Submitted by: Dan Rich

Robert J. Cressy

Jan. 9, 1917 – May 10, 1981

South Bend Tribune 5/11/1981

SOUTH BEND – Robert J. Cressy, 64, a county police corporal died at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Medical Center, after a brief illness. He apparently had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He had served as a county policeman for 14 years, and was one of two persons held hostage on April 12th when a group of prisoners took over the county jail. His death apparently was unrelated to that incident. He was born Jan. 9, 1917 in South Bend, and had lived here most of his life.

On Feb. 14, 1940 in South Bend, he married Dorothy M. Williams, who survives. Also surviving is his mother Catherine L. Cressy of South Bend; two daughters. Mrs. Jo Anne Bowe and Mrs. Catherine Lovitt, both of South Bend; two sons. Thomas J. and Guy R., both of South Bend; 13 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Peggy Swain of South Bend and Mrs. Sally Woods of Laguna Beach, Calif.; and three brothers, Jack and Ralph, both of Chicago, and Leonard of California.

Services will be at10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph Catholic Church. Rev. Edward J. Ruetz, director of pastoral care at St. Joseph Hospital will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the McGann Funeral Home, where the rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday. He was a member of FOP Lodge 155, a World War II Air Force veteran. He served 12 years of active duty in the Air Force and 12 years in the Air Force Reserve

Editor: He is the son of Katherine C. Leonard and Clement Gordon Cressy.