Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 12/28/1961
Mrs. Mary Futter
Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Futter, 77, of 516 W. 3rd St., who died Saturday night in her home, will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Very Rev. Msgr. Curt A. Suelzer, pastor will officiate and burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
The body of Mrs. Futter was found about 8 a.m. Sunday by a friend who called at her home to take her to church. She had been under a physician’s care for many months. She was born in Germany and came to this country in 1890. As Mary Gonya, she married Charles Futter in 1945 in East Chicago, Ind. He died in 1957.
For several years before Mrs. Futter retired in 1945 she worked in the office of St. Joseph’s Hospital. Surviving are two stepsons, Clarence and Gene Futter, both of South Bend; two sisters, Mrs. Louis Dumond, of Leesburg, Fla., and Sister M. Martina, PHJC, of Gary and a brother, Victory Gonya, of Chicago. Mrs. Futter was a member of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary.
South Bend Tribune 12/19/1961
Mrs. Mary Futter
Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Futter, 77, of 516 W. 3rd St., who died Saturday night, will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph’s Church. Very Rev. Msgr. Curt A Suelzer, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Friends may call in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home and the rosary will be recited there at 7:30 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be Otto and G. L. Futter, Herman Goeller, Ned Miller, George Klein and Edward McMinn.