Submitted by: Dan Rich

Herman J. Hartman

March 2, 1912 - Jan. 11, 1997

South Bend Tribune 1/14/1997

Herman J. Hartman, 84, of Rochester, Ind., died following a long illness at his residence on Olson Road on Saturday, January 11, 1997 at 3:30 p.m. The son of Albert Henry and Arelia Fox Hartman, Herman was born on March 2, 1912, in Monterey, Ind. He was a 1930 graduate of Monterey High School and served as a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force during WW II.

On Aug. 10, 1946, in South Bend, Ind., he was married to Ethel S. Slack, who survives his death with their daughter, Patricia Dryden Leach of Indianapolis, Ind.

Herman and Ethel moved to the Leiters Ford, Ind., area from South Bend in 1975 when he retired from the White Farm Equipment Company, South Bend. He was a member of the Leiters Ford Lions Club and attended the Leiters Ford United Methodist Church.

In addition to his wife and daughter, Herman is survived by two grandsons, D. Bryce Dryden of Gaithersburg, Md., and M. Blair Dryden of Chicago, Ill. Other survivors are four sisters and a brother: Agnes Hartman, Monterey, Ind., Dorothy Morrison, Apache Junction, Ariz., Mildred Simpson, Higginsville, Mo., Gertrude Hahn, Apache Junction, Ariz., and Winfred Hartman, Monterey, Ind. Herman was preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers, Margaret Kleckner, Rosella Sullivan, Martha Serek, and Joseph and Raymond Hartman.

There will be no visitation. Memorial services conducted by Pastor Dorothy Jones of the Leiters Ford United Methodist Church will be held at the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan Street, Plymouth, on Wednesday, January 15, at 2:00 p.m. Burial will be in New Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth. Memorial gifts may be made to the Leiters Ford United Methodist Church, Leiters Ford, Ind.