Submitted by Nadine Hardin

Date submitted:  April 26, 2006

Name in Obituary:  Lawrence Wartha

Names mentioned:  Wartha, Nemeth, Beutter, Brothers, Arehart, Szedenick, Mendel, Kovacs, Hornyak, Gyurick, Voorde

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries; April 09, 1955.

Lawrence Wartha, 2018 S. Catalpa Ave., died at 4:15 a.m. today in St. Joseph Hospital

after two months' illness. Born in Pamhagen, Austria, Feb. 27, 1871, he came here from that country 61 years ago. On November 10, 1903, he married Miss Mary Nemeth, who survives. He was a retired employee of the Ivan Bros. Co. Surviving, also, are three sons, Joseph, Edward, and Anthony, all of South Bend; six daughters, Mrs. Louis Beutter, Mrs. Gerald Brother, both of South Bend; Mrs. Edward Arehart, Hopkins, Mich., Mrs. Michael Szedenick and Mrs. Arden Mendel, both of Kouts, Ind.; 13 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren; a sister, Theresa, in Austria. Friends may call in Zahoran's Chapel after 7 p.m. today. Mr. Wartha was a member of Deutscher Fortbildungs Verein.

South Bend Tribune, Funeral Services; April 10, 1955.

Funeral Services for Lawrence Wartha, 2018 S. Catalpa Ave., will take place at 9 p.m. Tuesday in Our Lady of Hungary Catholic Church. Rt. Rev. John Sabo, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Kovacs, Julius Hornyak, Henry and Rudolph Wartha, Stephen Gyurick, and Edward F. Voorde. Friends may call at the Zahoran Chapel after 2 p.m. today. the rosary will be recited there

at 7 p.m. today by the Rosary and Sacred Heart Societies of Our Lady of Hungary Parish. Among survivors is a daughter, Mrs. Michael Szedenik, of South Bend.