Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Mary Margaret Keiner

Aug. 17, 1857 – June 13, 1944

 

South Bend Tribune 6/14/1944

MISHAWAKA - A resident of Mishawaka for 62 years Mrs. Mary Margaret Keiner, 86, of 714 E. 3rd Street, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Hospital. She had been ill four days. Mrs. Keimer was born Aug. 17, 1957 in Monroe, Mich., and moved here from that city.

 

As Mary Margaret Schaszberger she married John M. Keimer in Monroe 66 years ago. He died in 1929. Surviving are one step-daughter Mrs. Katherine Hahn of Freeport, Ill.; one grandson, Robert B. Hartzog of Goshen, Ind.; five great-grandchildren, and one brother, Herman Schaszberger of Monroe. She was the oldest living member of St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church.

 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Bubb Chapel. After 11 a.m. Thursday the body will be in St. Peter Church where funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Theodore Schwas, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in City Cemetery.