Submitted by: Ron Woodhull

THE SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1954 Page 11

 William F. West A Studebaker Corp. employee for 37 years, 612 E. Ohio St., died in St. Joseph Hospital at 11:55 am Thursday.  He had been ill two years.  Mr. West came to South Bend 43 years ago from Cincinnati, Ohio where he was born Jan. 19,1901.  He was married to Miss Marie Krugell in South Bend, Feb. 12, 1937.  He leaves his widow, a daughter, Patsy Ann, his mother, Mrs. Jean West, South Bend, two brothers, Clarence P, South Bend and Ray B., Culver City, Cal, and three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Salter, Mrs. Eva Seese and Mrs. Mary Martindale, all of South Bend.  Friends may call in the Forest G. Hay funeral home until services there at 1 pm Saturday.  Rev. J. Harold Gamble, pastor of First Baptist church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. 

Pallbearers will be E.C. Jones, H. G. Davidson, W.E. Armour, I.G. Borsody, W. A. Cottman, and W.W. Karczewski.  Honoary pallbearers will be Frederick and S.D. Davidson, Casimir Boznanski, Michael Radanovich, C.A. Brugh and Floyd Rohrbaugh.