Submitted by: Dan Rich

Hazel M. Neely

May 14, 1909 - March 3, 1995

South Bend Tribune 3/5/1995

SOUTH BEND - Hazel M. Neely, 85, of Farrington Circle, died Friday afternoon in her home. Mrs. Neely retired as a substitute teacher for Clay Township Schools. She was born May 14, 1909, in Garden City, Kan., and lived in this area 53 years, coming from Rupert, Idaho.

On Aug. 26, 1935, in Bartlesville, Okla., as Hazel DeGenhart, she married Orval L. Neely. He died in 1975. Surviving are two daughters, Donna C. Neely of South Bend and Maureeta M. Caurro of South Bend; a son, Dallas M. of South Bend; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Esther Nichols of Garden City, Bertha Weeks of Chelan, Wash., and Gladys Brown of South Bend. She was a member of Southlawn United Methodist Church.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road. Burial will be in Riverview Mausoleum. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home.