This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: THARP, TONER, HALL, ALTMAN, GARRAND, AKIN, GILLETT Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ei.2ADI/2349 Message Board Post: July 24, 1913 - Sept. 19, 1994 - Granger, Verdon Albert THARP, 81 of Timberland Drive, died at 3:10 a.m. Monday in Fountainview Terrace, Mishawaka, after an illness. Mr. THARP retired as a computer and maintenance foreman for DuPont Corp. He was born July 24, 1913, in Pokagon, Mich., and lived in Granger for 18 years. His first wife, Bertha (TONER) THARP, died in 1975. He is survived by his second wife, W. Jean THARP of Granger; a stepdaughter, Maxine HALL of South Bend; a stepson, Richard ALTMAN of Los Angeles; four stepgrandhchildren; five step-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Marjorie GARRARD of Mishawaka, Anna AKIN of Niles, and Ellen GILLETT of Harvard, Ill.; and three brothers, Milton of South Bend, Frank of Niles, and Edmund of Elkhart. He was a veteran of the Army. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Harris Prairie church of Christ. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Bubb Funeral Chap! el North, 3910 N. Main St., Mishawaka. source: undated South Bend Tribune (submitted by a volunteer, no family connection)