Submitted by:  Dan Rich

Ralph J. Dierbeck

July 12, 1903 - July 3, 1995

South Bend Tribune 7/5/1995

SOUTH BEND - Services for Ralph J. Dierbeck, 91, of West Kern Road, who died about 5 a.m. Monday in his home, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in St. Jude's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. today in Hanley & Sons Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc. or Cancer Society of St. Joseph County.

Mr. Dierbeck retired in 1968 from Bausch Tool & Die, Milwaukee. He was born July 12, 1903, in Milwaukee.

On Oct. 29, 1932, he married Violet E. Snyder. She died May 31, 1982. He is survived by three daughters, Beverly Lawson, Nancy Herczeg and Patricia Abell, all of South Bend; two sons, James J. of Fort Myers, Fla., and Jeffrey D. of South Bend; 15 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Rosemarie Myszewski of Milwaukee; and three brothers, Jerome, Lawrence and Carl, all of Milwaukee. He was a member of the church.