Peggy McClary DeSonia
June 17, 1903-June 22, 1987
Peggy McClary DeSonia, 84, a resident of the St. Paul's Retirement Home in South Bend, Ind., died Monday at 12:27 p.m. at Memorial Hospital in South Bend.
She was born June 17, 1903 in Niles and lived in South Bend since 1955, coming from Niles. She married Elmer McClary in Niles in 1926. He died in 1951. On Jan. 15, 1955 she married Fred G. DeSonia, who died Dec. 8, 1967.
Se was a retired clerk at J.C. Penney in South Bend and a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in South Bend.
Survivors include a son, Eugene McClary of Zelienotle, Pa.; a brother, O. J. Bennett of Niles and two grandchildren.
Services are 10 a.m. Thursday at the Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road in South Bend. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, June 24, 1987, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library