Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins

South Bend Tribune Dec. 12, 1974 p. 65

William R. Eastwood, Sr.

     William R. Eastwood, Sr., 68, of 527 N. St. Louis, died at 8:50 a.m. today in the Dor-A-Lin Nursing Home after a long illness. a former 30 year employee of the Studebaker Corp., he retired from the Indiana State Highway Department. Born on May 28, 1906, in south Bend, he had lived here his lifetime. On Feb 25, 1928, in Mishawaka, he married Helena M. Dietl, who died in 1972. Surviving are a son, William R.Jr.,  and a daughter, Mrs. Mary F. Litherland, both of South Bend; seven grandchildren; six great grandchildren, and two sisters. Mrs. Dorothy Chastine and Mrs. Jean Walsh, both of South Bend.
     Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the St. Joseph Catholic Church of which he was a member. Rev. Paul G. Wendel, C.S.C., pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the Southlawn Cemetery. Friends may call until services Saturday in the Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home, 336 N. Main, where a rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday.