Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Mary Ann DeBlase

Nov. 10, 1916 – Jan. 5, 1979

 

South Bend Tribune 1/6/1979

SOUTH BEND – Miss Mary Ann Deblase, 62, of 810 E. Bronson, died at 2:15 p.m. Friday in Memorial Hospital after a year’s illness. She was born on Nov. 10, 1916 in Chicago, and had lived in South Bend for two months coming from Providence, R.I. She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Ann Fotia, with whom she lived, Mrs. Katherine Fotia, Miss Santina DeBlase, and Miss Christine DeBlase, all of South Bend; four brothers, Mike DeBlase of Dowagiac, Sam DeBlase of Niles, Joe and Steve DeBlase, both of South Bend; three nieces and a nephew.

 

Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday in St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral, with Bishop Joseph R. Crowley, rector, officiating. Entombment will be in Highland Cemetery Mausoleum.  Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Guisinger Colonial Chapel, where the rosary will be recited at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.