Submitted by: Dan Rich
John Harris Hambright
March 11, 1904 May 25, 1980
South Bend Tribune 5/29/1980
John H. Hambright
John H. Hambright, 76, of 3067 N. Silver
Maple Court, South Bend, formerly of Mishawaka, was dead on
arrival Wednesday at Memorial Hospital after suffering an
apparent heart attack. He was born on March 11, 1904, in
Mishawaka. He married Loretta Bickel on July 4,
1921. She survives with a daughter, Mrs. Thomas (Shirley
Anne) Books of Belleville, Mich.; a son, Robert Hambright
of South Bend; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren, and a
sister, Mrs. Maurice (Margaret) De-Shryer, of Sun City
Center, Fla.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7
to 9 p.m. Friday in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home where a
rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Services will be at 11
a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph Church. Rev. Robert Hoevel,
pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley
Memorial Park.
Hambright was retired from the oil industry,
and was employed as office manager of the Home Plumbing and
Heating Supply firm. He was a member of St. Joseph Church;
the South Bend Elks Lodge 235; the Fraternal Order of Eagles
Aerie 323 of Logansport, Ind., and the Father Newlands General
Assembly of the fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus Council
1878.