Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins

 

 

South Bend Tribune June 7, 1973

Mrs. Vera Heston

     Mrs. Vera T. Heston, 75, of 19864 Pasadena Ave.  died at 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday in Memorial Hospital after an illness of four weeks.  She was born Jan 22,
1898 in Mount Union, Iowa, coming to South  Bend 32 years ago from Ottumwa,
Iowa.  As Vera Bice she was married in  1918 to Edward Heston, who died in 1968.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Eloise  Glentzer of South Bend; a son Edward,
Jr., also of South Bend; seven  grandchildren
; 13 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Stremme, also of  South
Bend.
     Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the  Forest G. Hay & Son
Funeral Home, 1201 S. Michigan St. Funeral service will  be conducted in the
Johnson Funeral Home, Ottumwa, at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Burial  will be in Shaul
Cemetery, Ottumwa.