Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Leona Mae Harwood

Nov. 20, 1919 - March 15, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 3/16/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Leona Mae Harwood, 76, of Burke Street, who died of natural causes at 12:20 a.m. Friday in her home, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County.

 

Mrs. Harwood was a retired bus driver for Niles Community Schools and South Bend Community School Corp. She was born Nov. 20, 1919, in Elkhart. On July 5, 1947, in Elkhart, she married Frederick B. Harwood. He survives with three daughters, Sue Shissler of South Bend, Barbara Ann Horvath of Granger and Laura L. Clark of Galien; three sons, Paul D. Ostrom of Colorado Springs, Colo., Charles L. Ostrom and Andrew R. Harwood, both of South Bend; 14 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Lillian Glick of Elkhart. She attended Community Congregational Church and was a singer with the River Bend Chapter of the Sweet Adelines.

 

South Bend Tribune 3/17/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Leona Mae Harwood, 76, of Burke Street, who died at 12:20 a.m. Friday in her home of natural causes, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County. Among survivors is a daughter, Susan Eileen Shisler of South Bend.