Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Robert L. Strebinger

Feb. 26, 1900 - March 27, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 7/28/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Robert L. Strebinger, 96, of North Elliott Street, who died at 2:20 a.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Holy Cross Catholic Church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in Hickey Funeral Home, 17131 Cleveland Road, where a parish rosary will be said at 4 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Muscular Dystrophy Association.

 

Mr. Strebinger retired in 1967 as an experimental automotive engineer for Bendix Corp. after 45 year of service. He was born Feb. 26, 1900, in Austria and lived in South Bend since 1913.

 

On Sept. 5, 1936, in South Bend, he married Mary Kraley Mayerhoefer. She died Aug. 22, 1970. He is survived by two daughters, Mary Louise Heinrich of Indianapolis and Genevieve Strebinger of South Bend; a son, Robert C. of South Bend; 13 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a brother, Richard R. of South Bend.

 

He was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, a charter member of Retirees Club of the church, member of Bendix Senior Management Club and DFV German Club.