Submitted by: Dan Rich

Vincent G. Krenke

Aug. 24, 1914 - Jan. 4, 1994

South Bend Tribune 1/5/1994

OSCEOLA - Services for Vincent G. Krenke, 79, of 10908 Edison Road, who died at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday in Elkhart General Hospital after an illness, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.

Mr. Krenke retired from Koppers Co., Pittsburgh, as an electrical engineer. He was born Aug. 24, 1914, in Wheeling, W.Va. On Feb. 14, 1934, in Wheeling, he married Elinor Thornton. She survives, with a daughter, Winona Clouse of Middlebury; three sons, Vincent G. of Stanford, Conn., Wayne A. of Elkhart, and Leo K. of Pittsburgh; 18 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Lowell of Carnegie, Pa.