Submitted by: Nadine Hardin

 

Name in obituary:  Josephine VandeWalle Tschida

Names mentioned:  Tschida, VandeWalle, Swilley

 

South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries, Thursday, November 1, 1984

Josephine VandeWalle Tschida.

Josephine VandeWalle Tschida, 74, of Tipton, Ind., formerly of 222 E. Fairview St., died Wednesday night in the St. Joseph Convent Infirmary, Tipton.  She was a secretary for the South Bend Police Department and City Lumber Co.  Born October 7, 1910, in South Bend, she lived here until moving to Florida in 1977.  She moved to Tipton recently.  On August 19, 1950, she married Leo J. Tschida, who died in 1972.  Survivors include three sisters, Sister Eleanor VandeWalle of Tipton, Catherine Chrisman of Largo, Fla., and Marcella Swilley of Three Rivers.  A brother, Charles preceded her in death.

  Mrs. Tschida was a former member of St. Matthew Cathedral, the auxillary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1167, the American Legion auxillary of Three Rivers and Holiday Isles Ladies of the Elks Lodge 1912, Madeira Beach Fla. Memorial contributions may be made to Harry Anna Crippled Children's Hospital in Madeira Beach, the Holiday Isles Ladies of the Elks Lodge 1912 or to the Sisters of St. Joseph in Tipton.  Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., is handling arrangements.

 

South Bend Tribune, Funeral Notes, Saturday, November 3, 1984.

TSCHIDA - Services for Josephine V. Tschida, 74, formerly of 222 E. Fairview Ave., who died at 10:31 p.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph Convent, Tipton, Ind., will be at 11 a.m. Monday in St. Matthew Cathedral. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., where a rosary will be recited at 4 p.m.  Memorial contributions may be made to Harey-Anna Crippled Children's Hospital, in care of the Holiday Isle Ladies of the Elks, Maderia Beach, Fla.