Submitted by:  Susan Householder Smith

The South Bend Tribune November 17 1979 Mishawaka, Indiana p 11

LESTER N KRAUS

BANGOR-Services for Lester N Kraus, 69, of Rt. 1, will be at 11am. Monday at the Stafford-Robbins Funeral Home, Bangor, with Pastor Roy Rose officiating. Interment and graveside services will be at 2 pm at the Fairview Cemetery, Mishawaka. Friends may call after 7 pm today.

He was born Feb 7, 1910 in Mishawaka, and moved to Bangor 26 years ago.. He married Susie Tippett on Oct. 7 1929. She survives, with seven daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Bertha) Alford of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. John (Edith) Penrose of Edwardsburg, Mrs. David (Betty) Woodward of Finger, Tenn., and Mrs. James (Mickey) Heller, Mrs. Leland (Linda) Ricketts, Mrs. Danny (Janet) Brown, and Mrs. Floyd (Pauline) Householder, all of Bangor; two sons, Richard of Mishawaka and Paul of Bangor; 25 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; six sisters, Mrs. Earl (Pauline) McCrum of Mishawaka, Mrs. Marguerite Baugher of Evart, Mich., Mrs.Virgil (Ruth) Suit of Houston, Tex., Mrs. Jim (Donna) Green of Perry, Mich. and Mrs. Ray (Irene) Miller and Mrs. Annie Askren both of Osceola. He was retired from Uniroyal Corp in Mishawaka.