Submitted by: Dan Rich

Alburto Wells

April 6, 1911 - April 27, 1996

South Bend Tribune 4/28/1996

MISHAWAKA - Alburto ''Bill'' Wells, 85, of 128 Delorenzi Ave., died at 10:36 a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph Community Hospital. Mr. Wells had worked for Paramount Furniture for 20 years and Hawthorne Melody Dairies for 20 years, retiring in 1972. He was born April 6, 1911, in Pierceton.

On April 27, 1932, in Marion, Ind., he married Mable Evans. She survives with three daughters, Marjorie Huston of Elkhart, Martha J. Hopkins of Mishawaka and Janice S. Clark of South Bend; two sons, William D. of South Bend and James E. of Portage, Mich.; 13 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Amy ''Peg'' Fox of Warsaw and Amelia Shaffer of Leesburg, Fla.; and a half brother, Forrest ''Pete'' Jobe of Sebring, Fla. He was a member of East United Methodist Church and Teamsters Union 364, South Bend.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Warner Funeral Home, Osceola. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Contributions may be made to the church.