Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ernest L. Pearman

Oct. 16, 1928 - Aug. 12, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 8/15/1995

SOUTH BEND - Ernest L. Pearman, 66, of Sidney Avenue, died at 9:45 a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph's Medical Center. Mr. Pearman was the owner/operator of E & C Delivery Service. He was born Oct. 16, 1928, in Hiwassee, Ark., and lived in South Bend for 31 years.

 

On Oct. 19, 1948, in Pineville, Mo., he married Melba Howe. She survives with two daughters, Joyce Muzzey of Detroit and Teresa Nomos of South Bend; three sons, Thomas and Rev. Randall, both of South Bend, and Charles of Terre Haute, Ind.; 14 grandchildren; one step-grandchild; two great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; and a brother, Donald of Bayfield, Colo. He was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War.

 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Mayflower Baptist Church.