Robert J. Badgero
April 20, 1924 - May 31, 2001
Mr. Robert J. "Jack" Badgero, 77, of Davis Street, Niles, Mich., died after an extended illness at 3:35 a.m. Thursday, May 31, in the Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, South Bend, Ind.
He was born April 20, 1924, in Mount Pleasant, Mich., to Robert Phillip and B. Flossie (Converse) Badgero, and was graduated from the Ovid (Michigan) High School. He had lived in Niles since 1947, coming from Owosso, Mich.
He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and was then employed for thirty years by the Ball Band Company, Mishawaka, Ind. (more recently Uniroyal), retiring in 1979. He enjoyed hunting, both locally and in the plains states. He was baptized as a Christian last year through the Church of Christ in Niles.
On July 10, 1951, in LaGrange, Ind., he was married to the former Lena Blanchard, who preceded him in death Aug. 24, 1984. He was also preceded by a sister, Arlene Hartley on Jan. 10, 1991.
Surviving family include his siblings, Bruce and Dorothy Badgero of South Bend, Colleen and Maynard Ricker of South Bend, and George and Nancy Badgero of Granger, Ind.; and by many nieces and nephews.
Services for Mr. Robert Jack Badgero will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 7, in the Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, with Brother William Myers of Willowdale Church of Christ, Elkhart, Ind., officiating. Committal will be at Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
Contributions in memory of Jack may be made to Hospice at Home or to Hospice of Saint Joseph County, Ind.