Submitted by Dan Rich

Mary VanVooren

April 11, 1908 - Nov. 1, 2001

South Bend Tribune 11/3/2001

Mary (Charnoski) VanVooren, 93, formerly of East Lawrence Street, Mishawaka, died at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, November 1 in the home of her daughter in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was born in Chicago on April 11, 1908, and had lived in Mishawaka most of her life.

As Mary Charnoski she married Camiel Van Vooren in Mishawaka in St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church on September 9, 1928. Camiel died in 1970. Mary was also preceded in death by her parents Michael and Mary (Ivanyiga) Charnoski; two sisters, Rose and Ann; and two brothers, John and Michael, along with a great-granddaughter, Stephanie. Mrs. Van Vooren is survived by two daughters, Karen (Robert) Price of Kalamazoo and Mary (Robert) Buwa of Mishawaka; six grandchildren, Vick (Rose) Reed of Arlington, Texas, Kathy Rose of Matheson, Colo., Michael Rose of Dowagiac, Mich., Stephen Price, David Price and Lisa Price, all of Kalamazoo; and three great-grandchildren and four great- great-grandchildren. Besides her dedication to her family, Mary loved her cottage retreat at Diamond Lake, gardening, canning, fishing, collecting and cleaning black walnuts and sewing.

Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday November 4 in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main Street, Mishawaka. A funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in St. Monica Catholic Church with Fr. Derrick Sneyd officiating. Burial will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola.