Obit:

Westbay, Philenus L. Sr. (1897 - 1971)

Contact:

Stan

Email:

stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames:

STRATTON VITOUX GARLACH SLINGERLAND HEBERT CARLBERG SWANSON


----Source: Marshfield News Herald 1/ /1971

 

DIES AT AGE 73
 

GREENWOOD - Services will be held a 2 p.m. Sunday at the Hill Funeral Home for Philenus Leander Westbay Sr., 73, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died Thursday, Jan. 14, 1971 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where he had been a surgical patient since Jan. 7.


The Rev. Eugene Antrim, pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by the Wallis-Hinker Legion Post of Greenwood, of which he was a member.


Mr. Westbay was born Dec. 11, 1897 at Crown Point, Ind. He moved with his family to Porter County, Ind., and received his education in Porter County Schools.


He was married to Anna Marie Vitoux, on Nov. 11, 1919, in Valparaiso, Ind. The couple lived in Porter County until December of 1959 when they came to the Greenwood area. Their home is a farm north of Greenwood in the town of Warner.


Survivors include his wife five daughters, Mrs. Anna Marie Stratton, Mrs. Byron (Nancy) Garlach, and Mrs. Pauline Slingerland, all of Greenwood Mrs. Ernest (Edna) Hebert, Valparaiso, Ind. and Mrs. Richard (Irene) Carlberg, Hebron, Ind. a son, Philenus L. Westbay Jr., Greenwood, 33 grandchildren 20 great-grandchildren a sister, Mrs. Alice Swanson of Valparaiso, Ind.

 

 


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