From:  Susan Gates Davis

 

The South Bend Tribune, Friday Evening, March 6, 1942, Sec. 3, Pg. 3:
Mrs. Violet Maxson Stroup
   Mrs. Violet Maxson Stroup, aged 30, of 1901 North Lynn street, died in St. Joseph hospital, at 7:15 p.m. Thursday of pneumonia following childbirth.  She was born in Buchanan, Mich., June 10, 1911, and moved to Mishawaka from there 11 years ago.  She was married in Buchanan to Louis R. Stroup, who survives.  Five children, Leona Ruth, Louis Richard, Donald, Dale and Darrell, all at home; three sisters in South Bend, Mrs. R.T. Moody, Mrs. Irene Stroup, and Mrs. Letha Woodhurst and her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Platz, of Buchanan, survive.  The body may be viewed in the Orvis funeral chapel, South Bend, after 7 p.m. today.  The funeral will take place in the Second Church of the Brethren, South Bend, at 3 p.m. Sunday with Rev. Edward Stump officiating and burial will take place in Memorial Park cemetery.  The body will lie in the church from 8 a.m. Sunday until the hour of the funeral.