Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

South Bend Tribune 5/11/1995

Stella M. Biggs

Jan. 1, 1917-May 10, 1995

SOUTH BEND - Stella M. ''Dot'' Biggs, 78, of Lexington Avenue, died at 9:55 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Biggs retired in 1966 as a waitress from the Pick Oliver Hotel. She was born Jan. 1, 1917, in Greene County, Ind., and lived in South Bend since 1939. On May 10, 1933, in Bloomfield, Ind., as Stella M. Reece, she married Orville Cahall. He died Oct. 11, 1947. On Jan. 9, 1957, in South Bend, she married Thomas E. Biggs. He died Sept. 6, 1981. She is survived by a daughter, Roselea Wildrick of North Liberty; a son, William T. Cahall of South Bend; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a brother, George Reece of Worthington, Ind.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

 

Editor: Her maiden name was Stella M. Reece