Submitter:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  William R. Peltz, Sr.

South Bend Tribune:  January 22, 1981

Surnames mentioned:  Peltz, Abraham, Herbert, Berkaw, LeJeune, Steele

Indiana South Bend Tribune, Obituaries; Thursday, January 22, 1981, p. 44.

William R. Peltz Sr., 59, of Lincoln Park, Mich., died at 5 a.m. Tuesday at Outer Drive hospital, Lincoln Park, after a brief illness.  He was employed at the Dakhaus Florist and Nursery Landscape Contractors.  Born April 25, 1921, in South Bend, he had lived here most of his life, having moved to Michigan in 1956.  In 1942 he married Doris Abraham, who survives.  Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Pamela Herbert of San Diego and Mrs. Cynthia Berkaw of Troy, Mich.; a son William R. Jr. of Bellaire, Tex.; five grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs Florence LeJeune of Bloomington, Ind., and Mrs. Helen Steele of South Bend, and a brother, A. Tyndall Peltz of South Bend.

Memorial services were in Lincoln Park.  Cremation followed.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army.  He was a World War II veteran of the Marines.  He was a graduate of the former Central high School.