Submitter:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Walter A. Forsberg <aka Waldener A. Forsberg>

South Bend Tribune:  October 26, 1981

Surnames mentioned:  Forsberg, DeLong, Geyer

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries, Local; Monday, October 26, 1981.

Walter A. Forsberg, 82, formerly of 22541 Adams, died at 8:40 a.m. Sunday in Healthwin Hospital after a lengthy illness.  He was retired from the Studebaker Corp. in 1965 after 40 years employment.  Born on June 7, 1899, in South Bend, he had lived here all his life.  On Oct. 3, 1925, in South Bend, he married Margaret A. DeLong.  She died in 1965.  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Geyer of South Bend; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a brother, Edward of Austin, Tex.

  Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William.  Rev. Frederick S. Wintle, pastor of the Central United Methodist Church, will officiate.  Entombment will be in Riverview Mausoleum.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.  He was a member of the church, the Gideon Bible Society, and had served as a chaplain at Healthwin Hospital for 18 years.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Broadcast Fund of the church.