Submitted by: Todd Nowicki
Gillen, Setlock, Devereaux, McGovern
Robert M. Gillen: (South Bend Tribune 4/9/1999)
March 6, 1919-April 7, 1999 Robert
M. Gillen, 80, of Old Sage Lake Drive, Mishawaka, Ind., died at
6:02 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, in St. Joseph Community
Hospital, Mishawaka. Mr. Gillen was employed in the South Bend,
Ind., area until his retirement in 1971, but thereafter he
remained active as a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union
Local 172. He was born on March 6, 1919, in South, and had been a
lifetime area resident. On Oct. 5, 1940, in South Bend, he
married Alice M. Setlock, who survives. He is also survived by a
daughter, Mary Devereaux of Mishawaka; three sons, Robert D.
(JoAnn) Gillen of Indianapolis, Ind., Thomas (Mickie) Gillen of
Lafayette, Ind., and Dennis (Stella) Gillen of Odessa, Mo.; 12
grandchildren and two great-grandsons; and by a sister, Frances
McGovern of Wethersfield, Conn. He was preceded in death by a
son, James P. Gillen. Mr. Gillen was a World War II Navy veteran,
a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 624, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose, and was a graduate of South Bend
Central High School. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30
a.m. on Saturday in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mishawaka.
Entombment will follow at St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park,
Granger, Ind. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday
morning in the Hickey Funeral Home, 3516 E. Jefferson. Memorials
may be made to the St. Joseph County Cancer Society.