Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Robert H. Wilson

Oct. 14, 1921 - Jan. 7, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 1/9/1994

OSCEOLA - There will be no services for Robert H. Wilson, 72, of 56820 Beech Road, who was dead on arrival at 7:55 a.m. Friday in Michiana Community Hospital, South Bend, of natural causes. Cremation will take place. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in Warner Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to American Legion Post 308.

 

Mr. Wilson retired in 1984 after 35 years as a driver for Preston Truck Lines and Shippers Dispatch, both in South Bend. He was born Oct. 14, 1921, in South Bend.

 

On Aug. 10, 1947, in Osceola, he married Marvene Has. She died in April 1959. In 1962, in Osceola, he married Lavada C. McGraw. She died in February 1989. Surviving are a son, Earle of Denver; a stepson, Jack McGraw of Osceola; a granddaughter; a sister, Beverly Jean Needham of Osceola; and two brothers, Earle and Don, both of Elkhart. A daughter preceded him in death. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II and a member of American Legion Post 308 and Teamsters Local 364, South Bend.