From  Rick Berkheiser

 

 

 

"The South Bend Tribune", Friday Evening, December 2, 1955, page 44

 

Mrs. Ada R. Barnes.

 

     Mrs. Ada R. Barnes, 6902 S. Michigan St., died at 5 a.m. today in the Hilltop Nursing Home after several years' illness.  She was born in Port Jefferson, Long Island, Oct. 6, 1874, and came here 60 years ago.  She was married here in 1900 to Jesse A. Barnes, who died in 1953.  She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Harryetta Smith, South Bend; five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. E. R. LaHommedieu, South Bend.  Friends may call after 4 p.m. Saturday in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home where the funeral will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday.  Rev. Robert E. Cox, pastor of the Southlawn Evangelical United Brethren Church, of which she was a member, will officiate.  Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.