Submitted by: Dan Rich

Miriam L. (Zurbuch) Wiggins Milbourn

Nov. 2, 1917 - March 1, 2007

South Bend Tribune 3/2/2007

SOUTH BEND - Miriam L. (Zurbuch) Wiggins-Milbourn, 89, died Thursday, March 1st.

Survivors include a son, Arthur W. Wiggins of Bloomfield Hills, MI; stepsons, Howard E. Milbourn Jr. of South Bend and Thomas E. Milbourn of Rockford, IL; nine grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Donald Wiggins, and her second husband, Howard E. Milbourn.

Services will be at noon Saturday in Hickey Funeral Homes, 3516 E. Jefferson Blvd., where friends may call from 10 a.m. until time of services.

Editor: On 9-8-1937 in South Bend she married Donald Arthur Wiggins. He died 9-29-1985. On 8-1-1989 as Emma Zurbach she married Howard Ellsworth Milburn Sr. in South Bend. He died 1-9-1996.

South Bend Tribune 3/3/2007
SOUTH BEND - Miriam Wiggins-Milbourn, 89, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who resided in Orchard Lake, Michigan, passed away on March 1, 2007. Miriam was born on November 2, 1917, in Fort Wayne, Indiana to the late George I. Zurbuch and Margaret Kuhlman Zurbuch. Her brother, Frederick K. Zurbuch and sister Dorothy Zurbuch Deane preceded her in death. In September, 1937, she married Donald A. Wiggins, and they lived in South Bend, IN until he died in 1985. Miriam married Howard E. Milbourn in 1989, and he passed away in 1996. Surviving family members include a son, Arthur W. Wiggins of Bloomfield Hills, MI and stepsons Howard E. Milbourn, Jr of South Bend, IN and Thomas E. Milbourn of Rockford, IL, along with nine grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and special distant relatives, the Baumgartner clan.

Services will be held at NOON Today (Saturday) March 3 in the HICKEY Funeral Homes 3516 E. Jefferson Blvd. with Rev. Paul Doyle, CSC officiating. Interment will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 10am until services today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to The University of Notre Dame.