Submitted by: Steve Floor

TRUAX

Donald J. Truax

Sept. 16, 1909-Dec. 31, 1992

Mishawaka -- 

Donald J. Truax, 83, of Newburg Drive, died at 5:50 a.m. today in Meridian Nursing Center-Cardinal, South Bend.  Mr. Truax retired as a printer from Stone Container Co. He was born Sept. 16, 1909, in South Bend, and was a lifelong area resident.  In 1930, he married Helen K. Ference.  She died in 1973.  On Jan. 31, 1976, he married Beverly M. Klopfenstein Powell.  She survives with a son, Wesley G. of South Bend; a stepdaughter, Beverly Jo Brown of Mantino, Ill., a stepson, Cloid Ference of Kankakee, Ill.; four grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; five step great-grandchildren; and a brother, Thomas of South Bend.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Hahn-DeVos Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

(South Bend Tribune Sec. C6 Thursday, December 31, 1992)