Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Lakie O. Boren

March 7, 1925 - March 20, 1999

 

South Bend Tribune 3/22/1999

Lakie O. Boren, 74, of 725 E. Indiana Avenue, South Bend, Ind., passed away after a short illness at 9:10 a.m. on Saturday, March 20, in Memorial Hospital of South Bend. A homemaker, she was born on March 7, 1925, in Itman, W.Va.

 

She was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Army.

 

She was married on June 24, 1946, in Arlington, Va., to Roy E. Boren, who passed away on Jan. 18, 1992. She is survived by two daughters, Phyllis Landesman of North Liberty, Ind., and Connie Kretchmer of Nevada; a son, LeRoy of South Bend; and by three grandsons and a great-grandson.

 

Services will be at 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the A.M. Manuel Funeral Home in North Liberty, officiated by Charles Richmond, pastor of the Church of Christ. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home.