Submitted by: Dan Rich

Dean W. Rininger

Dec. 10, 1930 - April 16, 1994

South Bend Tribune 4/17/1994

MISHAWAKA - Dean W. Rininger, 63, of 4059 Cottage Ave., died at 12:55 a.m. Saturday in his home after an illness. Mr. Rininger was the assistant body-shop manager at Gates Town & Country Chevrolet. He was born Dec. 10, 1930, in South Bend, and was a lifelong resident.

On July 28, 1962, in South Bend, he married Frances M. Summers. She survives with four daughters, Toni Macon of Freeport, Texas, Terri O'Reilly-Nixon and Shelli Pickett, both of Mishawaka, and Staci Smith of Niles; a son, Carl Dean of Mishawaka; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and three brothers, Donald of Donaldson, and Charles and Edward, both of South Bend. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles 2083 of Mishawaka.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St., South Bend. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County.