Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

RAAB

Brown

Gartner

Kopp

Madigan

Scheetz

Swinehart

Leo Albert Raab

December 25, 1888 – September 30, 1950

Leo Albert Raab, aged 61, of 122 Oakdale Street, suburban Roseland, died at 7pm Saturday in his residence after two hours’ illness with a heart ailment.

He was born in Aurora IL, December 25, 1888, and came here as an infant.  He was married in Michigan City IN, in 1926 to Cecelia M. Scheetz, who survives.  He leaves also two daughters, Mrs. B. A. Brown, of South Bend, and Mrs. Louis Swinehart of Martinsville IN; three sisters, Mrs. E.P. Madigan of Oakland CA; Mrs. Alice Gartner of Glenview IL, and Miss Florence Kopp, San Francisco, and a brother, John Kopp, of Detroit MI.  He was a general foreman of shipping for the Studebaker Corporation.

Friends may call in the McGann Funeral Home after 1:30pm today.

FUNERAL NOTES:

Funeral services for Leo Albert Raab, of 122 Oakdale Street, suburban Roseland, will be conducted at10am Tuesday in the McGann Funeral Home.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park. Friends may call in the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Faye D. Durbin, R.H. Nickerson, J.E. Skelly, E.W. Smith, Hollis Inwood and George Milbourn.  Honorary pallbearers will be Ollie Hoople, Marion A. Ray and Frank Shambleau.

Mr. Raab died in his home Saturday afternoon after only two hours’ illness following a heart attack.  Earlier in the afternoon he had attended the Notre Dame-North Carolina football game here.  He had been employed more that 40 years by the Studebaker Corporation as foreman of shipping and ha been a life long resident here.  Among surviving children is a son, M. Louis Swinehart of Martinsville IN, formerly of South Bend.