From Rick
Berkheiser
"The South Bend Tribune",
Friday Evening, December 2, 1955, page 44
Mrs. Ada R.
Barnes.
Mrs. Ada R. Barnes, 6902 S. Michigan St., died at 5 a.m. today in the Hilltop
Nursing Home after several years' illness. She was born in Port Jefferson,
Long Island, Oct. 6, 1874, and came here 60 years ago. She was married
here in 1900 to Jesse A. Barnes, who died in 1953. She leaves a daughter,
Mrs. Harryetta Smith, South Bend; five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren,
and a sister, Mrs. E. R. LaHommedieu, South Bend. Friends may call after 4
p.m. Saturday in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home where the funeral will take
place at 2 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Robert E. Cox, pastor of the Southlawn
Evangelical United Brethren Church, of which she was a member, will
officiate. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.