Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Richard D. Gearhart

March 5, 1914 - April 26, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 4/28/1994

GRANGER - Services for Richard D. Gearhart, 80, of Beckley Street, who died at 1:34 p.m. Tuesday in his home, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Community Presbyterian Church of Granger.

 

Mr. Gearhart retired in 1972 from Bendix Corp. He was born March 5, 1914, in South Bend. He was a member of United Auto Workers Union Local 9.

 

On July 30, 1934, in Plymouth, he married Mabel M. Rodgers. She survives, with two daughters, Carol Badders of Edwardsburg and Janet Boyer of Mishawaka; a son, Gerald of Dallas; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Phyllis Henke of Edwardsburg and Carrie Ward of Elkhart; and a brother, Merle of Niles.