KENDALLVILLE - Services for Robert J. Atz, 56, of 230 S. Park Ave., who died at 4:45 p.m. Monday at his home after suffering a heart attack while shoveling snow, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Berhalter-Hutchins Funeral Home. Rev. Kenneth Napier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the church or to the Noble County Heart Fund.
He was born on Nov. 30, 1921, in Council Bluff, Iowa, and had lived in Kendallville for 50 years, coming from Goshen. He was founder, president and factory manager of Trendline Funiture Corp. from 1946 to 1965. From 1965 to 1975, he was factory manager for the Holabird Manufacturing Co., and at the time of his death, he was employed in Fort Wayne.
On Aug. 24, 1954, in Rogers City, Mich., he married Betty Lare. She survives along with two daughters, Mrs. Jerry Young of Kendallville and Miss Sue Atz of Pasadena, Calif.; a son, James of Fort Wayne; one grandchild; his mother, Mrs. Dora Atz of Kendallville, and a brother, Richard C. of Ligonier. He was a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Vogue School of Art in Chicago. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Northeastern Indiana Aquarium Society and had given lectures on radio and television for the organization. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and a member of the Kendallville Rotary Club and American Legion Post 86.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Wednesday, February 8, 1978.
KENDALLVILLE - Services for Robert J. Atz, 56, of 230 S. Park Ave., who died at 4:45 p.m. Monday at his home after suffering a heart attack while shoveling snow, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Berhalter-Hutchins Funeral Home. Rev. Kenneth Napier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the church or to the Noble County Heart Fund.
He was born on Nov. 30, 1921, in Council Bluff, Iowa, and had lived in Kendallville for 50 years, coming from Goshen. He was founder, president and factory manager of Trendline Funiture Corp. from 1946 to 1965. From 1965 to 1975, he was factory manager for the Holabird Manufacturing Co., and at the time of his death, he was employed in Fort Wayne.
On Aug. 24, 1954, in Rogers City, Mich., he married Betty Lare. She survives along with two daughters, Mrs. Jerry Young of Kendallville and Miss Sue Atz of Pasadena, Calif.; a son, James of Fort Wayne; one grandchild; his mother, Mrs. Dora Atz of Kendallville, and a brother, Richard C. of Ligonier. He was a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Vogue School of Art in Chicago. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Northeastern Indiana Aquarium Society and had given lectures on radio and television for the organization. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and a member of the Kendallville Rotary Club and American Legion Post 86.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Wednesday, February 8, 1978.
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