Submitted by: Dan Rich

Allen Harley Cater

Nov. 4, 1904 - Feb. 4, 1994

South Bend Tribune 2/7/1994

SOUTH BEND - Allen Harley Cater, 89, of Eclipse Place, died of natural causes at 3:47 p.m. Friday in Memorial Hospital. Mr. Cater retired from the Studebaker Corp. after 36 years of service and was a former employee of Saint Mary's College and Indiana Club. He was born Nov. 4, 1904, in Mosinee, Wis., and lived in South Bend since 1927.

On Oct. 6, 1924, in Knowlton, Wis., he married Genevieve Daniecki. She died Dec. 12, 1990. He is survived by two daughters, Eleanor Towne of Greenwood, Ind., and Jean Anna Burkhart of South Bend; a son, Arnold A. of South Bend; 14 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Neva Case of Rothschild, Wis., Lila Christensen of Mosinee and Florence Pagel of Juneau, Wis.; and three brothers, Ernest of Louisville, Colo., Len of Sturtevant, Wis., and Willard of Mosinee. He was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Kaniewski Funeral Home, where a rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Visiting Nurses Association, American Cancer Society or American Heart Association.