Submitted by: Kristina Kuhn Krumm

South Bend Tribune

December 22, 1971; Wednesday

Robert W. Warring, 67, of 2642 Hampton Road, a retired Mishawaka schoolteacher, died Tuesday afternoon of an apparent heart attack while bird hunting near Wabash, Indiana.  His body was found by two hunting companions, Dr. A. W. Hellenberg, retired Mishawaka dentist, and Larry Gaunt of Wabash.

The three had spent Tuesday morning in the field and had returned for an afternoon round, separating along fence rows to stalk their game.  When Mr. Warring failed to appear sometime later at the designated meeting place, Hellenberg and Gaunt began backtracking in search of their companion.  They spotted the victims dog which was sitting beside the body.

Mr. Warring had been a schoolteacher for forty-seven years, retiring from the Mishawaka system in 1967 became to Mishawaka in 1935 from Waterloo, Indiana, where he also had taught.  The deceased was born February 9, 1904, in Angola, Indiana, and on July 21, 1935, married Teena Rypma in Monroeville, Indiana.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Philip Barnes of Jamestown and Mrs. William Wagner of Muncie, Indiana; a sister, Mrs. Joseph Koehl of Angola; two brothers, Raymond Warring of Melrose Park, Illinois, and L. A. Warring of Mishawaka,, and three granddaughters and two grandsons.

Mr. Warring was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of which he served as a trustee; Mishawaka Exchange Club which he served as the Secretary; Mishawaka Lodge 130, Free and Excepted Masons; Mishawaka Chapter 83, Royal Arch Masons; Ancient Excepted Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend, and the Iota Lambda Sigma Fraternity, of which he was a lifetime member.

Friends may call at the Everett Ballard Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM Thursday.  Services will be held at 10 AM Friday in the First Presbyterian Church.  Rev. Franklin W. May, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in St. Joseph's Valley Memorial Cemetery.  The family suggest that Memorials be sent to the First Presbyterian Church.  The F. & AM Lodge will establish a living Memorial for the deceased at the Indiana Masonic Home, Franklin, Indiana.