From  Rick Berkheiser

 

 

 

"The South Bend Tribune", Friday Evening, December 2, 1955, page 44

 

Mrs. Emma Lyon Wise.

 

     Mrs. Emma Lyon Wise, 624 Diamond Ave., was found dead in her bed Thursday afternoon.  She had been ill 21 years.  She was born in Upland, Ind., March 15, 1872, and came here in 1921 from there.  She was married in 1898 in Upland to Elmer Wise, who survives.  She leaves also a daughter, Miss Helen L. Wise, South Bend.  She was a member of the Upland Methodist Church and the Schuyler Rebecca Lodge 30, here.  The body was taken to Upland for funeral rites at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Jones Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Jefferson Cemetery there.