Elizabeth FREEZE

28 FEB 1923 - 8 NOV 2016

• BIRTH: 28 FEB 1923, Berrien Springs, Berrien, MI
• DEATH: 8 NOV 2016, Dowagiac, Cass, Michigan

• MARRIAGE: 2 AUG 1941, St Joseph County Indiana

1.  Paul STUGLIK
2.  Daniel Thomas STUGLIK
3.  Magdaline STUGLIK

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[N13347] Betty Jane Stuglik
Feb. 28, 1923 - Nov. 8, 2016

NILES - Betty Jane Stuglik, age 93 years of Niles, Michigan, died peacefully at 3:16 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, with her family gathered around at Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac, Michigan, following a brief illness. She was born on February 28, 1923, in Niles, to Horace Thurman and Flossie Cornelia (Davis) Freeze. She attended Niles Community Schools, and had lived in Niles all of her life. As a young woman, she was employed at the Bonnie Doon Drive-in, in the 70's at the Smorgasbord Cafeteria in Bell Plaza, and more recently had been employed at the Niles Taco Bell. Betty was a devout Catholic, attending Mass weekly most of her life. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, helping her husband with the family farm and keeping the home pleasant and inviting with the fragrances of stir-fry, chop suey, and pecan pies. On August 2, 1941, in South Bend, Indiana, she married Joseph A. Stuglik, with whom she celebrated the fifty-seventh anniversary of their wedding prior to his death on July 18, 1999. She was also preceded in death by two sons, Daniel Thomas Stuglik on March 4, 1997, and Paul M. Stuglik on October 6, 2015; and a brother, Horace Freeze and his wife, Barbara. Surviving family includes her children, LuAnne VanOrman of Lawrence, Michigan, Josephine Covyeou of Niles, Christina Marie Morse of Niles, Joseph J. (& Sharon) Stuglik of DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and James Anthony Stuglik of Niles; a daughter-in-law, Patti (Mrs. Paul) Stuglik of Niles; fourteen grandchildren, twenty-four great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Theresa Stypczynski of Mishawaka, Indiana.The Mass of Christian Burial for Betty Stuglik will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, at Saint Mary Catholic Church in Niles by the Rev. Christian Johnston of the parish. Committal Rites will follow at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in South Bend. The family will receive relatives and friends from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday at the Halbritter-Wickens Funeral Home in Niles. www.halbritterfunerals.com Published in South Bend Tribune on Nov. 11, 2016