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Eileen Marie Crutchett - Class Of 1942 VIEW PROFILE

Eileen Marie Crutchett

Eileen M. Crutchett Kelsey

July 8, 1923 - Jan. 18, 1998

SOUTH BEND - Mrs. Eileen M. Kelsey , 74, of South Bend, Ind., passed away on Sunday evening, Jan. 18, at the Thunderbird Samaritan Hospital, Glendale, Ariz.

She was born on July 8, 1923, in Mansfield, Ohio, to Gilbert H. and Marie (Jones) Crutchett.

On March 22, 1944, she married Willard A. Kelsey , who survives.

She is also survived by two daughters, Kathleen M. Porter of South Bend and Patricia J. Cooper of Kissimmee, Fla.; two sons, Robert A. Kelsey of Indianapolis, Ind., and William M. Kelsey of Glendale, Ariz.; seven grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and by three great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Kelsey worked for many years as a bookkeeper at Highland Cemetery in South Bend, and also worked for Hart Indiana. She retired in 1988 as fiscal secretary from St. Francis Health Services. She presently was working as a hostess at McDonald's on Grape Road.

Mrs. Kelsey was a longtime member of the Calvary Baptist Church, where services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday with Rev. David Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow at Southlawn Cemetery.

Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William Street.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Calvary Baptist Church or to the St. Joseph County Diabetes Association.

Published in the South Bend Tribune; Jan. 22, 1998.

 

05/19/2022 EJS



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