Submitted by: Alice Marie Beard

South Bend Tribune, Friday, April 1, 1955  

Mrs. Bernice G. Beard.

Jan. 13, 1891 - Apr. 1, 1955

Mrs. Bernice G. Beard, 1218 Kinyon St., died at 12:15 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital after six months' illness. She was born in Benton, Ind., Jan. 13, 1891, and came here in 1925 from Carroll County, Indiana.

She was married in Canada in 1916 to G. Irvin Beard, who survives.

She leaves also three sons, Miles G., of Mishawaka; Max I. and Bruce W., of South Bend; five grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Hubbard, of Chicago, and Mrs. Linnie Taylor, of Fowler, Ind., and a brother, Arthur Griffith, of Glendive, Mont.

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Orvis Funeral Home until the funeral there at 2 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Kenneth L. Hemphill, of First Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.

Editor's note: She was born as Bernice G. Griffith