Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins
Mishawaka Enterprise April 4, 1947
John Berry Cornelison
John Berry Cornelison, age 65, of rural route number 2 Box 343 South Bend
was pronounced dead on arrival at memorial hospital at 2 a.m. today. He was
taken to the hospital in a private ambulance. Cornelison had been under the care
of a physician according to the coroners office. Death was attributed to a
cerebral hemorrhage. Born in Keokuk, IA, Feb. 11, 1882, he came here 20 years
ago from Oklahoma. On June 20, 1914, in Springfield, Mo. he married Bertha
Pratt who survives. Others survivors are seven children Mrs. Rena Mae Ellis,
Mrs. Marie Sherland, Mrs. Hazel Wright and Chester all of South Bend, Miss Alice
Roslyn, Richard Glenn and Mary Francis all at home, four grandchildren, two
sisters, Mrs. Mandy Teague, Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Levi Hale, Ozark, Mo., five
half brothers, Jack, Orville, Jesse, Ira, and Robert Cornelison all of
Hollister, MO. Friends may call in the Hay Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Saturday until
funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Clarence Shank pastor of Olive Branch
Mennonite Church will officiate. Burial will be at Southlawn Cemetery.