Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Marie Margaret Koontz

Nov. 11, 1912 - May 8, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 5/8/1996

SOUTH BEND - Marie Margaret Koontz, 83, of East Calvert Street, died at 7:25 a.m. today in Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Koontz was born Nov. 11, 1912, in Sopron, Hungary, and lived in South Bend since 1920.

 

On Aug. 8, 1934, in South Bend, as Marie Wager, she married Everett Karl Koontz. He died April 12, 1982. She is survived by a daughter, Louise E. Yohe of Newark, Del.; a son, Everett J. of Salem, Ore.; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and three sisters, Helen Pesci and Irene Vellucci, both of South Bend, and Patricia Klusczinski of California.

 

Services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday in St. Matthew Cathedral. Entombment will be in Riverview Mausoleum. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and one hour before services Saturday in Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, where a parish rosary will be said at 4:30 p.m. Friday.