Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

William “Will” Eberhart

Oct. 21, 1867 – Aug. 24, 1940

 

South Bend Tribune
Sunday, August 25, 1940

Will Eberhart, aged 72, of McKinley avenue, northeast of Mishawaka, died at 8 p.m. Saturday on the same farm where he was born Oct. 21, 1867. He had been ill 10 months.

He spent his entire life near Mishawaka and on Nov. 23, 1898, married Miss Rilla VanWinkle, who survives.

The following children also survive, Clem, Goshen, Ind.; Ray, South Bend; Donald, Laporte, Ind.; Fred and Gene, at home, and Mrs. James Casey, South Bend. There is one sister, Mrs. Walter Ort, of Mishawaka.

Friends may call at the residence from this afternoon, until the hour of the services, arrangements for which have not been completed.

 

Editor: Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.