Seventy-one year old Betty Kahn, 7719 Redwood Road, Plymouth, died of natural causes at 4:08 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12, 2001, in St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, South Bend. A former Michigan City resident, Betty had lived in Sebring, Fla., for the past several winters. Born in Plymouth, Indiana, on March 27, 1930, she was the daughter of Henry and Jennie Harbaugh Bixel. She graduated from Lincoln High School with the class of 1948. On March 5, 1949, in Plymouth, she was married to Albert “Abe” Kahn. Betty was an assembler for the Milton-Roy Corporation in Michigan City, retiring in 1992. She liked to crochet and enjoyed playing cards and going to yard sales and flea markets. For 21 summers she enjoyed being in Jellystone Park. Mostly though she loved her children and grandchildren and spending time with them. She and Abe were members of the Moose Lodge # 980 in Michigan City. Betty is survived by Abe, her husband of 52 years, a daughter and two sons. Her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Jim Meece, live in Plymouth. Her son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Cindy Kahn, are in Michigan City and Jeffrey Kahn lives in South Bend. Six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and Guy, her brother, and, his wife, Diane, Bixel, Covington, Georgia, survive as well. She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Willadean Towne and a brother, Richard Bixel. Visitation with the family will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 15, 2001, and Saturday, June 16, one hour prior to the service, in the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan St., Plymouth. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The Rev. Jimmy Baker, pastor of the Blissville Church of the Brethren where Betty attended, will officiate. Burial will be in New Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth. Memorial gifts in Betty’s name may be made to the American Heart Association.
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