Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Muriel F. Kinch

Aug. 22, 1913 – Jan. 4, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 1/5/1994

SOUTH BEND - Muriel F. Kinch, 80, of 2601 Cypress Way, died at 6:07 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph's Medical Center after an illness. Mrs. Kinch retired in 1978 from Norwest Bank after 20 years of service. She was born Aug. 22, 1913, in Chicago, and had lived in South Bend since 1928, coming from Chicago.

 

On Sept. 4, 1937, in South Bend, as Muriel F. Trojanowski, she married Allen Kinch. He died in 1968. She is survived by a daughter, Dolores Lenz, with whom she made her home; two grandchildren; and a brother, Casimir Rafalski of South Bend. She was a member of St. Anthony de Padua Catholic Church, Retirees of First Interstate Bank, Daughters of Isabella and Coquillard Woods Garden Club.

 

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Hollis-Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home. Cremation will take place. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or American Lung Association.