Submitted by: Dan Rich
Apr. 6, 1917 – July 4, 1988
MISHAWAKA – Emil L. Van Huffel,
71, of 1020 S. Wells Street, died at 8:56 p.m. Monday in St.
Joseph Medical Center, South Bend, after an illness. Mr. Van
Huffel retired from Bendix Corp. in 1980ter 27 years of service.
He was born April 6, 1917 in Galesburg, Ill., and spent most of
his life in this area.
On Nov. 22, 1945, in Mishawaka, he married
Joan M. Schroeder. She survives along with a daughter, Cheryl Nix
of Huntington, Ind.; two sons, Alan of Granger and Martin of
Mishawaka; nine grandchildren; and a sister, Jeanette Lochmandy
of Vandalia.
He was a member of St. Bavo’s Catholic
Church, and was a Navy veteran of World War II and member of the
USS Enterprise Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 360,
the BK Club and Elks Lodge 1402, McAllen, Texas.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St.
Bavo’s Catholic Church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill
Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to
9 p.m. Wednesday in Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, where a wake
service will be at 7:30 p.m.