Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ethel E. Pickens

June 5, 1921 - May 20, 1995

South Bend Tribune 5/21/1995

MISHAWAKA - Ethel E. Pickens, 73, of East 12th Street, died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph Hospital of natural causes. Mrs. Pickens was born June 5, 1921, in Savannah, Tenn.

In 1941, in Mississippi, as Ethel E. Duff, she married Arbie L. Pickens. He survives with two daughters, Wanda Lindsey of Michigan City and Patricia Weaver of Mishawaka; three sons, Jimmy, Arbie Jr. and Chester, all of South Bend; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a sister, Willie Stricklin of Savannah.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home.