Submitted by: Dan Rich
Apr. 10, 1871 – Nov. 14, 1941
Mishawaka Enterprise 11/19/1941
Leo A. Futterknecht
Leo A. Futterknecht, aged 71, died in his home, 326 Milburn court, at 8:15 o’clock Friday morning, after an illness of four months. He was born in Baden, Germany, April 9, 1870, and came to Mishawaka from that country. His wife, the former Freda Barth, to whom he was married April 11, 1981, died Oct. 8th 1938. He is survived by five sons, Godfrey, Otto, Leo, Joseph and Richard, all of this city; one daughter, Mrs. Alfred Trippel, also of Mishawaka; and two sisters, Mrs. Nicholas Bruggner, of South Bend, and Mrs. Sadie Bickel, of Mishawaka. Mr. Futterknecht was a member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and of the Holy Name society of that church, and of the Catholic Order of Foresters, St. John’s court, NO. 952. He belonged also to the Ball-Band Foremen’s club and to the Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Saturday morning in St. Joseph church, with pastor, Rev. George J. Lauer, officiating, and burial was in the St. Joseph cemetery.