Submitted by: Dan Rich

Florence E. Sebasty

March 24, 1907 - Jan. 18, 2001

South Bend Tribune 1/20/2001

Florence E. Sebasty, 93, of Miller's Merry Manor, New Carlisle, Ind., died at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, in the nursing home. She was born on March 24, 1907, in Olive Township to the late Lizzie (Wood) and Lawrence House.

On Aug. 27, 1927, in St. Joseph County, Ind., as Florence E. House, she married Leslie Sebasty Sr., who preceded her in death in August 1980. Florence was also preceded in death by two sons, Paul and Carl. She is survived by a daughter, Martha Milliken and her husband Don of South Bend, Ind.; three sons, Kenneth and his wife Elaine, Dennis and his wife, Diane and Leslie N. Sebasty Jr. and his wife, Rebekah, all of New Carlisle; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and by a sister, Lois Jesswein of Niles, Mich.

Florence and her husband, Leslie together made a living working on their farm. She attended a one room schoolhouse in Warren Township through eight grade, then attended South Bend Central High School where she graduated in 1925. After graduation she found employment at O'Brien Paint Company where she was a typist. She was a member of the Widening Horizon Club and was a member of the Ladies Aid of Lydick United Methodist Church, where she attended church. She spent time at the Bend of the River Economics Club of Berrien Springs, Mich., and enjoyed crocheting and embroidery.