Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ida M. Morton

July 9, 1909 - Dec. 4, 1994

South Bend Tribune 12/6/1994

SOUTH BEND - Ida M. Morton, 85, of Meridian Nursing Center-Cardinal, died at 4:55 a.m. Sunday in the nursing center. Mrs. Morton was born July 9, 1909, in South Bend and was a lifelong area resident.

On April 27, 1929, in South Bend, as Ida M. Smith, she married Gus William Morton. He died June 7, 1986. She is survived by a daughter, Connie Nyerges of Granger; two sons, William E. of Mishawaka and Dale T. of South Bend; seven grandchildren; four great-grandsons; and two sisters, Emma Kubiak of South Bend and Mary Banassi of Bradenton, Fla.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc.