Submitted by: Kristina Kuhn Krumm

South Bend Tribune

January 12, 1944; p. 3

Mrs. Cora Herbster, age 75, wife of a former South Bend merchant, died in her home in Long Beach, California, Tuesday.  She was ill a year.  She was born in union Township, St. Joseph County, November 16, 1868, and lived here all her life until six years ago when she and her husband moved to California.  She married E. F. Herbster November 27, 1889, in South Bend.  He was a shoe merchant, operating a store and South Michigan Street near Sample Street for many years.  Mr. Herbster survives, and she also leaves two daughters, Mrs. C. R. Carson of Long Beach, and Mrs. A. W. Detling, of the city; one son, Edgar D. Herbster, also of South Bend; one granddaughter, Mrs. Larry Cleary, of Los Angeles, CA; one grandson, Miles W. Detling, of Cleveland, Ohio; four great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. E. Grace Whitticar, of this city.  Her body, which is being sent to this city, will go to the Hay funeral home.  Mrs. Herbster was a member of the Women's Benefit association of this city.