Submitted by: Dan Rich

Andrea Anna Martens

April 27, 1900 - Nov. 28, 1995

South Bend Tribune 11/29/1995

MISHAWAKA - Andrea Anna Martens, 95, of Healthwin Hospital and Nursing Home, South Bend, died about noon Tuesday in the nursing home. Mrs. Martens retired in 1965 from South Bend Public Library in the clerical department. She was born April 27, 1900, in Hansbeke, Belgium, and had lived in Mishawaka since 1926.

On Nov. 18, 1926, in Belgium, as Andrea A. Wille, she married Raymond J. Martens. He died Nov. 27, 1954. She is survived by three daughters, Edith Chamberlin of Belleville, Ill., Gabrielle Traxler of Evanston, Ill., and Alfrieda Berther of Milwaukee; a son, Siegfried of South Bend; 14 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was a member of St. Bavo's Catholic Church.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday in the church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Hahn Funeral Home.