Miriam (Zurbuch) Wiggins-Milbourn

Nov.2, 1917- March 1, 2007

SOUTH BEND — Miriam Wiggins-Milbourn, 89, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who resided in Orchard Lake, Michigan, passed away on March 1, 2007. Miriam was born on November 2, 1917, in Fort Wayne, Indiana to the late George I. Zurbuch and Margaret Kuhlman Zurbuch.

Her brother, Frederick K. Zurbuch and sister Dorothy Zurbuch Deane preceded her in death.

In September, 1937, she married Donald A. Wiggins, and they lived in South Bend, IN until he died in 1985. Miriam married Howard E. Milbourn in 1989, and he passed away in 1996.

Surviving family members include a son, Arthur W. Wiggins of Bloomfield Hills, MI and stepsons Howard E. Milbourn, Jr of South Bend, IN and Thomas E. Milbourn of Rockford, IL, along with nine grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and special distant relatives, the Baumgartner clan.

Services will be held at NOON Today (Saturday) March 3 in the HICKEY Funeral Homes 3516 E. Jefferson Blvd. with Rev. Paul Doyle, CSC officiating. Interment will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 10 am until services today in the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to The University of Notre Dame.

Article from 03 Mar 2007 The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)

Sources: Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com and FindAGrave.com

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