Submitted by Linda Braden Gray  

Mrs. William H. Brennan  

South Bend Tribune 17 Dec 1944  

HEART ATTACK AFTER FUNERAL OF KIN FATAL  

Funeral services for Mrs. William H. Brennan, 915 North Notre Dame avenue, will take place at 9 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Roman Catholic church, where Mrs. Brennan attended funeral rites Saturday morning for her brother, Charles Edward Adelsperger.  She was stricken with a heart attack just after attending those rites and died in her home within two hours.  

Rev. Wendell P. Corcoran, C.S.C., pastor of St. Joseph church, will sing the requiem mass and burial will be in Highland cemetery.  Friends will be received in her residence after 2 p.m. today.  

Mrs. Brennan  was born in Tiffin, O., Sept. 15, 1867, and lived most of her life here.  She was married in Chicago in 1889 to Mr. Brennan, who survivies.  She leaves also four daughters, Mrs. Alton E. Gray, of Mishawaka; Mrs. Walter I. Rauh, of  Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. William Trumble, of Detroit, Mich., and Miss Loretta M. Brennan, at home; three sons, William F. Brennan, of South Bend, Lawrence G. Brennan, of Waltham, Mass., and George Martin Brennan, of Lexington, Va.; 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; two brothers, Peter Adelsperger of Hollywood, Calif., and George Adelsperger, of Findlay, O., and six sisters, Mrs. Elmer Metras, Dowagiac, Mich.; Mrs. B. J. Murray, of Chicago; Mrs. Max Konzen and Mrs. Louis Coquillard of South Bend; Mrs. Colette VanDamm, of Hollywood, and Mrs. Lilliam Adelsperger of Chicago.  

Funeral Notes Mrs. William H. Brennan

South Bend Tribune 18 Dec 1944  

Pallbearers for the funeral service at 9 a. m. Tuesday in the St. Joseph Roman Catholic church of mrs. William H. Brennan, of 915 North Notre Dame avenue, who died Saturday will be Robert Brennan, L. Edward Gray, Peter Metras, Leo Coquillard, Charles Adelsperger and William Adelsperger.  The Rosary will be recited by the Altar society of the church at 7:30 p. m. today in the residence.  Burial will be in Highland cemetery.