From Steve Floor
March 14,
1985
BARBARA
JEAN MARVIN
11/29/1927
- 03/13/1985
BARBARA
JEAN MARVIN, 57, of 5203 Prescott Ave., died at 10:55 a.m. Wednesday in
Osteopathic Hospital, of natural causes. She was a former clerk with the
St. Joseph County Recorder's Office.
Born
November 29, 1927, in Kent County, Michigan, she lived in the South Bend area
most of her life, coming from Cascade, Michigan.
On
April 02, 1944, in South Bend, as BARBARA BEEBE, she married PAUL
MARVIN.
He survives
along with a daughter, SHARON WILTROUT of South Bend, two sons, PAUL MICHAEL of
Oaktown, Ind. and ERNEST DALE of Grand Haven, Mich.; 10 grandchildren; her
mother, EUGENIA GWILT, of Niles; and four sisters, MILDRED BYBEE and PATRICIA
WOODCOX, both of South Bend, LAURA DENNIS of Grand Junction, Colorado and
MARJORIE CARTER of Hannibal, Mo. She was preceded in death by a sister,
IOLENE NELSON, and a brother, LAWRENCE BEEBE.
Services
will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Welsheimer North Chapel, 52803 U.S.
33N.
Burial will
follow in Southlawn Cemetery. Rev. JOHN STAPLES, of Community
Congregational Church, officiating. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m.
today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. She was a
member of Community Congregational Church, served as a [precinct committeewoman
of the Eighth Precinct, and was a member of the Circle D'Amis Chapter of the
American Businesswomen's Association, the Merry-Go-Round Club and the Roving
Hillbillies Camping Club.
Memorial
contributions may be made to the American Cancer
Society.