From  Rick Berkheiser

 

 

 

"The South Bend Tribune", Friday Evening, December 2, 1955, page 44

 

Mrs. Emily Wakeman.

 

     Mrs. Emily Wakeman, 206 N. State St., Mishawaka, died at 1:17 a.m. today in the Morrow Nursing Home after several years' illness.  She was born in Chicago Jan. 27, 1855, and came here in 1927 from Chicago.  She was married to Frank T. Schulgen, who died in 1920, and in 1925 married Walter O. Wakeman, who survives.  She leaves also a son, Robert F. Schulgen, of Mishawaka, and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Bergthold, Chicago.  Friends may call in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home from 7 to 9:30 p.m. today.  The body will be taken to Blake & Lamb Funeral Home, 79th and Loomis Sts. in Chicago.  The funeral will take place at 9:30 a.m. Monday in St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Chicago with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery there.

 

(Note:  Her year of birth, 1855, might be a misprint in the newspaper.)