From Susan Gates Davis

 

 

South Bend Tribune, April 5, 1949:
Mrs. Verna B. Foote
  Mrs. Verna B. Foote, aged 64, of 721 Forest avenue, died in St. Joseph hospital at 3 a.m. today after seven weeks illness.  She was born in Warren township, this county, Sept. 18, 1885, and lived all her life here.  She was married in 1937 as Mrs. Verna Stroup to Larmon Foote, who preceded her in death in 1943.  She leaves a son, C. Howard Stroup, South Bend; a daughter, Mrs. Raymond W. Yoder, rural route No. 1, and five grandchildren.  She was a member of the Second Church of the Brethren.  Friends may call in the Welsheimer chapel until noon Thursday, when the body will be taken to the Second Church of the Brethren, to lie until the funeral there at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.  Rev. Edward Stump, pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Osceola, this county, will officiate.  Burial will be in Bowman cemetery.