Leona Mae Burkhead
June 3, 1923-March 4, 1991
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, March 6, 1991, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Funeral services for Leona Mae Burkhead, 67, of 1017 Edwards St., Niles, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Pifer-Smith Funeral Home by the Rev. Neil Hampton of Grace Baptist Church, South Bend, Ind.
Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.
Mrs. Burkhead died at 7:10 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Medical center, South Bend, Ind., following a long illness.
She was born June 3, 1923, in Goshen, Ind. A homemaker, she moved to his area in 1962.
On Nov. 10, 1951, in Angola, Ind., she married Chauncey F. Burkhead, who preceded her in death on Nov. 7, 1982.
Survivors include five daughters, Janet Aronson of Topeka, Ind., Ramona Burch of Union, Michele Burkhead and Helen Miller, both of Niles, and Sandra Mahler of Howe, Ind.; four sons, Walter Burkhead of Lagrange, Ind., Thomas Bowels of Howe, Ind., Larry LeCount of Goshen, Ind.; two brothers, Russell Penrose of Dunlap, Ind., and B. Melton Penrose of Elkhart, Ind.; 33 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. A son, David Burkhead preceded her in death in September 1990.
Visitation will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.