne Kumon. two month old son of Martin Icon and Victoria Sue Komon. route I. box 3bb. Walk erton. who died on Saturday, December 3 in his home, were held at 2 <X) p m Monday in the Nusbaum I Ikin Funeral Home. Walkerton, with Res Anthony Letko. pastor of St Patrick's Catholic Church. Walkerton, officiating. Burial was m W<xxilawn ( emeterv. Walkerton

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He was born on October 3, in Plymouth Sur\ i\ing are his par ents. a brother. Keith Wesley, at home; paternal grandparents, Mrs. louis Clemons, of Walkerton and Frederick Komon. of Marston. Missouri, and his maternal grand mother. Mrs Mildren Stoll, of Rensselaer RAYMOND C. NYE Raymond Chase Nye. "4, of route 1. Plymouth, died in his home at 8 00 p.m. Sunday. December 4, unexpectedly He was born to John and Eva Chase Nye on Mas IS. 1903. in Tyner and lived in Plymouth ten years formerly of North liberty He was a retired grocer He married Viola Hivcly on June 28. 1928. in South Bend, w ho surv is es along with a son. Paul I Nye. Plymouth, two daughters, Mrs larry (Irene) Fair, North

liberty and Mrs. John (Betty) Stull. Walkerton; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs James (Helen) Sweat Phoenix, Arizona and Mrs Edna Collins, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sers ices were held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the Trinity United Methodist Church, Plymouth, with Rev. William Nangle, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the Ty ner Cemetery. He was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, Plymouth, a past president of the Grocers Association of South Bend, former superintendent of the Tyner Church and a member of the Farm Bureau. EARI. R. REID Funeral services for Earl R. Reid, bb, 513 E. Patterson, Lakeyille, were at 10:00 a m. on Wednesday in the Lakey ille United

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Methodist Church, of which he was a member, with Rev. Ellwood K. Smith, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Southlawn Cemetery. South Bend. He dies at 12:15 a.m. Sunday, December 4. at South Bend Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. He was born on February 16, 1911, at Tyner. He married Esther Bunch on September 12. 192 b, at Lakeville, who survives, along with two daughters, Mrs. Judi Nichols. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Joan Shcphert, Bhximington. Indiana; two grandchildren; two sisters. Mrs. Morris Shank. Tyner, and Mrs. Irma Schultz, Mishawaka; and two brothers, Harry, Newaugo, Michi gan, and Lee, Culver. He was the postmaster at Lakeville for 24 years, a member of the Lakeville F & AM Lodge 353. Lakeville OES 4‘ , 9. American Legion Post 363. Scottish Rite Valiev of

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South Bend, Past Worshipful master of the Lakeville Masonic lodge. Conservation Club. Commerce Club and the National Association of Postmasters He was also an Army veteran of World War 11. I he I .rgrnd of St. \\ infred \ legend about St. Winfred. who was a missionary' to the Si andinav ians in the Sth century. explains the or igin of the (Hiristmas tree. It serins that St Winfred was (lifting down a large oak tree when suddenly a y < mug fir tree sprang up in its pla< e. Ihe missionary declared this miraculous tree to be hols and gave it to the S( andinav ians to t ommcmorate the birth of the Savior.