Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ethel Jane Lampsa

July 21, 1920 - Dec. 14, 2008

 

South Bend Tribune 12/17/2008
SOUTH BEND - Ethel Jane Omundson Lampsa, 88, a lifelong resident of South Bend, passed away peacefully Sunday evening, December 14, 2008, in the Cameron Glen Care Center, Reston, VA. She was born July 21, 1920, in South Bend, the daughter of Chester and Ruth Fogelstrom Omundson, and had lived her lifetime in South Bend until moving to Virginia in March 2007 to be near her daughter. She retired as a secretary from the South Bend Community School Corp. in 1986. She was a longtime member of the former Ridgedale Presbyterian Church and attended Grace United Methodist Church in South Bend. She is survived by her daughter, Nancy Jane Tucker-Goldman, and her husband, Rick Goldman of Fairfax, VA; and her son, Michael Allen Lampsa of South Bend; and one grandson, Erik Tucker, and his wife, Dana Cash of Falls Church, VA. Ethel was very proud of her Scandinavian heritage. She loved Chicago and South Bend. She was always curious about things, and had a great love for dogs.

 

Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19, in the Palmer Funeral Home-Guisinger Chapel, 3718 South Michigan Street, South Bend. Rev. Don Neeley will officiate. Graveside services and burial will follow at Southlawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. It was Ethel's desire that all memorial contributions be made to the Humane Society of St. Joseph County, 2506 North Grape Road, Mishawaka, IN 46545.