Submitted by: Dan Rich

Lucile E. Strandhagen

Aug. 14, 1909 - April 2, 1999

South Bend Tribune 4/9/1999

Lucile Evelyn Strandhagen, 89, died after a lengthy illness on Friday, April 2, in Palo Alto, Calif.

Lucile ''Lucy'' was born in Williamsburg, Mich., on Aug. 14, 1909, the daughter of Seymour M. Perry and Blanche Carpenter Perry.

She was married to Adolf Gustave Strandhagen on Aug. 22, 1940. She is survived by her daughters, Gretchen Kagel of Atascadero, Calif., and Karen P. Ross of Palo Alto; two grandchildren, Peter D. Ross of Palo Alto and Meredith A. Ross of Sausalito, Calif.; and by her brother, Robert Perry of Danville, Calif.

Lucile graduated with a B.A. in 1930 from Albion College in Albion, Mich. In 1937 she graduated from the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, Mich. Throughout her career she was a teacher at Imlay City High School in Imlay City, Mich., was a laboratory assistant and instructor in anatomy and bacteriology in the medical school at the University of Michigan, a camp nurse at Camp Tanadoonah in Cassopolis, Mich., and was supervisor of gerontology at the Sisters of Holy Cross Convent, Notre Dame, Ind.

From 1946 until 1992 Lucile lived in South Bend, Ind., where she was an active volunteer in the PTA, Camp Fire Girls, Ladies of Notre Dame and the Notre Dame Library Association. Her hobbies included duplicate bridge, painting, traveling and writing. She was a member of the First Methodist Church in South Bend. She had been residing in Palo Alto since 1992.

The visitation hours will be from 10 to noon on Thursday, April 8, at the Welsheimer Funeral Home, South Bend. At 12:30 p.m. there will be graveside services at Cedar Grove Cemetery at Notre Dame.

Contributions may be made to the Friends of the Library, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556.