Submitted by: Dan Rich

Roxey Eberhart

May 15, 1846 – May 18, 1937

South Bend Tribune
Wednesday, May 19, 1937

George F. Eberhart, jr., 1402 East Jefferson boulevard, received word Tuesday night of the death of his grandmother, Mrs. Roxy Eberhart, aged 91, who had been living with her daughter, Mrs. Sabra Cook, in Minneapolis.

The body will be brought to this city Friday afternoon for funeral services and burial. Surviving besides the daughter and grandson is a daughter-in-law, Mrs. George F. Eberhart, this city.

South Bend Tribune Thursday

May 20, 1937

Funeral services were conducted this afternoon in the Johnston mortuary, Minneapolis, Minn., for Mrs. Roxy Eberhart, aged 91, of Minneapolis, Minn., grandmother of George F. Eberhart, jr., 1402 East Jefferson boulevard. The body will be brought to this city at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and will be taken to the Bubb chapel, where it may be viewed from 3 to 4 o'clock.

Rev. J. A. Burnett, D. D., pastor of First Prebyterian church, will conduct a second service at 4 o'clock and burial will be in the city cemetery. Pallbearers will be Hery C. Eggleston, Robert S. McKnight, Fred J. Cook, James Russ, A. J. Schindler and Fred Martin.

Mrs. Eberhart was born May 15, 1846, in Perry, O. She came to Indiana when a small child and spent most of her life in this community. She was married March 6, 1864, to Frederick G. Eberhart, who died March 11, 1909. Mrs. Eberhart will be buried beside her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Eberhart had one daughter, Mrs. Sabra Cook, of Minneapolis, who survives, and three sons, the late George F. Eberhart, of this city, who died Nov. 1, and two others who died at early ages. Surviving besides Mrs. Cook and Mr. Eberhart are two other grandsons, Gordon Cook, of Minneapolis, and Russell Eberhart, Pittsburgh, Pa., and five great-grandchildren.

South Bend Tribune

Friday, May 21, 1937)

Funeral services were conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Bubb chapel for Mrs. Roxy Eberhart, aged 91, of Minneapolis, Minn., grandmother of George F. Eberhart, jr. Rev. J. A. Burnett, D. D., pastor of First Presbyterian church, officiated and burial was in the city cemetery.

Editor: Here maiden name was Roxey Vesey.