Submitted by: Mary Jo Korans

SBT 4/8/1993

William W. Blough-DeHass

October 28, 1921 – April 7, 1993

William W. Blough-DeHass, 71, of Fort Wayne, formerly of South Bend, died at 2pm Wednesday in Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Marion IN.  Mr. Blough-DeHass retired from Delta Star Electric Co and Morgan Drive-Away, Elkhart, as a truck driver.

He was born October 28, 1921, in Harmon PA and lived in Fort Wayne since 1991, moving there from South Bend.  On January 15, 1972, in Mishawaka, he married Gail M. Carter.  She died September 12, 1991.  He is survived by a daughter, Pamela Blough of Elkhart; two sons, Richard Anderson and William Anderson, both of Ohio; three step daughters, Katie Tanner of South Bend, Kimberly Holland of Connecticut and Tina Adee of South Carolina; a stepson, Richard Kretchmer of Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren; and a brother, Bert Blough of Wooster OH.

He was a veteran of WW II and received two Silver Stars, an Oak Leaf Cluster & two Purple Hearts.

Services will be at 10am Saturday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St., Mishawaka.  Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola.  Friends may call from 5 to 8pm Friday in the funeral home.

SBT 4/9/1993

Funeral Notes

William W. Blough-DeHass

Services for William W. Blough-DeHass, 71, of Fort Wayne, formerly of South Bend, who died at 2pm Wednesday in Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fort Wayne, will be at 10am Saturday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St., Mishawaka.   Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, where military rites will be conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 360.  Friends may call form 5 to 8pm today in the funeral home.