Submitted by: Kristina Kuhn Krumm

South Bend Tribune 

Saturday, December 2, 1922;

Mrs. Helen Frances Adelsperger, age 83, a resident of South Bend nearly all her life, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George F. Yenn, Chicago, at 1:00 Friday morning, following an illness of two weeks with pneumonia.  She was born in Herkimer County, New York, July 27, 1839, and had been a resident of South Bend more than 50 years, going to Chicago two months ago.  She was married May 16, 1886, to Thomas Adelsperger.  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Yenn, and Eva Catherine Adelsperger, South Bend, one son, Edward Rolland Adelsperger, and one sister, Mrs. J. W. Brahn, Union Mills, Indiana.  Funeral services will be held from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock, Rev. William Moloney, CS C., officiating.  Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery.  The body will arrive from Chicago at 10:20 o'clock.

South Bend Tribune  

December 4, 1922; p. 5.

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Frances Adelsperger, formerly of South Bend, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George E. Yenn, Chicago, Friday morning, were laid [SIC] from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, at 10:30 o'clock this morning.  Rev. William Moloney, CSC., officiating.  Burial was in Cedar Grove Cemetery.