Submitted by: Dan Rich

Oval W. Chambers

Dec. 6, 1907 - Nov. 22, 1995

South Bend Tribune 11/23/1995

MISHAWAKA - Oval W. Chambers, 87, of 14522 Day Road, died at 2:55 a.m. Wednesday at Rosewood Terrace Nursing Home, Elkhart. Mr. Chambers retired from Wick's Corp. and had been employed 37 years at Studebaker Corp. He was born Dec. 6, 1907, in Lewis, Ind., and had lived in the South Bend area 69 years.

On March 8, 1956, in South Bend, he married Mable Gill. She survives with two daughters, Frankie Weigert of Key West, Fla., and Terry Gray of Mishawaka; a son, James A. Gray of South Bend; four grandchildren; a great-grandchild; two sisters, Dorothy Miller of Marcellus and Elsie Rodgers of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and a brother, Manson of South Bend. He was a member of American Legion Post 303, South Bend, and served with the Navy during World War II and the Korean War.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association.