Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

South Bend Tribune 4/6/1995

Harold Freehauf

July 11, 1922 April 5, 1995

LAKEVILLE - Harold ''Pete'' Freehauf, 72, of 19528 Shively Road, former Union Township trustee, died at 2:33 p.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph's Medical Center, South Bend.

Mr. Freehauf was a self-employed farmer. He was born July 11, 1922, in Madison Township.

On June 17, 1950, in South Bend, he married Eleanor Monhaut. She survives with a daughter, Cindy Freehauf of Aurora, Colo.; three sons, Gregory of Granger, Dennis of Lakeville and Leon of Indianapolis; four grandchildren; three sisters, Catherine Stone of North Liberty, Suzie Leininger of Lakeville and Violet James of Bremen; and a brother, Eugene of Lakeville.

He was an adult leader of the 4-H Club of St. Joseph County, served on the Board of Directors of LaVille Elementary School Building Corp., was an organizer of the library of the Old Lakeville School Project, past president of Lakeville Lions Club and recipient of the Lions Club Melvin Jones Award, and received the Master Farmer Award of Prairie Farmers. He was a member of St. Joseph County Farm Bureau, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Woodland, and the Pete Freehauf Band, and was a square dance caller for 45 years.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the church. Friends may call from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday in Palmer Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society of Lakeville Lions Club.