Submitted by: Dan Rich

James T. McGrath

April 1, 1919 - May 18, 1995

South Bend Tribune 5/19/1995

SOUTH BEND - James T. McGrath, 76, of Skye Court, died Thursday afternoon in his home after an illness. Mr. McGrath retired in 1985 as a sales manager of Kodell Industries. He was born April 1, 1919, in Chicago, and had lived in this area since 1964.

On Jan. 13, 1944, in Chicago, he married Betty Brice. She survives with two daughters, Kathleen McGrath of South Bend and Maureen Tedrow of New Orleans; five sons, Michael of Channahon, Ill., Robert of Warsaw, James of Kodiak, Alaska, William of Grand Rapids and John of Elkhart; 15 grandchildren; two sisters, Mary Gergits of Chicago and Katherine Lorenz of Brookfield, Ill.; and a brother, Patrick McGrath of Illinois. He was a member of Moose Lodge 836, Goshen; St. Jude Catholic Church, past commander of American Legion, Chicago, and an Army veteran of World War II.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Chicago. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, where a rosary will be at 7 p.m.