[F] #31821 Living ( LivingAnna Pearl MechlingGeorge Elsworth MechlingAlfred Melancthon MechlingJacob D. MechlingJohn Peter MechlingJacob MechlingJohn Theobald "Dewalt" MechlingDiebold "Theobald" MechlingDiebold MechlingMartin Mechling )

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(relationship status suppressed while one person possibly living) #31822 Rex John Rakow.

Rex was born 23 Jun 1951 in Mishawaka, St. Joseph Co., Indiana. He died 7 Mar 2007 in South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana. He was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Notre Dame, Indiana.

He is the son of Henry Fred & Emerencia (Modos) Rakow.

Rex was the Assistant Direcctor of Security and Police at the University of Notre Dame from 1979 to 1985, and the Director from 1985 on. He came to Notre Dame from Albion College in Albion, Michigan, where he was Director of Safety and Security. During his time at Notre Dame, Rex has also been an adjunct instructor at Indiana University South Bend in Criminal Justice for 10 years, and since 1997 had been a Deputy Coroner in St. Joseph County, and is a certified medicolegal death investigator. Prior to Albion College, Rex was a Police Training Specialist in Southern Illinois for 27 counties, providing in-service and basic training. Previously, Rex was a patrol officer in Richmond, Indiana, for three years and at Indiana University, Bloomington, as a member of the first class of the IU Police Cadet Program.

Rex was involved with numerous security and police activities including Coordination of the 1987 International Special Olympics Games in South Bend; venue supervisor for the 1987 Pan American Games Indianapolis; protection team member for the 1987 Visit of the Pope to South Carolina; nine visits to the campus by United States presidents, four United States vice presidents, 11 foreign heads of state, and umerous dignitaries.

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Caral Mechling Bennett, email to Tad Deffler, dated: 2 Jun 2007.

Dorothy Hallarn Mercy, Mechlin Mechling Macklin - Descendants of Theobald Mechling, 1728-1998, Volume I-Dewalt Mechling, (Butler, PA: Mechling Associates, 1998). Ref. as [Mercy I-98].

Ralph John Rakow obituary, The South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana, 9 Mar 2007.


Line Generation: 12

Relationship: Sixth Cousins One Times Removed through John Theobald "Dewalt" Mechling