Submitter:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Edward M. Wartha

South Bend Tribune:  July 19, 1984

Surnames mentioned:  Wartha, Nemes, Schulthels, Valleau, Geopfrich

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries, Thursday, July 19, 1984.

Edward M. Wartha.

Edward M. Wartha, 72, of 51280 Prescott Ave., died at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hospital.  He had been employed at the former Studebaker Corp. and retired from the Sisters of St. Convent in maintenance.  Born Aug. 29, 1911, in Michigan city, he had lived in the South Bend area most of his life. On Oct. 20, 1934, in South Bend, he married the former Kathryn T. Nemes, who survives.  He also is survived by a daughter, Patricia Schulthels of Mishawaka; a son, Lawrence E. of South Bend; five grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mary Valleau of Rockford, Ill., and Theresa Goepfrich of South Bend.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Christ the King Catholic Church, of which he was a member, and burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in Welsheimer North Chapel, 52803 U.S. 33 N., where a parish rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday.  Mr. Wartha was a member of the Liberty and South Bend homing pigeon clubs.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Christ the King Building Fund.