Submitted by: Rick Berkheiser

"South Bend Tribune", Saturday, March 11, 1995, page A5  

Bettie L. Ewing

April 6, 1932-March 10, 1995       

SOUTH BEND--Bettie L. Ewing, 62, of Arthur Street, died Friday morning of natural causes.  Mrs. Ewing was employed by Stone Container Corp. as a press operator for 20 years.  She was born April 6, 1932, in South Bend.  On Dec. 3, 1983, in South Bend, as Bettie Blanchard, she married Floyd Ewing.  He survives with two daughters, Delsie Ewing and Betty Golomski, both of South Bend; a son, Thomas Jelderks of South Bend; two step-daughters, Barbara Wheat and Dorothy Rupert, both of South Bend; two stepsons, Floyd of South Bend and James of Arizona; 17 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; her mother, Evelyn Anderson of South Bend; two sisters, Dottie Hacker of South Bend and Martha Amor of Walkerton; and two brothers, Charles Blanchard and Jerry Lee Blanchard, both of Colorado Springs, Colo.  She was a member of the William Penn Club Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
     Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home.   [Note:  Rev. Bob Beyler, a friend of ours, officiated.]