Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Wayne E. West

August 5, 1929 - July 17, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 7/19/1996

SOUTH BEND - Wayne E. West, 66, of Meade St., South Bend, Ind., died at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. He was born Aug. 5, 1929, in Mishawaka, Ind., and lived in South Bend, Ind. Mr. West retired in 1983 from AT&T.

 

In 1983 in South Bend, Ind., he married Betty Eli, who survives; one son, Doug Olmstead of California; two daughters, Kathleen Eli and Rebecca Kamp, both of South Bend, Ind.; two brothers, Robert West and Fred Blain, both of Mishawaka, Ind.; three sisters, Virginia Slaughter of Pennsylvania, Sara Hunt and Lois Iden, both of Mishawaka, Ind.; and two grandchildren, Doug Olmstead of California and Stephanie Olmstead of Mishawaka, Ind.

 

Mr. West was a World War II veteran serving with the U.S. Air Force. He was a member of the American Legion Pulaski Post No. 357, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 9820, the Pioneers Telephone Co. and an officer of the Anchor Conservation Club.

 

Friends may call from 2 until 8 p.m. today at the St. Joseph Funeral Home, 824 S. Mayflower Road, South Bend, Ind. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. Joseph Funeral Home. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.