From Susan Gates Davis

 

 

Obituary of John W. Stroup from South Bend Tribune January 7, 1954:
   John W. Stroup, 71, of 303 E. Howard St., died in his home at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday after an illness of three months.  Born in Warren Township on Aug. 18, 1882, Mr. Stroup lived in South Bend most of his life.  He formerly was employed by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.  In 1906 he married Blanch Rupp, who died in 1917.  Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Coffman and five grandchildren, all of South Bend; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Balmer, of South Bend, and Mrs. Ella Harmon, of Constantine, Mich., and two brothers, Isaac, of Three Rivers, Mich., and Frank, of Michigan.  Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Orvis Funeral Home and until services there at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Rev. Kenneth L. Kuebler, of St. Peter's Evangelical Church, officiating.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.