Submitted by: Dan Rich
The Elkhart Truth 5/21/1947
SOUTH BEND – After the body of Irvin
Hygema, 55-year old Lakeville Farmer, was found in an
automobile near his home, with a revolver in each hand. The
sheriff said the man had apparently committed suicide by shooting
himself in the right temple and heart simultaneously with the two
weapons. The sheriff said one exploded shell was found in each of
the .38 caliber guns. He had been in failing health for some
months.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m.
Thursday at the residence and at 2:30 at the Oak Grove MBC
church, 4 miles west and two miles south of Wakarusa. The Rev. W.
E. Manges of Elkhart will officiate, and burial will be in South
Union Cemetery.
Mr. Hygema was born Sept. 12, 1891, near
Wakarusa, the son of the Rev. David and Sarah Loucks Hygema.
Surviving are his widow, Cora Schalliol Hygema, whom he
married April 16, 1910, at the Hygema home; four daughters, Mrs.
Mabel Annis, Mrs. Treva Hossman, Mrs. Erma Miller
and Mrs. Ferne Steitz, all of near Lakeville; three sons,
Kenneth of Plymouth, Donald of Lakeville and Irvin Jr. of Bremen;
a brother, the Rev.William Hygema of Dayton, Ohio; 4 sisters,
Mrs. Martha Wise of Nappanee, Mrs. Pearl Weldy of
Middlebury and Mrs. Mabel Ummel and Miss Grace Hygema,
both of Wakarusa, and 16 grandchildren.