Ralph Emerson Bourdon

Jul 19, 1936 - Jan 23, 1967

Ralph E. Bourdon, 30, of 22761 Ardmore Tr., died Monday in Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, after a brief illness. He was employed by the B and D Woodcraft Co., Mishawaka.

He was born on July 19, 1936, in South Bend. He married the former Sandra Taylor on May 22, 1965. She survives. Other survivors are his mother, Mrs. Madeleon Bourdon; three sisters, Mrs. Betty Boggs, Mrs. Joan Kidder and Mrs. Alice Horn, and two brothers, Richard D. Bourdon and Jack L. Bourdon, all of South Bend.

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Hickey Funeral Home: Services will be held there at 11 a.m. Thursday with Rev. C. William Cole, pastor of the Ardmore Brethren Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

Article from 24 Jan 1967 The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)

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