Submitted by: Diana Brown

The South Bend Tribune  May 30, 1982

Mrs. Mildred B. Hagen, 79, of 708 E. Corby, died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Ridgedale Nursing Home after a six-month illness. She was retired from the H.D. Lee Co.
She was born in South Bend on April 27, 1903. She married Walter Hagen on March 26, 1923, in Benton Harbor. He died on Jan. 31, 1955.
Her only son, Walter Hagen Jr., was killed during the Normandy landing in World War II. She is survived by a sister, Florence Nagle of East St. Louis, Ill., and a brother, Milton Snyder of Misawaka.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Portage Chapel at Riverview Cemetery. Rev. Harold Kline, pastor at the First Christian Church, will officiate.
Burial will be at the Riverview Cemetery. There will be no visitation. She was a member of the Gold Star Mothers of World War II.