Submitted by: Dan Rich

Eleanor Dentino

Mar. 20, 1923 – Jan. 30, 1959

South Bend Tribune 1/30/1959

MISHAWAKA - The 35-year old mother of St. Joseph County’s polio poster boy, one of her four children, died Thursday in St. Joseph Hospital after being stricken while soliciting funds in the Mother’s March for polio. Mrs. Robert M. Dentino, 2106 Homewood Avenue, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday while soliciting. She was taken to the hospital where she died yesterday. Mrs. Dentino’s son, James Robert, 11, is the county’s poster boy for this year. She was born in Detroit, Mich. and came to Mishawaka in 1945.

In 1945 as Eleanor VanGoethem she married Mr. Dentino in Detroit Oct. 2, 1943. Surviving besides her husband and son, are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil VanGoethem, of Detroit; her grandmother, Mrs. Henry Tack, of Lansing, Mich.; and two other sons, Steven Ray, 6, and Daniel Roy, 5, and a daughter, Mary Ellen Dentino, 12, all at home. Also surviving are one brother, George J. VanGoethem of St. Clair Shores, Mich. and a sister, Miss Rose Vangoethem, of Detroit.

Friends may call at the Bubb Funeral Chapel after 7 p.m. Friday and until the funeral services at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Monica’s Catholic Church. Rev. Leo A. Hoffman, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. Dentino was a member of the St. Monica’s parish rosary society. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday in the chapel.