From  Rick Berkheiser

 

 

 

"The South Bend Tribune", Thursday Evening, March 5, 1953

 

Mrs. Curtis H. Vernon.

 

     Mrs. Curtis H. Vernon, Alpena, Mich., mother of Werner C. Vernon, 833 W. Angela Blvd., died Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.  She was born Osie Marie Meissner in South Bend in 1887 and spent her early life here.  In 1906 she was married  to Curtis H. Vernon, South Bend, and moved to Michigan in 1916.  Other survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Clarke, Muskegon Heights, Mich., Mrs. Elizabeth Hoffman, Cleveland, O., and Mrs. Oratea Trojan, Alpena, and three other sons, Harry F. and Jesse W., both of Pontiac, Mich., and Charles R., Detroit, Mich.  The body is being taken to Alpena for burial.