Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ivan R. Adams

June 28, 1919 - July 4, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 7/5/1995

MISHAWAKA - Ivan R. Adams, 76, of 14978 Kern Road, died at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in his home after an illness. Mr. Adams retired in July 1983 from Alro Steel, South Bend. He was born June 28, 1919, in Elkhart.

 

On April 3, 1982, in South Bend, he married Erma Willowdean Magyery. She survives with four daughters, Merry Jo Elrod of Niles, Reva C. Miller of South Bend, Dora Ford of Fairmont, Ind., and Rebecca Sue Melton of North Liberty; five stepdaughters, Vicki E. Thaler of Huntington, Ind., Bernadette L. McPeek of San Diego, Calif., Teresa A. Powers of Cassopolis, and Monica D. Roscoe and Michelle J. Albin, both of Elkhart; two stepsons, James VanBuskurk of Huntington and Michael J. Magyery of Bristol; 33 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Silver of Elkhart. An Army veteran of World War II, he was a member of North Liberty American Legion Post 365, North Liberty Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1954 and International Teamsters Local 364.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Hanley & Sons Funeral Home, South Bend. Entombment will be in Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, with graveside rites by the North Liberty American Legion Post 365. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to any charity.