Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins South Bend Tribune Nov. 11, 1973 Mrs. Mary Diamond Mrs. Mary Diamond, 83, of 2712 Hilltop Dr., died at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Hospital after an illness of 520 days. She was born Dec. 24, 1889, in Bainbridge Township, Mich. and came to South Bend in 1916 from Kalamazoo, Mich. On June 15, 1914, in Chicago, she was married to Arthur M. Diamond, who died Oct. 25, 1933. She is survived by a son, Arthur M.; and three daughters, Mrs. Alice Eberhart, Mrs. Gladys Wilson, and Miss Ruth R. Diamond, all of South Bend; Three grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Beth LaFurgey of Mr. Morris, Mich., and Mrs. Bertha Warner of Watervliet, Mich. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Forest G. Hay and Son Funeral Home. 2101 S. Michigan St., where services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Rev. Wilson S. Parks, pastor of the Tamarack United Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Mrs. Diamond was a member of the Broadway Christian Parish. Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins South Bend Tribune Nov. 11, 1973 Mrs. Edna Johnson Mrs. Edna Johnson, 63, formerly of South Bend, died Friday in an Elmhurst, Ill., nursing home after an extended illness. She was born in South Bend on Nov. 1, 1910, and lived in South Bend most of her life moving to the Chicago area in 1950. As Edna Smith, she was married in November 1927, to George Johnson, who died in 1965. she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Leona Schidler of Mishawaka; a half-sister, Mrs. Bessie Strahan of Mishawaka; and a half-brother R. C. Smith of Santa Cruz, Calif. 0 Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Lisle, Ill. Burial will be Stevensville, Mich. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Pederson-Ryberg Funeral Homes In Elmhurst. She was employed with the Bendix Corp., South Bend in the 1940s. Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins South Bend Tribune Nov. 11, 1973 Mrs. Walter O. Alexander Mrs. Faye E. Alexander, 72, of 252 Pin Oak Manor, Mishawaka, formerly of South Bend, died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. She was born March 21, 1901, in Westport, and had loved in the South Bend-Mishawaka area since 1924. On May 28, 1924, at Westport, she was married to Walter O. Alexander, who survives. Also surviving are a son, Bud Zimmer of South Bend; a grandchild; and a brother, Norman Billieu of Westport. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home, where services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, with Rev. Charles Felton, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Bremen Cemetery, Bremen. Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins South Bend Tribune Nov. 11, 1973 Mrs. Viola (Mickey) Gill Mrs. Viola (Mickey) Gill, 47, Plant City, Fla., Formerly of South Bend, died at 7 p.m. Friday in Plant City after an illness of six months. born in Toledo, Ohio July 28, 1926, she resided in South Bend until 1969 at which time she moved to Florida. As Viola Bowers she was married to Bryant Gill on May 5, 1962, in South Bend. He survives in addition to two sons, Edward Kurzhal of Granger and Timothy Kurzhal of South Bend; a daughter, Miss Janice Kurzhal of South Bend; four brothers, Homer Bowers, Montpelier, Ohio, William and John Bowers, both of San Bernardino, , Calif., and Clarence Bowers of Overland Park, Kan; two sisters, Mrs. Elmay Buettner of Temperance, Mich. and Mrs. Ruth Bauman of North Loberty, and one grandchild. Mrs. Gill had been employed at the Bendix Corp until 1969. A memorial service will be held in the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Plant City Monday. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Joseph County Cancer Society. The Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, Mishawaka, handled local arrangements.