Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran
SBT 6/26/1974
John Clair
Geist
January 24,
1900 June 25, 1974
Services for John
Clair Geist, 74, of 1821 N. OBrien St., who died at 3:30am
Tuesday in Memorial Hospital after a four year illness, will be 2pm
Thursday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N William St. Rev.
Richard Chamness, pastor of the West Side Church of Christ, will
officiate. Burial will be in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Friends may call
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm today in the funeral home.
Mr. Geist was the
former owner and operator of the Geist Sinclair Service Station.
Born January 24,
1900, in Buchanan MI, he had lived here most of his life. On June
23, 1923, in South Bend, he married Elsie Colditz. On December
27, 1946, in Michigan City, he married Mabel Mead, who survives.
Also surviving are a son, Jack, of Bronte TX; a daughter, Mrs.
Elaine Shackelford of Odessa TX; two stepsons, Robert and Rondel
Mead, both of South Bend; 11 grandchildren; five great
grandchildren; a brother, Arthur of Granger, and three sisters,
Mrs Myrtle Milliken of Lydick, Mrs. Arthur Chase of South Bend
and Mrs. Arthur Mabry of Fort Lauderdale