Submitted by: Dan Rich

Theckla Gerstbauer

Dec. 23, 1889 – Nov. 7, 1970

South Bend Tribune 11/7/1970

MISHAWAKA - Mrs. Theckla Gerstbauer, 80, of 312 W. 3rd Street, died at 2:40 a.m. today in St. Joseph Hospital. The Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Editor: The above is all that appeared in the South Bend Tribune. As Thekla Elfrida Schellinger she married Joseph Louis Gerstbauer 7-8-1913 in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mishawaka. She is buried next to her husband in St. Joseph Cemetery. She is the daughter of Nicholas Schellinger and Amelia M. Kamm.