Lucy Rosemonde (Seebirt) Christman

Mar 17, 1916 - Jan 22, 1964

Lucy Rosemonde Seebirt Christman, former executive secretary of the St. Joseph County Cancer Society, Inc., and daughter of former South Bend Mayor Eli F. Seebirt, died at 4 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital. She was 47.

Mrs. Christman, long active in civic affairs, assumed the office of executive secretary of the Cancer Society in 1948, the year the society opened its headquarters at 501 N. Main St. She retired from that post in 1951. She had served as president of the Junior League and was active in the American. Assn. of University Women. She also was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, national social sorority, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. 

She was born in South Bend on March 17, 1916, to the late Eli and Elizabeth Seebirt. Her father, a lawyer, who served as Republican mayor of South Bend from 1921 to 1925, died in 1955. Mrs. Christman was a graduate of Central High School and for attended Connecticut College for Women, New London, Conn.

She is survived by a daughter, Rosemonde, a student at Skidmore College, Saratoga, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. Ironside Tetley-Jones, in England.

The family requests that donations be made to charities of the donor's choice.

Services have been tentatively scheduled for Friday morning at the Cathedral of St. James. The Welsheimer Funeral Home Is in charge of arrangements.

The South Bend Tribune South Bend, IN, 22 Jan 1964

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10/02/2026 EJS

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