Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Robert Lewis Stanage

March 6, 1933 - July 12, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 7/13/1995

MISHAWAKA - Robert Lewis ''Yank'' Stanage, 62, of Columbia, Tenn., formerly of Mishawaka, died Wednesday in Maury Regional Hospital, Columbia. Mr. Stanage retired from PSC Fabricating in Columbia.

 

He was born March 6, 1933, in Mishawaka. He married Doris L. Perry. She survives with two daughters, Mona Lisa Parks of Taft and Lana Chaplin of Fayetteville; three sons, Phillip G. of Petersburg, Tenn., Robert Jr. of Cornersville and John of Taft; four stepdaughters, Kathy Jean Church and Tammy Elizabeth Hendrix, both of Columbia, Rebekah Anne Howell of Mount Pleasant, Tenn., and Merrijune ''Molly'' Dawson of Culleoka, Tenn.; a stepson, Jimmy Turner of Columbia; 10 grandchildren; four sisters, Marie Sandefur of Mishawaka, Ethel Hickman of Prospect, Tenn., Phyllis Ordinger of South Bend and Arvella Lancaster of Hartsville, Tenn.; and two brothers, Kenny of Lakeville and Phillip G. of Frankewing, Tenn. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of Faith Free Will Baptist Church, Columbia, and was past commander of the American Legion Post 116 in Niles and American Legion Post 284 in South Bend.

 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the church. Burial will be in Polk Memorial Gardens. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home, Columbia, is handling arrangements.