Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins

Mishawaka Enterprise April 4, 1947

John Berry Cornelison

John Berry Cornelison, age 65, of rural route number 2 Box 343 South Bend was pronounced dead on arrival at memorial hospital at 2 a.m. today. He was taken to the hospital in a private ambulance. Cornelison had been under the care of a physician according to the coroners office. Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in Keokuk, IA, Feb. 11, 1882, he came here 20 years ago from Oklahoma. On June 20, 1914, in Springfield, Mo. he married Bertha Pratt who survives. Others survivors are seven children Mrs. Rena Mae Ellis, Mrs. Marie Sherland, Mrs. Hazel Wright and Chester all of South Bend, Miss Alice Roslyn, Richard Glenn and Mary Francis all at home, four grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Mandy Teague, Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Levi Hale, Ozark, Mo., five half brothers, Jack, Orville, Jesse, Ira, and Robert Cornelison all of Hollister, MO. Friends may call in the Hay Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Saturday until funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Clarence Shank pastor of Olive Branch Mennonite Church will officiate. Burial will be at Southlawn Cemetery.