Submitted by Mary Jo Koran


SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – September 9, 1988

 

AUGUSTA MARIE BARBER

November 21, 1890 – September 7, 1988

 

Services for Augusta Marie Barber, 97, of St Petersburg FL, formerly of Mishawaka, who died at 12:30am Wednesday in St Petersburg, will be at 10am Monday in Hahn DeVos Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.  Friends may call from 2 to 5pm Sunday in the funeral home.

 

Mrs. Barber was born, November 21, 1890, in Westdorpe, Holland, and had spent most of her life in this area, until moving to Florida three years ago.  She was a retired housewife.

 

Surviving are two daughters-in-law, Maxine VanTornhout and Dorothy VanTornhout, and a sister, Bert Van Hecke of South Bend.  A son, Charles VanTornhout, died in 1986, and another son, Edmond, died earlier.