Submitted by: Dan Rich

Donald D. Wygant

Aug. 26, 1935 - March 18, 2000

South Bend Tribune 3/24/2000

Donald D. Wygant, 64, of Battle Creek, Mich., formerly of South Bend, Ind., died on Saturday, March 18, in Battle Creek Health Systems. Donald was born on Aug. 26, 1935, in South Bend, to Jennette (Foltz) and Donald D. Wygant, Sr. He graduated from John Adams High School in 1955, joined the Marine Reserves, and attended a community college in Oregon in 1985. He moved to the Battle Creek area six and one-half years ago. He had been a truck driver for the Precision Heat Treating Company in Kalamazoo until Christmas of 1999. Before that time he drove truck for Bill Knapps for three years. He was a member of Ira Beck Masonic Lodge #503, attaining the Master Mason degree and was a member of the Scottish Rite in Grand Rapids where he attained 32nd degree. Donald enjoyed fishing, gun and bow hunting, working on old cars, and was a member of the Misfits Car Club. He also enjoyed downhill skiing, racing, and was a member of the Battle Creek Ski Club.

On May 5, 1973, in South Bend, he married the former Mary Lee Slasinski, who survives. He is also survived by a daughter, Sara Ann Wygant, who attends Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, in the Scottish Rite church building, 405 N. Main Street, South Bend. A luncheon will follow. Flowers may be taken to the Masonic Temple at 427 N. Main Street. Private interment will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Ind. The Farley-Estes & Dowdle Funeral Home, 105 Capital Avenue N.E., Battle Creek, is in charge of arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.