Hostetler, Edna (Benninghoff) Starnal 1906-1993

Edna B. Hostetler
Feb. 13, 1906-Feb. 10, 1993

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, February 11, 1993, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Edna B. (Benninghoff) Hostetler
1906-1993
Retired from Uniroyal Corp.

Funeral services for Edna Bernice (Benninghoff) Hostetler, 86, 2522 S. 11th St., Niles, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at Pifer-Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Vaughn Sprunger, of Community Baptist Church, officiating.

Burial will follow at Silverbrook Cemetery.

Hostetler died at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Medical Center following three-month illness.

Born Feb. 13, 1906, in Hamlet, Ind., she lived in Niles most of her life.

She was married to the late Erick W. Starnal, who preceded her in death in 1970. On Aug. 27, 1984, in South Bend, she married Glen E. Hostetler, who survives.

She retired in 1969 from the foam department at Uniroyal Corp. in South Bend. She was a member of Community Baptist Church in South Bend.

Other survivors include a daughter, Lois B. Wilson of Niles; two sons, Erick Starnal Jr. of Ann Arbor and William G. Starnal of Elkhart; a stepson, Jack Hostetler of South Bend; 10 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Margaret Bennitt of South Bend, Hazel Staner of Argos, Ind., and Clarice King of Fulton, Ind., and two brothers, Dean Benninghoff of South Bend and Floyd Benninghoff of South Bend.

Friends may call from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Pifer-Smith Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice at Home.