Submitted by: Dan Rich

Doris M. Stretch

May 22, 1924 - Oct. 19, 1995

South Bend Tribune 10/20/1995

MISHAWAKA - Services for Doris M. Stretch, 71, of 138 W. Broadway, who died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in her home after an illness, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the funeral chapel.

Mrs. Stretch had been employed by the former Bendix Corp. She was born May 22, 1924, in Decatur, Ill.

On Dec. 15, 1962, as Doris M. Hansman, she married Donald A. Stretch. He died May 2, 1986. Surviving are a daughter, Nancy L. Estes of Shelbyville, Tenn.; a son, Robert E. Hansman of Mishawaka; four grandchidren; two great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Ed Strode of Jay, Okla., and Dale Strode of Lockport, Ill. She was a member of Christian Center Church, Woodmen of the World, served as a Red Cross volunteer at St. Joseph Community Hospital and attended Freedom Church, South Bend.