Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Bernadette Coil

May 16, 1908 - Oct. 6, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 10/8/1995

MISHAWAKA - Services for Bernadette Coil, 87, of Miller's Merry Manor, Wakarusa, formerly of Mishawaka, who died at 2:27 p.m. Friday in St. Joseph Community Hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Bavo's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 3 to 5 p.m. today in Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, where a wake service will be at 3 p.m. Memorial contributions maybe made to any charity.

 

Mrs. Coil retired from the former Swift Ice Cream Co. in the 1960s. She was born May 16, 1908, in Mishawaka, and was a lifelong area resident.

 

On June 2, 1928, in Mishawaka, as Bernadette Biesbrouck, she married Russell ''Rut'' Coil. He died March 6, 1981. Surviving are many nieces and nephews. She was a member of the church, Senior Sodality of the church, and Royal Neighbors of America.