Raymond H. Lingren
May 8, 1922-Dec. 20, 2003
Raymond H. Lindgren, 81, of Dignan Lane, Niles, Mich., died at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, in Memorial Hospital, South Bend, of a brief illness.
He was born May 8, 1922, in Niles, to Raymond N. Lindgren and Mary Wanda Kancuzewski. He had been an area resident his entire life.
Raymond served his country during World War II in the United States Army. While serving in the Pacific Theater he was listed as a POW and earned a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars. He retired in 1982 as an engineer for the Torrington Company in South Bend.
He was a member of the St. Mary Catholic Church, Niles, and belonged to the D.A.V. in Elkhart, Ind. He attended Penn State University and later Indiana University at South Bend.
On May 9, 1942, in South Bend, he married the former Agnes M. Brothers, who survives. His surviving family includes a son, Harold R. Lindgren; and a daughter, Colleen P. (Michael) Klindworth, both of Niles; two grandchildren, Darren J. Lindgren and Amy P. (Ryan) Adams; two great-grandsons, Ryan Matthew Lindgren and Ian P. Adams; and a brother, Robert W. (Verna) Lindgren of South Bend.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, in St. Mary Catholic Church, Niles, and the Rev. Canon Marian M. Kencik will officiate. Burial will follow at the Silverbrook Cemetery.
The family will receive friends in Halbritter Funeral Home in Niles today, Dec. 22, from 5 to 8 p.m., where a rosary will be recited at 8 p.m., the Rev. Canon Marian M. Kencik also officiating.
Contributions in memory of Mr. Lindgren may be made to the American Heart Association.
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