Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Genevieve A. Crouch

Sept. 7, 1921 - July 16, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 7/17/1995

MISHAWAKA - Genevieve A. Crouch, 73, of 3101 Lincoln Way E., died at 9:05 p.m. Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital. Mrs. Crouch retired in 1982 from Rib Shack, Granger, as a cook. She was born Sept. 7, 1921, in Whitley County, Ind., and lived in Granger for 37 years.

 

In 1941, in South Bend, as Genevieve A. Shorb, she married James E. Burkhart. He died in 1972. In 1976, in Granger, she married Paul Crouch. He died in 1987. She is survived by a daughter, Debbie Hearon of Mishawaka; two sons, Thomas Burkhart and Ronald Burkhart, both of Mishawaka; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Vonita Fettel of South Bend, Beaulah Riehle of St. Joseph and Rowena Foos of Billings, Mont. She was a member of American Legion Auxiliary Post 365, Edwardsburg, and a former member of Harris Prairie Church of Christ, Granger.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Hollis-Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home, South Bend. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to American Lung Association or Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc.