Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

 

SBT 9/23/1982

 

Robert L. Johnson

March 3, 1899September 22, 1982

 

Robert L. Johnson, 83, of 2165 Parkview Place, died at 10:15am Wednesday in St Joseph’s Medical Center, after a lengthy illness.  He was employed with Colip Brothers Electric Co for 37 years and alter worked as an electrical inspector for the City of South bend for ten years.

 

He was born on March 3, 1899, in South Bend and was a lifetime area resident.  On June 29, 1929, in South Bend, he married Tillie Kruk, who survives.

 

Services will be at 11am Saturday in Holy Cross Catholic Church with Rev. James Trepanier, CSC, pastor, officiating.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.

 

Friends may call from 7 to 9pm today and from 2 to 9pm Friday in Kaniewski & Sons Funeral Home, where the parish rosary will be recited at 7:30pm Friday.  He was a veteran of WW I and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers.