Submitted by: Nadine Hardin

Name in obituary:  Leo J. Tschida

Names mentioned:  Tschida, VandeWalle, Vance, Fisher

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries, Friday, June 23, 1972

Leo J. Tschida Obit, South Bend Tribune, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, Leo J. Tschida, 57, of 222 E. Fairview St., died at 7:15 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital after a three-month illness. He was a mobile operator for the South Bend City Water Works.  He was born July 2, 1914, in South Bend, and lived here all his life. He married Josephine VanDeWalle <VandeWalle> Vance August 19, 1950.  She survices, along with two brothers, Michael, of Salem, Ore., and Robert of Ypsilanti, Mich., and two sisters, Helen Nemeth of Jackson, Mich., and Elizabeth A. Fisher, of South Bend. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Sat. at the Nemeth Funeral Home (a rosary will be recited Sun. at 7:30 p.m.). Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Matthew's Cathedral (Rev. James J. Wolf, officiating) . Burial will be in Highland Cemetary. Mr. Tschida was a member of the B.P.O. Elks, 435, Bendix Aviation Post 284 of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars 1167, the 40 and 8 post 249, and the Teamsters Union Local 364.