Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Helen Marie Winenger

July 10, 1914 - Sept. 28, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 9/30/1996

Helen Marie (Tuttle) Winenger, 82, of Miller's Merry Manor passed away Saturday evening of natural causes. Mrs. Winenger was born July 10, 1914 in Walkerton. She had lived in this area her entire lifetime.

 

On July 11, 1931, in Tyner she married Walter E. Winenger Sr. He passed away Nov. 13, 1972. Helen had been a homemaker as well as the mother of three children. Surviving children are Donna (Lauren) Yeager of Mishawaka and Walter (Mary Ann) Winenger Jr. of South Bend. Helen has six grandchildren, Pam Fuller of Granger and Jim, Kim, Kristi and Kellie Winenger, all of South Bend and Dawn Dow of South Bend. She has two great-grandchldren, Brittany Dow and Erica Rios.

 

Mrs. Winenger was the daughter of Clem and Sarah (Bucher) Tuttle. She is survived by four sisters, Dorothy Conrad of Florida, Ruth Straker of Walkerton, Connie O'Brien of California, and Rosamond Schmanski of South Bend. Also surviving are six brothers, Howard of North Liberty, Gerald of Walkerton, Stanley of Warsaw, Thomas of Grovertown, Richard of Argos and James of Hammond. A daughter, Mary Winenger and two brothers, Robert and Raymond, and one sister, Marilyn Hendricks preceded her in death.

 

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Nusbaum-Elkin Funeral Home, Walkerton. Visitation will be 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday.

Mrs. Winenger attended the First Brethren Church in South Bend.