From Susan Gates Davis

 

The South Bend Tribune, Tuesday Evening, February 22, 1955

Mrs. Mabel Etta Stroup
   Mrs. Mabel Etta Stroup, 416 N. Arthur St., died unexpectedly at 11:45 a.m. Monday.  She was born June 21, 1876, in St. Joseph County.  Surviving are five sons, Wilbur, Theodore, William and Louis, all of South Bend, and Jesse S. of Weston, Ore., 27 grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Clyde Weaver, of South Bend, and four brothers, Milford, of Elkhart, Ind., Alfred, of Argos, Ind., John of Mishawaka, and David Price, of LaPorte, Ind.  Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Orvis Funeral Home, Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Second Church of the Brethren with Rev. Charles Stouder, pastor officiating.  Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.  The body will lie in the church from noon Thursday until the services.