Submitted by: Nadine A. Hardin
Name: Barna, Frank
Names in Obituary: Barna, Righter
South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries; Monday,
July 25, 1977.
Frank Barna.
Frank Barna, 84, of 2936 Jamestown Ct. N., Mishawaka,
died at 5:15 p.m. Sunday in the Fountainview Place nursing home
after a three-month illness. He was a cabinet maker before
retiring in 1955 from Singer Manufacturing Co. He was born
on Sept. 8, 1892, in Yugoslavia and moved to South Bend in 1909.
On Feb. 12, 1916, in South Bend, he married the former Margaret
Farkas, who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Righter of South Bend, a son, Frank A. of South Bend; 11
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. in the Hickey Funeral Home, 3516 E.
Jefferson, with Rev. Larry Whiteford, pastor of the Fulkerson
Park Baptist Church, Niles, officiating. Burial will be in St.
Joseph Valley Memorial Park. Friends may call from 2 to 4
and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home