Submitted by: Dan Rich

Mrs. John Louis Vanderbosch

Dec. 5, 1900 – Dec. 14, 1959

South Bend Tribune 12/14/1959

Mrs. John L. Vanderbosch

Mrs. Margaret Vanderbosch, 59, of 314 Peashway St., died at 12:15 a.m. today in St. Joseph’s Hospital.  She had been ill since Tuesday when she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.  Mrs. Vanderbosch served as secretary to the late F. A. Miller, editor and publisher of The Tribune, from 1927 to 1940.  She was born in Mishawaka on Dec. 5, 1900.  As Margaret Bickel she was married in Fort Wayne in 1939 to John L. Vanderbosch.  He survives with a son, John L., with the U.S. Navy at Newport, R.I.; her father, Joseph M. Bickel, Mishawaka; three brothers, William J. Bickel of Niles, Louis L. Bickel of Elkhart and Bernard J. Bickel of South Bend; three sisters, Mrs. Harold Roberts and Mrs. Bert Dygulski, both of Mishawaka, and Miss Louise Bickel, Fort Wayne.  Mrs. Vanderbosch was a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters of St. Joseph’s Church.  Services will be held in the church at 9:30 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Thomas Peyton, C.S.C., pastor, officiating.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Friends may call after 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Hickey Funeral Home.

South Bend Tribune 12/15/1959

Mrs. John L. Vanderbosch

Members of the Catholic Order of Foresters will recite the rosary at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Hickey Funeral Home for Mrs. John L. Vanderbosch, 59, of 314 Peashway St., who died Monday.  The parish rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home.  Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the funeral home.  Pallbearers, all nephews, will be Lawrence Vanderbosch, Robert Dygulski, Jules Bickel, Philip Vanderbosch, William Vanderbosch Jr. and Gerard Thallemer.