Submitted by:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Matern, Michael

Names in Obituary:  Matern, Sholz, Hubbard, Melter, Werling

South Bend Tribune, Saturday Evening, July 5, 1952

Michael Matern, 730 East Pennsylvania avenue, died at 10:40 p.m. Thursday in the Dor-A-Lin nursing home after a five-year illness. Born in Austria-Hungary Oct. 10, 1868, he came to South Bend 45 years ago from Goshen, Ind. He married Elfrieda Sholz July 16, 1888 in Corinth-Palmer, N.Y. She survives with a son, Alfred B., and a daughter, Mrs. Rosina Hubbard, both of South Bend, and a grandson. Also surviving are a brother, John of Racine, Wis., and two sisters, Mrs. Rosina Melter, of Racine, and Mrs. Barbara Werling of Goshen, Ind. Friends may call in the Forest G. Hay funeral home where the funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday with Rev. Walter D. Overholtzer of Holy Trinity Evangelical Luthern church officiating. Interment will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial park.