Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

ORT

Birdsall

Birong

Brooks

Cochran

Esser

Steer

Thompson

Vollman

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – September 5, 1996

Louis George Ort

March 7, 1934 - Sept. 3, 1996

SOUTH BEND - Louis George Ort, 62, of 18472 Douglas Rd., passed away Tuesday morning, in his home, after a brief illness.

He was born March 7, 1934, in Niles, Mich., to Harold and Genevieve June Ort. He married Shirley Brooks on Feb. 12, 1977. Mr. Ort retired, in 1996, from AM General. He was a Korean US Army veteran and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Surviving are his wife of South Bend; his mother, Genevieve Steer of Niles, Mich.; a daughter, Cynthia Cochran of Kalamazoo, Mich.; stepdaughters, Denise Birong of Osceola, Ind., Darcel Esser of Seattle, Wash. and Diane Birdsall of South Bend; a son, Eugene Ort of Niles; two stepsons, Damon and Doug Brooks of South Bend; four grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren; a brother, Jack of Niles; and sisters, Treva Vollman and Melvina Thompson, also of Niles.

Funeral services will be held Friday, at 2:30 p.m., in Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola, Ind., with Rev. John Fisher and Father David Porterfield officiating. Visitation will be today, from 3 to 5 and 6 to 8 p.m., in the funeral home chapel. Memorials may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County or to Fellowship House.

Interment will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.