Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 7/5/1999
SOUTH BEND - Ernst S. Petzke, 75, of Ironwood Health and Rehabilitation Center, died Saturday in the center of natural causes. Survivors include three daughters, Jeanine Traxler of South Bend, Mary E. Nichols of Claremont, Calif., and Ann M. Greene of Surprise, Ariz.; two sons, Kelvin of South Bend and Ernst II of Plymouth; two sisters, Elfrieda Kuespert and Annelies Parsons, both of South Bend; and a brother, Alfred of Rockford, Ill.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., where friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.