- Date Of Birth: January 8, 1920
- Date Of Death: January 23, 2009
- State: Indiana
Emaline Geerts, 89, of Elkhart, died at 5:50 p.m. Friday (Jan. 23, 2009) in Valley View Health Care Center.
She was born Jan. 8, 1920, in Middlebury to Tony V. and Mary Ann (Reafsnyder) Lehman. On Oct. 17, 1938, she married Lloyd R. Geerts in LaPorte. He died Oct. 13, 1989, in Elkhart.
Mrs. Geerts is survived by two sons, Larry (Bonnie) Geerts and James L. Geerts, both of Elkhart; one daughter, Patricia (Chuck) Stewart of Lufkin, Texas; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Carson “Bim” (Mary Ann) Lehman of Elkhart.
She was preceded in death by one son, Alan W. Geerts; one daughter, Charlene Vesterby; three sisters, Bertha and Helen Rogers and Mary Hoover; and four brothers, John, Ora, Richard and Harold Lehman.
Mrs. Geerts was a homemaker and member of the Women of the Moose Chapter 73. She enjoyed playing bingo.
