Submitted by: Dan Rich
March 12, 1928 - Oct. 6, 1994
South Bend Tribune 10/12/1994
SOUTH BEND - Services for Ruth Knapp Wise,
66, of 56297 Orchid Road, who died Thursday in Borgenhauser
Hospital, Munich, Germany, after an illness, will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday in Holy Family Catholic Church. Burial will be in St.
Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. Friday in
St. Joseph Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to
the American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Wise was a former substitute teacher
for the South Bend Community School Corp. and an employee of the
former Thrif-T-Mart for 20 years. She was born March 12, 1928, in
South Bend and was a lifelong area resident.
On Jan. 17, 1948, in South Bend, she married
Arthur Knapp. He died in 1977. In 1983, she married Devon
Wise. He died in 1987. She is survived by four daughters, Karen Deis
of Edwardsburg, Charlene Shuamber of Mishawaka, and Becky Donovan
and Tammy Scott, both of South Bend; four sons, Thomas
Knapp, William Knapp, Randal Knapp, and Ronald Knapp, all of
South Bend; 14 grandchildren; a sister, Dorothy Burzynski
of South Bend; and two brothers, Leonard Jozwiak and Jerry
Jozwiak, both of South Bend. A daughter, Michelle Knapp, died
Oct. 17, 1979.
She was a member of the Altar and Rosary
Society of the church, a retiree of Local 37 Club, was a former
Portage Township precinct committee person, and a volunteer for
St. Joseph's Medical Center