Submitted by: Dan Rich

Vernon Roy Babcock

Aug. 6, 1918 - June 9, 1994

South Bend Tribune 6/12/1994

SOUTH BEND - Vernon Roy Babcock, 75, of Brookmeade, Wilmington, Del., formerly of South Bend and Culver, died Thursday in St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington. Mr. Babcock was manager of Computer Development at Bendix Corp., South Bend, for several years. He was born Aug. 6, 1918, in Culver.

He married Mary Ellen Dowling. She died in 1988. Surviving are a son, Jeffery J. of Wilmington; two sisters, Nancy M. Clements of South Bend and Shirley Ann Chapin of Grosse Point, Mich.; and a brother, Robert J. of South Bend. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of American Association of Retired Persons, National Association of Chiefs of Police, and a charter member of Data Processing Management Association, South Bend. He received degrees from University of Notre Dame, Ohio State University, Rockhurst College Kansas City, University of Utah, and Weber State College.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. June 17 in Mountain View Memorial Estates, Utah. Wilmington Commemorative Corleto-Latina Funeral Home, Wilmington, is in charge of arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made to Delaware Hospice, Suite 100 Ridgely Bldg., 3519 Silverside Road, Wilmington, DE 19810.