Submitted by: Dan Rich
Christopher Michael Graham Price
South Bend Tribune 8/22/1996
Christopher Michael Graham Price died of heart failure at 3:55 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 18, at Memorial Hospital of South Bend in the arms of his parents, Ann L. Graham and Thomas M. Price of South Bend. He was 21 minutes old. Christopher Price was born prematurely at 29 weeks, at 3:34 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at Memorial Hospital of South Bend. He weighed 1 pound, 8.2 ounces and stretched 12 1/4 inches. In recent weeks, he had survived a serious auto accident, in which his mother was injured. At his birth, he vigorously fought the congenital conditions that limited his life's span. He was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m.
Christopher Price is survived by his parents and four year-old sister, Katherine Elizabeth Graham Price, at home; maternal grandparents, DeVon and Margaret Graham of South Whitley, Ind.; paternal grandmother, Janet Price of Norridge, Ill.; two uncles, Rouvaishyana of Fort Bragg, Calif. and Daniel Price of Norridge, Ill.; and two aunts, Carol Goller of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Kerry Price of Norridge, Ill. His paternal grandfather, Thomas J. Price, died in 1990.
A graveside service will begin at 1 p.m., today, at Riverview Cemetery's babyland section (northwest corner). Friends may call at 2:30 p.m. today at Kern Road Mennonite Church, 18211 Kern Road. A memorial service will follow at 3:30 p.m., also at the church. Pastors, David and Janice Sutter, of Kern Road Mennonite Church, will officiate. Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., South Bend, is handling the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Kern Road Mennonite Church's building fund.
Christopher's mother, Ann, is an editorial consultant with Ideas into Ink and an adjunct professor in public relations and desktop publishing with Indiana University, South Bend. Christopher's father, Tom, recently became director of information at Mennonite Board of Missions in Elkhart, Ind., after ten years as a reporter for The Elkhart Truth. His sister, Katie, attends Gesher preschool at Temple Beth-El.