Erving HYGEMA

12 SEP 1891 - 20 MAY 1947

• BIRTH: 12 SEP 1891, Madison township, St Joseph County, IN
• BURIAL: South Union Cemetery, Nappanee, IN
• DEATH: 20 MAY 1947, Near Lakeville

• MARRIAGE: 16 APR 1910, At the Hygema Home, near Wakarusa, IN

1. +Mabel HYGEMA
2. +Kenneth HYGEMA
3. +Donald Dale HYGEMA
4.  Irving HYGEMA
5. +Erma HYGEMA
6. +Treva Irene HYGEMA
7.  Ferne HYGEMA

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[N7532] Ervin Hygema
Sept. 12, 1891 May 20, 1947
The Elkhart Truth 5/21/1947

SOUTH BEND After the body of Irvin Hygema, 55-year old Lakeville Farmer, was found in an automobile near his home, with a revolver in each hand. The sheriff said the man had apparently committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple and heart simultaneously with the two weapons. The sheriff said one exploded shell was found in each of the .38 caliber guns. He had been in failing health for some months. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the residence and at 2:30 at the Oak Grove MBC church, 4 miles west and two miles south of Wakarusa. The Rev. W. E. Manges of Elkhart will officiate, and burial will be in South Union Cemetery. Mr. Hygema was born Sept. 12, 1891, near Wakarusa, the son of the Rev. David and Sarah Loucks Hygema. Surviving are his widow, Cora Schalliol Hygema, whom he married April 16, 1910, at the Hygema home; four daughters, Mrs. Mabel Annis, Mrs. Treva Hossman, Mrs. Erma Miller and Mrs. Ferne Steitz, all of near Lakeville; three sons, Kenneth of Plymouth, Donald of Lakeville and Irvin Jr. of Bremen; a brother, the Rev.William Hygema of Dayton, Ohio; 4 sisters, Mrs. Martha Wise of Nappanee, Mrs. Pearl Weldy of Middlebury and Mrs. Mabel Ummel and Miss Grace Hygema, both of Wakarusa, and 16 grandchildren.

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Birth: Sep. 12, 1891
St. Joseph County
Indiana, USA
Death: 1947
Funeral services were held Thursday of last week at 2:30 pm in the Oak Grove Mennonite Brethren in Christ church southwest of Wakarusa for Evin Hygema, 55, a farmer of rural route, Lakeville. Rev W E Mangus district superintendent was in charge of the service. With burial in South Union cemetery southwest of Wakarusa.Mr Hygema was born in Madison township St Joseph county, Sept 12, 1891, and had lived near Lakeville 29 years, moving from Madison township.
His marriage to Cora Schalliol took place April 16, 1910.Surviving are his widow; four daughters, Mrs Mabel Annis, Mrs Treva Hoffman and Mrs Erma Miller, of Lakeville, and Mrs Fern Fietz, rural route No 2 Bremen, Indiana; three sons, Kenneth, Plymouth, Ind; Donald, Lakeville, and Ervin, Jr, Bremen; a brother, Rev William Hygema, Dayton, O, and four sisters, Mrs Irvin Wise, Nappanee, Ind; Mrs Charles Weldy, Middlebury, Ind, and Mrs Mabel Ummel and Miss Grace Hygema, Wakarusa, Ind. A son Clyde, died in 1918.
Wakarusa Tribune
29 May 1947