Person:Harold Wells (4)

Military Service

Began Dec 11, 1942 at Toledo, Ohio with the US Army in WWII. He was described at enlistment as single, with one year of college. height 67 inches(5 ft 7 in) and weight 166. His home county is St. Joseph, Indiana

Obituary 1

"Harold A "Harry" Wells, 64, of 120 Orange Avenue, died about 4:20 AM today in his home after an illness. He retired in 1982 from the U.S. Postal Service in Mishawaka, where he worked for 28 years. He was born in July 28, 1922, in South Bend and was a lifetime area resident. On July 2, 1952, in South Bend, he married Barbara Norris, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Bill Wells of Mishawaka and Robert Wells of South Bend; two stepsons, Rudy Kovach and Robert Kovach, former Mishawaka mayor, both of Mishawaka; seven grandchildren, and three sisters, Esther Laure of Kalamazoo, Evadene McCormick of South Bend and Jeanette Stahl of Phoenix, Arizona. A brother, Richard, died in 1986.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 PM Wednesday and from 225 and 7 to 9 PM Thursday at the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home. He was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County."

Obituary 2

"Wells -- Services for Harold A. "Harry" Wells, 64, of 120 Orange Avenue, who died about 4:20 AM Tuesday in his home after an illness, will be at 10 AM Friday in Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 7 to 9 PM today and 225 and 7 to 9 PM Thursday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County Inc. or to the American Cancer Society."

Harold as a baby. Supplied by Judy Stewart

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} South Bend Tribune. (South Bend, Indiana).