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Documented in members' records to 2016 — the lodge ended about 2008
A lodge known by its members: The Loyal Order of Moose's South Bend lodge, No. 58, left no institutional history in the record reached; what survives is the lodge as its members' obituaries name it, across two decades — men buried from 1996 to 2016 whose notices list membership in "South Bend Moose Lodge #58," the lodge's address of record standing at 4443 White Feather Drive. The lodge's end is documented at the strength the record allows: its Indiana corporation was administratively dissolved on February 22, 2008, and an April 2008 obituary already speaks of "the former Loyal Order of Moose Lodge #58." The corporate act is not itself a charter surrender, and the file prints the two facts side by side rather than a single closing date. One 1996 obituary names a "South Bend Moose Lodge 1057" — an error or a second body; it could not be resolved and is not asserted either way. The Moose lodge numbered 980 that appears in area records is Michigan City's, not this city's.
Sources:
- Members' obituaries, South Bend, 1996–2016 — membership in South Bend Moose Lodge No. 58; the lodge's address of record, 4443 White Feather Dr.
- Indiana Secretary of State, corporate record — the lodge's corporation administratively dissolved February 22, 2008.
- Member's obituary, April 2008 — "the former Loyal Order of Moose Lodge #58."