Submitted by: Diana Brown

The South Bend Tribune, May 2, 1959
DeForest E. Ham, 1209 Clover St., died at 4:15 p.m. Friday in St. Joseph’s  Hospital after a month’s illness.
He was born in Ontagmi, Wis., May 2, 1877, and had lived in South Bend nine years coming here from Lafayette. His wife, Lucy, died in 1950.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frank Wulf, of South Bend; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Hollis Funeral Home where services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the chapel at the State Soldier’s Home in Lafayette. Rev. Edwin Gillum, chaplain at the home, will officiate. Burial will be in the Soldier’s Cemetery at Lafayette.
Mr. Ham was a Spanish American War Veteran and a retired millwright of the Studebaker Corp.