Submitted by: Dan Rich

Betty Leach

May 19, 1920 - Aug. 16, 1994

South Bend Tribune 8/17/1994

MISHAWAKA - Betty Leach, 74, of Dale Avenue, died at 8:25 p.m. Tuesday in the home of her daughter on U.S. 20, South Bend, after an illness. Mrs. Leach retired in 1988 from Wells Electronics Inc., South Bend, as a press operator. She was born May 19, 1920, in Zanesville, Ohio, and lived in Mishawaka since 1960, coming from Zanesville.

On March 18, 1944, in Zanesville, as Betty McAvoy, she married James E. Leach. He died Oct. 4, 1973. She is survived by three daughters, Martha Lewis of South Bend, Susan Knaup of Osceola and Christine Weaver of Mishawaka; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Kathryn Stitt of Zanesville and Ruth Hay of Portland, Ore.; and a brother, Richard McAvoy of Zanesville.

Services will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Hahn Funeral Home. Burial will be in Duncan Falls (Ohio) Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. until services Thursday in the funeral home. Additional services will be Sunday in Duncan Falls. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Sarus-Thompson Funeral Home, Duncan Falls. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc. or St. Joseph County 4-H Scholarship Fund.