Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 10/23/1972

Surnames:  Berg – Daubenspeck – Russell

Cemetery:  St Joseph Valley Memorial Park

Benjamin B. Berg

July 10, 1881 – October 23, 1972

Benjamin B. Berg, 91, of 1138 N. Huey St., died at 12:30am today in Memorial Hospital after a four day illness.

He was born on July 10, 1881, in Noblesville IN, and had lived here 64 years, coming from Michigan City.  On June 12, 1907, in Lafayette, he married Mabel Russell, who survives, along with a son, Russell W. of South Bend; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Daubenspeck of Noblesville and a brother, Walter of Tucson AZ.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Tuesday in the Forest G. Hay and Son Funeral Home, 1201 S. Michigan St, where services will be conducted at 3pmWednesday by Rev. Jasper H. Cox, associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church.

The hand speech interpreter will be Mrs. Alvina Carpenter.  Burial will be in St Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Mr. Berg retired in 1952 from the Studebaker Corp.