Submitted by: Dan Rich

John Webster Ziegler

April 8, 1925 - Nov. 14, 1999

South Bend Tribune 11/16/1999

John Webster Ziegler, 74, born on April 8, 1925, in South Bend, Ind., passed away on Sunday, Nov. 14, while playing the piano at his church service. He was a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. John was program director for the very first educational television in the United States. While in Pittsburgh he received a Peabody Award for the Heritage Series that he produced. He then moved to New York where he acted and taught theater. He then moved to Los Angeles where he acted in the Alfred Hitchcock television series and over 40 films.

Later he moved back to South Bend where he taught television production and theater at The Stanley Clark School. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Zanna; brother, Granville; and by a sister, Marion. John is survived by Gary Umphrey and Twila Shively of Douglas, Mich., along with many friends.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. on Wednesday in the Unity Church on the lakeshore, Douglas, Mich., followed by services at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Burial services will be at 2 p.m. on Friday afternoon in the Highland Park Cemetery, South Bend. The Dykstra Funeral Home, Saugatuck, Mich., is handling arrangements.