The News-Sentinel 1957 - Fulton County Public Library

The News-Sentinel 

1957 

Wednesday, January 2, 1957 

Bessie Dull 

Clarence GRAFFIS, R.R. 2, Rochester, has received word of the death Monday night in 

Whittier, Cal., of his sister, Mrs. Bessie (GRAFFIS) DULL, 63, who had been ill for several years. 

Mrs. Dull ws born on June 28, 1893, near Fulton to Levi and Addie (MOORE) 

GRAFFIS. 

Survivors, besides thebrother, are a son, Robert B. DULL, Whittier; a daughter, Mrs. 

Dorothy HOWARD, Detroit, and three grandchildren. 

Services will be held in Whittier. 

Myrtle B. Smith 

Mrs. Myrtle B. SMITH, 78, Nyona Lake, died at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at Woodlawn 

hospital after being ill several years with cancer. She had lived in the Macy vicinity for the last 35 

years. 

Mrs. Smith was born on Dec. 25, 1878, in Gilead to Quimby and Emma LOWE. On May 

13, 1918, she was married to Ira SMITH, who survives. She was a member of the Macy 

Methodist church. 

Other survivors are a son, Newell C. DAY, Davenport, Ia.; five grandchildren; eight 

great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. D. A. CRAWFORD, Peru; two brothers, Gurney LOWE, Peru, 

and Clarence LOWE, New Waverly; and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Ditmire funeral home, Fulton, with the Rev. 

Jack PAVEY of Macy officiating. Burial will be in the Macy cemetery. 

Relatives have asked that flowers be omitted. 

Thursday, January 3, 1957 

Ida C. Utter 

Mrs. Ida C. UTTER, 62, of near Athens, died this morning at Woodlawn hospital after an 

illness of one year. 

Mrs. Utter was a member of the Athens E.U.B. church, the Sunshine Circle and the 

Homemakers Quest club. She had lived all her life in Fulton county. 

Born April 9, 1894, to Charles F. and Ellen Barbara BEEHLER, near Rochester, she was 

married to Frank UTTER in 1918. 

Survivors include the husband; a foster daughter, Mrs. Harold SMITH, Mishawaka; three 

brothers, Alva BEEHLER, Kewanna; Earl and Lee BEEHLER, both of Logansport; a 

granddaughter and several nieces and nephews. A brother and sister preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Athens E.U.B. church 

with the Rev. Lawrence WHITE officiating. Burial will be in the Akron I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron after 7 p.m. today. The body will 

lie in state at the church from 12:30 p.m. Saturday until the time of services. 

Ethel F. Rans 

Final rites were conducted this afternoon at the Kewanna Baptist church for Mrs. Ethel 

Faye RANS, 62, Kewanna, a life-long resident of Fulton county who died at Woodlawn hospital 

Monday afternoon following a long illness. 

A native of Grass Creek, Mrs. Rans was the widow of Roy RANS. She was born on Jan. 

18, 1894, to Ezra and Ida (REED) ROUCH. She was a member of the Kewanna Baptist church. 

Survivors are five daughters, Ethel STITT and Lorene WOOD, Valparaiso; Helen HOOD 

and Virginia AGNEW, Kewanna, and Lois BELL, Arlington, Va.; eight sons, Larry and Delbert, 

RANS, Jr., Kewanna; Harold [RANS], Richmond; Hubert [RANS], Crown Point; Raymond 

[RANS], Valparaiso; Joe [RANS], Fulton; Paul [RANS], Griffith A.F.B. at Rome, N.Y., and 

Lowell McGUIRE A.F.B. in New Jersey; two brothers, Earl and Lloyd ROUCH, Rochester; two 

sisters, Gail NICOLL, Logansport, and Orpha FRY, Winamac, and twenty-nine grandchildren. 

The Rev. Robert BELL officiated at the services and burial was in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. The body was removed to the church from the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna. 

Etta Vance 

Funeral services were held today at Spruce Pine, N.C., for Mrs. Etta VANCE, who died 

suddenly at Nashville, Tenn., following an operation. 

Mrs. Vance, of Chicago, was the mother of Glen VANCE, also Chicago. The latter is 

well-known here, owning farms in Newcastle township, and his mother had visited in Rochester 

occasionally. 

Kathleen Lubbe 

Mrs. Kathleen LUBBE, 75, R.R. 3, Rochester, died at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in 

Woodlawn hospital after an illness of three weeks. 

A Rochester resident for the last five years, Mrs. Lubbe moved here from Huntington, W. 

Va. She was born on Nov. 12, 1881, in Anderson, to James and Margaret (BEVARD) 

McNAMARA. 

On June 7, 1904 she was married in Ohio to John LUBBE, who died in 1930. She was a 

member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Moose in Chicago. 

Survivors are a brother, Frank McNAMARA, R.R. 3, Rochester; a sister, Mrs. E. J. 

KINDER, Portsmouth, O.; a nephew and an aunt. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Foster funeral home in Rochester. Funeral 

arrangements are incomplete.

Friday, January 4, 1957 

Almeda Moon 

Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for Mrs. Almeda MOON, 80, 

widow of William MOON, at the Grass Creek E.U.B. church with the Rev. L. K. McKINLEY and 

the Rev. PELLETT officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

She was born on Aug. 23, 1876, near Leiters Ford, to Phillip and Naomi HIZER 

ANDERSON. She was a member of the Grass Creek E.U.B. church. 

Surviving is a half-sister, Mrs. Myrtle ENYEART, Kewanna. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home, Kewanna. 

Kathlene Lubbe 

Final rites for Mrs. Kathlene LUBBE, 75, R.R. 3, Rochester, who died Wednesday 

evening at Woodlawn hospital, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Foster funeral home. 

The Rev. L. E. POWELL will officiate and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. 

A Rochester resident for the last five years, Mrs. Lubbe died after an illness of three 

weeks. 

Friends may call at the funeral home. 

W. Robert House 

W. Robert HOUSE, 46, a former Rochester resident, died of multiple sclerosis 

Wednesday night in Hines hospital in Chicago. 

Among the survivors are two sons, Raymond and William [HOUSE]; his former wife, 

Mrs. Marjorie HOUSE, all of R.R. 1, Rocheter, and an uncle, Ronald KLINE, R.R. 2, Rochester. 

Final rites will be at the Bubb funeral home in Mishawaka at 1 p.m. Saturday. 

Marilyn Coleman 

Services for Mrs. Donald (Marilyn) COLEMAN, 25, Mentone leukemia victim, will be at 

2 p.m. Saturday in the Mentone Methodist church, with the Rev. David GOSSER officiating. 

Burial will be in the Mentone cemetery. 

Mrs. Coleman, who had spent all her life in Mentone, died at 7:24 p.m. Wednesday at 

Woodlawn hospital after an illness of three months. 

Her death came two weeks after ham radio operators in northern Indiana and relatives 

and friends had fulfilled her wish for a watermelon. 

Mrs. Coleman was the daughter of Dearl and Olive (SMALLEY) TUCKER, of Mentone, 

and was married to Donald COLEMAN on Oct. 26,1951, in Mentone. She was a 1949 graduate of 

Mentone high school. 

Surviving, besides her husband and parents, are two children, Pam [COLEMAN], 3, and 

Kim [COLEMAN], 4; a sister, Mrs. Marita BOGGS, of near Palestine; a brother, Terry 

[TUCKER], at home; and a grandmother, Mrs. Otis DICK, of near Mentone. 

Friends may call at the Johns funeral home.

Saturday, January 5, 1957 

Otto Carlson 

Otto CARLSON, 73, who stayed at the Arlington hotel in Rochester, died at 9:30 o’clock 

this morning at the Miller Nursing Home. He had been seriously ill for the past three days, 

entering the nursing home Dec. 12 of last year. 

Carlson was born in December of 1884 in Sweden, coming to this country in 1908 at the 

age of 24. He and his brother, Carl [CARLSON], who preceded him in death two years ago, had 

lived on a farm on the Tippecanoe River near Leiters for for the past 26 years, with Mr. Carlson 

moving to the Arlington hotel after his brother’s death. 

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Anna OHLANDER, who lives in Anclviken, Sweden. 

The Rev. Donald DECKER of the Rochester Presbyterian church will officiate at the 

funeral services at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home Tuesday at 10 a.m. Burial will be in the 

Citizens cemetery in Rochester. 

Maude E. Crabbs 

Mrs. Maude E. CRABBS, a patient at the Rochester Nursing Home since Sept. 28, 1956, 

died at 4 o’clock this morning. She had been bedfast since breaking a hip on March 2, 1956, and 

was a patient at Woodlawn hospital until being taken to the nursing home. 

Mrs. Crabbs was a native of Tiffin, O., where she was born on Nov. 16, 1876, to David 

and Rose (MILLER) EGELKRAUT. 

On Sept. 15, 1898, she was married in Tiffin to Lawrence E. CRABBS, who died on Dec. 

28, 1935. She was a member of the Grace Methodist church and the Monday Club in Rochester. 

She previously lived with her daughter, Mrs. Emerson DOWNS, R.R. 1, Tippecanoe. 

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. C’Dale MILLER, 314 West 11th street, and Mrs. 

DOWNS; a son, Lester [CRABBS], 228 West Fifth street; seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr. 

Claude YOUNG, of the Grace Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester 

I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Monday, January 7, 1957 

Theresa Greenwalt 

Mrs. Theresa GREENWALT, 78, a native of Hungary, died at 9 a.m. today at the Dick 

Nursing Home in Talma after an illness of nine months. She resided on R.R. 1, Rochester. 

She was born Aug. 19, 1878, in Karlsdorf, Hungary, and was married there to John 

RITTINGER. After his death, she later was married to Ben GREENWALT in Fon du lac, Wis. 

She had resided in this community the past three years coming from Fon du lac. 

Surviving are a son, Nicholas RITTINGER, Chicago; a daughter, Mrs. Frances FRITZ, 

R.R. 1, Rochester; a half-sister, Margaret TRAINER, Chicago; eight grandchildren and four greatgreat-grandchildren. 

One brother preceded her in death. 

The body was taken to the Foster funeral home here and will be removed to the 

Bachmann funeral home in Riverdale, Ill., Tuesday at noon.

William Goss 

William GOSS, 96, a native of Rochester, died at 3:34 p.m. Sunday at his home in 

Bartow, Fla., after an illness of two years. 

Born in Rochester on May 23, 1860, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian GOSS. 

He left here in 1906 to reside in Florida. His wife was the former Dora PYLE, and aunt of Charles 

and Donald PYLE of this city. 

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel GILES, Haines City, Fla.; a son, Robert [GOSS], 

Albany, N.Y.; a naphew, Obie GOSS, Plymouth; three nieces, Mrs. Otis HUNTER, Greensburg, 

and Mrs. Grace APT and Mrs. Minnie IRVINE, both of Rochester; eight grandchildren and 

several other nieces and nephew. 

The body will arrive here via Erie railroad at 8 p.m. Wednesday and friends may call at 

the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Thursday, when graveside rites will be held at the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery here. 

Joseph Kleinhenz 

Joseph KLEINHENZ, 74, Argos carpenter, died at 6:30 a.m. today at his home in Argos, 

515 North Michigan street, following a three-year illness. 

Born Aug. 23, 1882, at Lebanon, he had lived in the Argos community for the past 14 

years. Prior to that he had resided in South Bend and Plymouth. 

He was married first to Nora COLE, who died in 1938, and in 1943 he was married in 

Argos to Carrie HOBBS, who survives. 

Also surviving are two brothers, John, Arkansas, and Peter [KLEIHENZ], Lima, O., and 

one sister, Mrs. Lodmilla SCHULTZ, Fort Wayne. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wdnesday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos 

with the Rev. Orville SCHULTZ of the Burr Oak Church of God officiating. Burial will be in the 

Oak Hill cemetery in Plymouth. 

Phoncian Groves 

Phoncian “Pete” GROVES, about 65, Wabash, who formerly lived at Lake Manitou and 

in Akron, died at 4 p.m. Sunday in a Wabash hospital after being ill with cancer for about six 

months. 

Among the survivors are his widow, Ellie [GROVES]; two sons, Rex [GROVES], of 

Lake Manitou, and Francis [GROVES], Hammond, and two daughters, Pauline [GROVES], 

Wabash, and Rose Alice [GROVES], Phoenix, Ariz. 

Final rites will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Wier funeral home in Wabash. 

Max W. McHenry 

Anderson, Ind. (INS) -- Max W. McHENRY, 43, of Laketon, died today in St. John’s 

hospital at Anderson following a one-car accident. 

State Troopers said McHenry’s car went out of control on a curve in Ind. 32, one-half 

mile northwest of Pendleton and turned over twice.

Tuesday, January 8, 1957 

Laura A. Dysert 

Mrs. Laura A. DYSERT, 90, formerly of Rochester, died early this morning of a stroke of 

paralysis at the Harding sanitarium, Woolington, O. 

Mrs. Dysert had been ill for the last four years and was taken to the sanitarium about 

three years ago. 

A member of the Rochester Grace Methodist church, the Order of the Eastern Star here 

and the Rochester Woman’s Club, Mrs. Dysert was the widow of Joseph F. DYSERT, who was a 

Rochester businessman for many years before his death here in 1936. 

The Dyserts came to Rochester in 1907 from Celina, O. Mr. Dysert purchased The 

Racket, men’s clothing store, that year and operated it as owner and partner until his death. 

Charles PYLE, present owner of the store, joined Dysert in the business in 1911. 

Mr. Dysert served on the Rochester City Council and was active in local civic affairs 

during his residence here. Mrs. Dysert for a number of years resided at 118 West Eighth street. 

The Dysert Fund, which was set up by Mr. Dysert, still is being used to help pay for the 

community’s annual Christmas decorations. 

Mrs. Dysert was born on May 9, 1866 in Wilshire [Willshire, Ohio?[. A brother and two 

sisters are among the survivors. 

The body is at the Ketchem funeral home in Rockford, O. Final rites will be at 1 p.m. 

Thursday in that city. 

James O. Smith 

Shortly after returning to his home at 529 Clayton street after ice fishing at Lake Manitou 

Monday evening, James Omer SMITH, 52, died suddenly of a heart attack. The time of death was 

6:45 o’clock. 

An employee of the Main Street Tavern and Restaurant, Smith had lived here for the last 

20 years after moving from Macy. 

Smith was born in Miami county on Jan. 2, 1904, to Albert and Ollie (KINGERY) 

SMITH. He was married to Evelyn YOUNG in Ft. Wayne on Feb. 18, 1928, and was a member 

of the Macy Christian church. 

Survivors are the widow at home; a daughter, Mrs. Earl (Mary Louise) CLARK, R.R. 2, 

Rochester; four sons, Albert “Bud” [SMITH], Ft. Wayne; James and Thomas [SMITH], both at 

Indiana University in Bloomington, and Donald J. [SMITH], at home, and two grandchildren. 

Also, six sisters, Mrs. Edith CUMBERLAND, Rochester; Mrs. Sarah CHAPIN, R.R. 5, 

Rochester; Mrs. Lola COLLINS, Mrs. Gertrude STAHL and Mrs. Luce SEE, all of Macy, and 

Mrs. Bertha UTTER, Athens; two brothers, Charles [SMITH], R.R. 2, Rochester, and Harold 

[SMITH], Ft. Wayne, and several nieces and nephews. 

One brother and two sisters preceded him in death. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body rests at the Foster funeral home in 

Rochester. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock tonight.


Grace E. Beck 

Grace E. BECK, 71, died at 6:15 o’clock this morning at the Rochester Nursing Home 

after a year’s illness. She had been a resident of the Fulton community for 20 years. Prior to that 

she had resided in Akron. 

She was born June 6, 1885, near Newton, Ia., to Robert E. and Mary THOMPSON. Her 

husband was Elmer BECK, who preceded her in death. 

Mrs. Beck was a member of the Fulton E.U.B. church. There are no immediate 

survivors. 

Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 o’clock in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton 

with the Rev. Donald ABBEY officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. 

Golda Alvarez 

Mrs. Golda ALVAREZ, 66, died at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday at her home on R.R. 1, Akron. 

Death was caused by carcinoma and came after a nine-month illness. 

She had resided in the Akron community the past eight years, coming there from 

Indianapolis. 

Mrs. Alvarez was born in Huntington county on Oct. 12, 1890, to Isaiah and Ida 

HAINDES RUNKLE. She was married in Tampa, Fla., in 1929 to Antonio ALVAREZ, who 

survives. 

A member of the Pleasant Hill Methodist church, she belonged to the W.S.C.S. of that 

church and also taught the adult Bible class. Before moving to Akron, she had been a missionary 

and social worker in Tampa, New York City and Missouri. 

Other survivors are one brother, Edgar RUNKLE, R.R. 1, Akron and two nephews. One 

sister preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Pleasant Hill Methodist church 

with the Rev. Jack PAVEY of the Macy Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. 

Hope cemetery, [Athens] six miles southwest of Akron. 

The body is to be removed from the Sheetz funeral home to the home of Edgar Runkle, 

where friends may call after 3 p.m. Thursday until the hour of the services. 

Mrs. Edward Gamble 

Mrs. Edward GAMBLE, 418 West Sixth street, died at about 1 p.m. today in Woodlawn 

hospital. She had been at the hospital for the last few days. The body was taken to the Foster 

funeral home, where funeral arrangements are pending. 

James Omer Smith 

Funeral services for James Omer SMITH, 52, who died Monday evening, will be 

conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Christian church, Rochester, with the Rev. James 

KIMSEY officiating. Burial will be in the Mud Creek cemetery with the Foster funeral home in 

charge of arrangements.


Mary Zimmerman and 

Clarence Russell Zimmerman 

Mrs. Mary ZIMMERMAN, 83, R.R. 2, Macy, died at her home Tuesday evening, three 

hours after her son, Clarence Russell ZIMMERMAN, 57, died at his Denver home. 

Both had been in ill health for the past several years. 

Mr. Zimmerman was born in Miami county on April 7, 1899, to Allen A. and Mary 

BUTT ZIMMERMAN. He was married in 1920 to Mildred WELLER, who survives. A son, 

Ellis [ZIMMERMAN], and a daughter, Mrs. Naomi EGGE, both of Denver; a grandchild; and a 

sister, Mrs. Dessie KEIM, Deedsville, also survive. 

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the McCain funeral home, north of Peru, 

with the Rev. C. F. GOLDEN officiating. Burial willb e in the Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. 

The Mother was born March 2, 1873, in Miami county, to Richard and Margaret BUTT, 

and she was married in 1895 to Allen ZIMMERMAN. He is among the survivors. 

Also surviving are the daughter, Mrs. KEIM; seven grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Vida 

BERGER, R.R. 2, Macy, and Mrs. Sadie KEIM, of Chili; and a brother, Ira BUTT, Rochester. 

Three sisters and a brother preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Deedsville E.U.B. church 

with the Rev. Walter MAYER officiating. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery. The 

McCain funeral home is in charge of arrangements. 

Arletha Gamble 

Final rites for Mrs. Arletha GAMBLE, 39, 418 West Sixth street, who died at Woodlawn 

hospital at noon Wednesday, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Foster funeral home with the 

Rev. Edward BARLOW, Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be in the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. 

Mrs. Gamble, a lifelong resident of Rochester, died after an illness of eight months. She 

was a member of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints church. 

On Oct. 15, 1916, Mrs. Gamble was born in Marshall county to Edward and Dora 

(PONTIUS) WAGONER. She ws married to Edward GAMBLE on Nov. 25, 1939 in Hammond. 

Surviving are the husband; two sons, Frederick and John [GAMBLE], both at home; her 

mother; two sisters, Mrs. Marjory KESTER, Athens, and Mrs. Annabelle NUNNERY, Lake City, 

Ark., and four brothers, Clair PONTIUS, Roann; Ledger [PONTIUS], Rock Falls, Ill., Richard 

[PONTIUS], Bay City, Mich., and Harry [PONTIUS], R.R. 4, Rochester. Two sons preceded her 

in death. 


Walter Mason 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

for William Walter MASON, 77, who had conducted an abstract business in Rochester for 25 

years. Mr. Mason, who resided at 920 Pontiac street, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn 

hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 9. 

Death was caused by carcinoma of the lungs and came after an 18-month illness, which 

had become serious last March. 

Born March 29, 1879, in Liking county, O., Mr. Mason moved to the Mt. Olive 

community in Fulton county in 1901 and had resided in Rochester the past 44 years. He came

here from Vermillion county, Ill. 

His parents were James T. and Lavina MORRISON MASON and he was married June 

29, 1929, in South Bend to Grace S. STINGLY, who survives. 

Mr. Mason entered the abstract business with his father-in-law, the late Peter J. 

STINGLY, in 1931. He continued the business after Mr. Stingly’s death until last June, when it 

was sold to George DEAMER of Rochester. The firm had its inception by Mr. Stingly in 1895. 

Mr. Mason was a member of the Grace Methodist church. 

Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. E. E. (Minnie) CRAWFORD, Danville, Ill; Mrs. 

Olive DAVIS, Collison, Ill.; and Mrs. John (Mabel) TYRRELL, Rochester; one brother, Henry 

MASON, Danville, Ill., and a number of nieces and nephews. 

Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church will officiate at the last rites and burial will 

be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today. 


Tura Merritt 

Mrs. Tura MERRITT, 76, who had lived for the last 36 years on R.R. 1, Roann, died 

suddenly of a heart attack while she was being taken to a South Bend hospital Thursday morning. 

Mrs. Merritt was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Daisy WOLF, when she suffered the attack. 

Death came at 7:30 o’clock. 

Born in Wabash county on Oct. 25, 1883, Mrs. Merritt was the daughter of Henry and 

Melinda (KESLING) KERCHER. Her husband, Horace MERRITT, died in 1949. 

Mrs. Merritt was a member of the Brethren Enterprise church, near Gilead, and of the 

W.S.C.S. She moved to the Roann community from Peru. 

Surviving are the daughter; a grandson in Chicago, and a brother, Martin KERCHER, 

Lafayette. A daughter preceded her in death. 

Final rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the 

Rev. Ralph HUFFMAN officiating. Burial will be in the Gilead cemetery. 



Albert Braman 

Albert BRAMAN, 77, 607 Clayton street, died this morning in the Rochester Nursing 

Home of pneumonia. He had been in ill health for the past two years and seriously ill for the past 

four weeks. 

Mr. Braman was born in Arkansas on May 16,1879, to John and Jennetta BURTON 

BRAMAN and came to Fulton when still a child. He was married to Emma DURBIN in 

Rochester on Aug. 6, 1898. He was a cabinet maker and upholsterer by trade. 

Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Irene COUGHLIN, Indianapolis, and 

Mrs. Mildred COLLINS, Decaur, Ind.; a son, Layman BRAMAN, Lafayette; a sister, Mrs. Elma 

SQUIRES, Peru, and a foster sister, Mrs. Florence SINGLETON, Peoria, Ill. A brother preceded 

him in death. 

The body is at the Foster funeral home where funeral arrangements are pending.


Andrew Wilaon 

Andrew “Jack” WILSON, 64, 608 Jefferson street, died at 7 o’clock this morning at the 

Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne following a long illness. 

Custodian of the Rochester Postiffice for 20 years, he retired from those duties last March 

31. 

Wilson was born on April 1, 1892, in Hebron to Andrew and Elizabeth WILSON. He 

moved to Rochester from his birth place in 1918. On Sept. 4, 1920, he was married in Crown 

Point to Edna GOSS, who survives. 

He was a member of the local American Legion post, World War I Barracks 479 and the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. 

Surviving, besides the widow, are a daugher, Mrs. Wayne (Jean) DAULTON, 955 East 

Ninth street; a son, Dick [WILSON], Indianapolis; three grandchildren, Jack, Candy and Jill 

DAULTON, all of Rochester; a brother, Amos WILSON, Washington, D.C., and several nieces 

and nephews. Two brothers and his parents preceded him in death. 

Final rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. 

Donald DECKER, of the Rochester Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery with full American Legion rites. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. 

Ruth Richardson 

Mrs. Ruth (TRACY) RICHARDSON, 66, Peoria, Ill., wife of Dr. E. M. RICHARDSON, 

both of whom formerly lived in Rochester, died at her home at 6:20 a.m. today following an 

illness of about one year. 

Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were married on Oct. 6, 1915 in Rochester and moved from the 

city to Peoria five years later. 

Mrs. Richardson was born in Macy on May 10, 1890, to Frank and Elmanda (POWELL) 

TRACY. She was a member of the Peoria Methodist church. 

Surviving, in addition to the husband, are a daughter, Maryanna Ruth VEHR, Pontiac, 

Ill.; two sons, Kline T. [RICHARDSON], Evansville, and Dr. Deane E. [RICHARDSON], Los 

Angeles; six grandchildren and a sister, Miss Flavilla TRACY, South Bend. 

Two services will be conducted. The first will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 

Clugsten Memorial Home, Peoria, with the Rev. Harvey BONINE officiating. The second will be 

at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Grace Methodist church here with the Rev. Claude YOUNG officiating. 

Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

The body will lie in state at the Methodist church here after 1 p.m. Thursday. 

Paul Richard 

Paul RICHARD, 64, father of Edward RICHARD, 402 West Eighth street, Rochester, 

died about 11 a.m. Saturday at his home in West Warwick, R.I. Death came from a heart attack 

and followed a short illness. 

Mr. Richard had been employed by the city transit system in Providence, R.I., for the past 

30 years. Surviving are the wife and one other son, Arthur [RICHARD], West Warwick. Funeral 

services will be held Tuesday. 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward RICHARD left Saturday at attend the last rites.

Clarence L. Morris 

Clarence L. MORRIS, 48, of Beaver Dam Lake, died suddenly of a coronary occlusion at 

6:30 p.m. Saturday in his home. 

Born on July 31, 1908, in Montpelier, he was the son of Robert and Stella (LENNON) 

MORRIS. He had lived at Beaver Dam Lake for the last 11 years, moving there from Marion. 

On June 23, 1928, he was married in Marion to Josephine SHARRON, who survives. He 

was a carpenter by trade. 

Other survivors are a brother, Henry D. [MORRIS], Beaver Dam Lake; a sister, Mrs. 

Mable PARKS, and a stepson, Virgil SHARRON, both of Marion 

Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sheetz fneral home in Akron with the Rev. 

Claude FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron I.O.O.F. cemetery. 


Albert Braman 

Final rites were conducted this afternoon at the Foster funeral home for Albert 

BRAMAN, 77, 607 Clayton street, who died Saturday morning in the Rochester Nursing Home of 

pneumonia. 

The Rev. F. L. WILLMERT, of the Trinity E.U.B. church officiated and burial was in the 

Citizens cemetery. 

Braman had been in ill health for two years and seriously ill for four weeks prior to his 

death. 

Survivors not mentioned earlier are six granddaughters and nine great-grandchildren. 

Frank Korby 

Frank KORBY, 79, died Saturday of a heart attack at his home in Kokomo. 

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Charles JONES, Jr., Rochester; a son, Edgar [KORBY], 

Kokomo; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick’s church in Kokomo. 


Martha Williams 

Final rites for Mrs. Martha GASKINS WILLIAMS, 62, who maintained homes at R.R. 1, 

Rochester, and in Indianapolis, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Conkle West 16th street funeral 

home, Indianapolis. 

Mrs. Williams, a cost clerk in Indianapolis for 13 years, died Sunday in her Indianapolis 

home. 

For the last two years, Mrs. Williams and her husband, Wilber E. WILLIAMS, lived 

during the summer months on their farm at the south edge of Lake Manitou and during the six 

preceding years they lived at the farm year ‘round. 

Mrs. Williams was born in Monroe county and was a member of the Riverside Methodist 

church and the North Park Order of Eastern Star, both in Indianapolis. 

Surviving are her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy LOLLAR, Cincillati; a son Robert 

E. [WILLIAMS], Ft. Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Maude HOBSEN, Speedway, and six grandchildren.


Vernon L. Haldeman 

Vernon L. HALDEMAN, 74, died at 6:30 a.m. today at his home in Akron following a 

short illness. Death was caused by a heart attack. 

Born Feb. 27, 1882, in Kosciusko county, he was the son of Henry and Sarah 

LEININGER HALDEMAN. He resided all his life in the Akron community and was married 

March 20, 1920, to Ada KAMP, who preceded him in deth in 1954. 

Mr. Haldeman, a retired farmer, was a member of the Modern Woodmen Lodge. 

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Mary STERLING and Mrs. Loa MORRIS, both of 

Akron, and Mrs. Edna HUNTER, Fort Wayne; one brother, Lloyd HALDEMAN, Akron, and 

several nieces and nephews. Two brothers and one sister preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron 

with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Akron. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday until the hour of the services. 


John Kestle 

John Loyd KESTLE, 71, Kewanna, died at 3 o’clock this morning in Woodlawn hospital 

after being taken suddenly ill. The cause of death is undetrmined. He had lived in the Kewanna 

community most of his life. 

Kestle, a retired farmer, was born in Pulaski county on Jan. 7, 1886 to Joseph and Sarah 

(CROWDER) KESTLE. He was married in Hersher, Ill., to Inez FARLEY and was a member of 

the Pulaski Presbyterian church. 

Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Mrs. Burl [E.] (Dona L.) EBER, Rochester, rural 

route, and two grandchildren, Lary and Lora EBER. Four brothers and a sister preceded him in 

death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Kewanna Methodist church with the Rev. 

George WRIGHT officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call 

at the residence after 2 p.m. Friday. The body lies at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna now. 


Charles E. Bacon 

Charles E. BACON, 76, native of Rochester and architect of the Rochester high school 

building, died at his Indianapolis home Wednesday after a week’s illness. 

Born in Rochester, he opened his own architect office in Indianapolis in 1909 and 

maintained it until 1935. Besides drawing the plans for the RHS building in 1911, he also was 

responsible for numerous Indianapolis buildings, including the Third Christian church. He served 

as Indianapolis building commissioner for 10 years until retiring in 1953. 

He began his career at Peru as a foreman for a building contracting firm before going to 

Indianapolis in 1903. 

Surviving are three sons; two brothers; a sister; six grandchildren and a great-grandchild, 

none from this community. Funeral rites will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Dorsey funeral 

home on East New York street. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery in Indianapolis.

James T. Cover 

James T. COVER, 68, who lived two miles south of Macy, died at 11 p.m. Thursday at 

the Indiana Pythian Home in Lafayette after an illness of six months. He had been at the home for 

the last three years. 

Mr. Cover was born on July 14, 1870, near Macy to Alfred and Louise (CLYFORD) 

COVER. He was married to Saloma Jane BEEDS, who died on Jan. 28, 1946. Cover was a 

farmer and a member of the Macy Christian church. 

Several nieces and nephews survive. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Macy Christian church, with the Rev. I. T. 

ROGERS officiating. Burial will be in the Deedsville cemetery. 

The body will lie in state one hour at the church. Friends may call at the Ditmire funeral 

home in Fulton. 

Fieldon Carden 

Mrs. Estella LOCKHART, R.R. 4, Rochester, has received word of the death of the 

husband of her cousin, Mrs. Bertha (ZOOK) CARDEN in Detroit, Mich. 

The husband, Fieldon CARDEN, died suddenly last week and was buried in his 

birthplace, Manchester, Tenn., last Monday. 

Mrs. Carden was born near Leiters Ford and also is the cousin of Clarence 

POFFENBARGER, Rochester. 

In addition to his widow, Mr. Carden left four children, Robert, Fieldon, Jr., Linda 

[CARDEN], and Mrs. Don CRAMPTON, all of Detroit. 

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Carrie M. Thommen 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Fulton E.U.B. church for Carrie M. 

THOMMEN, 78, who died at the Miller Nursing Home in Rochester at 7:45 a.m. Sunday after a 

three-week illness. 

The Rev. Donald ABBEY will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery at Fulton. Friends may call at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton. The body will lie in 

state at the church an hour prior to services. 

Mrs. Thommen was born May 12, 1878, in Fulton county to Rudolph and Nellie 

PLANTZ BUCHLER. She was married to Fred THOMMEN March 4, 1899. He preceded her in 

death Nov. 15, 1919. 

She was a member of the Fulton E.U.B. church and had resided in Fulton for over 50 

years. 

Surviving are a son, Lucius T. THOMMEN, 604 Fulton street, Logansport; a daughter, 

Mrs. Bernice STOOKEY, Peru; three grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Martha SHIVELEY, 

Osceola.

Ralph N. Day 

Ralph Newton DAY, 27, a Disko native and former Akron community resident, died 

Saturday morning in Chicago from a gunshot wound of an unreported nature. 

Day was born July 6, 1929, at Disko, to Howard and Ruth GILLAND DAY, and his 

marriage on Sept. 17, 1953, was to Mona GULLETT in Indianapolis. He was a welder by trade 

and moved to Chicago 10 months ago from Indianapolis. 

Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Christine and Theresa [DAY]; a son, Larry 

[DAY]; the mother and father, Roann; six sixters, Mrs. Elda HUDSON, Roann; Mrs. Darla EADS, 

Laketon; and Esta, Phyllis, Peggy and Lolitta [DAY], all at home; three brothers, Bill and Sonny 

[DAY], both of Roann, and Gene [DAY], North Manchester; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. 

Ralph DAY, Akron; the maternal grandfather, the Rev. Newton GILLAND, Idaville, Ind. A son 

and two brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be conducted at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron at 1 p.m. CST 

Tuesday with the Rev. Victor YEAGER officiating. Burial will be in the Silver Creek cemetery. 

Omer T. Calvin 

Burial of Omer T. CALVIN, Greenfield, a former resident of near Argos, will take place 

at 10:30 p.m. [sic] Tuesday at the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. Calvin died at his home 

Saturday of a heart attack. 

Funeral services were conducted this afternoon in Greenfield. 

Calvin leaves his widow, three daughters, a son and several grandchildren. 


Ralph N. Day 

Ralph DAY, 27, a Disko native and formerly of Akron died Saturday of gunshot wounds 

sustained in a Chicgo tavern argument. 

Chicago police are questioning Nathan TREGER, 56, Chicago, manager of a cocktail 

lounge on Chicago’s northside, where the shooting took place, in connection with Day’s death. 

Day, a welder, resided in Akron until 1953 at which time he moved to Indianapolis. He 

had lived in Chicago for the past 10 months. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard DAY, reside on 

R.R. 1, Roann. 

Day died in Grant hospital after surgeons removed a bullet from his head. Treger is 

accused of killing Day during a quarrel and scuffle in the cocktail lounge last Thursday night. 

Funeral services for Day were conducted this afternoon at the Sheetz funeral home in 

Akron. Burial was in the Silver Creek cemetery. 


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Sherman Swick 

Sherman SWICK, 64, R.R. 2, Akron, died at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Murphy 

Medical Center in Warsaw of a heart ailment after an illness of one week. 

A lifelong rsident of Akron, he was born there on June 3, 1892, to Lois and Maggie 

(WEISSE) SWICK. On July 18, 1913, he was married in Akron to Viola YOUNG, who survives. 

Other survivors are three sons, Claude [SWICK], Burket, Dean [SWICK], Thies River 

Falls, Minn., and Lowell [SWICK], Warsaw; two daughters, Mrs. Lois BOGANWRIGHT, 

Highland, and Mrs. Delta SEELY, Ft. Wayne; twenty-two grandchildren; one great-greatgrandchild; 

a brother, Percy [SWICK], Akron. Three children preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Akron church of God with the Rev. Harold 

CONRAD officiating. Burial will be in the Akron I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

The body will be taken from the Sheetz funeral home at 5 p.m. today to the rsidence 

where friends may call until 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The body will then be taken to the church to lie 

in state until the services. 

Mary Elizabeth Cook 

Mary Elizabeth COOK, 83, died Wednesday night of a heart ailment in her Green Oak 

community home. She had been seriously ill for the past 10 days. 

Mrs. Cook, a Gold Star Mother, was the last living descendant of a family of 10 children 

and one of four sets of twins. In each instance the twins were of the opposite sex, the only such 

occurrance in medical history. Her twin brother, Joe [HIFFLEFINGER], died in Gary in 1949. 

Mrs. Cook had lived in Green Oak community since 1910. She was born July 26, 1873, 

in Logansport to John and Mary MEICHAEL HIFFLEFINGER. Her first marriage was to 

Winifred Scott McCLURG in 1890 and her second marriage was to William SNYDER, Sr., in 

1901. Both preceded her in death. Her third marriage was to Jessie Ray COOK, in 1925. He is 

among the survivors. 

She was a member of the Green Oak Community Club and the Rebekah lodge. 

Survivors, besides the husband, are three grandchildren, Samuel BURKETT, Rochester; 

Mrs. Lola MILLER, Burbank, Cal., and Maynard BURKETT, Chicago; two great-grandchildren, 

James BURKETT, Rochester, and Roscoe MILLER, Jr., Burbank,Cal; one niece, Emma 

COTNER, Logansport. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home with the Rev. Jessie YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Charles B. Daulton 

Charles B. DAULTON, 74, Lake Wawasee, Syracuse, formerly of Rochester, suffered a 

fatal heart attack at 3 p.m. Wednesday while driving on U.S. 6 about two miles north of Syracuse. 

His auto left the road, ran up an embankment and turned on its top. 

Mr. Daulton, who lived in Rochester and this vicinity from 1909 to 1931, had been in 

failing health for several years. 

He was born in Danville, Ill., on May 21, 1882, to Joe and Ada (HITCHCOCK) 

DAULTON. He was first married in 1902 in Rochester to Lucy SHAFFER, who preceded him in 

death. In 1944, he was married in Fort Wayne to Dora HELM, who also preceded him in death.

Mr. Daulton was a retired farmer and car salesman and was a member of the Roman 

Catholic church in Fort Wayne. 

Surviving are five sons: Ben, Dale, Wayne and Glen [DAULTON], all of Rochester, and 

Joe [DAULTON], South Bend; two daughters, Mrs. Goldie SWAIN, South Bend and Mrs. Velma 

VIGUS, Gardena, Cal., three stepchildren; two sisters; Mrs. William FENSTERMAKER, 

Anderson, and Mrs. Bessie BROWN, Plymouth; a brother, William [DAULTON], Lancaster, Pa.; 

twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. 

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. Joseph Catholic church in Rochester with 

Father Claude W. REMAKALUS of St. Ann’s church, Monterey, officiating. Burial will be in the 

Bruce Lake cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after noon Friday. Rosary 

will be said at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. 

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Friday, January 25, 1957 to Saturday, January 26, 1957 


Infant Reynolds 

Brief funeral services will be held at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home Tuesday at 

11 a.m. for the infant daughter of Don and Betty MILLER REYNOLDS, 920 Monroe street, who 

was stillborn this morning at Woodlawn hospital. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are one brother, Dana Eugene [REYNOLDS]; the paternal 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bloice REYNOLDS and the maternal grandmoher, Mrs. Jake 

MILLER. 

The Rev. Fremont WILLMERT of the Trinity E.U.B. church will officiate at the rites and 

burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 

Frank Irvin Morris 

Frank Irvin MORRIS, 45, R.R. 2, Silver Lake, who belonged to the Knights of Pythias 

lodge and the American Legion post in Akron and the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in 

Rochester, died at 9:40 a.m. Saturday in the Veterans hospital in Indianapolis. 

Morris, who served in the U.S. Army from October, 1942 to March, 1946, including 13 

months in the European theater, had been ill for one year. 

He was born on June 18, 1911, in Minnesota to Joe and Ella PARKER MORRIS. On 

Jan. 6, 1950, he was married in South Bend to Mary KELLER, who survives. 

A farmer by occuption, Morris lived in the Gilead vicinity until 1951, when he moved to 

the Silver Lake address. 

Surviving besides the widow ar two young children at home, Shelia and Frankie 

[MORRIS]; three step-sons, George, Don and Larry KELLER, all of Wabash; a step-daughter, 

Elaine NICCUM, Wabash; five step-grandchildren; his parents, R.R. 1, Roann; a sister, Mrs. John 

(Marie) KERLIN, R.R. 1, Silver Lake, and three brothers, Delson, Merlyn and Alden [MORRIS], 

all of near Macy. 

Services will be at 10 a.m. CST in the Silver Creek church, near Rock Lake, with the 

Rev. Victor YEAGER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron until 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. 

The body will lie in state at the church one hour before the services.


Clarence Overmyer 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Groce Methodist church here for 

Clarence “Pat” OVERMYER, 51, Fulton county highway superintendent, who died suddenly at 

2:30 p.m. Monday from a heart attack suffered in a local physician’s office. 

Mr. Overmyer had been superintendent of the county highway department for the past 

eight years, having replaced Oscar SCOTT in that post in December, 1948. 

A lifelong resident of this community, he was born Dec. 30, 1995, in Fulton county to 

Ambrose and Nora OVERMYER. He was married May 1, 1926, in Rochester to Edith 

WALTERS, who survives. 

He was a member of the Richland Center I.O.O.F. lodge, Sand Hill Methodist church and 

the Manitou post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. 

Mr. Overmyer served one full term, from 1939-42, as trustee of Richland township. 

While in that office he supervised in 1940 the building of the addition to Richland Center school 

consisting of a gymnasium and four classrooms. He was reelected as Richland trustee in 1943, but 

was called to duty with the U.S. Army soon afterward and his wife finished out the term of office. 

He served as a military policeman during the North Africa campaign of World War II. 

Before taking the county highway supervisor’s post, Mr. Overmyer had been manager of the Tiosa 

elevator. At the time of his death he resided on R.R. 5, Rochester, just east of Tiosa. 

Also surviving are three brothers, Harry [OVERMYER], Sr., R.R. 3, Rochester; William 

[OVERMYER], Laketon, and Alpha [OVERMYER[, R.R. 1, Argos; a sister, Mrs. Nellie 

ANDERSON, 430 West Ninth street, and several nieces and nephews. A brother, Howard 

[OVERMYER], preceded him in death. 

The Rev. H. L. ADAMS will officiate at the funeral rites, assisted by the Rev. Russell 

GOOD. Burial will be in the Richland Center cemetery. 

The body was removed to the residence this afternoon from the Foster funeral home. 

Friends may call until noon Thursday. The body also will lie in state at the church one hour 

before the services. 

Byron N. Carpenter 

Byron N. CARPENTER, 72, R.R. 1, Bourbon, a lifelong resident of the Bourbon and 

Argos communities in Marshall county, died at 10:15 p.m. Monday in the Murphy Medical center, 

Warsaw, after an illness of two weeks. He had been in the hospital one day. 

A farmer all his life, Carpenter was born near Argos in Green township on July 5, 1884, 

to David and Teresa HUTCHINSON CARPENTER. On Dec. 20, 1908, he ws married to Carrie 

Jane THOMPSON, who died on Feb. 4, 1952. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jessie ROBINSON, Atwood, and Mrs. Mary Evelyn 

CHAPMAN, Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. John ZUMBAUGH, Plymouth; four grandchildren and 

three great-grandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home inArgos, where final rites will be 

conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. J. P. SLAUGHTER, of the Burr Oak E.U.B. church, will 

officiate. Burial will be in the New Oak Hill cemetery, Plymouth.

Rose Rice 

Mrs. Rose RICE, 82, who resided about seven miles southeast of Argos, died at 3:45 p.m. 

Monday at the Parkview hospital in Plymouth after a lingering illness. 

Mrs. Rice was born in Marshall county on March 1, 1874. She was married to William 

RICE in 1941. She was a member of the Christian church in Plymouth. 

Surviving are the husband; three stepsons, James [RICE], Plymouth; Glen [RICE], 

Rolling Prairie, and Robert [RICE], Argos, and nine grandchildren. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Walnut Church of the Brethren southeast of 

Argos. The church pastor, the Rev. Ray RICHEY, will officiate. Burial will be in the Oak Hill 

cemetery, Plymouth. 

Friends may call at the Umbaugh funeral home in Argos after 7 p.m. today. The body 

will lie in state at the church one hour before the services. 

Suzie Jane Miller 

Mrs. Suzie Jane MILLER, 75, a lifelong resident of the Macy and Mt. Zion communities, 

died at 9:20 p.m. Monday in the Rochester Nursing Home after an illness of three years. 

A patient at the nursing home for about two years, Mrs. Miller’s home was a mile south 

of Macy. 

Mrs. Miller was born in Miami county on Nov. 3, 1881 to Frederick and Charlotte 

(ABSHIRE) LONG. On May 17, 1902, she was married to Irvin S. MILLER, who died on May 

15, 1953. She was a member of the Macy Christian church. 

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ethel PRATT, Rochester; three sons, Donald [MILLER], 

Decatur,Ill., Ross [MILLER], Burbank, Cal., and Clark [MILLER], Macy; five grandchildren; 

four great-grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Lydia DAINE and Miss Daisy LONG, Peru; Mrs. Lucy 

ELLIOTT, Kokomo; Mrs. Mary DARRAH and Mrs. Dora FEASTER, Rochester; and two 

brothers, William [LONG], Kalamazoo, Mich., and Thomas [LONG], Macy. 

Final rites will be Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Macy Christian church with the Rev. I. T. 

ROGERS officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton. 


Oliver Perry Bantz 

The Rev. Oliver Perry BANZ, 80, died this morning in the Rochester Nursing Home after 

an illness of seven months. He resided in Chicago. 

The Rev. Banta was born May 3, 1876, in Albany, Ind., and had been in the local nursing 

home for the past seven months. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah BANTZ and is survived by a 

son, Everett BANTZ, of Evanston, Ill. 

Services will be conducted Friday at Albany. The body will be removed from the 

Zimmerman Brothers funeral home on Thursday.

Mary Elizabeth Erwin 

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth ERWIN, 41, R.R. 1, Star City, a native of 

Fulton county, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Harrison chapel in Royal Center. The Rev. 

Russell STRONG will officiate and burial will be in the Star City I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Erwin became Cass county’s first traffic fatality of the year Monday evening in the 

crash of her car and a steel-laden truck on U.S. 35, four miles southwest of Logansport. 

State police said that the 1950 sedan of Mrs. Erwin, whose husband, Don [ERWIN], is in 

St. Joseph hospital in South Bend, following a hernia operation, skidded into the path of the truck 

on the city highway. 

The truck driver, Haywood SMITH, 34, Midlothian, Va., was not hurt. 

Mrs. Erwin sustained fractures of the neck skull and left ankle and bruises on her chest 

and both knees. She died enroute to Memorial hospital, Logansport. 

Dr. M. B. STEWART, Cass county coroner, said a public inquest into the fatality will be 

held at his office Monday morning. 

Mrs. Erwin was born in Fulton county on May 23, 1915, to Arthur and Flora Foy St. 

CLAIR. 

Surviving ar the husband; two daughters, Wilma and Betty [ERWIN], at home; four 

brothers, George, Orin, Edgar and Glen St. CLAIR, all of R.R. 1, Kewanna, and two sisters, Mrs. 

Doris PERRY, R.R. 1, Kewanna, and Mrs. Nellie HOFFMAN, Monon. 

Friends may call at the chapel beginning Thursday afternoon. 

Clyde C. Easterday 

Clyde C. EASTERDAY, 71, died this morning in Westville, Ind., after an illness of four 

years. He had made his home in Rochester with a sister, Mrs. Cleve (Ethel) KINDIG on R.R. 3, 

for the past four yers. His residence was in Ingomar, Mont. 

Mr. Easterday was born in Rochester on Oct. 23, 1885, to Alex and Caroline 

McCARTER EASTERDAY and was married to Fanny FOX in Rochester. She preceded him in 

death. 

A brother, Claude EASTERDAY, Ingomar, is the only other survivor besides the sister. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Bros. funeral 

home with the Rev. Fremont WILLMERT of the Trinity E.U.B. church officiating. Burial will be 

in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon on Thursday. 


Joseph Vandermark 

Final rites for Joseph VANDERMARK, 82, Silver Lake, who had lived the last 27 years 

in or near Burket, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Burket Methodist church. The Rev. Albert 

RIDER of Wawaka will officiate and burial will be in the Palestine cemetery. 

Vandermark, father of Elgie VANDERMARK, R.R. 5, Rochester, died of cancer at 3:45 

p.m. Tesday in the Murphy Medical Center, Warsaw. He had been in failing health for the last 

year. 

He leaves two daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild in 

addition to Elgie Vandermark. 

Friends may call at the Johns funeral home in Mentone.

William G. Jump 

Funeral services for William G. JUMP, 85, Kewanna, who died at 11 a.m. Wednesday at 

Woodlawn hospital, will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Prairie Grove church with the 

Rev. Lloyd OVERMYER officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetry with the 

Harrison funeral home in charge of arrangements. 

Mr. Jump came to Kewanna several years ago from Milmore, O., and had been ill one 

week. He was born on Nov. 28, 1872, in Milmore, to Ransom and Sara ASHBY JUMP and was 

later married to Elizabeth TIMMONS who preceded him in death. 

He was a retired farmer and a member of the Star City Methodist church. 

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. William BELCHER, R.R. 4, Rochester, and two 

grandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after 7 p.m. today. 

Ida Mae Hahn 

Mrs. Ida Mae HAHN, 91, Peru, mother of Mrs. Walter McELHENY, 1315 Main street, 

died at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday in Peru after an illness of nine weeks. 

Three other daughters survive Mrs. Hahan, who was a native of Miami county. Four 

grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and sixteen great-great-grandchildren also survive. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. at the Eikenberry funeral home in Peru with burial in the 

Santa Fe cemetery near Peru. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Friday, February 1, 1957 

Harry T. Huppert 

Harry T. HUPPERT, 42, Akron, died at 4:15 p.m. Thursday of a sudden heart attack 

while at a Mentone physician’s office for an examination. He had complained of not feeling well, 

but was not thought to be seriously ill. 

Huppert had lived in Akron since he was eight years old, moving there from Francesville, 

where he was born on Dec. 9, 1914 to Chris and Grace OWINGS HUPPERT. 

A salesman for the Marberger Supply company of Peru, Huppert was an active member 

of the Akron community and was a member of the Methodist church, Lions club, chamber of 

commerce and Masonic lodge there. He was master of the Masonic lodge in 1953. 

He also was a member of the Manitou Moose lodge here and of the Elks club in Peru. 

Huppert was married in Columbia City on May 27, 1939 to Annabelle WEISS, who 

survives. 

Other survivors are a son, Robert [HUPPERT], and a daughter, Beverly Ann 

[HUPPERT], both at home; a sister, Mrs. James RILEY, Warsaw; two brothers, William 

[HUPPERT] of Akron and Stanley [HUPPERT] of Cleveland, and the mother Mrs. Grace 

HUPPERT, Akron. 

Final rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the Rev. 


Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Saturday, February 2, 1957 

Samuel H. Arnold 

Final rites for Samuel H. ARNOLD, 82, R.R. 5, Rochester, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday 

in the Foster funeral home. The Rev. James KIMSEY will officiate and burial will be in the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Arnold, a retired farmer, died at 4:30 p.m. Friday in Woodlawn 

hospital after being ill for one year. He had been seriously ill for the past week. 

He was born in Fulton county on Oct. 2, 1874 to Joseph and Etta ARNOLD. He lived his 

entire life in the county. His wife, Alda [GREGSON], died in November, 1954. 

Survivors include two sons, Ralph J. [ARNOLD], of Denver, Colo., and Joseph 

[ARNOLD], of Logansport; a sister, Mrs. Josie ENTSMINGER, Rochester; six grandchildren and 

nine great-grandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Foster funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Monday, February 4, 1957 

Cordelia Ann Carini 

Mrs. Cordelia Ann CARINI, 81, died at 10:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of her daughter, 

Mrs. Grace BROWN, 119 West 12th street, Rochester, after a three-year illness. Mrs. Carini had 

been seriously ill for the past two weeks. 

Born Sept. 4, 1875, in Indianapolis, she had lived in Rochester the past three years. She 

was married first on Dec. 25, 1895, to George GARNER. Her second marriage was on Feb. 22, 

1944, to Louis Joseph CARINI. Both husbands preceded her in death. 

Her parents were Samuel H. and Margaret WILSON and she was a member of the Holy 

Cross church in Indianapolis. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. BROWN and Mrs. Leona DILLON, Kokomo; two 

sons, George GARNER, Defiance, O., and Thomas GARNER, Kokomo; three sisters, Mrs. 

Margaret SUMNEY, Kokomo; Mrs. Kate LESLIE, Monticello, and Mrs. Mary JONES, 

Indianapolis; two brothers, Sam WILSON, Indiapolis, and Walter WILSON, California; and 

eleven grandchildren, among them Grace Marie BROWN, Mrs. George BIXLER and Kenneth E. 

BROWN, all of Rochester. 

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home with the Rev. C. F. GOLDEN, of Denver [officiating]. Burial will be in Salem cemetery, 

Bluff Creek, Ind. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Tuesday, February 5, 1957 

Mrs. William Hanna 

Final rites were scheduled for today for Mrs. William HANNA, Michigan City, a former 

resident of Rochester, who died over the weekend. Several relatives in this area survive.

Wednesday, February 6, 1957 

Charles R. Morrow 

Charles Ross MORROW, 79, Twelve Mile, died Tuesday morning of a cerebral 

hemorrhage after an illness of one year. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Morrow was born March 18, 1877, in Bethlehem township, Cass 

county, to Abner and Margaret TEEL MORROW. His marriage on Dec. 29, 1910, was to Adella 

SCOTT in Logansport. 

He is survived by the widow; two [sic] sons, Kirk [MORROW], Dewayne [MORROW] 

and Leo [MORROW], Rochester; a grandson, Allen Lee MORROW, now in the Navy; a brother, 

Ellsworth [MORROW], Peru. Four brothers and a sister preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Bethlehem Methodist church 

with the Rev. August LUNDQUIST officiating. Burial will be in the Bethlehem cemetery. 

Friends may call at the McCain funeral home, at the Junction of roads 21 and 16, after 1 

p.m. Thursday. 

George P. Lehn 

Word was received here today of the death of George [Paul] LEHN, 69, at 1 o’clock this 

morning at his home in Binghamton, N.Y. He had been ill for the past seven weeks. 

Mr. Lehn is survived by his wife, the former Bernice BRACKETT, Rochester, and one 

brother, Edward [LEHN], Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Mary BOWEN of Rochester is Mrs. Lehn’s sister. 

He was a member of St. Thomas Aquinas church in Binghamton. 

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Friday at the St. Joseph’s church here with Father 

FITZGERALD, Kewanna, officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. The body 

will arrive via Erie railrod at 2:32 p.m. Thursday and friends may call at the Zimmerman Brothers 

funeral home after 5 p.m. Thursday. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral 

home. 

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Thursday, February 7, 1957 


Rita Sue Hudson 

Rita Sue HUDSON, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth HUDSON, R.R.2, Rochester, 

died shortly before noon today in Woodlawn hospital after a short illness. 

Death came to the Talma first-grader only hours after her father, object of a frantic search 

by local law enforcement agencies, Thursday, returned from a trip from Idaho where he had 

delivered a load of automobiles for a South Bend firm. 

Efforts of Rochester city police and the Fulton county sheriff’s office, however, failed to 

locate the girl’s father, but he returned to the city Thursday afternoon upon completion of the auto 

delivery. The family was first reported as being from Bourbon, but it was later learned that the 

Hudsons reside east of Talma on Rochester R.R. 2. 

The Hudson girl was rushed to Woodlawn hospital early Wednesday when she suffered a 

relapse from measles. Inflamation of the brain resulted from the disease. 

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Mary Hanna 

Mr. and Mrs. Otho JERRALD, R.R. 1, Argos, returned home after attending the funeral 

for her mother, Mrs. Mary HANNA, 87, formerly of Rochester, in Chenoa, Ill. 

Mrs. Hanna, who lived in and near Rochester for many years, died Sunday in a Michigan 

City hospital. Services were conducted in that city Monday and then in Chenoa Tuesday. 

Mrs. Hanna moved to Argos from Rochester and then to Michigan City upon the death of 

her husband. 


Rita Hudson 

Funeral services for Rita HUDSON, six-year-old daughter of Kenneth and Barbara 

HUDSON, R.R. 2, Rochester, who died of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) Friday, will be at 1:30 

p.m. Monday at the Johns funeral home, Mentone. 

The Rev. Henry TERRY, of the Rochester Nazarne church, will officiate. Burial will be 

in the Harrison Center cemetery, northeast of Mentone. Doctors have advised that only adults 

attend the services. 

The girl died at 11:30 a.m. Friday in Woodlawn hospital here after being admitted 

Tuesday following a relapse from the measles. 

She was born in Rochester on May 18, 1950. Surviving, besides the parents, are two 

brothers, at home, Robert and Roger [HUDSON]; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard 

HUDSON, Etna Green, and the meternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter COOK, R.R.1, 

Rochester. 


Mrs. James Mandleco 

Mrs. James MANDLECO, 78, who lived with her husband in Rochester for about 25 

years, died Friday morning in Roachdale, Ind., where the couple moved years ago. 

She leaves a son, four grandchildren and a brother. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Finnville church near Roachdale. 


Debra Sue Beatty 

Debra Sue BEATTY, seven-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren BEATTY, R.R. 

4, Rochester, died suddenly in Woodlawn hospital at 2 a.m. Sunday. The infant apparently died of 

strangulation caused by a serious cold. 

Debra Sue was born in South Bend on July 10, 1956 to Loren and Flossie EASH 

BEATTY. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are two brothers, Dennis and Stephen [BEATTY], at 

home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo EASH, R.R. 4, Rochester; the paternal 

grandmother, Mrs. Louise UNDERWOOD, Fowler; and two great-grandmothers, Mrs. Rose 

COX, Akron, and Mrs. John EASH, Rochester. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the Rev. 


Friends may call at the funeral home.


Roy D. Hattery 

Roy D. HATTERY, 67, South Bend, brother of Ernest HATTERY, Macy, died at 5 a.m. 

Monday after being ill one year with a heart condition. He had many cousins and other relatives 

in Rochester. 

A retired employee of the Studebaker-Packard corporation, Mr. Hattery had lived near 

Macy before moving to South Bend about 30 years ago. 

He was born on March 3, 1889, to Edward and Alvina (RIGGS) HATTERY. On July 20, 

1910, he was married near Macy to Lucy Belle COLLINS, who survives. 

Other survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Cecil (Mildred) WHEELER, Indianapolis, Mrs. 

Albert (Frances) MERRAMAN, Dowagiac, Mich., Mrs. Floyd (Margaret) WIKE and Mrs. Dexter 

(Carmen) EDWARDS, both of South Bend; a son, Luther [HATTERY], South Bend; a brother, 

Clarence [HATTERY], Denver; two sisters, Josie WALTERS, Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Ora NYE, 

of Arizona; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. 

Final rites will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Hayes funeral home at South bend. The 

Rev. Clyde D. RUSH, of the Maple Grove Methodist church, Lakeville, will officiate. Burial will 

be in the Southlawn cemetery, South Bend. 

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Maribeth Rentschler 

Mrs. Maribeth (MILLS) RENTSCHLER, 18, R.R. 6, Rochester, died at 7 o’clock this 

morning in Woodlawh hospital after a short illness. 

Mrs. Rentschler, who attended Reiter and Rochester high school, had lived almost her 

entire life in the Rochester area. 

She was born in Pin Village, Ind., on June 24, 1938 to Wayne E. and Mildren (McCAIN) 

MILLS. On Aug. 12, 1955, she was married to Ned RENTSCHLER, who is stationed in Germany 

with the U. S. Army. He was expected to arrive home today. 

Other survivors are the parents, Williamsport, Ind.; three brothers, Robert MILLS, 

Mishawaka, David MILLS, stationed in Japan with the armed forces, and John [MILLS] at home; 

two sisters, Virginia and Debra [MILLS], at home; and the paternal grandmother, Mary F. MILLS, 

Peru. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body rests at the Ditmire funeral home in 

Fulton. 

Iris Lambert 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth OVERSTREET, owners of Overstreet’s Resort at Lake Manitou, 

are in Ganado, Texas to attend the funeral of Mrs. Overstreet’s mother, Mrs. Ida LAMBERT, who 

died Wednesday morning. 

Mrs. Lambert, 83, had been seriously ill for the last three months. She leaves two 

daughters and a son. She had visited the Overstreet home several times and had many friends in 

the Rochester area. The Overstreets live on R.R. 1, Noblesville during the winter months.


Frank McNamara 

Frank C. McNAMARA, 75, R.R. 3, Rochester, died at 6 p.m. Thursday in Woodlawn 

hospital after a serious illness of three days. 

He had lived in this city for 12 years, following his retirement from a position with the 

Sinclair Oil Refining company at Hammond in 1945. 

Mr. McNamara was born Feb. 3, 1882, in Carlisle, Ky., to James and Margaret 

McNAMARA. His wife, Alice [McNAMARA], died in 1939. 

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Ann ALLEN, Griffith, and Mrs. Gladys YOWELL, 

Clinton; four grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Emery KINDER, Portsmouth, Ohio, and several nieces 

and nephews. Several brothers and sisters preceded him in death. 

Final rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. Lloyd 

POWELL officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the 

funeral home. 

Lula Marie Rader 

Mrs. Charles (Lula Marie) RADER, 75, 1209 Lake Shore Drive, died at 8 o’clock this 

morning of heart trouble. She had lived in this community for the last eight years. 

Mrs. Rader was born May 10, 1881, in Richland Center to Charles and Rosetta 

(HALTERMAN) MELVIN. She married in Chicago when she was 20 years old, then returned to 

this area in 1949. 

Last Sunday, Mrs. Rader was married in Rocheser to Charles RADER, father of Ralph 

RADER, joint representative from Fulton and Pulaski counties to the Indiana General Assembly. 

She was a member of the Akron Methodist church. 

Survivors are the husband; two sisters, Mrs. Martha FOOR, Macy, and Mrs. Merl 

WHITTENBERGER, Akron, and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sheetz funeral home with the Rev. D. L. 

SLAYBAUGH officiating, assisted by the Rev. James KIMSEY. Burial will be in the Akron 


Friends may call at the Sheetz funeral home after noon Saturday. 


Clyde Marine 

Clyde MARINE, 87, Akron, died at about 9 o’clock this morning in the Rochester 

Nursing Home after an illness of 2 1/2 years. He had been in the nursing home fotr last 18 

months. A retired stock buyer, Mr. Marine was a 50-year member of the Gilead Masonic Lodge 

and a member of the North Manchester Presbyterian church. He moved fromGilead to Akron 

about five years ago. 

Mr. Marine was born in North Manchester on Sept. 2, 1869 to Henry and Laura Ann 

(WRIGHT) MARINE. He was marride to Rose E. SMITH on June 12, 1818 [sic] in Peru. Mrs. 

Marine is a patient at Woodlawn hospital, having broken her hip in a fall about two months ago. 

Survivors are the widow, a niece and several cousins. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Sheetz funeral home with the Rev. Claude 

FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Gilead cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Sunday.

Glendola McLemore 

Mrs. Glendola HEATH McLEMORE, 79, Joliet, Ill., who was born in Rochester, died at 

8:20 p.m. Friday in Joliet after an illness of four months. 

She had lived in Joliet for the last 20 years and was a member of the First Baptist church 

in Rochester. 

Mrs. McLemore was born on June 26, 1877 to Enoch and Hala (TROUTMAN) MYERS. 

Her first marriage was to Perry HEATH, who died in 1922. Her second husband, Robert L. 

McLEMORE, also preceded her in death. 

Survivors include a son, Curtner M. HEATH, and a grandson, both in Joliet. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with the 

Rev. Richard MITCHELL, of the Rochester First Baptist church, officiating. Burial will be in the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. 


Maribeth Rentschler 

Final rites for Mrs. Maribeth (MILLS) RENTSCHLER, 18, R.R. 6, Rochester, who died 

Thursday morning in Woodlawn hospital, were conducted this afternoon at the Fulton Baptist 

church. 

The Rev. R. H. TURNER officiated. Burial was in the Fulton cemetery. 

Mrs. Rentschler, who attended Reiter school and Rochester high school, died at 7 a.m. 

Thursday after a short illness. She had lived almost her entire life in the Rochester and Fulton 

vicinities. 

Walter E. Cumberland 

Walter Edgar CUMBERLAND, 70, R.R. 1, Claypool, father of Vernon, Elden and 

George CUMBERLAND, all of Akron, died at 1:45 p.m. Saturday in Woodlawn hospital after an 

illness of six months. 

A resident of the Claypool vicinity for 31 years, Mr. Cumberland was born in Miami 

county July 29, 1886, to Thomas W. and Elizabeth (LOWE) CUMBERLAND. He was married to 

Blanch T. HANSON on March 13, 1907, in Peru. 

Mr. Cumberland was a farmer by occupation and a member of the Chili Baptist church. 

Survivors, besides the widow at home and the three sons from Akron, are five other sons, 

Fred [CUMBERLAND], R.R. 1, Claypool; Walter G. [CUMBERLAND], Covina, Cal., Frank 

[CUMBERLAND], Warsaw; Warren [CUMBERLAND], Bourbon, and Lorin [CUMBERLAND], 

Claypool; one daughter, Mrs. Eldon (Mary) HORN, Warsaw; sixteen grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. 

Two daughters preceded him in deth. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Beaver Dam E.U.B. church with the Rev. 

Wayne JOHNSON of Claypool officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Hope cemetery at Peru. 

Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron until noon Tuesday.

Fred Hornburg 

Friends have learned of the death Sunday of Fred HORNBURG, Dowagiac, Mich., 

whose wife is the former Mrs. Dorothy MARQUARDT of Rochester. Services will be at 1:30 

p.m. Wednesday in Dowagiac. 


Minerva Eversole 

Mrs. Noah (Minerva) EVERSOLE, 61, who lived one year in Rochester and spent the 

rest of her life as a resident of Tippecanoe and that vicinity, died at 4:30 p.m. Monday in 

Woodlawn hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been ill for one year. 

Mrs. Eversole was a member of the Tippecanoe Progress club, the Mentone American 

Legion Auxiliary and the Bethlehem Baptist church, near Talma. 

She was born on March 8, 1895, in Marshall county to William and Pearl (SHAFER) 

MAHONEY. On Feb. 28, 1928, she was married to Noah EVERSOLE, who died on Feb. 16, 

1955. Survivors are the mother, of Tippecanoe; a brother, J. B. MAHONEY, Redlands, Cal., and 

one nephew. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of the brother. 


Alfred O. Alspach 

Alfred O. ALSPACH, 85, died at 7:20 a.m. today at his home in Plymouth after a 10month 

illness. A former resident of Rochester, he had lived in Plymouth the past 12 years. 

Mr. Alspach was born Feb. 9, 1872, in Fulton county to Ambrose and Samantha 

ALSPACH. He was married Dec. 31, 1921, to Ruth BROWN, who survives. 

A retired carpenter, he followed the Apostolic faith. 

Also surviving are two stepsons, Arthur E. BROWN, Rochester; Herbert M. BROWN, 

Cedar Rapids, Ia.; one brother, Leslie ALSPACH, Sand Point, Ida.; five grandchildren and one 

great-grandchild. 

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Johnson and Sons funeral home in 

Plymouth with the Rev. Clyde JOSEPH officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in 

Rochester. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Thursday. 

Obe Haimbaugh 

Funeral services were held in Mentone Monday for Obe HAIMBAUGH, 96, one of 

Fulton county’s oldest residents, who died Saturday morning shortly after his admission to the 

Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw. He had been in failing health for two years. 

Burial was made in the Mentone cemetery. 

Born July 17, 1860, he was the son of Henry and Apolina HOLMES HAIMBAUGH and 

had lived his entire life on farms near Mentone, yet inside the Fulton county line. He was married 

to Nora PERSCHBACHER, who preceded him in death in 1939. He was a member of the 

Mentone Baptist church. 

Survivors are three sons, Mead [HAIMBAUGH], South Bend; Dow [HAIMBAUGH], 

Rochester, Rex [HAIMBAUGH], at home; three daughters, Mrs. Loyd (Lucile) KESLER and 

Mrs. Herschel (Freda) LEHAMAN, both of Warsaw; and Mrs. Edna CAREY, Mentone; one 

sister, Mrs. Ocie BLUE, Columbus, O.; eight grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren and one 

great-great-grandchild.


Bertha L. Leininger 

Mrs. Bertha L. LEININGER, 77, R.R. 2, Akron, a lifelong resident of Fulton county, died 

at her home early this morning after an illness of several years. 

Mrs. Leininger ws born in Newcastle township in July, 1879, to Francis and Elenore 

(RICHTER) DRUDGE. On July 2, 1901, she was married to Elmer LEININGER, who died in 

October, 1955. 

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Harold E. MILLER, R.R. 2, Rochester, and several nieces and 

nephews. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. Friday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron where 

services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH will officiate. Burial 

will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Genevere Shogren 

Final rites for Mrs. Genevere GROVE SHOGREN, a native of Rochester, were 

conducted today in St. Peter, Minn., where she died recently. Word of Mrs. Shogren’s death was 

received Wednesday b Mrs. Faye HOLMAN of Rochester. 

Mrs. Shogren was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orange K. GROVE. In 1939 

she was married to A. R. SHOGREN, who survives, along with three sisters and a grandson. 

Mrs. Shogren was buried in the national cemetery at Fort Snelling, Minn., where the body 

of her son who was killed during World War Two lies. 

Edith Castleman 

Mrs. Luedva KUHN, R.R. 3, Rochester, as left for Oneill, Neb., where she will attend the 

funeral for her mother, Mrs. Edith CASTLEMAN, who died there at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday after 

an illness of several weeks. 

Mrs. Castleman, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter CASTLEMAN of the Loyal 

community north of Rochester, had numerous relatives and friends in this area. 

She leaves two other daughters and twelve grandchildren besides Mrs. Kuhn. 


Howard Phebus 

Howard PHEBUS, 60, R.R. 1, Tippecanoe, father of John PHEBUS, R.R. 3, Rochester, 

died at 11 p.m. Thursday in Woodlawn hospital after beng admitted one day earlier with a heart 

ailment. He had been seriously ill for about a month and in failing health for several years. 

A farmer, Mr. Phebus had lived his entire life in Marshall county, where he was born on 

Feb. 15, 1897, to Daniel and Lillie (KALMBAKER) PHEBUS. He was married to Ortha 

HARLEY in 1917, and his home was about three miles west of Mentone. 

Surviving are the widow; two other sons, Max [PHEBUS] of Pierceton and Foster 

[PHEBUS], of California; a daughter, Mrs. Katherine ELLINGER, Chicago; five grandchildren; 

two step-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth SIMCOE of Fort Wayne, and a brother, Walter 

[PHEBUS], of Plymouth. 

Friends may call at the Reed funeral home in Mentone where services will be at 1:30 p.m. 

Sunday. The Rev. Irwin OLSON, of the Mentone Baptist church will officiate. Burial will be in 

the Tippecanoe cemetery.

Charles E. Finney 

Charles E. FINNEY, 79, R.R. 1, Kewanna, prominent Fulton county farmer, died 

suddenly of a heart attack Thursday afternoon while doing chores in his barn on the farm where he 

was born on March 16, 1877. 

A member of the Kewanna I.O.O.F. and the Prairie Grove church, Mr. Finney had lived 

his entire lifetime in Union township. He was the son of George E. and Arresta (BOYER) 

FINNEY. 

Mr. Finney was first married to Ina MARTIN on Feb. 25, 1897. She died on Dec. 10, 

1944. On April 6, 1946, he was married to Clara CARITHERS, who survives. 

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. John DENTON, R.R. 1, Kewanna; a son, Curtis 

[FINNEY], Indianapolis; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two step-sons, John and 

Edwin CARITHERS, both of Logansport; and two step-daughters, Mrs. Jess CALVERT, rural 

route, Rochester, and Mrs. Earl BARKMAN, R.R. 5, Rochester. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, in the Prairie Grove church with the Rev. Lloyd 

OVERMYER officiating. Brial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemeter with graveside services 

b the lodge. 

The body was taken from the Harrison funeral home this aftrnoon to the residence, where 

friends may call. 

Ethel Wolf 

Final rites for Mrs. William (Ethel SHETL) WOLF, 71, Indianapolis, formerly of 

Rochester, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the All Saints Cathedral in Indianapolis. The body lies in 

the Flanner and Buchanan funeral home on Fall Creek boulevard. 

Mrs. Wolf, who moved to Indianapolis from Rochesrer 45 years ago, died at 9 a.m. 

Wednesday of a sudden heart attack. 

She ws the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eldrith SHETL and is known b many people in this 

area. 


Florence Kocher 

Mrs. Edith FOSTER, 1228 Hill street, has received word of the death of Mrs. Florence 

KOCHER, 59, Huntington, the mother of Mrs. Foster’s son-in-law, James KOCHER, Mishawaka. 

Mrs. Kocher, who is known to many people in Rochester as a frequent visitor in Mrs. 

Foster’s home, died of a heart attack at noon Friday in the Huntington county hospital, 

Huntington. 

Final rites will be Monday in the Bailey funeral home in Huntington. 

Monday, February 25, 1957 to Wednesday, February 27, 1957 

[no obits]


William M. Vaser 

Funeral services were conducted in Indianapolis Monday for Willim M. VASER, 50, a 

Lake Manitou cottage owner and part owner of an Indianapolis machinery firm. 

Mrs. Vaser, the former Margaret BELT, resided in Rochester for a number of years and 

was employed by the Chester White Swine Record Association. 

Mr. Vaser, native of Indianapolis, was an active Mason and a member of the Scottish 

Rite, Raper Commandery and Murat Shrine. 

Surviving are the widow; his mother, Mrs. Frances M. VASER; his stepmother, Mrs. 

Blanche VASER; his father, E. M. VASER, all of Indianapolis; and a sister, Mrs. Martha 

BALLINGER, Louisville, Ky. 

Mr. Vaser died Friday in Community hospital and burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. 

Friday, March 1, 1957 

Goldie Kaplan 

Friends here have been advised of the death of Mrs. Phil [Goldie] KAPLAN, former 

Rochester resident, at the methodist hospital in Indianapolis Wednesday. Funeral arrangements 

are incomplete, but the body is at the G. H. Hermann funeral home. 

Mrs. Kaplan was the former Goldie EPSTEEN and while in Rochester she and her first 

husband, the late Charles TALBOTT, operated the Talbott hotel on Lake Manitou’s north shore, 

now the Manitou Resort. 

Surviving are the husband; two brothers, L. G. and Ralph EPSTEEN, Indianapolis; and 

three sisters, Mrs. George SADLER, Mrs. Irene SMITH and Mrs. Elma MARRIOTT, all of 

Indianapolis. 

Nellie D. Middleton 

Mrs. Nellie D. MIDDLETON, 71, who lived practically all her life in the Akron 

community, died at 10:55 p.m. Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry FRYMIRE, in 

Marion. She had been in ill health with a heart condition since October. 

Mrs. Middleton was a member of the Akron Methodist church, the Royal Neighbors and 

the Sunshine club in Akron. She had lived with her daughter since January. 

Born on May 6, 1885, Mrs. Middleton was the daughter of Horace and Cynthia 

(RALSTON) BARNHART. She was married on June 8, 1901, in Mentone to Ray MIDDLETON, 

who died in July, 1955. 

Surviving, besides the daughter, are a son, Rex [MIDDLETON] of Chicago; three 

grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Akron Methodist church with the Rev. Claude 

FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron after 2 p.m. Saturday and 

until noon Monday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before the services.

Saturday, March 2, 1957 

John L. Hoesel 

John Lewis HOESEL, 76, Culver, lifelong farmer in Pulaski, Fulton and Marshall 

counties, died Friday morning in Memorial hospital at South Bend after an extended illness. 

A resident of Culver for the last 22 years, Mr. Hoesel was born in Monterey May 7, 1880, 

to John and Suzanne (OVERMYER) HOESEL. He was a member of he Lutheran church. 

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Cora V. [HOESEL]; a daughter, Mrs. Lucile IRVINE, 

Culver; a son, Evert [HOESEL], Culver; a brother, Alpha [HOESEL], Monterey; four 

grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Easterday funeral home at Culver with the Rev. 

Charles L. HANEY, of the Culver E.U.B. church, officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill 

cemetery near Lake Bruce. 


Monday, March 4, 1957 

Rex B. DuBois 

Word has been received here of the death in Gary of Rex B. DuBOIS, 70, former resident 

of Fulton county. 

Mr. DuBois was born in Cass county to the late George W. and Amy (HORTON) 

DuBOIS on March 11, 1886. Two sisters, Mrs. Lillian BABCOCK and Mrs. Pearl 

SHOEMAKER, and two brothers, Fred H. and Dr. Dwight [DuBOIS], preceded him in death. 

Surviving are a brother, Don L. [DuBOIS], of Roann, and several nieces and nephews. 

Final rites will be at the Grandstaff funeral home in Roann at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will 

be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Tuesday, March 5, 1957 

Dr. Byrl R. Kirklin 

Services were held this morning at Rochester, Minn., for Dr. Byrl R. KIRKLIN, 68, who 

died Satrday in that city whre he had been associated with the Mayo Clinic since 1926. 

Dr. Kirklin’s widow is the former Gladys WEBSTER of Rochester, Ind., who attended 

school in this city before going to Indianapolis, where she was graduated from Methodist hospital 

nurses’ training. 

Dr. Kirklin had served the last three years as executive secretary of the Radiological 

Society of the United States, of which he was a past president. He also was noted as a medical 

author and lecturer. 

Also surviving are a son and daughter, both of Rochester, Minn.

Alva O. Starkey 

Final rites for Alva O. STARKEY, 82, R.R.1, Rochester, were conducted Monday 

afternoon at the Shirley Brothers Central chapel in Indianapolis. 

Mr. Starkey, brother of W. R. STARKEY, owner of Starkey’s Dam Landing Hotel at 

Lake Manitou, died Friday evening at the home of his son, Harold [STARKEY], in Auburn 

Heights, Mich. He had been ill for the last three months and seriously ill for one week. 

Mr. Starkey came to Rochester from Claremont, Ind. in 1943 and had lived with his 

brother until the time of his illness, when he was taken to Woodlawn hospital and then to his son’s 

home. 

Surviving, besides the son and brother, are a daughter, Edith GIBSON, Indianapolis; a 

brother, Frank [STARKEY], Indianapolis; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 

Wednesday, March 6, 1957 

Verda B. Peters 

Mrs. [Verda] B. [PETERS], 65, Disko, died at 1 p.m. Tuesday at her home after being ill 

several years of a heart ailment. She had spent most of her life in the Disko vicinity. 

Mrs. Peters was born on June 23, 1891, to Charles and Belle (WATSON) REAM. She 

was married June 26, 1909, to Frank [J. PETERS], who survives. 

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Mildred MILLS, Indianapolis, and several cousins. 

Final rites will be held at 12:30 p.m. CST Friday at the Disko Methodist church with the 

Rev. Wesley BULLIS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron after 7:30 p.m. today and 

until 11 a.m. Friday and from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. Friday at the church. All times listed are 

Central Standard Time. 

Ralph W. Hemig 

Ralph W. HEMIG, 76, died at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Chicago while enroute from 

Rochester to a hospital in Chicago. He had resided for several years with his daughter, Mrs. Harry 

SCOTT, at 407 East 14th street in Rochester. Death was attributed to a hyperactive thyroid and 

cardio-vascular renal disease. He had been ill 14 months. 

Mr. Hemig was born April 5, 1880, in Freeport, Ill., to William and Della LATSHAW 

HEMIG. Surviving besides the daugthter, Mrs. SCOTT, are one son, Marshall HEMIG, 

Mishawaka; one brother, Fred [HEMIG], California; ten grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. 

The body was taken to the Beaumont funeral home at 851 Irving Park road in Chicago, 

where the last rites will be held. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery in Chicago. 

J. Frank Dickey 

J. Frank DICKEY, 83, R.R. 2, Akron, a lifetime resident of the Akron vicinity, died at 2 

a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital after an illness of one year. 

A member of the Franklin Township Farm Bureau, Mr. Dickey was married to Ada 

ENGLE on Nov. 19, 1898. He was born on Oct. 15, 1873 in Franklin township to William T. and 

Sarah (RICKEL) DICKEY. He was a farmer by occupation. 

Surviving are the widow; a son, Elmer [DICKEY], R.R. 2, Akron; two daughters, Mrs. 

Waldo (Mabel) ADAMS and Mrs. Willis (Mary) BOWEN, both of R.R. 2, Akron, and a brother, 

George [DICKEY], R.R. 2, Warsaw. Two brothers, a half-brother and a half-sister preceded him 

in death.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron with 

the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be in the Nichols cemetery. Friends may 

call after 1 p.m. Friday. 

Thursday, March 7, 1957 

Verda B. Peters 

Funeral services for Mrs. [Verda] B. PETERS, 65, Disko, will be in the Disko Methodist 

church at 12:30 p.m. CST Friday with the Rev. Wesley BULLIS officiating. Burial will be in the 

Akron cemetery. 

Mrs. Peters died at 1 p.m. Tuesday at her home after a heart ailment of several years. 

Mrs. Peters was incorrectly identified as Mrs. Berda B. Petus in Wednesday’s News-Sentinel. 

Clarence A. Medlock 

Final rites for Clarence A. MEDLOCK, 54, Plymouth, who owned the Medlock 

Sandwich Shop at 614 Main street here, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Danielson and VanGilder 

funeral home in Plymouth. 

The Rev. Wallace E. JONES will officiate and burial will be in the Memorial Gardens 

cemetery at Plymouth. 

Mr. Medlock, who also owned the White House Hamburger Shop in Plymouth, died at 3 

a.m. Wednesday morning at the Norman Beatty Memorial hospital. 

A resident of Plymouth for the last 16 years, Mr. Medlock ws a member of Kilwinning 

Lodge 149, Order of the Eastern Star 28 and the Christian church. 

He was born on March 11, 1902, in Larkinsburg, Kan., to William and Effie MEDLOCK. 

On April 28, 1927, he was married to Velma CRISINGER, who survives. 

Other survivors are two daughters, Ms. Jean MURPHY, Rochester, and Mrs. LaVeta 

SCOFIELD, Elkhart; a sister, Mrs. Iva ANDERSON, Horton, Kan., and two grandchildren. 



Sarah R. Butler 

A former Rochester resident, Mrs. Sarah Rebecca BUTLER, 84, died this morning at the 

home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruby THOMAS, in Culver. She had been ill for the past several 

months. 

Mrs. Butler, who was a member of the Culver E.U.B. church, was born in Miami county, 

near Macy, on July 14, 1872. She later moved to Rochester and had spent the past 32 years in 

Culver. 

She is survived by her husband, Jacob Harlan BUTLER, Culver; two daughters, Mrs. 

THOMAS, and Mrs. Jessie NICODEMUS, South Bend; four sons, William [BUTLER], 

Mishawaka; John Leroy [BUTLER], Detroit, Mich.; Jacob Leo and Foster E. [BUTLER], both of 

Culver; twenty grandchildren and forty-three great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be conducted at the Culver E.U.B. church on Sunday at 2 p.m.with 

the Rev. Charles L. HANEY officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery with 

the Easterday funeral home in charge of arrangements. 

Friends may call at the funeral home in Culver.

Daniel Willard 

Final rites for Daniel WILLARD, 59, 325 Ohio street, who was club manager of the local 

post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the last six years, will be Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the 

Foster funeral home. 

The Rev. George CRANE will officiate and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. 

Mr. Willard died of a heart attack at 2 p.m. Thursday in his home. 

He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the VFW, the American Legion and 

the Moose and Eagles lodges. 

Mr. Willard was born in Culver on March 1, 1898, to Charles and Bertha WILLARD. In 

March, 1924, he was married in St. Joe, Mich., to Ethel EASTWOOD, who survives. 

Other survivors are two sons, James [WILLARD], Chicago, and Dorsey [WILLARD], Ft. 

Worth, Texas; two daughters, Wanda and Katherine [WILLARD], at home; his mother, 

Logansport; a brother, Joshua [WILLARD], and two grandchildren. 

A son, William [WILLARD], was killed in World War II in 1944 on the island of Leyte. 


Kurt Dee Myers 

A son, Kurt Dee [MYERS], was stillborn at Community hospital in Bremen this morning 

to Mr. and Mrs. Merle MYERS, Bremen. Graveside rites will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the 

Oak Hill cemetery in Plymouth. 

Mrs. Myers, the former Betty Jean LOUGH, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gresham 

LOUGH, Rochester. Myers is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merle R. MYERS, Bremen. 

The parents and grandparents are the only survivors. 


Pearl Windbigler 

Mrs. Pearl NORRIS WINDBIGLER, 75, who resided about a mile and a half southeast of 

Talma, died at 7 a.m. Friday at her home after being seriously ill for three days with a heart 

condition. 

A lifelong resident of Newcastle township, Mrs. Windbigler was a member of the Talma 

Christian church and the Gleaners lodge. She had been in poor health for the last year. 

Mrs. Windbigler was born in Newcastle township to Lewis and Harriett (BRADSHAW) 

NORRIS. Her husband, Levi [WINDBIGLER], died in 1935. 

Surviving are a son, Henry [WINDBIGLER], of Newcastle township; two daughters, 

Mrs. Lewis KELLY, Rochester, and Mrs. Linnie FELDMAN, Mentone; sixteen grandchildren; 

two brothers, Roy [NORRIS], Mishawaka, and Floyd [NORRIS], and a half-sister, Mrs. Emma 

MEREDITH, Talma. One son preceded her in death. 

Final rites will be Sunday at 1 p.m. CST in the Reed Funeral home in Mentone with the 

Rev. Dale OWEN officiating. Burial will be in the Sycamore cemetery southwest of Mentone.

George W. Kreig 

Funeral services for George W. KREIG, 56, of ner Culver, will be conducted at 2 p.m. 

Monday at the Easterday funeral home in Culver with the Rev. John DAVIS of Tyner officiating. 

Burial will be in the Washington cemetery east of Culver. 

Mr. Kreig, who has been ill for the past several months, died Friday at South Bend. 

Clark D. Bailey 

Clark D. BAILEY, about 68, died Friday in the Osteopathic hospital in South Bend after 

a long illness. Born near Leiters Ford, he lived in that community for 40 years until moving to 

South Bend about 15 years ago. 

The son of Lewis and Amanda BAILEY, he was a retired Studebaker Corporation 

employee. He was a vetran of World War I and a member of the Masonic lodge. 

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maude DAVIDSON BAILEY; a daughter, Mrs. Robert 

RICH, Ann Arbor, Mich.; a sister, Mrs. B. B. CAMPBELL, Porter, Ind., and two grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be held at the Forest G. Hay fneral home in South Bend at 10 a.m. 

Monday. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Leiters Ford. 


Robert S. Sissel 

Richard S. SISSEL, 46, Plymouth, who was born near Richland Center, died at 3 p.m. 

Saturday three hours after being admitted to the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis. He had 

been in ill health for the last year. 

A carpenter, Mr. Sissel was employed by the Liberty Coach company in Bremen. He 

also had been a tank wagon driver for the Sinclair Refining company. He was a member of the 

Methodist church in Plymouth. He had lived for four years in Culver and also several years in 

Argos before moving to Plymouth. 

Mr. Sissel was born on Oct. 13, 1910, to Charles and Gertrude (NEWCOMB) SISSEL. 

On July 23, 1938, he was married in East Chicago to Mary L. “Bonnie” RICE, who survives. 

Other survivors are a son, David [SISSEL], 16, at home, and a brother, Joe [SISSEL], of 

Rochester. Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos where services will be 

conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Ralph COLESON of Plymouth will officiate and burial 

will be in the Richland Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Lydia Miller 

Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia MILLER, 90, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at 

the Emanuel E.U.B. church near Akron with the Rev. Walter MAYER and the Rev. Claude 

FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Gaerte cemetery near the church. 

Mrs. Miller died Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd HILEMAN, 

near Akron, after an illness of several years. 

She was born on Nov. 3, 1866, in Miami county to Jacob and Mary MORROW 

SEIDNER. Her first marriage was in 1888 to Jacob SMITH who died in August of 1936. Her 

second marriage was to Perry MILLER in May of 1940. He died in January of 1950. 

Survivors, besides the daughter, include three stepsons, Earl MILLER, Logansport, Glen 

MILLER, Roanoka, and Delmar MILLER, Huntington; two grandsons and six greatgrandchildren. 

A daughter and two sons preceded her in death. The body will be taken to the 

Hileman residence where friends may call after 1 p.m. Tuesday.


Dennis Bick 

Dennis BICK, infant son of Jack an Marcia Sue (KISTLER) BICK, R.R. 6, Rochester, 

died in Woodlawn hospital at 9 p.m. Monday shortly after birth. 

A short prayer service was conducted this afternoon at the Foster and Good funeral home 

with the Rev. R. L. WILLMERT officiating. Burial was in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Survving, besides the parents, are a sister, at home, Debra Kay [BICK], the maternal 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne KISTLER, R.R. 4, Rochester, and the paternal grandparents, 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack BICK, Sr., R.R. 6, Rochester. 

Randy Robinson 

Randy ROBINSON, seven-month-old son of Jack and Norma MILLER ROBINSON, 

died in his sleep Monday night of an unknown cause at his parents’ home in Westville. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are the grandmother, Mrs. Agnes MILLER; two aunts, 

Mrs. Wilma CLARK and Mrs. Martin SHRIVER, all of Rochestr; two brothers and one sister, all 

at home. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Weaver funeral home in 

Westville. 

Louis Ehrn 

Louis [EHRN], about 75, a resident of the Fulton County Home for the last 28 years, 

became the county’s first traffic fatality this year at about 4:45 o’clock this morning when he was 

struck by a two-ton truck while crossing State Road 25. 

Ehrn was killed instantly. He received a broken neck, broken right arm and broken right 

leg. 

He was struck by a Starke-Wetzel meat truck driven by Billy D. GOLDEN, 25, 

Indianapolis. Sheriff Laurence NORRIS estimated Golden’s speed at 45 miles an hour. Golden 

was not held. 

Ehrn, who was found in a strawstack by Paul WHITCOMB, 717 East Ninth street, 28 

years ago and was taken to the county home, apparently had wandered across the highway and 

was crossing the road on his way back to the home when he was sruck down. 

Coroner Howard ROWE pronounced Ehrn dead at the scene shortly after the accident. 

The traffic fatality was the first in the county since Nov. 5, 1955, when Harry 

KREAMER, R.R. 1, Kewanna, was killed instantly when the pickup truck he was driving crashed 

into a home on Main street in Kewanna. 

The last county person killed in a traffic accident was Mrs. Esther STINGELY, Fulton, 

who died in a two-car crash on U.S. 24 east of Logansport on Dec. 21. 

Final rites for Mr. Ehrn will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home with the Rev. George CRANE, Rochester, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester 

Citizens cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Wednesday.


H. H. Thousand 

H. H. THOUSAND, father of L. D. “Milt” THOUSAND of R.R. 1, Rochester, died 

suddenly Tuesday morning of a heart attack at his home in Barneveld, Wis. 

Mr. Thousand, a retired farmer who also was president of the school board in his home 

community, is survived by his wife and three other sons. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. THOUSAND now 

are in Barneveld and will remain until after the funeral rites, scheduled for Thursday. 

[no obits] 

Thursday, March 14, 1957 to Friday, March 15, 1957 


Fred A. Blackburn 

Fred A. BLACKBURN of Burket, trustee of Seward township in Kosciusko county, died 

at 9 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been ill one week. 

Mr. Blackburn, 77, also served two terms as trustee of Henry township in Fulton county 

and was principal and teacher in the Akron school for 21 years. He moved to Burket from Akron. 

Born Feb. 11, 1880 near Gilead in Miami county, he was the son of Thomas and Matilda 

BRUGH BLACKBURN. He was married to Blanche SMITH, who survives. Mr. Blackburn 

attended the Methodist church. 

Surviving also are one son, Hanley [BLACKBURN], Indianapolis; two grandchildren 

and four great-grandchildren. One son, Harold [BLACKBURN], preceded him in death in June, 

1956. 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Akron Methodist church with the 

Rev. Victor YEAGER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Mohyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron from 2 p.m. Sunday until 

9 a.m. Monday, when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state from 10 a.m. until the 

hour of services. 

Charles H. Mullican 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

for Charles Henry MULLICAN, 76, who died at 6:45 p.m. Friday at Woodlawn hospital after an 

illness of two weeks. He had been a hospital patient since Thursday. 

The Rev. Daniel SLAYBAUGH of Akron will officiate at the last rites and burial will be 

in the Plainview cemetery, Macy. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock tonight. 

Mr. Mullican, who lived at 215 Jefferson street, was a retired antique buyer and had been 

employed as custodian at the American Legion Home here for the past five years. He was born 

near Macy Feb. 11, 1881, the son of Isaac and Catherine DICKMAN MULLICAN. He was 

married Sept. 6, 1903, to Lunetta Grace CHALK, who survives. 

Mr. Mullican moved to Rochester from Macy 25 years ago and was a member of the 

Church of God. 

Other survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Roy KESTNER, South Bend; Mrs. Merlin 

FREEMAN, Fort Wayne; The Rev. Nettie K. MULLICAN, Cambridge Springs, Pa.; one brother, 

Ben MULLICAN, Rochester; one sister, Mrs. Ada DARNELL, Clear Lake, Ia.; six grandchildren; 

eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.


Raymond E. Overmyer 

Raymond E. OVERMYER, 56, died at noon Sunday at his home on R.R. 3, Argos, from 

pneumonia after a three-day illness. 

Born Jan. 25, 1901, in Green township, Marshall county, he was the son of Edward and 

Alice MILLER OVERMYER. A carpenter and cabinetmaker, he had lived in the Argos 

community his entire life. His marriage was on Feb. 11, 1922, to Mildred PRICE, who survives. 

Mr. Overmyer was a member of the Poplar Grove Methodist church and the 

Maxinkuckee I.O.O.F. lodge No. 373. 

Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn BLOCKER, R.R. 3, Argos; a son, Darold 

[OVERMYER], at home; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Bertha BRANSFORD, North 

Webster; three brothers, Ralph [OVERMYER], R.R. 3, Rochester; Howard [OVERMYER], 

Argos, and Eddie [OVERMYER], North Webster. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home in 

Argos with the Rev. Edward BOASE officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Grove cemetery. 

Phillip L. Fenters 

Final rites for Phillip LeRoy FENTERS, 21, a native of Macy, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday 

in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton with the Rev. Newton GILLILAND officiating. Burial will 

be in the Plainview cemetery at Macy. 

Mr. Fenters, the son of Myron [P.] and Elsie [M.] DEWALT [FENTERS], South Bend, 

died at a Fort Wayne hospital at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. He was born near Macy on Sept. 28, 1935. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are two brothers, James and Richard [FENTERS], both at 

home and a grandmother, Zela DEWALT, Peru. 

Ella Smith 

Mrs. Ella SMITH, 72, died at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital here after a twoweek 

illness. She resided two miles southeast of Akron. 

The daughter of Carrie and Stella McKEE DAY, Mrs. Smith was born May 10, 1884, in 

Kosciusko county and had lived there and in Fulton county her entire life. Her husband was Frank 

SMITH who preceded her in death. 

She was a member of the Akron Cooperative Brethren church. 

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. June HARPER, Elkhart; one granddaugter; two 

brothers, Herschel DAY, San Diego, Cal., and Paul DAY, Kewanna. 

Funeral services are incomplete. The body was taken to the Moyer-Haupert funeral home 

in Akron. 


Ella Smith 

Final rites for Mrs. Ella SMITH, 72, of near Akron, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in 

the Akron Church of the Cooperative Brethren. The Rev. Ralph McFADDEN will officiate and 

burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in 

Akron until 11 a.m Wednesday and at the church from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. 

Mrs. Smith died at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital after a two-week illness. She 

had lived in Fulton and Kosciusko counties her entire live.

George W. Abbott 

George Wheeler ABBOTT, 90, died at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of his son, one and 

one-half miles west of Alto. 

He was born Aug. 28, 1866, in Miami county, ear Chili, the son of Francis and Martha 

DRUMM ABBOTT of Miami County. On Dec. 25, 1889, he was married to Myrta Ostila 

SHARP, the daughter of Samuel and Isabel SHARP. 

Mrs. Abbott spent most of his life as a carpenter in Deedsville and Wawpecong. He was 

one of the pioneers of the Haynes Automobile industry, having worked at the factory until it 

burned. He spent much of his life at 1135 South Bell street. 

Survivors include one son, Robert E. ABBOTT and his wife, Ruby; two half-sisters, 

Sadie Eleanor ABBOTT and Alice ABBOTT, Fishers; and one half-brother, Willie ABBOTT, all 

of Fulton county; one step-child, Louise PFLEGER of Peru; three grandchildren, Nina Marie 

HAWN and Helen ANDERSON, both of Kokomo, and Bypherd ABBOTT of Arusa, Cal., and 

five great-grandchildren. Also surviving is a daughter-in-law, Mary GRINER ABBOTT, a former 

Kokomo girl, now living in Berkley, Cal. 

Two children, Francis [ABBOTT], who died in infancy, and Samuel Gale [ABBOTT], 

died in Berkley, Cal., in 1952. Seven brothers and sisters also preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Ellers funeral home. Burial will be 

in the Galveston cemetery. 

Friencs may call at the funeral home. 


David Sopher 

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Zion Methodist church, near 

Kewanna, for David SOPHER, 64, R.R. 1, Kewanna, who died Tuesday night at Woodlawn 

hospital. The Rev. Robert ORDWAY will officiate and burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Mr. Sopher, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage, had been ill for several years and at 

Woodlawn for the past three days. He was born in Kosciusko county on June 27, 1892, to James 

and Margaret HATTERY SOPHER and was married on Feb. 4, 1922, in Rochester, to Ruth 

POWELL. He had been employed at the Studebaker plant in South Bend for 13 years. 

Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Almeda ENGLE, R.R. 1, Kewanna, 

and Mrs. Margaret KERR, R.R. 3, Rochester; a son, Charles [SOPHER], now in service; three 

sisters, Mrs. Leona SHILLING, Mrs. Ellen MALONE and Mrs. Clara MERRITT, all of Peru; two 

brothers, Ezra and Moses [SOPHER], both of Peru, and three grandchildren. 

The Moyer-Haupert funeral home of Akron is in charge of arrangements. 

Thursday, March 21, 1957 to Friday, March 22, 1957 

[no obits]


Gerald G. Brown 

Graveside funeral rites were held at 10 a.m. today at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery for 

Gerald G. BROWN, three-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleatis G. BROWN. the infant died at 

2:30 a.m. Friday in Woodlawn hospital. 

Born march 19 at the hospital, the boy was the son of Cleatis G. and Betty SOPKO 

BROWN. The parents live at 328 West Ninth street. Also srviving ar the grandparents, Mr. and 

Mrs. Gerald BROWN, Bynumbille, Mo., and Mrs. Elizabeth SOPKO, Gary. 

Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace Methodist church officiated at the rites and 

arrangements were by Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. 

Mrs. Lon Leavell 

Mrs. Lon LEAVELL, Peru, a native of Fulton county who is known to a number of 

Rochester and county residents, died at 4 a.m. today after a lengthy illness. She was born south of 

Rochester and moved to Peru many years ago. 

Among the survivors are the husband; two daughters, Mrs. Victor WISENBERG, Peru, 

and Mrs. Charles TRAPP, Frankfort, and a granddaughter. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Eikenberry funeral home in Peru. Friends may 

call after noon Sunday. 


Eva Jane Gohn 

Funeral services were held Friday morning in Alhambra, Cal., for Miss Eva Jane GOHN 

of Alhambra, a native of Rochester, who died March 18. 

Miss Gohn left Rochester 10 years ago for California. She was born in the Reiter 

community, the daughter of Charles and Kizzie GOHN, attended school her and studied at 

Rochester Normal University. 

She was a member of the San Gabriel Unity church. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Jean 

WALLACE, Rochester, and Mrs. William DEWITT, Lafayette; five nephews, Duane GOHN, 

South Bend, Robert GOHN, Warsaw, Charles GOHN, Jr., Resada, Cal, Russell GOHN, Twelve 

Mile, and James GOHN, Muncie. 

Burial was in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale,Cal. 

Three brothers, Lloyd, C. E. and Raymond [GOHN], all of Rochester, preceded her in 

death. 


Celia Ann Grove 

Mrs. Celia Ann (BRYANT) GROVE, R.R. 5, Rochester, who had lived her entire life in 

Fulton county, died at her home near Talma at 11 p.m. Monday after an illness of six months. 

Mrs. Grove, the daughter of John and Alice (KUHN) BRYANT, was married on June 5, 

1917, in St. Joseph, Mich., to Lou GROVE, who survives. 

She was a member of the Pleasant Valley club and the THE (home economics) club. 

Surviving besides the husband are a sister, Mrs. Drucella VOLLMER, San Diego, Cal., 

and three brothers, Sam BRYANT, Morocco, Harley BRYANT, Rochester, and Roy BRYANT,

California. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Foster and Good funeral home. The Rev. 

Daniel SLAYBAUGH will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Dale BARDSLEY. Burial will be in the 

Reichter cemetery. 


Almeda Berger 

Mrs. Henry (Almeda) BERGER, 75, Gilead, who had several relatives in the Rochester, 

Akron and Macy communities, died at 4:25 o’clock this morning after suffering a stroke. She had 

been ill for about seven months. 

Mrs. Berger was the sister of George DUEY, R.R. 1, Rochester; Mrs. Edgar (Mary) 

RUNKLE and Miss Edith DUEY, Akron, and Mrs. Zella CLEMANS, Macy. 

Born in Tiffin, Ohio on May 15, 1881, Mrs. Berger was the daughter of Alfred and Mary 

(GRELLE) DUEY. Her family moved to Gilead when she was two months old. 

In 1905 she was married to William Henry BERGER, who survives. She was a member 

of the Gilead Methodist church. 

Other survivors are a son, Claude [BERGER], Roann; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie 

NICHOLS, Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Anna SMITH, Indianapolis, and a brother, Phillip DUEY, 

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Gilead Methodist church with the Rev. 

Larry WINEBREMER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. The Sheetz funeral 

home in Akron is in charge of arrangements. 

Friends may call at the residence after 10 a.m. Wednesday and until 12:30 p.m. Thursday. 

The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 

[no obits] 


Thursday, March 28, 1957 

Effe McPherron 

Funeral services were conducted Monday in Mishawaka for Mrs. Charles (Effe) 

McPHERRON, 73, Culver, who was well known in Rochester. 

The former Effe HENDERSON, Mrs. McPherron left her husband and a daughter, Helen 

[McPHERRON]. 


Jane Siler 

Jane SILER, the seven-year-old Marion girl who died Wednesday of injuries suffered in 

an automobile accident north of Muncie, was the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank WISLEY, 

422 East Ninth street, it has been learned. 

The little girl was injured when a car driven by her mother, Mrs. Leona SILER of 

Marion, went out of conrol on a curve on U.S. 32. Mrs. Siler suffered minor injuries. The father, 

James SILER, who is the son of the Wiseleys, was not injured in the crash. 

Services for the girl will be at 1 p.m. CST Saturday in Marion.

William M. Hoffman 

William Monroe HOFFMAN, 80, died at 7:30 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital, where 

he had been a patient since March 11. He resided at 712 1/2 Main street. 

Born Feb. 29, 1876, in Rochester, he had lived here his entire life. His parents were Mr. 

and Mrs. Sam HOFFMAN. His wife the former Retha MASTELLAR, preceded him in death in 

1937. He was employed as an interior decorator. 

Mr. Hoffman was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge, being a Post Noble Grand of that 

organization, and was a member of the Trinity E.U.B. church, where he once directed the choir. 

There are no immediate survivors. Distant relatives are Clifford SULT of Delong and 

Horatio AGSTER, Rochester native now residing in Pennsylvania. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Fremont WILLMERT officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. 

cemetery, where graveside rites will be conducted by the Rochester I.O.O.F. lodge. Friends may 

call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Cora Reber 

Miss Cora REBER, 82, died at 8:30 a.m. today at her home, 500 Indiana avenue, 

following a 2 1/2 month illness. She had been a Rochester resident the past 30 years, coming here 

from Richland township. 

Born Dec. 29, 1874, in Lockville, O., she was the daugher of Ira and Elizabeth 

LAUDBAUGH RAVER, having changed the spelling of her name later in life [from Cora 

RABER]. She was a member of the First Christian church. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, five sisters and two brothers. Among the 

surviving nieces and nephews are Ernest CASLOW, R.R. 5, Rochester, and Mrs. Ben VERNON, 

R.R. 4, Rochester. 

Funeral services will be held at the Foster and Good funeral home here at 2 p.m. Snday 

with the Rev. Phil WILKINS officiating. Burial will be in the Reichter cemetery, five miles 

northeast of Rochester. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Saturday. 

Guy Coplen 

Flora, Ind. -- Final rites for Guy COPLEN, 70, a Talma native and Carroll county and 

second district Democratic leader, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Carter funeral home at Delphi. 

Burial will be in the Maple Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

The son of James H. and Nettie Elizabeth (ABBOTT) COPLEN, Mr. Coplen died at 4 

p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Kokomo where he had been a patient about 10 days. 

A retired farmer and woodworker, he lived on Route 1 , Camden. 

Mr. Coplen was Carroll county Democratic chairman from 1935 to 1944 and then district 

chairman until 1952. During the administration of Gov. Henry F. Schricker he was manager of 

state-owned farms. 

He was born in Talma on Oct. 6, 1887 and ws married to Berna V. BERNARD on Aug. 

14, 1906. 

Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Mrs. LaVaun DUNKIN, Logansport; his 

stepmother, Mrs. Julia COPLEN, Russiaville; a half-sister, Mrs. Lucille HILL, Kokomo, and five 

nephews. A daughter, Donna Elizabeth [COPLEN], preceded him in death.


Dr. Hal P. Bybee 

Dr. Hal P. BYBEE, a native of Newcastle township and one of the nation’s foremost 

petroleum geologists, died this morning at 1:30 o’clock at his home in Austin, Texas, after a three 

year illness that had become serious the past two months. He suffered from diabetes. 

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at Bloomington where burial also will be 

made. 

Dr. Bybee, who owned a 100-acre farm in Newcastle township which is tenanted by Mr. 

and Mrs. Clifford KOCH, was born in Newcastle township and graduated from Talma high school 

in 1906. He attended Rochester Normal University and gained A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees 

from Indiana University. 

Early this month Dr. Bybee, who was University of Texas geology department chairman 

at the time of his death, received one of the highest awards for a petroleum geologist. It was 

honorary membership in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The honor was to 

have been officially conferred upon him next month. 

The Association membership came in recognition of his “high standards of ethics” in 

training students who now are petroleum industry leaders and for his efforts in building the 

University of Texas’ permanent endowment fund by developing oil and gas production on 

university lands. 

He joined the university staff in 1914, left to join an oil company in 1925, and returned in 

1929. 

Surviving are the wife and four children, Wilbur [BYBEE], Bloomington, Robert 

[BYBEE], New Mexico; Halbert [BYBEE], Texas, and Martha Ellin [BYBEE], Corpus Christi, 

Texas. 

Margaret S. Stansell 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Forest G. Hay chapel in South Bend 

for Mrs. Margaret STERLING STANSELL, mother of Franklin T. STANSELL, R.R. 5, 

Rochester. 

Mrs. Stansell died Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lillian HOFFMAN, in Knox. 

She and her husband, the late Frank STANSELL, formerly lived in Carroll county but moved to 

South Bend 15 years ago. 

Also surviving are another son, Sterling [STANSELL], Florida, and two other daughters, 

Mrs. Elizabeth GERLACH, South Bend, and Mrs. Mary MOORE, Pontiac, Mich. 

Monday, April 1, 1957 

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Tuesday, April 2, 1957 

Mark Hampton 

Mark HAMPTON, infant son of Dr. and Mrs. James N. HAMPTON, 210 North Maple 

street, Argos, died at 4 p.m. Monday, two hours after birth at Parkview hospital in Plymouth. 

Surviving besides the parents are a sister, Peggy Jean [HAMPTON], 15; two brothers, 

Michael James [HAMPTON], 2 1/2, and Stephen Thornton [HAMPTON], 13 months; the 

maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. THORNTON, Huntsville, Ala., and the paternal 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harley J. HAMPTON, Van Buren, Ark. 

Prayer services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos 

with the Rev. Edward BOASE, of the Argos Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in the 

Argos Maple Grove cemetery. 

Ross Allen 

Ross “Whitie” ALLEN, 57, Peru, a native of Kewanna and former resident of Rochester, 

died at 2 a.m. today in Dukes hospital at Peru of injuries suffered in a construction accident at the 

Peru municipal power plant Thursday afternoon. 

The son of William and Elva ALLEN, Kewanna, Allen was crushed while working inside 

a “traveling” water screen machine. He received a four-place fracture below the right knee, a 

multiple fracture of the pelvis, several lacerations, fracture and dislocation of the right hip, bladder 

injury, internal hemorrhage and severe shock. 

Allen, who moved to Peru 10 years ago from R.R. 1, Rochester, was born 1920. He was 

married on Aug. 26, 1944 to Marjorie FOUTS and was an ironworker for the Wolf Construction 

company. 

An Air Force veteran of World War Two, he was a member of the American Legion. 

Surviving besides his wife and parents are two sons, Kenneth Calvin [ALLEN] and 

Robert Wayne [ALLEN], both at home, and five sisters, Mrs. May Louise HIATT, Kewanna; Mrs. 

Hazel SCHEUER, Santa Anna, Cal., Mrs. Marjorie LLOYD, Sacramento, Cal., Mrs. Virginia 

REES and Mrs. Betty SOWARDS, both of Crown Point. 

The body lies at the Eikenberry funeral home in Peru. Funeral arrangements are 

incomplete. 

Clarence W. Huffman 

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Grass Creek E.U.B. church 

for Clarence W. HUFFMAN, 79, retired contractor, who died Monday morning at Memorial 

hospital in Logansport. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Royal Center. The family has asked 

that flowers be omitted and any memorial gifts be given to the E.U.B. church in Grass Creek. The 

body will lie in state at the church an hour prior to services. 

Mr. Huffman was born Feb. 23, 1878, in Ross county, O., the son of John and Susan 

LEASURE HUFFMAN. 

Srviving are the wife, Ethel [HUFFMAN]; two sons, Everett [HUFFMAN], Fort Wayne, 

and Howard [HUFFMAN], Marion; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred FOUTS, Logansport, Mrs. 

Merle FRANKLIN, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Pauline SCALES, Grass Creek; ten grandchildren; two 

brothers, Thurman [HUFFMAN], Grass Creek, and Lloyd [HUFFMAN], Pensacola, Fla., and one 

sister, Mrs. Fannie FAYLOR, Copemish, Mich.

Wednesday, April 3, 1957 

Jacob H. Kreamer 

Jacob H. KREAMER, 87, of 425 Jefferson street, a native of Fulton county, died at his 

home at 5 p.m. Tuesday. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Kreamer was born on March 2, 1870, to Andrew and Susanna 

RICABAUGH KREAMER. He was married on Jan. 27, 1904 to Maude SALES, who survives. 

Other survivors are two daughtrs, Mrs. Oren ANDERSON and Mrs. Earl MILLS, both of 

Kewanna; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Emma LAUER, Fort 

Wayne. A son, Harry [KREAMER], died earlier. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Kewanna Church of Christ. Burial will be in 

the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church for one hour. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna. 

Ross Allen 

Final rites for Ross “Whitie” ALLEN, 37, Peru, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Eikenberry 

funeral home in Peru with the Rev. A. H. GALLMEIER officiating. Burial will be in the 

Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. 

Mr. Allen, a Fulton county native and former resident of a Rochester rural route, died 

early Tuesday morning from injuries suffered in a construction accident in Peru Thursday 

afternoon. 

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William ALLEN, reside in Kewanna. 


Thursday, April 4, 1957 

Elizabeth E. Darr 

Mrs. Elizabeth Echo DARR, longtime resident of the Mckinley community east of 

Rochester, died at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Barbara STEWART, 

1123 Nuttman avenue, Decatur. Death came at 80 years of age after an illness of 8 1/2 months 

and was attributed to cerebral arterio-sclerosis. 

Mrs. Darr was born Nov. 12, 1876, in Fulton county and had lived here her entire life. 

She was married in Rochester in 1897 to Charles N. DARR, who died April 8, 1946. Her parents 

were Homer Leroy and Nancy Alphretta ASHTON TIPTON. She was a member of the Trinity 

E.U.B. church here. 

Surviving are two sons, C. H. DARR, Rochester, and Howard [DARR[, Bremen; four 

daughters, Mrs. STEWART, Decatur; Mrs. Pauline EASTER, Rochester; Mrs. Evelyn HODGE, 

South Bend; and Mrs. Marjorie BRYANT, South Bend; four grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren, 

and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie GROSS, Mentone; and Mrs. Celia NELSON, 

Logansport. 

A daughter, Edith [DARR], died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. Helen FANSLER, 

preceded her mother in death in 1937. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. CST Saturday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home here with the Rev. Banjamin THOMAS of Decatur, former Rochester minister, officiating. 

Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. 

today.

Anna E. Robbins 

Funeral services will be held at the Forest G. Hay funeral home in South Bend at 10 a.m. 

Friday for Mrs. Anna E. ROBBINS, 89, former Tiosa resident who died at 6 a.m. Wednesday at 

her 230 East Indiana avenue home in South Bend following an extended illness. 

She was born April 29, 1868, in Miami county and went to South Bend 39 years ago 

from the Tiosa neighborhood. She was married to Edward V. ROBBINS in Fulton county. He 

preceded her in death in 1937. 

Surviving are a nephew, Miles PERSCHBACHER, Plymouth; a niece, Mrs. A. F. 

SNYDER, Arlington, Va., and several cousins in the Rochester area. 

Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetry in Rochester. 

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Friday, April 5, 1957 

Saturday, April 6, 1957 

Louisa Underwood 

Mrs. Louisa (COX) [BEATTY] UNDERWOOD, 58, Fowler, a Fulton county native and 

former Akron resident, died at noon Friday in the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette after an 

illness of three years. She suffered from heart trouble. 

Mrs. Underwood was born on March 10, 1899 to Wilson and Rosa (SHRIVER) COX. 

She was first married to Ives BEATTY in 1920 at Warsaw. He died in 1944. In 1946 

she married Claude UNDERWOOD, who died in 1951. She had moved to Fowler from Akron in 

1946. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Phyllis HENADY, Fowler, and Mrs. Bonnie 

BEHNKE, Goshen; three sons, Loren BEATTY, Rochester, Glen BEATTY, Warsaw, and Bobbie 

BEATTY, stationed in North Carolina with the U.S. Army; six grandchildren; her mother, of 

Akron, and four sisters, Mrs. Marie WIDEMAN and Mrs. Annabelle HAMMOND, both of Akron, 

Mrs. Dorothy PROBASCO, Milford, Ill., and Mrs. Alta CLINGENPEEL, Hywood, Ill. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. CST Monday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the 

Rev. Harold CONRAD officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the 

funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday. 

Carrie Carter 

Carrie CARTER, 84, 700 Pontiac street, a 50-year member of the Eastern Star No. 70, 

died Friday afternoon. She had been a patient in the Miller Nursing Home here since March 28, 

and had been in ill health for the past six months. 

Mrs. Carter was born in Rochester on Jan. 14, 1873, to Richard and Mary DUNLAP Van 

DIEN and her marriage in Rochester in 1893 was to Albert C. CARTER, who died April 5, 1943. 

She was a member of the Rochester First Presbyterian church. 

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. E. F. SHOCK and Mrs. G. C. KENNEDY, both of 

South Bend; three brothers, Roscoe Van DIEN, South Bend, and Alf and Bert Van DIEN, both of 

Rochester; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home in Rochester with the Rev. Donald DECKER officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Alta G. Nickels 

Funeral services for Mrs. Alta G. NICKELS, 96, a resident of Kewanna for the last 46 

years, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Harrison chapel at Kewanna. 

The Rev. Stacey SHAW, Lafayette, will officiate and burial will be in the Kewanna 


Mrs. Nickels died Friday morning at a hospital in Lafayette. 

She was born in St. Joseph county on July 18, 1861, to Andrew J. and Ann (TEBBETTS) 

CHRISTIAN and was married to William NICKELS, who died 40 years ago. She was a member 

of the Kewanna Baptist church. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Phila ZUCK, Kewanna, and Mrs. Pearl RIETER, 

Kalamazoo, Mich., and sixteen grandchildren. Six children preceded her in death. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home. 


Lawson L. Leland 

Funeral services have been set at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Grossman funeral home in Argos 

for Lawson L. LELAND, 74, R.R. 4, Plymouth, who died at 10:40 a.m. Saturday in the Rochester 

Nursing Home after a seven-year illness. 

A farmer until retiring because of ill health, Mr. Leland was born Dec. 3, 1882 in Green 

township, Marshall county, and had spent all his life in that community. His parents were John 

and Marietta LAWSON LELAND. His first marriage was to Nettie IRWIN, who died in 1918 

and later he was married to Mary FRECHTEL, who survives. 

Also surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Marjorie KENDALL, South Bend; Mrs. Louise 

VOREIS, Argos; Mrs. Marietta KOSLOFF, Venice, Calif.; Mrs. Daralys YAKIMICHI, 

Grovertown; two sons, Lester and Lloyd [LELAND], both of R.R. 4, Plymouth; twenty-four 

grandchildren; two brothers, John [LELAND], R.R. 4, Plymouth, and George [LELAND], 

Dayton, O. 

The Rev. C. L. HANEY of the Culver E.U.B. church will officiate at the last rites and 

burial will be in the Poplar Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Frederick Felty Cessna 

Graveside funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today at the I.O.O.F. cemetery here for 

Frederick Brice “Fritz” FELTY CESSNA, waho died at 8:15 p.m. Friday at his home, 1011 

Sherman avenue, South Bend. He was 39 years old. 

Mr. Cessna, being known locally by his nickname of “Fritz,” had been in failing health 

for several weeks. He was born June 26, 1917, in Rochester to Frederick and Louise 

ARMSTRONG FELTY and had lived here until 1939. 

Employed as a mechanic, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, was 

captured by the Nazis and spent three years in a prison camp. He was a member of the American 

Legion Post here. 

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Otto CESSNA, R.R.1, Kewanna, and several other distant 

relatives. 

The Rev. Richard MITCHELL, of the First Baptist church officiated at the last rites.

Evelyn V. Clark 

Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn V. [BEERY] CLARK, 48, Hartsdale, N.Y., daughter of 

Otto R. and Carrie TYLER BEERY and sister of Wayne T. BEERY, all of R.R. 4, Rochester, will 

be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Leiters Ford Methodist church. 

The Rev. Louis HASKELL will officiate and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. 

Mrs. Clark, who resided for some time near Leiters Ford, died Saturday afternoon in the 

White Plains hospital at Hartsdale. She had been ill for one month. 

She was born on June 27, 1909, in Logansport and was married to Allen CLARK in 

Cleveland in 1932. She had lived in Hartsdale for the last 10 years. 

Mrs. Clark was a member of the Hartsdale chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and of the 

Presbyterian church. 

Surviving besides the parents and the brother are the husband; a daughter, Susann 

[CLARK], and a sister, Mrs. Charlotte HALL, Fanwood, N.J. 

Eastern Star services will be conducted at 6:45 p.m. today at the Foster and Good funeral 

home in Rochester where friends may call. The body will be taken to the church at noon Tuesday. 

Alice Allman 

Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning in Indianapolis for Mrs. Alice KOCH 

ALLMAN, 96, the widow of Sol ALLMAN, one of Rochester’s pioneer merchants. Mrs. Allman 

died at 5 a.m. Sunday in an Indianapolis nursing home after suffering a heart attack Friday night. 

She had been in apparent good health until then. 

Last rites have been scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Aaron-Ruben funeral home in 

Indianapolis. Entombment will be in the Crown Hill mausoleum, next to the remains of her 

husband, who died in Long Beach, Cal., in 1936. 

Mrs. Allman was born at Cincinnati, O., and would have been 97 years old in August. 

Her parents were Mrs. and Mrs. Solomon KOCH, who moved to Rochester from Ohio and resided 

at 1024 Main street. 

Her husband, Sol Allman, was born in Germany in 1852 and came to the United States at 

the age of 15, first joining his brother, Meyer [ALLMAN], in business at Plymouth. He came to 

Rochester a year later, in 1868, and opened a men’s clothing store in the building now occupied by 

the First National Bank. Later, the store was moved to the north where The Racket now is located. 

Allman sold his business to J. F.DYSERT in 1918, and moved to Long Beach, Cal. The Allmans 

for years resided here in the house he built at 1029 Main street. 

Mrs. Allman returned to Indianapolis from California in 1945 to live with her niece, Mrs. 

R. F. GLICK, 3560 Salem street. Mrs. Glick also is a native of Rochester, being the daughter of 

Mr. and Mrs. Adolph BICCARD. Mrs. Allman had lived in the nursing home in Indianapolis 

recently. 

Surviving are a son, Lester K. ALLMAN, now retired and living in Hollywood, Fla.; the 

niece, Mrs. GLICK; a granddaughter, Mrs. Joan GREENBURG, Washington, D.D.; and two 

great-grandchildren, Peter GREENBURG, 18, and Merry GREENBURG, 13.


Reece M. Wright 

Reece McNeil WRIGHT, 77, died at 10:30 a.m. today at the Miller nursing home in 

Rochester where he had been a patient the last 14 weeks. A resident of Hebron, he had been ill for 

six years. 

Born Nov. 23, 1879, in Armstrong, Ill., he was the son of William Wallace and Ellen 

Jane DAVIS WRIGHT. He was married in Vermillion county, Illinois, on Nov. 17, 1897, to 

Leona DAVIS, who survives. 

A retired building contractor in the Hammond area, he was a member of the Hebron 


Surviving are the wife, 1219 Lake Shore drive, Rochester; three daughters, Mrs. Ernest 

(Viola) STEFFEY, Rochester; Mrs. Coral (Tressie) STEFFEY, Hammond; Mrs. Fred (Leota) 

FAHLBERG, Jr., Hammond; one son, Everett M. WRIGHT, Calumet City, Ill.; seven 

gandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; six brothers, Sam [WRIGHT], Bourbon; Owen and 

Jennings [WRIGHT], both of Potomac, Ill.; Nola and Russell [WRIGHT], Armstrong, Ill.; and 

Oscar [WRIGHT], Elgin, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Lewis (Mabel) TURNER, Potomac, Ill., and several 

nieces and nephews. Three sons preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home. Friends may call there after 7 p.m. today. At 2 p.m. Thursday, services also will be held at 

the Armstrong (Ill.) Methodist church with burial at the cemetery in Armstrong. 

Bert Gorseline 

Funeral services for Bert GORSELINE, 79, a lifelong resident of the Kewanna 

neighborhood, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna. The Rev. 

Henry F. BULGER will officiate and burial will be in the Shaffer cemetery. 

Mr. Gorseline died of a heart attack suffered while he shoveled snow at his home 

Monday morning. 

He was the son of John and Susanna RIGGLE GORSELINE and a member of the Church 

of the Brethren. 

Surviving are a sister, Lenora HARDING, Kewanna; a brother, Charles E. 

[GORSELINE], Denver, Colo.; and several nieces and nephews. 


John W. Herrold and 

Pearl Herrold 

Two Fulton county persons identified by their auto license plate number as John W. 

HERROLD, 71, and his wife, Pearl [HERROLD], 68, Grass Creek, were burned beyond 

recognition this morning near Owensboro, Ky., when an electrical power line came into contact 

with a house trailer their car was pulling. 

The man was electrocuted when he stepped from the car. Mrs. Herrold received only a 

slight shock when she came to her husband’s side, but was consumed by fire when flames 

suddenly enveloped the car and trailer. 

The tragedy occurred on U.S. 231, about nine miles south of Owensboro at 8:45 o’clock. 

Reports from scattered souces indicate the Herrolds were returning home after spending 

the winter in Florida. Officers found remains of grapefruit and tomatoes in the back of the fire-

avaged automobile. 

The Harrolds were the parents of Carl HERROLD, Wayne township trustee, and he was 

the stepfather of Janice HERROLD, a teacher at the Grass Creek school. They had spent the last 

few winters in Florida, a friend said this morning. 

A witness, the Rev. Billy J. COX of Owensboro, said that a power shovel being 

transported by a tractor-trailer in front of the Herold car snagged the power line. The Herrold car 

stopped and the line fell onto the house trailer. 

When Herrold stepped from the car to investigate, he was electrocuted instantly, the 

witness said. Mrs. Herrold got out of the auto and came to her husband’s aid, where she received 

a slight electrical shock. 

Suddenly the car and trailer became a mass of flames, the witness said, and the bodies of 

both the Herrolds were burned beyond recognition. 

The minister’s car was behind the Herrold auto just before the accident. The Rev. Cox 

said he drove around the Fulton county car, under the electrical line and condinued down the 

highway. 

He looked through the rear view mirror and saw Mr. Herrold begin to get out of his car 

and so the minister returned to the scene. 

The Fulton county sheriff’s office, which received first news of the tragedy from 

Owensboro officers, drove to the Herrold residence this morning. There is no telephone contact 

between Rochester and Grass Creek because of last week’s snow and ice storms. 

Funeral arrangements have not been made yet. 

Daniel R. Carr 

Daniel Ray CARR, 71, died of a heart attack at his home in Delong at noon Wednesday. 

Death came suddenly to the retired Pennsylvania railroad engineer. 

Born in Monterey, he had lived in Logansport for 38 years and moved to Delong 10 years 

ago. He retired in 1953 after 45 years as a railroad engineer. 

Mr. Carr was a member of the Broadway Methodist church at Logansport and of the B. of 

L.S.E. and B. of L.E. unions. 

Surviving are the wife, Daisy MEREDITH, four daughters, Marjorie [CARR], at home; 

Mrs. James CORKEY, Jr., Logansport; Mrs. Joseph REITENEIER, South Bend; Mrs. Samuel 

GOODALE, Peoria, Ill.; one brother, Roy [CARR], Mishawaka, and five grandchildren. 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Easterday funeral home in Culver with 

the Rev. Lewis E. HASKELL of the Delong Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. 


John W. Herrold 

and Pearl Herrold 

The bodies of John W. HERROLD, 71, and his wife, Pearl [HERROLD], 68, Grass 

Creek, will be taken to the Harrison Funeral home in Kewanna, which will be in charge of final 

rites. 

The Fulton county couple, returning home from a vacation in Florida, died Thursday 

morning shortly after a 7,500 volt power line snagged on the vent of a house trailer their car was 

pulling near Owensboro, Ky. 

Mr. Herrold was electrocuted when he stepped from the car. Mrs. Herrold died in a fire

which consumed the car seconds later. Both bodies were burned beyond recognition and 

identification was made through the auto license plate number. 

The bodies were taken to the Davis funeral home in Owensboro after the accident. 

Officials of Daviess county, Kentucky said a large mechanical shovel being transported 

on U.S. 231 caught the power line and the line became suspended several feet above the highway. 

The Herrold car apparntly passed under the line, but the line caught on the vent pipe of 

the house trailer, officers said. 

Mr. Herrold was electrocted when he got out of the car to investigate and Mrs. Herrold 

died shortly after reaching her husband’s side. 

The Herrolds were the parents of Carl HERROLD, Wayne township trustee, and he was 

the stepfather of James HERROLD, a teacher at the Grass Creek school. Another son, Don 

[HERROLD], lives in Cheyenne, Wyo. The victims also had four grandchildren. 

Jesse T. Swick 

Jesse T. SWICK, 80, died at 11 p.m. Thursday in Woodlawn hospital where he had been 

a patient the past week. He resided on R.R. 2, Akron. 

Born Nov. 17, 1876, in Kosciusko county, he had lived in the Akron community almost 

his entire life. He was married in 1901 at Burket to Martha BARNES, who survives. His parents 

were Henry and Elizabeth KELLER SWICK. 

Mr. Swick, a retired farmer, was a member of the Olive Bethel church of God. 

Surviving, besides the wife, are two daughters, Mrs. I. C. ADAMS of Dalton, Ga., and 

Mrs. Beulah SMITH, Marion; two sons, Lloyd [SWICK], Rochester, and Merle [SWICK], Akron; 

seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Herman and Ray [SWICK], both of 

Akron. One son, a sister and a brother preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Olive Bethel Church of God with 

the Rev. Carter CUMMINS officiating, assisted by the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH. Burial will be 

in the Nichols cemetery north of Akron. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Sheetz funeral 

home in Akron. The body will be taken to the church at 1 p.m. Sunday to lie in state. 

Emma Borden 

Mrs. Emma BORDEN, 87, 700 Pontiac street, died at Woodlawn hospital at 10:30 a.m. 

today. She had been admitted to the hospital a week ago. 

Born Aug. 23, 1869, in Fulton county, she had resided in the Rochester community her 

entire life. Her husband, Elmer BORDEN, preceded her in death. 

She was a member of the Lutheran church of Rochester. 

Surviving are a brother, Delbert LEAVELL, Mentone; two sisters, Mrs. Josie DAWALD 

and Mrs. Frank UMBAUGH, both residents of the Lutheran Home in Kendallville; and one niece, 

Mrs. Ethel WHETSTONE, Mentone. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home. 

Clarence W. Moon 

Funeral services have been set for 2 p.m. Saturday at the Harrison chapel at Royal Center 

for Clarence William MOON, 57, who died suddenly at his home southeast of Fulton Wednesday 

evening from a coronary occlusion. 

Employed at the R.B.M. plant in Logansport at the time of his death Mr. Moon was a 

member of the Tipton lodge of Masons and the Eagles and Elks lodges of Royal Center.

Surviving are his wife, Irene [MOON]; two daughters, Mrs. Rheta TODD, Logansport, 

and Cheryl Lynn [MOON], at home; one son, John Paul [MOON], Logansport, and one brother, 

Floyd [MOON], Chicago. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Royal Center. 


Emma Borden 

Final rites for Mrs. Emma BORDEN, 87, 700 Pontiac street, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at 

the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The Rev. Delmar O. KRUEGER, of St. John’s Lutheran 

church, will officiate and burial will be in the Rochestr I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Borden, a native of Fulton county who had lived in the Rochester community her 

entire life, died at Woodlawn hospital at 10:30 a.m. Friday after an illness of one week. A brother, 

two sisters and a niece survive. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Herrold 

The Grass Creek E.U.B. church will be the scene of funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. 

John W. HERROLD, R.R. 2, Grass Creek, at 2 p.m. Sunday. 

The Rev. John CHAMBERS of Decatur, Ind., former pastor of the Grass Creek church, 

will officiate. Burial will be in the Grass Creek cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Royal Center. 

Mr. and Mrs. Herrold were electrocuted in an accident Thursday morning near 

Owensboro, Ky., as they were enroute home from Florida. 

Mr. Herrold, 71, was born on Feb. 6, 1885, in Grass Creek to Henry C. and Sarah 

JULIAN HERROLD. He was a retired farmer and member of the Grass Creek E.U.B. church. 

His wife, the former Pearl F. MILLER, 68, was born in Grass Creek on Aug. 1, 1887, the 

daughter of Michael and Lydia SNYDER MILLER. 

Survivors are two sons, Carl [HERROLD], Wayne township trustee, and Dr. Don W. 

[HERROLD], Cheyenne, Wyo.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

Also surviving Mrs. herrold are a brother, Alva MILLER, Lucerne, and a sister, Mrs. 

Ethel HUDKINS, Kewanna. 

Mr. Herrold also is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Laura SEDAM and Mrs. Anna HIZER, 

Grass Creek, and Mrs. Pearl WILLIAMS, Kewanna, and a brother, L.O. HERROLD, Salem, Ore. 


Clyde E. Miller 

Clyde E. MILLER, 72, who resided northeast of Marshtown near Kewanna, died of a 

heart ailment Sunday evening after an illness of two years. He had lived in the Kewanna vicinity 

all his life. 

A member of the I.O.O.F. lodge and the Kewanna Baptist church, Mr. Miller was born in 

Kewanna on Aug. 14, 1884. He was the son of Jacob and Mary ROGERS MILLER. 

On Feb. 11, 1905, he was married in Logansport to Coda HOWER, who survives. 

Other survivors are a son, Elmer [MILLER], Tipp City, Ohio; six grandchildren; eight 

great-grandchildren; three brothers, Earl and Charles [MILLER], Kewanna, and Harley 

[MILLER], South Bend, and a sister, Mrs. Oma EMMERSON, Logansport. 

Services will be in the Harrison chapel at Kewanna Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be 

in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Tuesday evening.

Martha Mueller 

Mrs. Martha MUELLER, Ft. Wayne, mother of Max MUELLER, R.R. 2, Rochester, died 

Sunday morning in Ft. Wayne. Funeral services will be in Ft. Wayne at 11 a.m. Wednesday. 

Ora Shoemaker 

Ora “Ode” SHOEMAKER, 77, R.R. 2, Akron, died at 1 a.m. today in the Murphy 

Medical Center, Warsaw, of a heart ailment. He had been ill for six weeks. 

A lifelong resident of the Akron community, Mr. Shoemaker was born in Akron on June 

26, 1879 to Joseph and Diana SWICK SHOEMAKER. He was married to Louie BARBER in 

1916 in Warsaw. 

Mr. Shoemaker was a retired employee of the Bendix Aviation plant in South Bend and a 

member of the Eel River Brethren church and the Alexandria I.O.O.F. 

Surviving are the widow at home; two daughters, Mrs. Betty HAMILTON, Leesburg, and 

Mrs. Mary GAGNON, R.R. 1, Silver Lake; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Bertha SMITH, 

R.R. 1, Silver Lake and a brother, Elmer [SHOEMAKER], Silver Lake. Three brothers preceded 

him in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 Wednesday in the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the Rev. 

Victor YEAGER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the 

funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Andrew A. Gast 

Andrew Almondo GAST, Akron, Fulton county’s oldest citizen and only centenarian, 

died at 8 a.m. Sunday in Warsaw, five months before he was to observe his 102nd birthday 

anniversary. 

A lifelong resident of Akron except when he lived in Rochester while Fulton county 

sheriff for two terms beginning in 1888, “Double A” died in the Alfran Nursing Home after an 

illness of three months. 

Mr. Gast was born in Akron on Sept. 14, 1855, when the town was called Newark. His 

parents were a rugged pioneer father, Andrew [GAST], who walked to Newark from Ft. Wayne to 

settle, and a Swiss-born mother, the former Marie HALBEISEN, who grew the community’s first 

tulips. 

Double A is credited with the most firsts in his hometown. He was active in the 

formation of the first telephone and electric companies in the town, went into business making 

clay tile and built the Akron Methodist church as well as numerous schools, other churches and 

roads. He also built the Opera House where Masonic Hall now stands. 

A staunch Democrat, Mr. Gast was believed to be the youngest sheriff of the county 

when he was elected at the ae of 33. He was Akron Postmaster when elected sheriff. 

After two terms of two years as sheriff, Mr. Gast embarked on a business career during 

which he formed the Gast Construction company. The sons--Estel and Robert--still operate the 

business in Warsaw. 

About 25 years ago he was named a member of the State Fair Board, was a 62-year 

member of the Akron Masonic Lodge and was a member of the Warsaw Commandry of the 

Knights Templar. 

Mr. Gast also was a 42-year member of the Murat Shrine Temple in Indianapolis and a 

member of the Methodist church, the Knights of Pythias and the Eastern Star in Akron, the Royal 

Arch in Rochester and the Blue Lodge of Warsaw. 

There was a big celebration during the Akron Fair when Double A reached the century 

mark in September of 1955. Former Governor Henry F. Schricker was on hand to help him cut

the cake. 

On that day Mr. Gast said he owed his longevity to the good cooking of his wife, the 

former Etta BITTERS, to whom he was married on Oct. 27, 1886. His first wife was Laura 

BALL. 

Surviving are Mrs. Gast, 92; four sons, Robert and Estel A. GAST, Warsaw, Karl 

[GAST], Rochester, who operates the Gast Furniture store here, and Whitney H. GAST, Akron; a 

daughter, Mrs. Marie TALBOT, Los Angeles; sixteen grandchildren. A son, Tom [GAST], 

preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. CST Tuesday in the Akron Methodist church. The Rev. D. 

L. SLAYBAUGH will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Claude FAWNS. Burial will be in the Akron 

cemetery. 

The family was to receive friends at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron until 4 p.m. and 

from 7-9 p.m. today and from 9:30-11 a.m. Tuesday. The body will be taken to the church at 

12:30 p.m. Tuesday. 


Lucille D. Riner 

Mrs. Lucille D. RINER, 65, Indianapolis, formerly of Argos, died suddenly of a heart 

seizure at 4 p.m. Monday in her home. She had lived in Indianapolis for the last 30 years. 

Born in Argos in 1892, Mrs. Riner was the daughter of Burwell C. and Frances 

SCHOONOVER. She had lived in Argos until moving to Indianapolis in 1927. 

Surviving are the husband, Hugh H. RINER, Indianapolis; a niece; a nephew and two 

cousins. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos. Burial will 

be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. 

Thursday. 

Wednesday, April 17, 1957 

W. H. Reish 

Funeral services for W. H. REISH, Kent, Ohio, a native of Leiters Ford, were conducted 

in Kent Tuesday. Mr. Reish died Saturday after an illness of several weeks. 

Mr. Reish was reared in Leiters Ford and had several relatives and friends in that 

community. 


Otto Hood 

Funeral services for Otto HOOD, 66, Brook, Ind., brother of Mrs. Chloa RENO of 

Rochester, will be in Brook Friday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the Brook cemetery. 

Mr. Hood died Wednesday of a heart ailment after being ill several years. 

The son of Isiah B. and Laura BROWN HOOD, Mr. Hood was born on Oct. 16, 1901. 

He was married in 1912 [sic] to Lilah FROUHAUF. 

Surviving besides Mrs. Reno are the widow, six daughters, four sons, a brother and 

another sister.

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Harriet Belle Brown 

Harriet Belle “Hattie” BROWN, 82, died at 9:15 o’clock this morning in Woodlawn 

hospital, where she had been a patient since April 12. Miss Brown, who resided at 328 West 

Second street, had been bedfast since fracturing her hip six years ago. 

Born Sept. 6, 1874, in Rochester, she was the daughter of Jacob P. and Mary M. SPOHN 

BROWN. She was a member of the Trinity E.U.B. church. 

Surviving are two sisters, Miss Bessie S. BROWN and Miss Mamie E. BROWN, both 

residing at 328 West Second street; and one niece, Mrs. Lillian CHRISTENSEN, Big Harbor, 

Wash. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Fremont WILLMERT officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 



Gladys Castleman 

Gladys Gay (GARNER) CASTLEMAN, 57, R.R. 4, Rochester, will be at 2 p.m. 

Wednesday in the Burton Methodist church. 

The Rev. Edith BRUNER, of the Lafayette Conger street Methodist church, will officiate, 

assisted by the Rev. Harley DAVIS. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Castleman, a life resident of Fulton county and active in club and church affairs in 

this area, died at her home at 5 a.m. Sunday. She had been ill for six months. 

She was a member of the Burton Methodist church and of the W.S.C.S. there and taught 

the Wedding Ring class of that church. 

Mrs. Castleman was chairman for religion in the Fulton County Women’s club and a 

member of the Fulton H.D. club, the Woodlawn hospital auxiliary and sponsor for the Fulton 

County 4-H organization. 

She was born on Jan. 25, 1900, to William and A’Della (PRILL) GARNER. On Feb. 26, 

1920, she was married to Vernon “Bill” CASTLEMAN in Rochester. 

Surviving are the husband; two daughters, Mrs. Frances BAXTER and Mrs. Carolyn 

HUNTER, R.R. 4, Rochester; two grandchildren, Douglas and LeAnn BAXTER; two sisters; Mrs. 

William KENNELL, R.R. 5, Rochester, and Mrs. Ellis ZAHNISER, Oceanside, Cal.; a brother, 

Clyde GARNER, R.R. 1, Kewanna, and several nieces and nephews. 

Four brothers and a sister preceded her in death. 

The body has been taken from the Foster and Good funeral home in Rochester to the 

residence at Burton, where friends may call. The body will lie in state one hour before services.

Infant Zartman 

Graveside rites were held Saturday afternoon for the infant daughter of Tom and Carolyn 

NEWELL ZARTMAN, who reside four miles east of Fulton. The baby died at birth Friday. 

Surviving are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett NEWELL and Mr. and Mrs. Robert 

ZARTMAN, all of near Fulton. Burial was in the Fulton cemetery. 


Ethel E. Leonard 

Final rites for Mrs. Ethel E. LEONARD, 78, prominent life resident of Macy, will be at 2 

p.m. Thursday in the Macy Methodist church, of which she was a member. 

The Rev. Jack PAVEY and the Rev. I. T. ROGERS, both of Macy, will officiate and 

burial will be in the Plainview cemetery near Macy. 

Mrs. Leonard died at her home at 1:30 p.m. Monday after an illness of two years. 

Mrs. Leonard was a member of the W.S.C.S. of the Macy Methodist church, the Macy 

W.C.T.U. and the Mothers club of Macy, the Daughters of Union Veterans, Peru, and the 

Amaranth of Peru. 

Until her illness two years ago, she was director of the soldiers and sailors department of 

the Indiana W.C.T.U. 

The wife of Ollie LEONARD, Macy hardware dealer, Mrs. Leonard was born in Macy 

on April 6, 1879, to Onis and Rhoda DUKES CASE. She was married in Macy on Dec. 27, 1899. 

Surviving with the husband are a son, Onis M. [LEONARD], Michigan City; two 

daughters, Mrs. Ruth ROBBINS, a teacher in the Macy school, and Miss Jean LEONARD, South 

Bend; a granddaugter, Susan ROBBINS, Macy, and a bother, Rollie CASE, Macy. 

Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday at the residence, where the body will be taken 

from the McCain fneral home near Denver. The body will lie in state one hour. 

Clyde A. Gearhart 

Clyde A. GEARHART, 74, a lifelong resident of the Disko community, died at 10:10 

a.m. Today at his Disko residence after a year’s illness. 

A retired foundry worker, Mr. Gearhart was a member of the Disko Methodist church. 

He was born on April 15, 1883, in Wabash county to John and Emma HILEMAN 

GEARHART and was married in November, 1915, to Goldie HOOVER, who survives. 

Surviving with the widow are two daughters, Geneva [GEARHART], at home, and Mrs. 

Elberta MORTS, R.R. 5, Warsaw; five brothers, Frank [GEARHART], Akron; Guy 

[GEARHART], Portland, Ore., and Charles, Ralph and Earl [GEARHART], rural route Silver 

Lake; a sister, Mrs. Mertie GOOD, Leiters Ford, and one grandchild. 

Two daughters, a son, two brothers and a sister preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. CST Thursday in the Disko Methodist church with the Rev. 

Wesley BULLIS officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland cemetery at Claypool. 

Friends may call at the residence after 2 p.m. Wednesday and until 11 a.m. Thursday and 

at the church from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. All times are Central Standard Time.

Earl A. Sausaman 

Earl A. SAUSAMAN, 71, who had lived his entire life in the Akron vicinity, died in his 

Akron home at 12:30 p.m. Monday of a stroke. He had been ill for 15 months. 

A poultry dealer, Mr. Sausaman was a member of the Akron Woodsmens Lodge. 

Mr. Sausaman was born in Miami county on Feb. 5, 1886, to Thomas and Florence 

HOFFMAN SAUSAMAN. On Dec. 1, 1915, he was married to Faye STUDEBAKER who died 

in 1945. 

Surviving are a son, Robert [SAUSAMAN], Akron; a nephew, Jack [SAUSAMAN], 

Akron; three grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Virgil HIRE and Mrs. Clifford BRADWAY, 

Rocheter, and Mrs. Ben HERENDEEN, Akron. 

Services will be in the Akron Methodist church at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. 

Claude FAWNS officiating, assisted by the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH. Burial will be in the 


Friends may call at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron until 1 p.m. Wednesday, when the 

body will be taken to the church. 

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Wednesday, April 24, 1957 to Thursday, April 25, 1957 


Floyd Dickey 

Mrs. Ray WOODCOX, 613 East Ninth street, has received word of the death of her 

brother-in-law, Floyd DICKEY of Ashland, Ore. 

Mrs. DICKEY, who visited in Rochester last summer, is the sister of Mrs. Mary 

SCROXTON, Mrs. Frank JUSTICE and Mrs. Cora BATHRICK of Florida, and Mrs. 

WOODCOX. 


Ruth Colfer 

Final rites for Mrs. Ruth COLFER, 63, Chicago, a native of Rochester, will be at 1:30 

p.m. Monday in Chicago. Mrs. Colfer died of a heart ailment Wednesday in Chicago. 

The daughter of Levi and Emma HORN, Mrs. Colfer left Rochester when she was 23 

years old. She had been married to Frank COLFER for 32 years at the time of her death. She 

previously was married to Cy SOALES. 

Survivors include five children, a sister and fourteen grandchildren.


Dean Woolington 

Final rites for Dean WOOLINGTON, 19, Kewanna, will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 

Kewanna Baptist church with the Rev. Robert BELT officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna 


Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after 7 p.m. today. The body 

will be taken to the church at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. 

A Purdue university student, home for the weekend, the youth was electrocuted early 

Sunday evening when a model airplane he had built struck a high tension wire as he was 

demonstrating the craft to a group of friends. 

His father, Harold WOOLINGTON, a building contractor and assistant fire chief at 

Kewanna, gave artificial respiration at the Kewanna softball field where the tragedy occurred. 

He then rushed his son to Woodlawn hospital here, but the youth was declared dead on 

arrival by Dr. Howard ROWE, Fulton county coroner. 

Woolington, a star hurdler and a basketball player at Kewanna high school before his 

graduation last year, was an Air Force R.O.T.C. student at Purdue. He was anticipating a career as 

an Air Force jet pilot. 

He was a licensed pilot and often flew a private plane owned by his family. He was 

scheduled to attend an air base for training this summer as part of his AFROTC class. 

Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Donald and Charles [WOOLINGTON]; 

the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles MOON, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and 

Mrs. Leroy WOOLINGTON, all of Kewanna. 

Infant Eatmon 

Graveside services were conducted this morning at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetry for 

the infant son of Melvin and Alene (GOWER) EATMON, R.R. 1, Rochester. 

The infant died at birth at 1 a.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital. 

Surviving are the parents; a brother, Billy Wayne [EATMON], and a sister, Charlotte 

[EATMON], all at home; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. GOWER, Logansport; and 

the patrnal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Odie EATMON, Keiser, Ark. 

The Zimmerman Brothers funeral home was in charge of arrangements. 

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Tuesday, April 30, 1957 to Wednesday, May 1, 1957 

Thursday, May 2, 1957 

Lana Brock 

A “sex man” confessed killer of women has admitted another murder, that of a former 

Macy grade school pupil on Sept. 24, 1956 at New Chicago, Ind. 

A former mental institution inmate, George Robert BROWN, 25-year-old Gary 

steelworker, told authorities in Crown Point, Wednesday of the rape-slaying of Lana BROCK, 16, 

of New Chicago. 

The confession came within 24 hours of his admission of the strangulation of a Gary 

beauty shop operator, Mrs. Mildred GRIGONIS, 30. The murders came only 25 days apart.

School records show the Brock girl attended the fifth grade at Macy during the 1950-51 

term while her parents operated a farm in Miami county. The family later moved to New Chicago. 

After a day of ceaseless questioning, Brown made an oral confession that he lay in wait 

for the girl last Sept. 24, assaulted her and choked her, deputies said. 

Then threw her body under an overhanging sand dune and stomped tons of sand onto the 

girl’s still-living body. When it was discovered last Oct. 2, the girl’s lungs were filled with sand, 

indicating she died of suffocation. 

On Tuesday, Brown admitted attacking and strangling Mrs. Grigonis and burying her in a 

similar grave in the desolate dunes country, only two miles from the spot the Brock girl was to be 

interred alived. 

The murders were uncovered because Brown could not resist the urge to return constantly 

to Mrs. Grigonis’ grave ad dump garbage on it so “no one could find her.” 

Neighbors spotted him at the grisly task and when he was arrested on car theft charges 

three weeks ago, tipped off police. 

Brown confessed the first murder and led deputies to the hidden, white clad skeleton. He 

denied the Brock murder until police got a report that his wife had known of his guilt for some 

time. 

Friday, May 3, 1957 

Curtis E. Smith 

Curtis E. SMITH, 71, former resident of Rochester, died early today at his home n 

Dragoon Trail near Mishawaka after a nine-year illness. He had lived 30 years in St. Joseph 

county but spent his early years in the Rochester community. 

Mr. Smith was born in Lincoln, Neb., March 24, 1886, and was married at Richland 

Center on Jan. 28, 1906, to Etta Faye GORDON of Tiosa. His parents were Albert and Nancy 

BLUE SMITH. He was a retired carpenter. 

Surviving are the widow; one brother, Dell [SMITH], Miami Shores, Fla.; three sons, 

Gordon [SMITH], Bourbon; Harold [SMITH], South Bend and Paul [SMITH], Edwardsburg, 

Mich.; four daughters, Mrs. Ivo PEDDYCORD, North Liberty; Mrs. Forrest CAMPBELL and 

Mrs. Fred CHAMPAYNE, both of South Bend, and Mrs. Ralph DURHAM, Mishawaka. 

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Bubb funeral home in 

Mishawaka with burial in Memorial Park cemetery in South Bend. Friends may call after noon 

Saturday. 

Ida May Rouch 

Ida May ROUCH, 88, died at 1 o’clock this morning at the Rochester Nursing Home 

following an eight-year illness. Mrs. Rouch had been a resident of the Fulton community her 

entire life. 

Born Dec. 16, 1868, near Leiters Ford, she was the daughter of George and Jennie 

MILLISER MOON. She was married Sept. 21, 1893, to Schuyler ROUCH, who died March 9, 

1947. Mrs. Rouch was a member of the Fulton E.U.B. church. 

Surviving are three brothers, Charles MOON, Rocheser; Sam MOON, South Bend, and 

Frank MOON, Kewanna; one sister, Mrs. Clara YELTON, South Bend, and seven nieces and 

nephews. One daughter, Lela [ROUCH], and three brothers preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ditmire chapel in Fulton with the 

Rev. Donald ABBEY officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the 

chapel.

Saturday, May 4, 1957 

Guy Parkhurst 

Guy PARKHURST, 63, a lifelong resident of near Argos, died suddenly at 6:45 p.m. 

Friday of a heart attack in the rural route three home where he was born. 

Mr. Parkhurst died in the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Arthur PARKHURST. His 

parents, John and Alice PARKHURST, had lived in the home before him. His brother, Arthur 

[PARKHURST], died last year. 

An employee of the Nickel Plate railroad for 38 years before his retirement, Mr. 

Parkhurst was born on May 26, 1893. He never married. Surviving besides the sister-in-law are a 

brother, Ronald [PARKHURST], of Argos, a nephew and three nieces. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos with the Rev. 

Edward BOASE, of the Argos Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the New Oak Hill 

cemetery near Plymouth. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Monday, May 6, 1957 

India May Griffin 

Final rites for Mrs. India May GRIFFIN, 94, Indianapolis, whose son Gordon 

[GRIFFIN], lived in Rochester for seven years, were conducted this afternoon in Indianapolis. 

Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. 

Mr. Griffin, who as a child played tennis with James Whitcomb RILEY, noted Hoosier 

poet, died early Saturday morning. She had lived in Indianapolis for 60 years. Her husband, 

Samuel, died in the 1930s. 

Her son, Gordon, who rsides in Indianapolis now, lived in Rochester from 1950-1957 and 

operated the Flag Pole drive-in on East Ninth street. 

Perry A. Fisher 

Word has been received of the death of Perry A. FISHER, New York, who formerly 

resided west of Richland Center. 

Mr. Fisher leaves a step-mother, Mrs. Edna B. FISHER of Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. 

Leo V. KENDALL of Rochester and Mrs. Harry B. CLARK, of Pittsfield, Mass.; two brothers, 

Russell [FISHER] of Rochester and Raymond [FISHER] of New York; two half-sisters, Mrs. 

Reena BROWN of Rochester and Mrs. J. R. FISHER of Valparaiso; and two half-brothers, Roy D. 

[FISHER], of Rochester, and Albert [FISHER], of Utah. 

Tuesday, May 7, 1957 

John Kutz 

John KUTZ, 66, Huntington, husband of the former Ina O’CONNEL of Rochester, died 

of a heart attack at 7 p.m. Monday after an illness of one month. 

A Huntington resident most of his life, he was an engineer on the Erie railroad and a 

member of the Christian church in Huntington. 

Among the survivors besides the widow are a brother-in-law, Clarence O’CONNEL, and 

two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Guy (Rhoda) PRICE and Mrs. Paul (Pearl) DORSETT, all of Rochester. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Bailey funeral home, Huntington. Burial will 

be in Huntington.

James P. Wagner 

Word has been received of the death of James Phillip WAGNER, 52, Huston, Texas, the 

son of William and Effa (BACON) WAGNER, and a native of Rochester. 

Mr. Wagner was fatally injured in a head-on traffic crash during a severe rainstorm April 

28 while driving from his sport shop in Huston to one of his other stores in Corpus Christi, Texas. 

Surviving are the widow and a sister, Mrs. K. W. (June) KNOPP. Burial was in Huston. 

Edyth Alma Overmyer 

Mrs. Charles S. [Edyth Alma] OVERMYER, 61, prominent local clubwoman and church 

leader, died suddenly at 2:15 o’clock this morning from a heart attack suffered at her home four 

miles east of Rochester. 

Mrs. Overmyer had not been ill and her death came as a shock to her family and friends. 

Mrs. Overmyer, nee Edyth Alma KINGERY, was born Aug. 11, 1895, in Rochester and 

had spent her entire life in the community, graduating from Rochester high school. Her parents 

were Hiram and Minnie CAPLINGER KINGERY. 

She was married in Rochester Oct. 31, 1914, to Charles S. OVERMYER, who survives. 

Mrs. Overmyer was a member of the First Christian church where she was active in the 

Christian Women’s Fellowship work as well as other church activities. She also was a charter 

member of the Child Study club and a member of the Woman’s Club and the McKinley home 

demonstration club. She had served as president of all these organizations. Her clubwork also 

included active participation in Fulton County Federation of clubs projects. 

Surviving, besides the husband are one daughter, Mrs. William (June) BRINKROEGER, 

Phoenix, Ariz.; one son, Jack K. OVERMYER, editor of The News-Sentinel; and four 

granddaughters, Laura, Elizabeth, Sarah and Jennifer OVERMYER. 

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. CDT Thursday at the First Christian church 

with the Rev. James KIMSEY officiating. The Rev. Fremont WILLMERT of the Trinity E.U.B. 

church will assist. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 

Friends may call after 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. 

Wednesday, May 8, 1957 

Nellie Babcock 

Final rites for Mrs. Nellie BABCOCK, DDS, a native of Rochester, who once was the 

city’s Mayor, will be a the First Baptist church Friday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Richard MITCHELL 

will officiate and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Babcock, 89, died Tuesday at the Odd Fellows home in Greensburg where she had 

been a resident since Marcy 1. 

From Oct. 26, 1938 to Jan. 1, 1939 Mrs. Babcock served as Mayor of Rochester after 

being appointed to the post by the City Council following the death in office of her husband, Dr. 

James L. BABCOCK. Dr. Babcock was elected in 1935 and died on Oct. 7, 1938. 

Mrs. Babcock was the only woman to occupy the Rochester mayor’s chair in the 47-year 

history of the office. 

Born in Rochester on Dec. 11, 1868, she had lived her entire life in this city and vicinity 

until moving to Greensburg. She was the daughter of James and Bethany RADER STEVENS. 

Mrs. Babcock was a dentist by occupation, having been graduated from Northwestern 

university dental school on April 2, 1897. She also had been a member of the First Baptist church

for more than 50 years. 

She was married to James L. BABCOCK, DDS, on Dec. 30, 1886. 

Surviving are numerous nieces and nephews, among them Mrs. Charles WILLARD, 

Rochester, and Mrs. Alva PETTY, Peru, and a great-nephew, Ralph LILLARD, Indianapolis. 

Friends may call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after 3 p.m. Thursday. 

Nina France 

Funeral services for Mrs. Nina A. PUTMAN FRANCE, 34, of near Akron, will be at 2:30 

p.m. Friday in the Omega church. The Rev. William TWEEDDALE, pastor of the church, will 

officiate and burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Mrs. France, who lived with her parents west of Akron, died at 4:10 a.m.Wednesday of 

carcinoma after an illness of one year. 

She had been employed at the Deluxe Coil company, Wabash, and was a member of the 

Rochester Church of God. 

A resident of the Akron vicinity all her life except for nine years when she lived in 

Wabash, Mrs. France was born on July 26, 1922, to Folen and Marie POWELL PUTMAN. 

Surviving besides the parents are four children: Alvin, Eugene, Shirley and Tommy 

[FRANCE]; four sisters: Mrs. Eva WESTWOOD, Rochester, Mrs. Irene REAM and Mrs. Pauline 

DOLL, Walkerton, and Mrs. Mable RUCKER, Wabash; two brothers, Doyle [PUTMAN] of 

Argos and Marvin [PUTMAN] of North Manchester, and her grandmother, Mrs. Amanda 

POWELL of Rochester. 

The body will be taken from the Sheetz funeral home in Akron at 7 p.m. today to the 

parents’ home west of Akron where friends may call until 1:30 p.m. Friday. The body will lie in 

state at the church one hour before services. 


Bertha E. Trickle 

Bertha E. TRICKLE, 69, an active Laketon clubwoman, died at her home at 4:45, p.m. 

Wednesday of a coronary occlusion after an illness of a few hours. 

A native of Montreal, Canada, Mrs. Trickle was a past state president of the Spanish 

American Auxilary, Wabash, a past Worthy Matron of the North Manchester Order of Eastern Star 

and a member of the Sunset Post of the American Legion Auxiliary at Laketon. 

A candlelight service will be conducted at 8 p.m. today by the Ivy chapter of the O.E.S., 

North Manchester. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Laketon E.U.B. church with the Rev. Dwight 

McCLURE officiating. Burial will be in the Laketon cemetry. The Moyer-Haupert funeral home 

in Akron is in charge of services. 


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Infant Hackworth 

Graveside services were scheduled for 3 p.m. today at the Silver Lake cemetery for the 

infant son of Vernal and Margie LEE HACKWORTH, Akron, who died shortly after birth in 

Woodlawn hospital Friday afternoon. 

The Rev. Willis WHITTAKER was to officiate at the services. The Sheets fneral home 

in Akron was in charge. 

Surviving besides the parents are three sistes and the grandparents. 

Raymond Lee Ramsey 

Raymond Lee RAMSEY, infant son of James and Connie Jo (SINGPIEL) RAMSEY, 

Akron, died at 4:10 p.m. Friday, shortly after birth at Woodlawn hospital. 

Graveside services were conducted this morning at the Akron cemetery with the Rev. 

Claude FAWNS officiating. Sheets funeral home in Akron was in charge. 

Surviving besides the parents are a sister; two brothers; the paternal grandparents, Mr. 

and Mrs. Verlin RAMSEY, Akron, and the maternal grandfather, Con SINGPIEL, New Paris. 

Mike Zorovich 

Mike ZOROVICH, 79, R.R. 2, Rochester, died this morning at Woodlawn hospital where 

he had been a patient since Friday. He was taken to Woodlawn from the Miller Nursing Home 

where he had been confined since February. 

Mr. Zorovich was born Aug. 20, 1877, in Klasmich, Austria. He was a retired baker and 

a veteran of the Austrian army. He came to this city from Disko, Ind., and his wife, Mildred 

[ZOROVICH], preceded him in death. 

The body will be removed from Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here to Gary and 

burial will be in a Gary cemetery. 

Robert A. Davis 

Robert A. DAVIS, 33, native of Winamac, died at 9:40 a.m. Friday in the Veterans 

hospital in Hines, Ill. He lived at 227 South 25th street, South Bend, and had been ill since March. 

Suviving are the wife, Marilyn McKEE WHITEHEAD [DAVIS], the parents, Mr. and 

Ms. Berne E. DAVIS; two stepsons and one sister. 

Graveside services will be held at the Winamac cemetery at 2 p.m. Monday. 


Nancy Martin 

Mrs. Nancy MARTIN, 76, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Russell KOCH, Talma, 

died of carcinoma at 10:40 p.m. Sunday at her daughter’s home. She had been in ill health for a 

year and seriously ill four months. 

Mrs. Martin had lived with her children since the death in 1942 of her husband, Orville 

[MARTIN]. They had been married on Christmas Day, 1903. 

Born in Kosciusko county on July 18, 1880, Mrs. Martin was the daughter of Hugh and 

Alice (LIZENBEE) STACKHOUSE. She was a member of the Mount Tabor Church of God. 

Surviving, besides Mrs. Koch and another daughter, Mrs. Joe MILLER, Akron rural

oute; a son, Ornell [MARTIN], South Bend; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three 

sisters, Mrs. Margaret ARNDT, Stockwell, Ind.; Mrs. Laura LONG, Warsaw, and Mrs. Nora 

GRIMM, Milford, and two brothers, Ralph STACKHOUSE, Bourbon, and Tom STACKHOUSE, 

Leesburg. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Reed funeral home in Mentone, with the 

Rev. Victor YEAGER, Akron, officiating. Burial will be in the Stony Creek cemetery north of 

Atwood. 


Milo Cutshall 

Final rites for Milo CUTSHALL, 83, a lifelong resident of Akron and vicinity, will be at 

2 p.m. Tuesday at the Akron Methodist church. 

The Rev. Claude FAWNS will officiate and burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Mr. Cutshall, a building contractor, died of tetanus at Woodlawn hospital at 1:15 p.m. 

Saturday after an illness of one week. 

Born on March 24, 1874 near Akron, Mr. Cutshall was the son of Arnold and Sarah 

(ESHELMAN) CUTSHALL. He was marrid Oct. 17, 1895 to Martha PONTIUS, who died in 

1945. 

Mr. Cutshall was a member of the Methodist church, the Masonic Lodge, the Order of 

Eastern Star and the Knights of Pythias, all of Akron, and the North Central Contractors 

Association of Indiana. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. William (Neva) KRETZMEIER, Batesville,and Mrs. 

Lamoine (Marie) HAND, Akron; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A son, Willis 

[CUTSHALL] preceded him in death. 

Friends may call at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron until 1 p.m. Tuesday when the 

body will be taken to the church to lie in state. 

Carrie May Swinehart 

Mrs. Carrie May SWINEHART, 93, died early this morning at her home in Mishawaka, 

where she moved 50 years ago from Rochester. 

Her husband, the late Marion SWINEHART, once was Fulton county recorder and a son, 

Ormond E. [SWINEHART], was court reporter. She is the last member of her immedite family. 

Mrs. Swinehart was born in Fulton county, May 11, 1864, to John and Mary Catherine 

PERSCHBACHER. She was married Aug. 11, 1883, to Daniel Marion SWINEHART. She was a 

member of the Mishawaka Lutheran church. 

Surviving are four children, Mrs. Allen (Coral) HACK, Fred C. SWINEHART and Mrs. 

Stella ELLISON, all of Mishawaka, and Dean Marion SWINEHART, Long Beach,Cal. 

Funeral services will be held at the Lutheran church, Main and Seventh streets in 

Mishawaka, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in Mishawaka. 

George W. Felder 

George W. FELDER, 78, died at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Beatty Memorial Hospital in 

Westville, where he had been a patient for 10 days. He resided at 317 Pontiac street in Rochester. 

Death, caused by pneumonia, came after a serious illness of only a day. 

Mr. Felder was born Nov. 7, 1878, in Rochester. He left the city in 1905 to reside in 

Detroit, returning here in 1948. His parents were Christian L. and Louise HUCK FELDER and he 

was married Aug. 20, 1905, in Rochester to Ella BAILEY, who survives.

Mr. Felder was a retired hardware dealer and a member of the Grace Methodist church 

here. He was a graduate of Rochester Normal University and Michigan State Teachers College. 

Other survivors are a son, Howard B. [FELDER], Berrien Springs, Mich.; two 

grandchildren, Tom and Lynn FELDER, Berrien Springs, and one sister, Mrs. J. C. GORSLINE, 

Logansport. Four brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with Dr. Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at 

the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The family has requested the omission of flowers. 

Mrs. Cecil Day 

Fred M. DAY, Loyal, has received word of the death of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Cecil 

DAY, Sturgis, Mich. 

The Cecil Days both were born in Rochester and moved to Sturgis about 20 years ago. 

Services will be in Sturgis, and burial will be in Plymouth. 

Mary B. Caple 

Mrs. Mary B. CAPLE, 90, Cromwell, a former Argos resident, died at 8 p.m. Sunday in 

the Mock Nursing home, Wilmont, Ind., after an illness of four years. 

She left Argos about two yeards ago to live with her son, Charles [CAPLE], in Cromwell, 

Ind. 

Mrs. Caple was born on Feb. 11, 1867, in Logansport to Charles and Susan (LEEDY) 

MORGAN. In 1873 she was married in Argos to Dr. Alfred Z. CAPLE, who died in 1911. 

She was a member of the Christian church at Angola. 

Surviving besides the son are two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos with the 

Rev. Robert WRIGHT, Cromwell, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 


Ora Wolf 

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today for Ora WOLF, 71, Logansport, who died late 

Friday night at Memorial hospital in that city after a lingering illness. Burial was in the Mt. Hope 

cemetery. 

He was born April 6, 1886, in Akron, the son of George and Ella JOHNSON WOLF. 

Surviving are his wife, Elsie [WOLF], two half-sisters, Mrs. Dessie GREATHOUSE, 

Rochester, and Mrs. Mary McCARTY, Peru; and an uncle, Albert, Rochester. Two sons preceded 

him in death. 

Ruth D. Sutton 

Final rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Pilgrim Holiness church in Fulton for 

Mrs. Ruth D. SUTTON, 64, former Fulton resident,who died at 3:20 p.m. Saturday at the Nyona 

Lake home of her daughter, Mrs. John SHEETZ. She had been ill seven months. 

The Rev. Lloyd LEHUE will officiate and burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery at 

Mexico. The body was taken from the Ditmire funeral home this morning to the Sheetz home, a 

fourth-mile west of Nyona Lake, where friends may call. 

Mrs. Sutton, a Cass county native, had been employed 15 years at the R.B.M. plant in 

Logansport. She was born Nov. 20, 1892, in Twelve Mile, the daughter of Frank and Armilda 

CORNWELL KRATHWOHL.

She ewas a Fulton high school graduate and a member of the Pilgrim Holiness church. 

She was married Dec. 20, 1914 to Homer SUTTON. 

Surviving are one son, Don [SUTTON], Williamsburg, Ind.; three daughters, Mrs. 

Russell MOOREHOUSE, South Bend; Mrs. SHEETZ, Nyona Lake, and Mrs. Joseph MARSH, 

Coloma, Mich.; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Bernice REYBURN, Peru. One daughter 

preceded her in death. 


Clara Ellen Houser 

Mrs. Clara Ellen HOUSER, 72, died Monday at 1:30 a.m. at her home in Burnettsville. 

She was the mother of Mrs. Beulah RYNEARSON. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Burtnettsville Baptist church, of 

which Mrs. Houser was a member. Burial will be in the Davis cemetery. 

Also surviving are the husband; two sons; three other daughters; forty-two 

grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; two brothers and three sisters. 


Marie E. Gorsline 

Mrs. Marie Elizabeth GORSLINE, 81, died at her home in Logansport this morning at 5 

o’clock, less than three days after the death of her brother, George FELDER. 

The daughter of Christian and Louise HOOK FELDER, she was born in Rochester Aug. 

8, 1865. She was married on Dec. 2, 1894, to John C. GORSLINE, who preceded her in deth. 

Surviving are six children, Dr. Donald GORSLINE, Peoria, Ill.; Mrs. Louise ZELLERS, 

Kewanna; Robert GORSLINE, Peru; Mrs. Doris BOOSE, Frankfort; Mrs. Mildred COFFMAN, 

Lucerne; and Dr. John GORSLINE, Logansport; eleven grandchildren and fourteen greatgrandchildren. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Last rites for her brother, George Felder, were 

held this afternoon. 


Cindy Lou Williams 

Prayer services were conducted this afternoon at the Grossman funeral home in Argos for 

Cindy Lou WILLIAMS, infant daughter of Arthur and Ilo SULLIVAN WILLIAMS, 427 Railroad 

street, Argos. 

The Rev. Wayne TIPPEY of the Argos Wesleyan Methodist church officiated and burial 

was in the Maple Grove cemetery. 

The infant died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Osteopathic hospital at South Bend, two 

days after birth. 

Surviving besides the parents are a sister, Dianne Lynn [WILLIAMS], at home; four halfbrothers, 

Clyde, Richard and Roland BROWN at home, and Robert BROWN, Argos; a half-sister, 

Mrs. Barbara HOOKER, Argos, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John SULLIVAN, 

Plymouth.

Marie Gorsline 

Final rites for Mrs. Marie GORSLINE, 82, Logansport, a native of Rochester, will be at 4 

p.m. Friday in the Chase-Miller chapel in Logansport. 

The Rev. Dale BEATTY will officiate and burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. The family asks that flowers be omitted. 

Mrs. Gorsline died at 4 p.m. Wednesday at her home, three days after the death of her 

brother, George FELDER. 


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Dr. Loy L. Anderson 

Dr. Loy L. ANDERSON, retired Argos veterinarian, died at 11 a.m. today at the home of 

a daughter, Mrs. Ray MILLER, Koontz Lake near Walkerton. He was 75 years old. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body was removed to the Grossman funeral 

home in Argos. 

Dennis D. Lockwood 

Dennis Delbert LOCKWOOD, 70, died at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Woodlawn hospital from 

a ruptured appendix. A resident of Deedsville, he had been ill four days. 

Born Dec. 12, 1886, at Deedsville, he was the son of George and Mary CLINGENTELL 

LOCKWOOD. He was married at Valley Forge, Kan., to Grace FORBES, who preceded him in 

death. Mr. Lockwood was a retired male nurse. 

Surviving are three sons, Delbert Lewis [LOCKWOOD], Great Falls, Mont.; William 

Howard [LOCKWOOD], Gashland, Mo.; and Glen Albert [LOCKWOOD], Rochester; one 

daughter, Mrs. Verna Maxine CLEVENGER, Elmira, Mo.; nine grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. 

Bertha ADAMS, Mrs. Marie BAKER and Miss Anita LOCKWOOD, all of Grand Junction, Colo., 

and one brother, Ethert LOCKWOOD, Grand Junction. 

Funeral services will be held at the McCain funeral home near Denver at 2 p.m. Tuesday 

with the Rev. C. F. GOLDEN officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Deedsville. 


Hugh L. Jordan 

A former Rochester resident, father of eight children, was killed in an automobile 

accident west of Winamac Saturday during a week-end in which 16 persons died violent deaths on 

Indiana highways. 

He was Hugh L. JORDAN, 38, Logansport, who left Rochester with his family about a 

year ago. The Jordans, who resided here at 119 East Ninth street, resided in Plymouth for a time 

and then returned to Logansport, where they had lived before coming to Rochester two years ago. 

A truck driver, Jordan was employed by the Chicago Express Inc. 

Dead with Jordan in the accident which occurred 11 miles west of Winamac on State 

Road 14, was David HUCKINSON, 35, Chicago, formerly of Thornhope, Ind. Jordan suffered a 

broken neck and fractures of both legs. Huckinson’s body was badly mangled.

Jordan apparently was driving and the two men evidently fell asleep, their car striking a 

bridge abutment and hurtling into a water-filled ditch below. The car still was on its wheels in the 

water, which was up to the seat cushion of the car, when a passerby found the wreck seven hours 

later. Time of the wreck was established at 2 a.m. because Jordan’s watch stopped at that time. 

The car struck the bridge with such force that it tore the entire front end off the car, 

including the motor, hood and fenders. 

Surviving Jordan are his wife, Virginia [JORDAN], and children, Tom, 19, Mildred, 16, 

Dale, 15, Sandra, 13, Brenda, 11, Phyllis, 10, Roger, 9, and Floyd 7. Services will be held at 1 

p.m. Tuesday at the Fisher funeral home in Logansport. Burial will be in the Mount Hope 

cemetery. 

Paul Whitton 

Paul WHITTON, 47, died suddenly Sunday at his home in Fort Wayne. He had not been 

ill. His wife is the former Esther ZEGAFUSE of this city. 

Also surviving are three sons, Doyle [WHITTON], in the U. S. Army, and Jerry and 

Robert [WHITTON], at home. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the McComb 

funeral home in Fort Wayne with burial in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Emma Smith 

Mrs. Emma SMITH, 81, longtime member of the Tiosa community, died at 8:10 a.m. 

Sunday in Woodlawn hospital where she had been confined since suffering a stroke at her home 

Friday. 

Born April 6, 1876, in Pulaski county, she had lived most of her life near Tiosa. She was 

the daughter of Israel and Sarah MYERS OVERMYER and first was married in 1893 to James 

PALMER, who died in 1908. Her second marriage was to Guy SMITH on May 23, 1927. He 

died April 8, 1955. 

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Carmen KATH and Mrs. Doris LONG, both of Tiosa, 

and Mrs. Mary ZUMBAUGH, Chase, Mich.; two sons, Dewald PALMER, R.R. 5, Rochester; and 

Cecil [PALMER], Bell Gardens, Cal.; three stepchildren, Mrs. Donna HAIGH, Chebanse, Ill.; 

Mrs. Lola KONOW, South Bend, and Roy SMITH, R.R. 3, Argos; twenty-three grandchildren; 

thirty-five great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Della SMITH, Rochester. One son, James 

[PALMER], died in 1938. 

Funeral services will be held at the Tiosa Brethren church, of which Mrs. Smith was a 

member, at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. Wayne SWIHART, Valparaiso, officiating. Burial 

will be in Sand Hill cemetery. 

Friends may call at the home of Mrs. Orville LONG, Tiosa, after 1 p.m. today until noon 

Wednesday. The body will lie in state at the church an hour before the services. 

Earl E. Follin 

Earl Edward FOLLIN, 65, station agent for the Nickel Plate railroad here the past nine 

years, died of adenocarcinoma of the lung at 9:45 p.m. Saturday at the home of his son, Earl 

[FOLLIN], Jr., R.R. 5, Muncie. Mr. Follin, who lived at 1031 Madison street in Rochestr, had 

been convalescing at his son’s home the past month. 

He had been in failing health for 14 months, having left his work with the railroad last 

October. He had been employed by the Nickel Plate for 40 years, serving as agent and telegrapher 

at various cities in the Indianapolis division before coming to Rochester. 

Born March 10, 1892, in Fort Wayne, he was married to Zula Ethel FRYER on Jan. 1,

1916. His parents were David and Matilda NEWPORT FOLLIN, 

Surviving are the wife, at home; four sons, Earl [FOLLIN[, Jr., Muncie; Robert 

[FOLLIN], Michigan City; James and Lee [FOLLIN[, both of Cincinnati, O.; one daughter, Mrs. 

Mary Jane BURKHOLDER, Alliance, O.; one sister, Mrs. Mabel CASAD, Rochester, and ten 


Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. DST Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers 

funeral home with the Rev. Victor E. STONER of the Selma Methodist church officiating. Burial 

will be at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Walkerton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 

p.m. today. 


Albert A. Campbell 

Funeral services were held Monday in Portland, Ore., for Albert A. CAMPBELL, 85, a 

native of Fulton county who died suddenly of a heart attack Friday at his home in Portland. 

Born near Leiters Ford, he was the son of Christopher and Rebecca CAMPBELL. He 

graduated from high school at Leiters Ford and gained a degree from the University of Michigan, 

teaching school at Leiters and Akron and serving as superintendent of Peru city schools before 

leaving for Oregon some 45 years ago. 

Surviving are six children: two brothers, C. C. CAMPBELL, Rochester, and Barcher 

CAMPBELL, Gary; and two sisters, Mrs. Clara LEITER, Rochester, and Mrs. Lucretia Van 

KIRK, Kentland. 

Lillie L. Britton 

Mrs. Lillie Leona BRITTON, 66, Peru, died of embolism of the lung at 3:55 a.m. today at 

the home of a daughter, Mrs. Cora KING, 1023 Franklin street. 

A resident of Twelve Mile most of her life, Mrs. Britton moved to Peru recently. She 

was born on Dec. 21, 1890 in Prairie township, Miami county to Franklin and Mary Ann 

(BARGER) BERKHEISER. 

She was married on Nov. 29, 1910 in Custer, Mich., to John Park BRITTON, who died in 

1947. She was a member of the Twelve Mile Corinth Brethren church and Missionary Society. 

Surviving besides Mrs. King are five other daughters, Mrs. Mary PRESSLER and Mrs. 

Rosalea MICK of Montpelier, Ohio; Mrs. Orma WILSON of Michigan City; Mrs. Edna BASH of 

New Waverly and Mrs. Sara MAERZ of New Carlisle; five sons, Park, Charles and John 

[BRITTON], of LaPorte, Daniel [BRITTON] of Peru and Grover [BRITTON[, of Sacramento, 

Cal. 

Also twenty-one grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Howard 

BERKHEISER, Miami, Fla., Harvey BERKHEISER, Rochester, and Mrs. Lewis BERKHEISER, 

Dora MURPHY, Ft. Wayne, and Miss Emma BERKHEISER, Flora. One son, New Haven, Ind.; 

two sisters; Mrs. Lawrence, preceded her in death in infancy. [sic] 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The Rev. 

Gilbert MAUS of Twelve Mile will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Fremont WILLMERT, of 

Rochester. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. Friends may call at the funeral 

home after 7 p.m. today.

Dr. Loy L. Anderson 

Final rites for Dr. Loy L. ANDERSON, retired Argos veterinarian, will be at 4 p.m. 

Wednesday in the Grossman funeral home in Argos. 

The Rev. Robert WHITEHEAD, of the Argos Congregational Christian church, will 

officiate and burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. The Argos Masonic Lodge will 

conduct graveside services. 

Dr. Anderson, a veterinarian in Argos for 40 years before his retirement in 1945, died of 

a coronary occlusion Monday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ray MILLER, Koontz 

Lake near Walkerton. 

A native of Fulton county, he was born March 2, 1881 to Ira and Sarah RICE 

ANDERSON. He was married on Dec. 25, 1901 to Roxy Lucille CLEMENS, who died in 1955. 

He made his home in Honor, Mich., after his retirement in 1954. 

Dr. Anderson was a member of the Argos Congregational Christian church, the Argos 

399 F. & A.M. for 35 years, and of the Argos Izaak Walton League for many years. 

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Roy (Mojeska) MILLER, Walkerton; two grandchildren; 

three great-grandchildren; a brother, Emra G. ANDERSON, Mentone; a half-brother, Wilvin 

LONG, Mentone. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Friends may call at the 

funeral home. 

Sophia Bransford 

Mrs. Sophia BRANSFORD, 71, of East Walnut street, Argos, died at 2:15 a.m. today at 

the home of a daughter, Mrs. Alta SMITH, Sweetzer, an illness of several years. 

She had lived in the Argos vicinity for 35 years, moving there from Miami, Ind. She was 

born on Nov. 11, 1885 in Bath county, Ky., to John and Emma HORNSBECK. 

Her husband was Oscar BRANSFORD whom she married in 1907 and who died in 1953. 

She attended the Methodist church at Argos. 

Surviving are two sons, Paul O. BRANSFORD, North Webster, and Woodrow B. 

BRANSFORD, Rochester; one grandson; five sisters, Mrs. Alta SMITH, Sweetzer, Mrs. Dottie, 

WHITTON, Marion, Mrs. Maude MILLER, Gas City; Mrs. Carrie ROGERS, Flemmysburg, Ky., 

and Mrs. Del CALVERT, Owingsville, Ky., and a brother, Wesley HORNSBECK, Marion. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Grossman funeral home of Argos with the Rev. 

Edward BOASE, of the Argos Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Argos Maple 

Grove cemetery. 

Charlotte M. Moore 

Funeral services were held this afternoon in Plymouth for Mrs. Charlotte M. MOORE, 

61, who died Saturday night at the Parkview hospital in Plymouth after a two-month illness. 

Born Dec. 28, 1895, in Fulton county, she was the daughter of Francis and Effie 

HATTERY. Her marriage was to William MOORE, who died in 1950. 

Surviving are eight children, Mrs. Mabel GOOD, Rochester; Emerald GREER, Chicago; 

Frederick GREER, Plymouth; Robert GREER Chicago; Mrs. Georgia KERN, Rochester; William 

GREER, Plymouth; Mrs. Margaret CARR, South Bend, and Marvin MOORE, Plymouth; two 

brothers, Ernest HATTERY, LaPaz, and Ora HATTERY, Farmersburg; one sister, Mrs. Guy 

BOOKS, Rochester, and nine grandchildren. 

Burial was made in the Hoover cemetery, Athens.

Fredrick W. Fromm 

Services for Fredrick W. FROMM, 85, South Bend, a former resident of Rochester, were 

conducted in South Bend Monday afternoon. 

The Rev. Delmar KRUEGER of the St. John Lutheran church in Rochester, officiated 

and burial was in the Riverview cemetery at South Bend. 

Mr. Fromm, who had lived in South Bend since 1907, died in Memorial hospital at South 

Bend Saturday after several months illness. 

A native of Rochester, he was born on Dec. 1, 1871. He is survived by his widow, Edna 

HALL FROMM; a son, Fred [FROMM], Midland, Mich., and two grandchildren. 


John Ray McGlothin 

John Ray McGLOTHIN, infant son of Fred and Rosemary HOLLOWAY McGLOTHIN, 

died at birth this morning at 6:15 o’clock in Woodlawn hospital. 

Surviving besides the parents who reside at 949 Park avenue, are three sisters, Carol Ann, 

Connie Sue and Dianna Lynn [McGLOTHIN]; one brother, Fred Allen [McGLOTHIN], the 

maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin HOLLOWAY; the paternal grandfather, Fred 

McGLOTHIN; and several aunts and nieces. 

Services were held today at 4 p.m. at the Foster and Good funeral home with the Rev. L. 

E. POWELL officiating. Burial will be in Citizens cemetery. 


Charles Pimental 

Word has been received by Mrs. Norman WALTERS, 1701 Madison street, of the 

sudden death of her brother-in-law, Charles PIMENTAL, New Bedford, Mass. 

Death came from a heart attack. He was a veteran of World War II and lived in New 

Bedford with his wife and son, Carlton [PIMENTAL], 12. 


Kervin Heltzel 

Graveside services were held at 11 o’clock this morning for Kevin [David] HELTZEL, 

son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and Jeannette PENROD HELTZEL. The infant was stillborn this 

morning at 2:30 o’clock at Woodlawn Hospital. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are a brother, Michael [HELTZEL], and the maternal 

grandmother, Mrs. Bertha PENROD of Akron. 

The Rev. Harold CONRAD officiatd at the services, with burial in the Akron cemetery. 


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Walter Brooker 

Funeral services have been set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home for Walter BROOKER, 87, retired Rochester township farmer who died at 4:30 a.m. Sunday 

at his home 7 1/2 miles west of here on the Sixth street road. 

Death came from cancer after a two-month illness. 

The Rev. George CRANE will officiate at the last rites and burial will be made in the 

Moon cemetery near Leiters Ford. 

Mr. Brooker was born May 3, 1870, in Pulaski county but had resided in this county for 

the past 80 years. His parents were Isaac and Sarah UPDEGROVE BROOKER. His marriage 

was July 24, 1901, in Rochester to Nellie Edith CARITHERS, who survives. 

Mr. Brooker was a 50-year member of the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. lodge. 

Surviving, besides the widow, are two daughters, Mrs. Charles TALBOTT and Mrs. 

Hugh V. HUNNESHAGEN, Sr., both of Rochester; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a 

brother, Rudolph [BROOKER], Kewanna, and several nieces and nephews. A daughter died at 

birth Oct. 9, 1909. 

Solomon J. Shadel 

Word has been received of the death in Inglewood, Cal., of Solomon J. SHADEL,77, a 

native of Leiters Ford who devoted his life to educational work. 

Mr. Shadel, oldest son of Henry and Martha SHADEL, died in an Inglewood hospital 

Thursday and was buried in Trinidad, Colo. He was the brother of Guy SHADEL of Leiters Ford. 

A former pupil of Aubbeenaubbee township school and Rochester Normal University, 

Mr. Shadel also taught in both schools and later was principal at Hanna, Star Ticy and Walkerton 

before moving to Trinidad. 

He was high school principal at Trinidad for several years and then served three terms as 

Superintendent of Schools for Las Arvinas county in Colorado. 

During his superentendency, several new schools were established in the county and he 

spearheaded the formation of free English classs throughout the county for the large number of 

foreign born children and adults. He taught many of the classes himself without remuneration. 

School bus transportation also was begun while he ws superintendent. 

Mr. Shadel later moved to California where he was associated with welfare work until his 

retirement. 

He last visited in Fulton county four years ago and upon his return home was stricken 

with paralysis. 

Mr. Shadel first was married in 1904 to Blanche SIPLE of Argos, who died in Trinidad in 

1915. they had four children all of whom survive. 

In 1916 he was married to Bessie COSKEY of Trinidad, who preceded him in death. 

They had two children who also survive. 

Also surviving are eleven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and 

nephews; two sisters, Mrs. Mary BALL and Mrs. Nellie ANDERSON of South Bend, and Guy 

SHADEL.

Floy L. Carr 

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Bubb funeral home chapel at 

South Bend for Mrs. Floy L. CARR, 82, a former Rochester resident. Mrs. Carr, who lived in 

South Bend with a granddaughter, Mrs. Richard SHAWHAN, 942 South 27th street, died Friday 

evening in St. Joseph’s Hospital of a heart attack following a one-day illness. 

Born May 18, 1875, in Mexico, Ind., she moved to Akron following her marriage to 

Reuben R. CARR. The Carrs lived in Rochester after Mr. Carr was elected circuit court judge for 

Fulton and Marshall counties in the mid-20s. Judge Carr died in 1929 and Mrs. Carr moved to 

South Bend four years later. 

She was a member of the Rochester Eastern Star and Rebekah lodge and the South Bend 

Women’s Relief Corps. Surviving area sister, Miss Jessie WEAVER of Warsaw; a son-in-law, W. 

H. ROBERTS of South Bend, and three other grandchildren. Two daughters preceded her in 

death. 

The Rev. Ralph M. JONES will officiate at the funeral services, with burial in the 

I.O.O.F. cemetery in Rochester. 


Ethel Wenger 

Mrs. Ethel SPURLOCK WENGER, 77, died at 4 p.m. Monday at the Miller nursing 

home here after a six-month illness. She resided at 109 Jefferson street. 

Mrs. Wenger is survived by 130 descendants who include 11 children 45 grandchildren 

and 74 great-grandchildren. 

She was born Oct. 15, 1879 in Kewanee, W. Va., the daughter of Thomas and Mary 

SPURLOCK. She had resided in this community almost her entire life. 

Her first marriage was in 1898 to Eli WOODCOX who preceded her in death. She was 

married in 1942 to Samuel WENGER who also preceded her in death. Mrs. Wenger was a 

member of the Church of God. 

Surviving are 11 children, Mrs. Susie Mae BIDDINGER, stepdaughter, Arkansas; Mrs. 

Mertie PLETCHER, Argos; Marion WOODCOX, South Bend; Mrs. Bessie GOOD, LaPaz; Paul 

WOODCOX, South Bend; Mrs. Ida Belle STEININGER, Rochester; Miss Carrie WOODCOX, at 

home; Jonas WOODCOX, Arizona; Mrs. Berth GUARD, Bremen; Leonard WOODCOX, 

Rochester; two brothers, Calvin SPURLOCK, R.R. 4, Rochester; a sister, Carrie CRABILL, 

Wabash; and several nieces. One daughter and two sons preceded her in death. 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Church of God with the 

Rev. Lloyd POWELL officiating. Burial will be in the Citizens cemetery here. Friends may call 

at the Foster and Good funeral home after 6 p.m. today. The body will lie in state at the church an 

hour before the funeral. 

David Schmitt 

Robert HAVENS, 19, a University of Notre Dame student from Indianapolis who was 

injured in a crash that killed his companion on U.S. 31 near here Monday night is expected to be 

dismissed from Woodlawn hospital today. 

Havens received numerous skin burns and a bruised left ankle, but was not hurt seriously 

his doctor said. He was listed in “apparently good” condition at the hospital this morning. 

Killed in the 8:55 p.m. one-car crash, two miles south of Rochester, was David 

SCHMITT, 19, Indianapolis, also a Notre Dame student. He suffered a basal skull fracture.

Schmitt was the third fatality of 1957 on Fulton county highways. 

The youths were northbound in a 1953 Ford convertible when the driver, thought to have 

been Havens, apparently lost control. 

The car veered to the right berm for 280 feet, crossed the highway for 90 feet, went along 

the left berm for 185 feet, turned over once, recrossed the road for another 125 feet, turned over 

again, and went another 13 feet, on the right berm before coming to a halt on its wheels. 

Both companions were thrown out of the car and cuts on their ankles led investigating 

officers to believe they were thrown through the canvas top of the auto. 

The accident occurred near the Harold CARRUTHERS home and it apparently was 

Carruthers who called the sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office summoned an ambulance before 

leaving for the scene of the crash. 

Dance music still was coming through the car radio when the sheriff’s men arrved. State 

police also helped with the investigation. 

Dr. Howard ROWE Fulton county coroner pronounced Schmitt dead of a basal skull 

fracture at about 9:30 p.m. 

The car was completely demolished. Books and papers listing Notre Dame addresses led 

to the belief the youths were University students. 

The body of Schmitt was taken to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here and was to 

be removed to the La---k funeral home in Indianapolis this morning. 

Word was received that Schmitt’s mother had died only about three weeks ago. 

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Final rites for James E. KEIM, 82, R.R. 1, Macy, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the 

Sheetz funeral home at Akron, with the Rev. Ralph HUFFMAN officiating. Burial will be in the 

Enterprise cemetery northeast of Gilead. 

Mr. Eaton died in a Logansport hospital of uremic poisoning at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday 

after an illness of five months. 

A resident of near Macy for 10 years, Mr. Keim was born in Wabash county on Aug. 28, 

1874, to Nathaniel and Eleanor FOWLER KEIM. 

He was married in Denver on Nov. 18, 1902 to Lucy WHITMYER, who died in 1938. 

Mr. Keim was a retired farmer and a member of the North Manchester Methodist church. 

Surviving are a daughter, Miss Geraldine KEIM, Indianapolis; a son, Gene [KEIM], R.R. 

1, Macy; two grandchildren and a brother, Arthur [KEIM], Peru. Two sisters and a brother 



Carrie N. Hoffman 

Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie N. HOFFMAN, 80, Akron, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in 

the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron. 

The Rev. Harold CONRAD will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Claude FAWNS. Burial 

will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Mrs. Hoffman died at Woodlawn hospital at 3:15 a.m. Thursday of a coronary occlusion 

after an illness of one day. 

A resident of the Akron vicinity her entire life, Mrs. Hoffman was born in Fulton county 

on Feb. 2, 1877, to Nathaniel and Katherine DICKERHOFF CAMP. 

Her marriage was on Nov. 4, 1893, to Charles HOFFMAN, who died in 1932. 

She was a memer of the Akron Methodist church. 

Surviving are two sons, Ralph and Walter [HOFFMAN], Huntington; nine grandchildren; 

sixten great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Reuben and James CAMP, Akron. A son, Dewey 

[HOFFMAN], two sisters and a brother preceded her in death. 


William Schmicker 

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Peter’s church in Winamac for 

William SCHMICKER, 63, who died Thursday afternoon at Methodist hospital in Indianapolis 

where he had undergone surgery Tuesday. 

Among the survivors are the wife and six children, including a daughter, Mrs. Alvin 

FOX, Grass Creek, and twelve grandchildren. Mr. Schmicker had lived in Winamac 40 years. 

Friends may call at the Kennedy funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Burial will be in St. 

Peter’s cemetery. 

Saturday, June 1, 1957 

Elizabeth E. Lesley 

Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen LESLEY, 81, native of Macy, died at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the Dukes 

hospital at Peru. Mrs. Lesley resided at 259 East Canal street in Peru. 

She was born Oct. 17, 1875, at Macy. Her first marriage was in 1895 to Bert WHITNEY 

and in 1928 she was married to James LESLEY, who preceded her in death. Her parents were Mr. 

and Mrs. Joseph NORMAN. 

Surviving are six children, Leo WHITNEY, Peru; Glen WHITNEY, South Bend; Mrs. 

Frank DeBOLD, Calumet City, Ill.; Mrs. Lessel DOCK, Peru; Delmar WHITNEY, Peru; Mrs. 

Porter COPLEN, Peru; one brother, Milo NORMAN, Macy; a sister, Mrs. Wilbur CASTLE, South 

Bend; seventeen grandchildren and thirty-one great grandchildren. Two daughters, four brothers 

and four sisters preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be held at the Drake-Flowers funeral home in Peru Monday at 2 

p.m. with the Rev. A. C. UNDERWOOD officiating. Burial will be in the Plainview cemetery at 

Macy. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

O. F. Burns 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

here for Oral F. “Zeke” BURNS, 50, Rochester native, who died at 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the St. 

Joseph hospital in South Bend. 

Mr. Burns had been a patient at the hospital since Tuesday and had been in failing health 

for several years. He resided at 116 East Ohio street in South Bend, where he had lived for the 

past 18 years. 

Born Nov. 13, 1906, in Rochester, he was the son of James M. and Nancy Ellen 

HALTERMAN BURNS. A painter by occupation, he moved from Rochester to South Bend. 

Survivors are one son, Jack [BURNS], with the Marine Corps now stationed in 

Maryland; one daughter, Mrs. Phyllis BENCE, Kokomo; one brother, Paul BURNS, Rochester; 

five sisters, Mrs. Burdette Van DIEN, South Bend; Mrs. Fred LANCE, Mrs. Lewis SLOAN, Mrs. 

Carl PLATTE and Mrs. Don BUNN, all of Detroit; and one grandchild. 

Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 

p.m. today. 

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Tuesday, June 4, 1957 

Mrs. Elba L. Smith 

Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna for 

Mrs. Elba L. SMITH, 75, who died Sunday afternoon at her Kewanna home. 

The Rev. George WRIGHT officiated at the last rites and burial was made in the 

Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

A native of Pulaski county, she was born Jan. 12, 1882, to Oliver and Martha 

LAMBORN. She was married to Arthur SMITH Feb. 4, 1902. Mrs. Smith was a member of the 

Reformed church, Rebekah lodge and a charter member of the Order of Eastern Star lodge at 

Kewanna. 

Surviving are her husband, a son, Carl [SMITH]; a grandson; one sister, Mrs. Carrie 

SMITH, South Bend. Two brothers preceded her in death. 

Wednesday, June 5, 1957 

Luella Easterday 

Mrs. Luella EASTERDAY, 88, died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Rochester Nursing 

Home, where she had resided the past year. 

A resident of the Rochester community her entire life, she was the daughter of Mr. and 

Mrs. John JOHNSON. Her marriage was on Nov. 11, 1918, to Frank “Jack” EASTERDAY, who 

died in 1952. 

Surviving are two stepsons, Walter EASTERDAY, Marshall, Mich., and Chloris 

EASTERDAY, LaCrosse, Wis., and numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews. 

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. F. I. WILLMERT of the Trinity E.U.B. church officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Julia E. Davidson 

Final rites for Mrs. Julia Etta DAVIDSON, 83, Poenix, Ariz., a native of Fulton county 

who moved to Phoenix last year, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Foster & Good funeral home in 

Rochester. 

Mrs. Davidson died at 11 p.m. May 30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy KINDIG, 

in Phoeix after an illness of 10 days. 

Deborah Sue McKee 

Deborah Sue McKEE, six-year-old daughter of John and Betty GROVER McKEE of 

Bluffton, died at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Caylor-Nickel clinic hospital in Bluffton. Death came 

from meningitis after a two-day illness. The child’s father is a native of Rochester, leaving here 

five years ago. 

Surviving, besides the parents, are two brothers, Michael and Mark [McKEE]; one sister, 

Sally Elaine [McKEE]; maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William REECE, Liberty Center; 

maternal great-grandfather, Gideon GERBER, Bluffton, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. George 

(Sarah) McKEE, South Bend. 

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the John Goodwin and Reed funeral home 

in Bluffton. Burial will be in the Elm Grove cemetery there. 

Thursday, June 6, 1957 

Grace E. Leedy 

Mrs. Grace Elizabeth LEEDY, 61, Peru, mother of Mrs. Walter KEIM of Rochester, died 

in Dukes hospital at Peru Wednesday at 3:47 p.m. after an illness of six years. She had been 

seriously ill for the last five days. 

Mrs. Leedy was a member of the First Christian church, the Grandmothers club, the 

Rebekah Lodge and the Pythian Sisters, all in Peru. 

She was born in Mishawaka July 8, 1895, to Roney and Rachel (SMITH) BOOKER. Her 

first marriage was to Arthur CARPENTER in 1911 and her second was to Lloyd LEEDY in 1938. 

She had lived most of her life in Peru and the vicinity. 

Surviving besides Mr. Leedy and Mrs. Keim, are two daughters, Mrs. Fred 

SCHRAEDER of LaPorte and Mrs. Charles KOCZAN, Jr., South Bend; two brothers, William 

BOOKER, Ludington, Mich; and Caleb BOOKER, Mishawaka, and five grandchildren. A son, a 

sister and a grandchild preceded her in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Drake-Flowers chapel in Peru with the Rev. 

Avery W. MILEY officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Hope cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Friday. 

Julia E. Davidson 

Mrs. Julia Etta DAVIDSON, 83, Phoenix, Ariz., for whom final rites were conducted 

here this afternoon had lived in Fulton county 82 years before moving to Phoenix last year. 

She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy KINDIG, at 11 p.m. May 30 after being 

ill 10 days. 

Born in Fulton county on Sept. 23, 1873, Mrs. Davidson was the daughter of Michael and 

Roberta HETZNER. In 1899 she was married to Franklin DAVIDSON, who preceded her in 

death. 

She was a member of the First Christian church here.

Surviving besides Mrs. Kindig are three sons, Robert L. [DAVIDSON], of Hammond, 

Samuel A. [DAVIDSON], of East Chicago and William SCHROEDER of Peru; three stepdaughters, 

Mrs. Blanche GOOD of Citrus Heights, Cal., Mrs. Bessie TRUXELL of Tajunga, Cal., 

and Mrs. Harvey GREGSON of South Bend; fifteen grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren 

and several nieces and nephews. 

Services were conducted at the Foster & Good funeral home with the Rev. James E. 

KIMSEY of the First Christian church officiating. Burial was in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friday, June 7, 1957 

Alan Wayne Newhouse 

Final rites for Alan Wayne NEWHOUSE, 5, of Middletown, R.I., formerly of Silver 

Lake, will be at 2 p.m Saturday in the Sheetz funeral home at Akron. 

The Rev. Levi HILL will officiate and burial will be in the South Pleasant church 

cemetery south of Pleasant Lake. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

The son of Charles and Helen (LYNCH) NEWHOUSE, Alan died in a Newport, R.I. 

hospital at1 p.nm. Wednesday offulminating pneumonia. He was ill two days. 

Alan was born in Woodlawn hospital here on Dec. 15, 1951 and moved with his parents 

to Middletown from Silver Lake three years ago. 

Surviving besides the parents are a sister, Cathy [NEWHOUSE], at home; the maternal 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse LYNCH, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George 

NEWHOUSE, all of Silver Lake. 


Airman 3-C Joseph E. Strycker 

Airman 3-C Joseph Eldon STRYCKER, 19, Delong, who died Thursday of injuries 

sustained in a car-truck crash, still are incomplete. 

Styrcker died at 7:30 p.m. in the Witheville, Va., hospital after receiving spinal injuries in 

a crash May 11 near Wytheville. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. An airman 

companion, Larry K. GAVIN, suffered a broken back. 

Both were stationed with the United States Air Force at Charleston, S.C., and were 

returning home on leave. 

Strycker’s body will be taken to the Danielson and Van Gilder funeral home in Plymouth. 

Born on May 14, 1938, he had lived for a number of years in Plymouth before moving to 

Delong. 

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ida LEHMAN, Delong; his grandmother, Mrs. Effie 

ALTHEIDE, Plymouth; his father, Walter STRYCKER, Elkhart; two sisters, Mrs. Sally RHOAD, 

Cedar Lake, and Linda STRYCKER, at home, and two brothers, James [STRYCKER], Plymouth, 

and John [STRYCKER], with the armed forces.

Sylvia Hudkins 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Harrison chapel at Kewanna for 

Mrs. Sylvia HUDKINS, 75, who died Friday morning at the Winamac hospital following a long 

illness. 

The Rev. Robert BELT will officiate and burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. 

Mrs. Hudkins was born Nov. 18, 1881, the daughter of Harvey and Alice LIMING 

BROWN. She was married to David HUDKINS May 6, 1908. She was a member of the 

Kewanna Baptist church. 

Surviving are the husband and two brothers, Frank and Clayton BROWN, both of 

Kewanna. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. 

Friends may call at the Harrison chapel after noon today. 

Grace Leedy 

Last rites were held today at Peru for Mrs. Grace LEEDY, 61, Peru, who died 

Wednesday in Dukes hospital there. Burial was in the Mt. Hope cemetery. Mrs. Leedy was the 

mother of Mrs. Walter KEIM, Rochester. 

Also surviving are her husband and two other daughters, Mrs. Fred SCHRADER, 

LaPorte, and Mrs. Charles KOCZAN, Jr., South Bend; two brothers; one sister and five 


Frank Utter 

Frank UTTER, who lived near Athens on R.R. 2, Rochester, died at 10 a.m. today in 

Woodlawn hospital. 

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Athens E.U.B. church with the Rev. 

Lawrence WHITE officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call after noon 

Sunday until 12:30 p.m. Monday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron. 


Airman 3-C Joseph E. Strycker 

Funeral services have been set for 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Delong Methodist 

church for Airman 3-C Joseph Eldon STRYCKER, 19, Delong, who died Thursday of injuries 

sustained in a car-truck accident near Wytheville, Va., May 11. 

The Rev. Louis HASKELL will officiate and graveside rites will be conducted by the 

American Legion Post 399 of Monterey. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Monterey. 

The body arrived from Virginia Sunday night and friends may call at the Danielson and Van 

Gilder funeral home in Plymouth until an hour before the rites when the body will be taken to the 

church to lie in state. 

Mrs. Edward Aughinbaugh 

Mrs. Edward AUGHINBAUGH, 64, a former resident of Akron who moved to North 

Manchester five years ago, died at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at her home of heart trouble. She had been ill 

six and a half years. 

Born in Kosciusko county on Feb. 16, 1893, she was the daughteer of Abram and 

Suzanne CARNS PRIZER. In 1917 she was married to Edward AUGHINBAUGH in Warsaw. 

She was a member of the North Manchester Church of the Brethren.

Surviving are the husband and a sister, Mrs. Sylvia DIELMAN, Akron. Four sisters and 

a brother preceded her in death. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Sheetz funeral home at Akron with the Rev. 

Glen SMOUSE officiating. Burial will be in the Fairview cemetery at North Manchester. Friends 

may call at the funeral home. 

Frank Utter 

Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Athens E.U.B. church for Frank UTTER, 

70, who died of a heart attack at 10 a.m. Saturday in Woodlawn hospital. Ill two weeks, he had 

been in the hospital the past seven days. 

Mr. Utter, who lived east of the city near Athens was born Nov. 23, 1886 in Kosciusko 

county. He was married in Rochester in 1918 to Ida BEEHLER. His wife had died on Jan. 3 of 

this year. Mr. Utter’s parents were David and Eliza LANDIS UTTER. 

He was a member of the American Legion Post of Rochester. 

Surviving are one daughter Mrs. Harold (Virginia) SMITH, Mishawaka; three brothers, 

Clarence UTTER and Arthur UTTER both of Athens; James UTTER, South Bend; two sisters, 

Mrs. Cora EBER, Silver Lake and Mrs. Tressie SMITH, Akron. 

The Rev. Lawrence WHITE officiated at the last rites and burial was made in the Akron 

cemetery. 

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Tuesday, June 11, 1957 


Stella Whittenberger 

Six persons were injured, one fatally, in the crash of two cars, one pulling a house trailer, 

at U.S. 31 and State Road 110 north of Rochester at 8:45 o’clock this morning. 

Dead is Mrs. Stella WHITTENBERGER, 74, Carpenteria, Cal. She suffered a skull 

fracture and possible broken right arm and left leg. She died at about 11 a.m. in Woodlawn 

hospital. 

Injured are: 

William R. ISOM, Sr., 25, injured right knee and chester. Lacerations on right leg, facial 

abrasions. 

Mrs. Mildred M. ISOM, 24, Isom’s wife, dislocated left hip, injured left ankle, facial 

lacerations. 

William R. ISOM, Jr., 1 1/2, Isom’s son, concussion. 

Don E. ISOM, 19, Isom’s brother, multiple bruises. 

Mrs. Viola M. LEONARD, 27, Mrs. Isom’s sister, injured left ankle, and right finger. 

Not hurt were Jacquelyn Sue ISOM, the Isom’s three-year-old daughter, and Mrs. 

Whittenberger’s husband.

Elra Hogan 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday for Elra HOGAN, 71, who died Tuesday 

afternoon at his home in Kewanna. 

He was born July 21, 1885, the son of William and Donna COLLINS HOGAN and was 

married June 25, 1912, to Ida DAHLKE. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and the 

American Legion, both of which will conduct graveside rites. 

Srviving are the wife, at home; two sons, Roy E. HOGAN, South Carolina, and Jack 

HOGAN, Kewanna; two daughters Melda REED, Hammond and Mrs. Connie SHAW, LaPorte; 

one brother, Ernest [HOGAN], Kewanna, and eleven grandchildren. 

Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Kewanna. Friends may call at the Harrison 

funeral home. 

Mrs. Clyde T. King 

Mrs. Clyde T. [Mable] KING, 61, Akron, died at 8:15 a.m. today in Woodlawn hospital 

after being ill 12 years. 

Born in Kosciusko county on Nov. 10, 1895, she was the daughter of Clarence and Orpha 

(HART) MORRETT. She was married in Warsaw in 1917 to Clyde KING, who survives. 

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Gloria GEARHART of Akron; two greatgrandchildren; 

three sisters, Miss Anna MORRETT of Logansport, Mrs. Lura CRAGG of Akron 

and Mrs. Frienda (Tola) MILLER of Akron, and two brothers, Carl MORRETT of Toledo and 

Wilbur MORRETT of Akron. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron. The Rev. Claude 

FAWNS will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Harold CONRAD. Burial will be in the Akron 

cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home about noon Thursday. 

May Felix 

Funeral services will be Thursday at the Colburn Lutheran church in Winamac for Mrs 

May CHAPMAN FELIX, 79, who died at her Winamac home Monday night. 

Among the survivors are her husband, William [FELIX]; five sons, two brothers and two 

sisters, including Mrs. Maude IMLER, Rochester. 

Burial will be in the Colburn Lutheran cemetery. 

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George Koenig 

George KOENIG, 84, Gilead, died at 3:15 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital from 

complications arising from a broken hip suffered six days ago. 

He was born in Otway, O., April 24, 1873, to William and Lena KOENIG. He was 

married in Otway in 1894 to Rachel NEWMAN, who died in 1921. 

Mr. Koenig, a retired farmer, had lived in the Gilead community 18 years, moving there 

from Kewanna. He was a member of the Kewanna Methodist church and was the last member of 

an original family of 16 children

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Ella HOFFMAN, Gilead; Mrs. Irvin VAWTER, South 

Bend; Mrs. Martin LEACENBY, Flora; Mrs. Earl SATTERFIELD, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Harold 

PINDER, Kewanna; two sons, Floyd [KOENIG], Macy, and Roy [KOENIG], Logansport; twentythree 

grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren. Three daughters preceded him in death. 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Pleasant Hill church, Macy, with the 

Rev. Jack PAVEY officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery, Kewanna. Friends may 

call after 7 p.m. today at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron until 1:30 p.m. Sunday, when the body 

will be taken to the church to lie in state. 

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Anna M. Olmsted 

Mrs. Anna M. OLMSTED, 81, died at 2:15 today at the home of her son, Charles 

[OLMSTED], two and one-half miles east of Fulton. She had been ill the past four days. 

The daughter of Mahlon and Mary Lee LIENTZ, she was born Dec. 6, 1875, in 

Switzerland county near Vevay. Her early childhood had been spent in Illinois and she came to 

the Fulton community 60 years ago from Champaign, Ill. She was married Dec. 13, 1893, to Elza 

[C.] OLMSTED, who died March 23, 1947. 

Mrs. Olmsted was a member of the Fulton Baptist church. 

Surviving are the son, Charles; one daughter, Mrs. Beatrice HENDERSHOT, Chicago; 

five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Bess MILLS, Urbana, Ill.; one 

brother, Ed LIENTZ, Kankakee, Ill. One son, Lee [OLMSTED], two brothers and one sister 


Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fulton Baptist church with the 

Rev. William KEITH officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the 

Ditmire funeral home in Fulton after 7 p.m. today. 

Danny R. Allen 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hollis funeral home in South 

Bend for Danny R. ALLEN, 4, who died Sunday after several month’s illness. Death came to the 

son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert ALLEN, former residents of Kewanna in Roberts hospital at Chicago. 

Surviving besides the parents are a brother, Kevin Michael [ALLEN], at home, and the 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur SORENSON, Winamac, and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram ALLEN, 

Kewanna. Burial will be in the Memorial Park cemetery in South Bend. 

Carson Ackert 

Final rites for Carson ACKERT, 41, a deputy sheriff of Fort Myers, Fla., who formerly 

lived in Kewanna were conducted Monday at Fort Myers. Mr. Ackert died of a heart attack 

Friday. 

About a month ago, Mr. Ackert was shot by a Negro and it was thought that he had not 

fully recovered when he returned to his work. 

Among the survivors are his mother, Mrs. Anna ACKERT; a sister, Mrs. Delores 

HAMILTON, and a son, Richard [ACKERT], all of Fort Myers. 

Mr. Ackert was a nephew of Whit HEMINGER, 1213 Monroe street.

Ancil C. Gray 

Ancil Clark GRAY, 86, died at 4:30 a.m. today at his home, 706 Fulton avenue, after a 

year’s illness. He had been seriously sick since Sept. 1, 1956. 

Born Sept. 30, 1870, in Osgood, he was the son of William S. and Sarah Jane GRIFFITH 

GRAY. A retired farmer he had lived in the city the past eight years. Prior to that he had resided 

near Fulton for over 40 years. Before coming to Fulton county, Mr. Gray lived in Benson county, 

Ind. 

He was married Dec. 18, 1901 in Fowler, to Lola WALKER. Mr. Gray was a member of 

the former St. Paul E.U.B. church here. 

Surviving are the wife, at home; one son, Howard B. GRAY, Vicksburg, Miss; one 

daughter, Mrs. Fern SCOTT, Detroit; two grandchildren; three brothers, Everett and William 

[GRAY], both of Fulton; and George [GRAY], Union City; four sisters, Miss Mary GRAY, now a 

patient at Woodlawn hospital here; Mrs. Nettie DOLBEE and Mrs. Lizzie GRAY, both of Union 

City. Mrs. Edith DOLBEE, Battle Creek, Mich., and numerous nieces and nephews. 

Two sisters, Mrs. Henry RENTSCHLER, and Mrs. Henry NORDLOH, preceded him in 

death. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. DST Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home, with the Rev. Melvin LIVENGOOD of Bremen officiating, assisted by the Rev. George 

CRANE of Rochester. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the 

funeral home after 1 p.m. Wednesday. 


Claude H. Walton 

Claude H. WALTON, a lifetime resident of Albion and father of Mrs. Seymour ELIN, 

Oakwood Apartments, and James WALTON, 1003 East Ninth street, died suddenly at 1 a.m. 

Tuesday of a heart attack. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Albion. 

Ira A. Bastow 

Ira A. BASTOW, longtime Rochester resident and prominent local realtor, died at 5:30 

a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since May 8. He was 87 years of 

age. 

Mr. Bastow, who resided at 1303 Madison street, had been ill the past eight months. 

A resident of the Rochester community for the past 70 years, Mr. Bastow in recent years 

had operated his own realty business. Prior to that, he had a long career as a prominent auctioneer 

in this area. He also operated a farm in the Reiter neighborhood for many years after his arrival 

here from Virginia. 

Ira Albert [BASTOW], son of John and Arabelle BASTOW, was born in Oakton, Va., on 

Jan. 20, 1870. He was married April 7, 1891, to Viola M. GOTTSCHALK, who preceded him in 

death Jan. 22, 1951. On March 18, 1952, he was married to Marie EWEN, who survives. 

Mr. Bastow was a member of the First Baptist church of Rochester and of the Rochester 

Lions club. 

Also surviving are one son, Francis [BASTOW], Skokie, Ill.; two daughters, Mrs. Edna 

MARSHMAN, Mishawaka, and Mrs. Ilo AHLSTROM, Rochester; four grandchildren, Richard 

MARSHMAN, Mrs. May TOWNSEND, Mrs. Jane TRAUSCH and Mrs. Susan BACH; five 

great-grandchildren; one brother, Charles BASTOW, Erie, Pa.; one sister, Mrs. Hattie BELL

Oakton, Va. Three sisters preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Richard MITCHELL of the First Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in the 

I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock tonight. 

Tenia Kindig 

Mrs. Tenia KINDIG, 66, Mishawaka, a former Rochesrter resident, died of diabetes in 

Osteopathis hospital in South Bend at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after an illness of two years. 

She was born in Marshall county on Aug. 24, 1890 and had lived in Mishawaka for 20 

years. Her husband, Irvin KINDIG, died in 1922. 

Surviving are two sons, Henry D. [KINDIG], Mishawaka, and Irvin L. [KINDIG], Niles, 

Mich.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and a brother, C. O. STAUFFER, 

Mishawaka. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the First Church of God at Mishawaka with the 

Rev. Marvin BAKER officiating. Burial will be in the Richland Center cemetery. Friends may 

call at the Hollis chapel in South Bend after 1 p.m. today. 

Mary A. Holem 

Miss Mary A. HOLEM, 85, Plymouth, a former Rochester resident, died at 5:40 p.m. 

Tuesday in Parkview hospital at Plymouth after being in failing health the past year. 

A member of the Trinity E.U.B. church near Plymouth, Miss Holem was born in 

Marshall county on June 25, 1871 to John and Hannah (GRUBE) HOLEM. 

Surviving are a brother, Ira J. HOLEM, South Bend; two sisters, Mrs. Etta BEEHLER 

and Mrs. Esther BEATTY, both of Plymouth, and a foster daughter, Miss Arlavine PETERSON, 

Plymouth. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Trinity church with the Rev. Darrell KRAFT 

officiating. Burial will be in the McElrath cemetery southwest of Plymouth. Friends may call at 

the Johnson and Sons funeral home in Plymouth after 7 p.m. today. 


Virgil E. Fisher 

Virgil E. FISHER, 50, of Centre township in St. Joseph county, died Tuesday afternoon 

in South Bend after an 18-month illness. He was the brother of Mrs. Gertrude REICHARD, 

Rochester, and a former city resident. 

Born in Colfax, Wash., March 10, 1907, he went to South Bend 33 years ago from 

Rochester. He married Lucille KISER at South Bend in 1952. 

Mr. Fisher was employed by the Studebaker Corporation 13 years. 

Also surviving are his wife; one daughter; two stepsons; five grandchildren; two other 

sisters and one brother. 

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at the Hay funeral home in South Bend. 

Burial will be in Southlawn cemetery.


Myrtle Garvin 

Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Donald PYLE, R.R. 3, Rochester, of the death 

in Indianapolis of Mrs. Myrtle GARVIN, Indianapolis, mother of George GARVIN, Ligonier, 

who formerly lived in Rochester with his family. Mrs. Garvin, who made her home with the 

Garvins in Ligonier, often visited in the Pyle home and had many friends in this vicinity. 

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Hoover funeral home in Wabash. 

Burial will be in a Wabash cemetery. 

Lucretia Rea 

Miss Lucretia REA, well-known pinao teacher of Rochester, died at 7:10 p.m. Thursday 

at Woodlawn hospital, where she had been admitted only 10 hours previously. 

Miss Rea, who had been ill since March 12, resided at 1113 Main street. She was 75 

years of age. 

A graduate of DePauw University, she was born Feb. 15, 1882, at Culver, the daughter of 

Dr. O. A. and Sylvia REA. She had resided in Rochester since 1910. Miss Rea was a member of 

the Grace Methodist church. 

Surviving are one nephew, Robert REA, Stellacoom, Wash., and several other distant 

relatives. 

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

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Louis S. Murray 

Louis Samuel MURRAY, 87, 600 Indiana avenue, died at 9:45 a.m. Sunday in 

Woodlawn hospital of complications resulting from a broken hip he suffered last week. He had 

been ill one year prior to breaking his hip. 

A retired farmer from Newcastle township, Mr. Murray was born in Osgood, Ind., on 

Aug. 23, 1869 to the late Mark and Tressa MURRAY. He had lived all his life in this vicinity 

except for a few years in Mishawaka. His first marriage was to Minnie ROSS, who preceded him 

in death. On Dec. 31, 1919 he was married to Fannie MEANS in Rochester. She died in 1951. 

Mr. Muray was a 65-year member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge in Mishawaka. 

Surviving are a son, James [MURRAY], at home; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert (Cleta) 

SHOCKLEY, R.R. 2, Rochester; a step-son, Ralph WILLIAMS, Fort Wayne; two sisters; Mrs. 

Minnie TRUE, Indianapolis; and Mrs. Flora SWITZER, Franklin; two brothers, Everett 

MURRAY, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Frank MURRAY, Osgood, and three granddaughters. 

Three brothers and a sister preceded him in death. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Foster-Good funeral home here with The Rev. 

F. I. WILLMERT officiating. Burial will be in the Rochesrter I.O.O.F. cemetery. The I.O.O.F. 

will be in charge of graveside services. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Frank Mowiser 

Services for Frank MOWISER, 86, an Argos resident for 53 years, will be at 2 p.m. 

Tuesday at the Walnut Church of the Brethren with the Rev. Roy RICHEY officiating. Burial will 

be in the cemetery adjoining the church. Mr. Mowiser died of heart trouble at 1:30 p.m. Saturday 

at his home at 400 West South street in Argos. He had been ill for 10 weeks. 

Born on July 12, 1870 in Wooster, O., Mr. Mowiser was the son of Mathias and Eva 

(BOOR) MOWISER. He was married in Bremen on Oct., 18, 1894 to Clara Anna OTT, who 

survives. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Mowiser was a member of the Walnut Church of the Brethren. 

Surviving besides the widow are a daughter, Mrs. Ora (Helen) BURROUGHS, Plymouth; 

three sons, Ralph [MOWISER], Osceola; John [MOWISER], R.R. 1, Argos, and Ernest 

[MOWISER], R.R. 1, Tippecanoe; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren, and several 

nieces and nephews. Two daughters and a son preceded him in death. 

Friends may call until noon Tuedsday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos. The body 

will lie in state one hour before services. 

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Tuesday, June 25, 1957 to Wednesday, June 26, 1957 


Marianne Marie Spaid 

Graveside services for Marianne Marie SPAID, infant daughter of Earl and Barbara 

SPAID, R.R. 5, Rochester, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Rice cemetery in Elkhart. 

The infant, born at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Woodlawn hospital, died there at 5 p.m. 

Wednesday. 

Other survivors are a brother, Danny Lee [SPAID], at home; the paternal grandmother, 

Mrs. Arthur WOOLEY, Plymouth, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul SMITH, 

Elkhart. Friends may call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here after 7 p.m. today. 

William W. Barlow 

William Warren BARLOW, 83, passed away at 7:30 this morning at the home of his son, 

Harold BARLOW, north of Argos on U.S. 31. A lifelong resident of Marshall county, he lived at 

209 North street in Argos. 

Death was attributed to a heart seizure and followed a year’s illness. 

Born on July 21, 1873, in Inwood, Ind., to Marion and Elizabeth CHURCH BARLOW, 

he was married to Emma Jane BAUMAN, who preceded him in death in 1947. 

Mr. Barlow had been a railroad worker, logger and fence builder before his illness. 

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ruth LEE of Vallajo, Cal., and Mrs. Anna 

BRIGHT, of Hammond; two sons, Harold of Argos and Joseph [BARLOW] of Oakland, Cal.; 

eleven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and a brother, Charles [BARLOW], of Argos. A 

daughter, a brother and two sisters preceded him in death. 

The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Grossman funeral home in 

Argos, with the Rev. Mrs. Elizabeth VANATTER of the Plymouth Church of God officiating. 

Burial will be in the Maple Grove cemetery at Argos. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home after 7 p.m. this evening.

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Mrs. George Fiedler 

Mrs. George FIEDLER, Logansport, mother of Dan FIEDLER, 1018 Jackson street, died 

at her home this morning after a lengthy illness. 

Funeral arrangements are pending. 

Russell Manns 

Russell MANNS, 27, R.R. 2, Silver Lake, drowned early this morning when the car he 

was driving went off State Road 15 and plunged into Bull Lake at State Roads 14 and 15 north of 

Akron. 

Final rites will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Pentacostal church at Silvr Lake with the 

Rev. Aaron STANLEY officiating. Burial will be in the West Manchester cemetery at North 

Manchester. The body will be taken from the Sheetz fneral home at Akron to the residence at the 

south edge of Silver Lake where friends may call after 1:30 p.m. today. 

Ruby L. Beattie 

Mrs. Ruby L. BEATTIE, 41, died at 12 p.m. Friday of an overdose of sleeping pills in her 

home at 1507 East Bowman street in South Bend. 

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Hayes funeral home in South Bend, 

with the Rev. Ralph STEELE of the South Bend Grace Methodist church officiating. Burial will 

be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Rochester. 

Monday, July 1, 1957 

Russell Manns 

Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. today in North Manchester for Russell 

MANNS, 27, Silver Lake, who drowned early Saturday morning when the car he was driving left 

State Road 15 and plunged into Bull Lake north of Akron. 

The auto skideed 190 feet near the inersection of State Roads 14 and 15 officers said. 

Mr. Manns was born in Salyers, Ky., on Jan. 18, 1930 to Dorton and Dolly (MULLINS) 

MANNS and in 1953 was married at Silver Lake to Eva SHEPHERD. 

He was a member of the Wabash post of the American Legion and was employed at the 

General Tire and Rubber company in Wabash. 

Surviving are the widow and a daugher, Debra Sue [MANNS], at home; his mother; three 

sisters; Mrs. Merrill AZBELL, R.R. 1, Silver Lake; five brothers, Eugene and Dayton [MANNS], 

R.R. 2, Silver Lake; Ortia and Mitchell [MANNS]. R.R. 1, Silver Lake, and Edward [MANNS], 

Rochester, and the grandmother, Mrs. Amanda SHOBE, Fulton.

Wade Fishburn 

Wade FISHBURN, 88, 112 West William street, Argos, died this morning at 1 o’clock. 

He was born Feb. 22, 1869, in Mifflan, O., and moved to Marshall county when he was 

six years old. He was a farmer in the Twin Lakes area of Marshall county for 67 years, moving to 

his home in Argos 15 years ago. 

The son of Samuel and Margaret McCLURE FISHBURN, he married Florence 

GROSSMAN in Argos on April 21, 1897. He was a member of the Twin Lakes Reform church. 

Surviving with the widow are a daughter, Mrs. Maurine MURPHY of Plymouth; three 

sons, Donald, Dwight and Doyle [FISHBURN], all of Argos; five grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; 

one sister, Mrs. Cora NEWCOMB of Fulton, N.Y., and two brothers, Samuel 

[FISHBURN], of Argos, and Arthur [FISHBURN] of Culver. 

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Grossman funeral home in Argos, 

with the Rev. Ernest J. PETERS of the Argos Methodist church officiating. He will be assisted b 

the Rev. Edward BOASE, South Bend. 

Burial will be in the New Oak Hill cemetery in Plymouth. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home after 1 p.m. today. 

Mrs. George Fiedler 

Final rites for Mrs. George FIEDLER, Logansport, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the 

McCroskey and Hamilton funeral home at 16th and Broadway in Logansport. The Rev. Delmar 

O. KRUEGER, of the St. John’s Lutheran church here will officiate. 

Mrs. Fiedler, mother of Dan FIEDLER, 1018 Jackson street, died at her home Saturday 

morning after a lengthy illness. 

Ruby L. Beattie 

Final rites were conducted this morning at the Hayes funeral home in South Bend for 

Mrs. Ruby L. BEATTIE, 41, who died in her home at South Bend Friday of an overdose of 

sleeping pills. Burial was in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Beattie was born on Feb. 14, 1916 in Columbus, Ga., to Lewis and Mary Louise 

(McKENZIE) RANDALL and was married in 1934 to Donald M. BEATTIE. 

She was a member of the Rose Croix number 575, Order of Eastern Star. 

Suviving bedsides the husband are a brother, Robert [BEATTIE], and a sister, Miss Mary 

RANDALL, both of Columbus, and the mother-in-law, Mrs. Eva BEATTIE, Rochester. 

Susan Rogers 

Mrs. Susan ROGERS, 100, died Thursday night at the home of her son, Dr. Hobart 

ROGERS, in Oakland, Cal. 

Tuesday, July 2, 1957 

David E. Fisher 

Funeral services for David E. FISHER, 80, former resident of Mexico, will be held at 

Anderson, Ind., Wednesday. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery, Mexico about 4:15 p.m. 

Wednedsday. 

The deceased had been a resident of Mexico for over 45 years. He moved to Anderson 

six years ago. Mr. Fisher was a member of the Church of the Brethren. He is survived by his 

widow, a son, Ernest [FISHER], and four brothers.

Wednesday, July 3, 1957 

Infant Shepler 

Graveside services were held at 3:00 this afternoon in the local I.O.O.F. cemetery for the 

infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. SHEPLER of Laflayette, Ind. The mother is the former Susan 

LANDGRAVE and the great-mother [sic] is Mrs. Fern NORRIS of Rochester. 

The Reverend Claude YOUNG officiated. 

Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home was in charge of the services. 

The infant died Tuesday evening at St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette shortly after birth. 


Thursday, July 4, 1957 

Friday, July 5, 1957 

Ida M. Faulstich 

Funeral services for Mrs. Ida May (MAXWELL) VANDERGRIFT FAULSTICH, who 

died Wednesday at a hospital in Berrien Springs, Mich., will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the 

Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The Rev. James KIMSEY of the First Christian church will 

officiate and burial will be in the Mt. Zion cemetery. 

Mrs. Faulstich, a former resident of this city, had been residing with her son, Albert 

VANDERGRIFT of Galien, Mich., since 1949. 

She died at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday in a Berrien Springs hospital, where she had been a 

patient since October, 1956, following a hip fracture sustained last August 31. 

Born Sept. 2, 1871 in the Green Oak community, she was the daughter of Elias and Sarah 

SQUIRES MAXWELL. Her first marriage on Aug. 15, 1895, was to John VANDERGRIFT, who 

died Nov. 7, 1915. On May 10, 1924 she was married to Albert FAULSTICH. He died June 16, 

1931. Mrs. Faulstich was a member of the First Christian church here. 

Survivors are two sons, and a daughter; Albert VANDERGRIFT, Galien, Mich., Harold 

VANDERGRIFT, Gilbert, Minn., and Mrs. James E CALLOWAY of Davidson, Saskatchewan, 

Canada; eleven grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; a half-brother, Jesse CHURCH of this 

city; a half sister, Mrs. Minnie SQUIRES, Fergus Falls, Minn., and numerous step-children and 

other relatives. 

Minnie P. Stailey 

Mrs. Minnie Pearl STAILEY, 67, of Monterey, died at 5 a.m. Thursday at the Carneal 

hospital, Winamac, after several weeks illness. 

A resident of Monterey for the past three years, she moved there from Hammond. 

The daughter of Elwood and Mary TAYLOR COPELAND, she was born Oct. 25, 1889 

in Bellview, Ohio. 

Surviving are seven sisters and one brother, Mrs. Iva VINSON, Knox; Mrs. Amanda 

WENTZEL, Kewanna; Mrs. Grace WRIGHT, Glendale, Cal.; Mrs. Emma NORMAN, Monterey; 

Mrs. Rose SHEANE, Chicago; Mrs. Angy RASMUSSEN, Indianapolis; and Shirley 

COPELAND, Winamac. Her husband died in 1955. 

Friends may call at the Kennedy funeral home at Winamac where final rites will be held 

at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in the Bruce Lake cemetery.

Forrest Albert 

Culver, Ind. -- Forrest ALBERT, 58, music instructor at Pikeville, Ky., College, 

committed suicide Thursday by slashing his wrists at the home of his sister here. 

Albert had been spending his summer vacation at the home of the sister, Mrs. A. R. 

McKESSON. 

Born and reared at Culver, he had been at Pikeville for many years and had indicated he 

planned to return there for the fall semester. 

Other survivors are another sister, Mrs. Russell LICHTENBERGR, South Bend, and two 

brothers, Homer and Howard ALBERT, Culver. 

Saturday, July 6, 1957 

Milo E. Cormican 

Milo E. CORMICAN, 65, of East Fremont street, Argos, died at 1:45 p.m. Friday in the 

Parkview hospital, Plymouth. He had been ill for the past six months. 

In his earlier years he was ordained as a Methodist minister. He also taught school at 

Tippecanoe for several years. Mr. Cormican also was a licensed chiropractor but never actively 

engaged in that profession. 

He was born Sept. 6, 1891 at Tippecanoe,Ind., to Theodore and Emmarella 

(STROSNYDER) CORMICAN. In 1913, he was married to Lottie NEWTON, who survives. For 

the past two years he was a distributor for the Raleigh Products company. 

Surviving are his widow of Upland, Ind.; two daughters, Mrs. Alton RIDGEWAY, Lapel, 

Ind., and Mrs. Eloise SHIELDS, Dallas, Texas; two sons, Clair and Paul [CORMICAL], Upland; 

eight grandchildren, and two brothers, Ellis [CORMICAN], Plymouth and A. B. CORMICAN, 

Elkhart. 

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Grossman funeral home, Argos. The 

Rev. Wayne TIPPY will officiate and burial will be in the Tippecanoe cemetery. 

Donald C. Reason 

Funeral services for Donald C. REASON, 35, of Kewanna, were held at 2 p.m. today at 

the Kewanna Methodist church. Burial was in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

His death from a heart attack occurred Wednesday afternoon as he was en route in his 

truck from Winamac to his home. His four-year-old son, Donnie [REASON], was with him when 

he was stricken. 

A veteran of World War two, he served in the Army in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany and 

France. He was bulk agent for the Mobile Gas and Oil company. 

The son of Claude and Flossie CLEMENTS REASON, he was born Nov. 14, 1921, near 

Kewanna. His marriage on Sept. 4, 1948, was to Beth TOMLISON. Mr. Reason was a member 

of the American Legion. 

Surviving are his wife; three children, Beth Ann [REASON], 8; Donnie [REASON], 4; 

and Linda [REASON], four and one-half months; the parents, of Logansport, and two brothers and 

six sisters.


Merle E. Tucker 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Merl E. TUCKER, 69, R.R. 2, Akron, 

who died at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis from a coronary 

occlusion. He had been ill 10 years. 

Born May 15, 1888, in Kosciusko county, he was the son of Hollis and Nettie 

ALEXANDER TUCKER. He was married April 23, 1910, to Elma THOMAS. 

Surviving are the wife; two daughters, Mrs. Josephine BLESSING, Elkhart, and Mrs. 

Anna Marie HOEGER, Baldwin Lake, Mich.; one son, Thomas [TUCKER], Michigan Center, 

Mich.; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Charles [TUCKER], Silver 

Lake, and Horace [TUCKER], Huntertown; and one sister, Mrs. Erma SMITH, R.R. 2, Akron. 

Rites will be held at the Beavr Dam E.U.B. church with the Rev. Joe BAER and the Rev. 

C. E. McSHERRY officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the 

Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron until noon Tuesday and from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church. 

Sarah Pownall 

Final rites for Mrs. Sarah (WILLIAMS) AUSMUN POWNALL, 91, a resident of the 

Fulton community almost all her life, will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Fulton E.U.B. church, of 

which she was a member. 

The Rev. Donald ABBEY will officiate and burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. 

Mrs. Pownall, a native of Cass county, died at 8 a.m. Sunday at the home of her daugher, 

Mrs. Carl EMERY of Fulton. She had been ill for three years. 

Born on Jan. 15, 1866, she was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (ATHA) WILLIAMS. 

She was first married on march 1, 1885, to Benjamin F. AUSMUN, who died on June 19, 1931. 

Her second marriage was to Vachael J. POWNALL, who died on Sept. 21, 1941. 

Surviving besides Mrs. EMERY are five grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; two 

sisters, Mrs. Emma COOPER and Mrs. Ida KELLEY, both of Fulton; and two step-daughters, 

Mrs. S. Earl ROUCH, Rochester, and Mrs. Vern ROUCH, South Bend. Two sons preceded her in 

death. 

Friends may call at the Emery residence. The body will lie in state one hour before 

services. The Ditmire funeral home in Fulton is in charge of arrangements. 

Laura Belle Miller 

Mrs. Laura Belle MILLER, 69, died at 11:15 a.m. today at the Woodlawn hospital where 

she had been a patient since July 2. Mrs. Miller, who resided at 1029 Jefferson street, had been in 

failing health since Aug. 15, 1956, and in serious condition since June 1. 

She was the widow of Hiram G. MILLER, local attorney and onetime circuit court judge. 

He preceded her in death Dec. 30, 1952. 

Born Sept. 11, 1887, in Atwood, Ill., Mrs. Miller was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah 

M. HATCH WRIGHTSMAN. She was married at Atwood on June 14, 1910. 

Mrs. Miller was a member of the First Baptist church and the Order of Eastern Star. 

Surviving are one son, Edward MILLER, Tuscola, Ill.; three grandchildren, Laura Anne, 

Karen Sue and Barbara Jean [MILLER], all of Tuscola; one brother, Edward WRIGHTSMAN, 

Chicago; and three sisters, Mrs. Marguerite FLORA, South Haven, Mich.; Mrs. Edith READ, 

Tuscola, Ill., and Mrs. Olive GOTT, New Orleans. One son, Hiram [MILLER], Jr., and a 

daughter, Marjorie Ann [MILLER], preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home, 

where friends may call after 1 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. The Rev. H. 

G. HYDE of Bedford, former pastor of the First Baptist church here, will officiate at the last rites. 

Lovell G. Miller 

[Lovell] G. “Peck” MILLER, 72, a resident of the Rochester community his entire life, 

died in Wabash county hospital at Wabash at 10:10 p.m. Sunday after an illness of four weeks. 

Born on Oct. 3, 1884, in the old Ebenezer neighborhood near Rochester, he was the son 

of John M. and Panthier (BLACKETOR) MILLER. On March 30, 1904, he was married at 

Nyona Lake to Gertrude COLLINS. 

Mr. Miller was a farmer by occupation and a member of the local Moose Lodge. 

Surviving besides the widow at home are a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy MOORE; a son Fred 

E. [MILLER]; a granddaughter, Patricia HOOKER, and a brother, Herman [MILLER], all of 

Rochester, and numerous nieces and nephews. A brother, Phill A. MILLER, died on Feb. 2, 1955. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here with 

the Rev. F. I. WILLMERT of the Rochester E.U.B. church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Tuesday. 

Nevada Jane Bragunier 

Mrs. Nevada Jane (RUNKLE) BRAGUNIER, 85, a resident of the Argos community 50 

years, died at 3:15 a.m. today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William WHITE, R.R. 3, Argos. 

She had been ill the last 14 months. 

Born on Nov. 4, 1871, in Lafayette, Mrs. Bragunier was the daughter of James and Sarah 

(MARKER) RUNKLE. She was married on Feb. 19, 1895, to William BRAGUNIER, who died 

in March, 1941. Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Bragunier moved from her home on the 

Kennilworth road, southwest of Argos, to Argos. 

Surviving besides Mrs. WHITE are another daughter, Mrs. Anna Van LUE, Plymouth; 

three grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; one nephew and several cousins. Four children 


Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Argos Methodist church, of which she 

was a member. The Rev. V. L. GARNER of Walkerton will officiate, assisted by the Rev. E. J. 

PETERS of the Argos Methodist church. Burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos from 7 p.m. today until 10 a.m. 

Tuesday and at Mrs. White’s home after that. The family has requested that flowers be omitted. 

Mary Della Steinheiser 

Miss Mary Della STEINHEISER, 81, R.R. 4, Rochester, died this morning of a heart 

ailment after being ill for the last three years. 

Born in Rochester on May 16, 1876, she had lived her entire life in the Leiters Ford 

commnity. She was the daughter of Christian and Harrietta STEINHEISER. 

Surviving is a niece, Mrs. Ira OVERMYER, Kewanna, and several other nieces. Seven 

sisters and a brother preceded her in death. 

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Foster -Good funeral home here. 

Burial will be in the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the fneral home after 7 

p.m. today.


Hanry M. Smith 

Henry M. SMITH, 71, Disko, died at 8:10 p.m. Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 

Georgianna THOMAS, R.R. 3, Manchester. Death was due to a stroke and came after a year’s 

illnes. 

Born May 4, 1886, in Miami county, he had spent his entire life in the Disko community. 

He was the son of Jacob B. and Sarah WHITMYRE SMITH, and was married at Rochester on 

Nov. 4, 1908, to Anna E. HOFFMAN. She preceded him in death in August, 1956. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. THOMAS and Mrs. Miriam HONEYWELL, 

Churubusco; one son, Garland [SMITH], Chili, and nine grandchildren. Mr. Smith is the last 

member of a family of six children. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in 

Akron with the Rev. Ralph HOFFMAN of the Brethren church at Logansport officiating. Burial 

will be in the Akron cemetry. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday until 

the hour of the funeral. 

Martin Burns 

Services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at the St. Ann’s church in Kewanna for Martin 

BURNS, 81, R.R. 2, Kewanna, who died at 11:40 a.m. Monday in the Good Samaritan hospital at 

Kokomo. 

Mr. Burns, a retired farmer, was born Sept. 11, 1875, in Fulton county, the son of Martin 

and Bridget BURNS. He was a member of the St. Ann’s church. His wife, Mary [BURNS], 

preceded him in death in 1937. 

Surviving are a son, Joseph [BURNS], R.R. 2, Kewanna; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret 

KIRK, Peru; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. 

The Rev. Father James M. FITZGERALD will officiate at the last rites and burial will be 

in St. Ann’s cemetery. Friends may call at the Kroeger funeral home. 

Myrtle Helton 

Warsaw, Ind. (INS) -- Funeral arrangements were made today for Mrs. Myrtle HELTON, 

45, of Silver Lake, who met death when an automobile in which she was riding was struck by 

another care at the intersection of Road 14 and a Kosciusko County road near Silver Lake. 

Wednesday, July 10, 1957 to Thursday, July 11, 1957 

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Opal E. Day 

Mrs. Opal Esther DAY, 63, died at 7:10 o’clock this morning at her home near Leiters 

Ford. Death, caused by cancer, came after a year’s illness. 

Born June 25, 1894, near Leiters Ford, she was the daughter of George and Nellie 

McKEE RARRICK. She had lived in this community the past eight years, moving here from 

South Bend. On Feb. 19, 1921, in Peru she was married to Fred M. DAY, who survives. 

She was a member of the Leiters Ford Methodist church and of the W.S.C.S. of that 

church, also of the Leiters Ford Rebekah lodge. 

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Clayton (Joan) SKOOG, Mishawaka; two sons, 

Harold and Thurl [DAY], both of South Bend; six grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one 

brother, Thurl COUGHENOUR, South Bend; two sistrs, Mrs. J. E. (Hazel) BALL, Michigan City, 

and Mrs. Doria BYER, Mishawaka, and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services have been set for Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Foster and Good funeral 

home here with the Rev. Paul JUMP of the Leiters Ford Methodist church officiating. Burial will 

be in the Southlawn cemetery in South Bend. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon 

Saturday. 

Charles H. Leininger 

Charles H. LEININGER, 69, R.R. 2, Akron, died at about 9:10 a.m. today following a 

farm tractor-panel truck accident at the intersection of two county roads northeast of Akron. The 

other deiver involved, Ledford HENSLEY, 24, R.R. 4, Warsaw, received head and face cuts and 

was treated by an Akron physician. 

The accident occurred at 9 a.m. at the junction of the Fulton-Kosciusko county line road 

and the Beaver Dam Road, a mile north of Lowman’s corner and near the Beaver Dam school. 

State police said that Leininger was driving the tractor east on the Beaver Dam road and 

Hensley was driving the truck, owned by Schrader’s Auto Parts of Warsaw, north on the county 

line road when the vehicles crashed. 

Traffic on the Beaver Dam road is supposed to stop for traffic on the county line road. 

The impact of the crash threw Leininger under the truck at the northeast corner of the 

intersection and it wasn’t until a wrecker had lifted the truck from the ground that Leininger was 

removed. 

State police estimated that Leinnger died about 10 minutes after the accident. 

Leininter, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias LEININGER, was the father-in-law of Ronnie 

MALLOT, former Talma school principal. He now is Beaver Dam school principal and co-owner 

of the Dog ‘N Suds drive-in at Lake Manitou. 

He is survived by his widow, the former Bernice BLUE; four daughters, Mrs. MALLOT, 

Beaver Dam; Mrs. Ida THOMPSON, Warsaw, and Mrs. Beulah COOK and Mrs. Louise 

BUCHER, both of Akron; a son, Kermit [LEININGER], Fort Wayne; a brother, Daniel 

[LEININGER], Leesburg, and a sister, Mrs. Mabel GAST, Lake Manitou. 

The Sheetz funeral home at Akron is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are 

incomplete.

Ella Angel 

Mrs. Ella ANGEL, 83, mother of Mrs. Granville DEATON of Akron, died at 4:40 a.m. 

today in the Murphy Medical Center at Warsaw from the effects of burns received May 24 while 

she was burning trash at her home in North Webster. 

The lifelong resident of the North Webster community, Mrs. Angel also is survived by 

another daughter, Mrs. Robert STAUFFER of North Manchester, three grandchildren and two 

great-grandchildren. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body was taken to the Troxel funeral home in 

North Webster. 


Charles H. Leininger 

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Berver Dam E.U.B. church for 

Charles H. LEININGER, 69, R.R. 2, Akron, who died at 9:10 o’clock Friday morning from 

injuries received when his farm tractor and a panel truck collided on a county road northeast of 

Akron. 

The Rev. Joe BAER and Rev. E. McSHERRY will officiate and burial will be in the 

Mentone cemetry. 

Mr. Leininger, whose death was due to a skull fracture, was born Nov. 30, 1887, in 

Kosciusko county, the son of Elias and Amanda KISTLER LEININGER. He was married Aug. 

20, 1913, to Bernice BLUE, who survives. 

He was a farmer and a former school teacher and a member of the Beaver Dam church 

and the Akron Masonic lodge. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Louise BUCHER and Mrs. Eleanor MALOTT, 

both of Akron; one son, Kermit [LEININGER], Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. Karl [Mabel) 

GAST, Rochester; Mrs. Beulah COOK, Akron, and Mrs. Ida THOMPSON, Warsaw; one brother, 

Dan [LEININGER], Leesburg, and eight grandchildren. 

The body was taken to the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron and will be removed to 

the residence today. Friends may call after 3 o’clock this afternoon. 

Ella Angel 

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Troxel funeral home at North 

Webster for Mrs. Ella ANGEL, 83, mother of Mrs. Granville DEATON of Akron. Mrs. Angel 

died at 4:40 a.m. Friday at the Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw. 

A member of he North Webster Church of the Brethren, she also is survived by another 

daughter, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

The Rev. Gus PIERSON and the Rev. Robert Emerald JONES will officiate and burial 

will be in the North Webster cemetery.


Frederick W. Mohler 

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Smith and Aufenberg funeral 

home at Monticello for Frederick W. MOHLER, 45, Monticello, who formerly lived in the Athens 

community. 

Mr. Mohler died at 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the Veterans Administration hospital in 

Indianapolis, where he had undergone brain surgery June 3. 

[A native of Miami county, he was born there Sept. 29, 1911, and was the son of Aaron 

and Minnie (BERGER) MOHLER. His mother died June 4, 1956. In 1938 he was married to 

Wuanita MOORE, who survives.] 

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 90, R.A.M., and of No. 79, F.A.M. 

Surviving are the wife; three daughters, Mrs. Marcia CAIN, Miami, Fla.; Mrs. Ruth Ann 

CRUTCHFIELD, Oceanside, Cal., and Mary Elaine [MOHLER], at home; one son, James 

Thomas [MOHLER], at home; two brothers [Earl MOHLER, Sr. of Peru and Carl MOHLER, of 

Sarasota, Fla.; also three grandchildren], and his father. [Four brothers and a sister preceded him 

in death]. 

[Masonic services were held at the Smith and Aufenberg Funeral Home Monday night at 

8 o’clock and funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. The Rev. Robert 

MODOSKI, pastor of the First Brethren Church at Peru, will officiate and burial will be made in 

Mr. Hope cemetery at Athens, Ind.] 

Harvey A. Leonard 

Harvey A. LEONARD, 76, died at 11: 40 p.m. Saturday at the Murphy Medical Center in 

Warsaw from a heart condition. He had been in the hospital the past week. 

Mr. Leonard, who resided at 405 Albert street Argos was born Nov. 2, 1880, in Council 

Bluffs, Ia., the son of Daniel and Lydia OTIS LEONARD. He had lived in the Argos area 22 

years, moving there from Chicago. He was married in 1905 at Chicago to Bernice L. BROWN, 

who survives. 

He also is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Berniece STRANG, Plymouth. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos 

with the Rev. Ernest TREBER of Mooreland officiating. Burial will be in the Parks cemetery at 

Bourbon. 

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Etruria Hess 

Mrs. Etruria (HILL) HESS, 36, Muncie, formerly of Argos, died at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday in 

the Ball Memorial hospital at Muncie after an extended illness. 

Mrs. Hess, known as Trudy [HESS], was the wife of Charles HESS of Argos. They were 

married on Aug. 10, 1951 and moved to Muncie five years ago. 

Born on Dec. 20, 1920 in St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Hess was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Noel B. HILL. She was a member of the Muncie Church of God.

Surviving besides the husband are four children at home; Noel Daniel, Stanley E., 

Kimberly and Robin [HESS]; the father, of New York City; and a brother, Noel HILL, Toledo, O. 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Meeks Mortuary in Muncie with the Rev. H. 

R. SHOCK of Muncie officiating. Graveside rites will be at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Argos Maple 

Grove cemetery. 

Grover Gerald 

Grover GERALD, father of Walter GERALD, 1201 Wabash avenue, died Tuesday night 

about 10 o’clock in the Rockville (Ind.) Sanitarium following a long illness. 

Mr. Gerald whose home was in Ladoga, leaves several children. The body has been 

taken to the Cox funeral home in Ladoga. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. 

His son, Walter, received the news of his father’s death only minutes following the 

outbreak of the fire at the County Highway Department garage. Gerald is supervisor of the 

garage. 


Julius Grau, Sr. 

Julius GRAU, Sr., father of Mrs. Vernon L. JENKINS of 1024 Main street, Rochester, 

died this morning from a heart attack at his home in Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Jenkins left for 

Milwaukee today to attend the funeral. 


Ida Slusher 

Mrs. Ida SLUSHER, 84, Goshen, a resident at 169 North Pontiac street for many years, 

died at 4:15 a.m. today at the Austin convalescent home in Goshen after being seriously ill for six 

weeks. 

Mrs. Slusher had been living with a daughter, Mrs. Hazel McKEE, in Goshen, where she 

had moved from Rochester. 

Born on Feb. 26, 1873 in Peru, Mrs. Slusher was the daughter of Jonas and Mary 

Elizabeth (SWINT) HUEY. On Dec. 25, 1888 she was married in Peru to William SLUSHER, 

who died on Nov. 25, 1937. She was a member of the Rochester E.U.B. church. 

Surviving besides Mrs. McKEE, are two other daughters, Mrs. Alice YOUNG, South 

Bend, and Mrs. Pearl HITZMAN, Sturgis, Mich. ; a son, Marvin [SLUSHER], Sturgis; ten 

grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren, and a brother Frank 

HUEY, of near Lake Bruce. 

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. Burial will 

be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetry. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Saturday.


Dora J. Werner 

Mrs. Dora J. WERNER, 86, for 50 years a resident of the Fulton community, died at 2:15 

p.m. at the Miller nursing home in Rochester after a five-year illness. 

She resided three miles southeast of Fulton and was born in Jasper county Dec. 15, 1870, 

to John and Esther MILLER MAY. She was married Nov. 29, 1898, to Levi WERNER, who died 

Oct. 5, 1943. Mrs. Werner was a member of the Zion Methodist church. 

Surviving are a son, Charles [WERNER], Clarkswood, Pa.; four grandchildren and a 

sister, Mrs. Stella STILLMAN, Goodland. 

Funeral rites will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton. 

The Rev. William KEITH will officiate and burial will be in the Crown Hill cemetery at Winamac. 


Mary Bell Kimble 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Foster and good funeral home for 

Mrs. Mary Bell KIMBLE, 75, a local resident the past year. She died at 5:36 p.m. Friday at the 

home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest FRANK of Leiters Ford. 

The Rev. Paul JUMP will officiate at the rites and cremation will follow. 

Mrs. Kimble had been ill two months. She was born Nov. 18, 1882, in Cincinnati, the 

daughter of George and Frances MEYERS. Her marriage was to Frank KIMBLE. Mrs. Kimble 

had moved here from Gary a year ago. 

Surviving are the daugher and two granddaughters, Marilyn and Roberta [FRANK]. 


Mary W. Barnes 

Mrs. Mary Wilhelmina BARNES, 87, died at 1 a.m. Sunday at Woodlawn hospital where 

she had been a patient since April 15. Mrs. Barnes was taken to the hospital when she became 

seriously ill with a heart condition. 

She resided with her daughter, Mrs. C. L. (Alice) FORTNA, west of City Park. 

Mrs. Barnes was born in Brooke, Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 17, 1869, the daughter of 

Mathew and Elizabeth BELL WOOD. She came here from LaPorte in 1944 and resided at Oak 

Park, Ill, from 1919-38. Her marriage was in Michigan in 1879 to Mortimer Grant BARNES, who 


Mrs. Barnes was a member of the Order of the British Empire at Oak Park. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Fortna and Mrs. Florence B. STROM, Wilmington, 

Del.; one son, James M. BARNES, Neptune Beach, Fla., and six grandchildren. 

The body was taken from the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here to the Herse 

funeral home in Albion, Neb., where final rites will be held Tuesday.

Yevka Rankovich 

Mrs. Yevka RANKOVICH, 58, a native of Yugoslavia who was living with her sister, 

Mrs. George GREGG, R.R. 1, Roann, died at her sister’s home at 3 a.m. Sunday after an illness of 

two years. 

She was born on Feb. 2, 1899, to Tanasko and Nasta (STASICH) YOVANAVICH and 

was married in 1921 to Ilia RANKOVICH. She was a member of the Orthodox church in 

Yugoslavia. 

Surviving besides Mrs. Grogg and the husband and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Moyer-Haupert funeral home at Akron with 

the Rev. Edward BLINK of the Niconza Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in the Roann 


Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of services. 


John Schoeff 

Funeral services were conducted at Huntington Monday for John SCHOEFF, 88, husband 

of the former Hannah FENSTERMAKER of Rochester. 

Among the other survivors are two nieces, Mrs. Hazel BUCKINGHAM and Mrs. Bert 

REYNOLDS; two nephews, Albert and Cecil FENSTERMAKER, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma 

FENSTERMAKER, all of Rochester. 

Harry Brown 

Funeral rites were held this morning at Star City for Harry BROWN, 76, a retired 

carpenter and brother of Mrs. Margaret PATTON, Fulton. 

Mr. Brown died Saturday at his home near the Cass-Pulaski county line. Surviving are 

his wife, two sons and two daughters; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and one 

brother besides Mrs. Patton. 

Burial was in the Star City cemetery. 

Robert I. Rannells 

Robert I. RANNELLS, 56, Glendale, Cal., a Rochester high school graduate and former 

resident of this city as well as Fulton, died at 7 p.m. Monday in his Glendale home of a heart 

attack. 

At one time owner and operator of the Fulton Leader, Mr. Rannells later was a linotype 

operator for the Logansport Pharos-Tribune. Three years ago he moved with his sister, Mrs. 

Lucille KARN, to Glendale, where both worked as linotpe operators for the Los Angeles Herald. 

Mr. Rannells was born in Fulton on Jan. 9, 1901, to E.A. and Mabel (SEECE) 

RANNELLS. He was a member of the Logansport Elks lodge. 

Surviving, besides Mrs. Karn, are another sister, Mrs. Francis (Kathleen) CARITHERS, 

Fulton; two nieces and a nephew. 

The body will be returned to the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton. Funeral services are 

incomplete.


George B. Savage 

George B. SAVAGE, 63, former Macy resident, died Monday evening at his home in 

Orlando, Fla., following a long illness. He left Macy about 1925 and lived in Indianapolis and 

Zanesville, O., before moving to Florida. 

Surviving are his wife, the former Maude SKINNER; four sons, Noble [SAVAGE], 

Orlando, Fla.; and Winston, Richard and Malcolm [SAVAGE], all of Indianapolis; six 

grandchildren; two brothers, Scott SAVAGE, Rochester; and John SAVAGE, Macy; and two 

sisters, Mrs. Margaret AGLE, Macy, and Mrs. John ALSPACH, Peru. 

Funeral services will be held at the Shirley Brothers funeral home on North Illinois street 

in Indianapolis at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Indianapolis. 

Gertrude Zartman 

Mrs. Gertrude ZARTMAN, 64, died at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday at her home, 812 1/2 Main 

street following a year of heart disease. She had been seriously sick only one day, however. 

Mrs. Zartman was born at Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Oct. 3, 1892, the daughter of Charles and 

Elizabeth CARPENTER TUCKER. She had lived in the Rochester community 36 years. In 1921, 

she was married at Buchanan, Mich., to Ernest ZARTMAN, who died in 1931. 

Surviving are four sons, Paul and Kenneth [ZARTMAN], both of Rochester; Dean 

[ZARTMAN], Plymouth, and Wayne [ZARTMAN], Huntington Park, Cal.; two daughters, Mrs. 

Alice MAXWELL and Mrs. Mary Van CURREN, both of Akron; one brother, Charles TUCKER, 

Wilkes Barre, Pa.; and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Orange, N.J., and eleven 


Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. Claude FAWNS of Akron officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Zion cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock tonight. 

Robert Rannells 

Final rites for Robert RANNELLS, 56, Glendale, Cal., former owner and operator of the 

Fulton Leader newspaper, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton. 

The Rev. William KEITH will officiate and burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Friday. 

Mr. Rannells, a former resident of Rochester and Fulton, died suddenly of a heart attack 

Monday evening at his Glendale home. 

He was a llinotype operator for the Los Angeles Herald and formerly was a linotypist for 

The Logansport Pharos-Tribune and president of the International Tpographical union in 

Logansport. 


Burson L. Horn 

Final rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Metea Church for Burson L. HORN, 

63, Cass county farmer and a member of the Masonic lodge and Eastern Star at Fulton. 

The Rev. Barry CAMPBELL, will officiate and burial will be in the Metea cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton. The body will lie in state at the church 

one hour before services.

Mr. Horn died at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial hospital in Logansport, where he had 

been a patient for seven days. 


Ruth E. O’Conner 

Mrs. Ruth Ellen O’CONNER of Culver, 57, mother of a Leiters Ford man, was killed 

Wednesday afternoon in a two-car crash at the city limits of Fort Dodge, Ia. Her husband, John 

O’CONNER, 61, was critically injured. He suffered extensive injuries to the head and body and is 

in “good” condition at the Fort Dodge hospital. 

The accident occurred, as Mrs. O’Conner, driver of the car which was pulling a house 

trailer, was turning into the driveway of a florist shop. Another car, driven by Patrick McGUIRE 

of Bode, Ia., struck the O’Conner auto broadside. Mrs. O’Conner died approximately four hours 

after the crash as the result of internal injuries. 

Surviving are two sons, John [O’CONNER], Leiters Ford, and James [O’CONNER], 

Culver; and her father and setpmother, Mr. and Mrs. Ellery SPENCER, Tippecanoe. The 

O’Conners operated the Culver Greenhouse and were on a combined business-vacation trip to 

California. 

Mrs. O’Conner’s body arrived at noon today at Culver, where funeral services will be 

held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Easterday funeral home. Burial will be in the Culver cemetery. 

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Mrs. John Epler 

Mrs. John EPLER, 86, grandmoter of Ralph STEPP, 1214 Wabash avenue, Rochester, 

died Sunday afternoon at her home in Winamac after a long illness. She leaves two sons, two 

daugters, two brothrs, and two sisters. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. 

Celesta M. Bair 

Mrs. Celesta M. BAIR, 71, died at 2 a.m. Sunday in the Monticello nursing home after an 

eight month illness. Mrs. Bair, who had lived with her daughter in Monticello the past four years, 

had spent most of her life in the Poplar Grove community in Marshall county. 

She was born June 2, 1896, in Union township, Marshall county, to Edwin and Mary 

SINGER KREIGHBAUM. She was married in 1910 to Clarence E. BAIR. The couple had lived 

10 years in Detroit. Mrs. Bair was a member of the Poplar Grove church, of the W.S.C.S there 

and the Emily Jane chapter, Order of Eastern Star. 

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mary Kathryn TYLER, Monticello; one son, Clarence 

E. BAIR, Jr., Culver; one foster son, Stephen FISK, Palos Heights, Ill; five grandchildren; two 

brothers, Frances KREIGHBAUM, R.R. 3, Argos; and Fred KREIGHBAUM, Hinckley, Ill., and 

numerous nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos 

with the Rev. Kendall SANDS of the Culver Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Masonic cemetery at Culver. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Frances Carlson 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home for Mrs. Frances CARLSON, 67, former Rochester resident, who died Sunday at 4:30 a.m. 

in the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis from multiple carcinoma. 

Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace methodist church will be in charge of the last rites ands 

burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon 

Tuesday. 

Mrs. Carlson, who resided at 3555 Salem street in Indianapolis, had been a patient in the 

hospital since April 12 and in ill health since October. She was born near Tiosa in Richland 

township Oct. 20, 1889, the daughter of Cyrus and Alma PERSCHBACHER SHOBE. On July 

13, 1912, she was married to Otto CARLSON, who survives. 

The Carlsons moved from Rochester to Indianapolis in 1935. Mrs. Carlson had been a 

member of the Methodist W.S.C.S. for 25 years and was a member of the North Methodist church 

in Indianapolis. 

Surviving besides the husband, are two daughters, Mrs. Christina KINTNER and Mrs. 

Florence CASADY, both of Port Angeles, Wash.; two sons, Donald CARLSON, news editor of 

The Niles (Mich.) Star, and Francis CARLSON, Heyworth, Ill., and eleven grandchildren. 

First Lt. Francis B. Gould 

First Lt. Francis B. GOULD, USA (Ret.), a native of Rochester and 33-year veteran of 

U.S. Army service, died Saturday afternoon in Columbus, O., where he had made his home since 

retiring from Army life in 1940. 

Lt. Gould, 72 years old, had been in ill health for the last few years. 

The son of Willard and Alice GOULD, Lt. Gould was reared in Rochester and attended 

school in this city. On Nov. 14, 1907, he enlisted in the Army at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. 

His overseas service included a tour in the Philippine Islands, where he commanded a 

machine gun company of the Philippine infantry after being commissioned an officer. 

Survivors include the widow at home; a sister, Mary GOULD, Rochester, and a brother, 

George [GOULD], Anderson. 

Services and burial will be in Columbus, Tuesday. 


Arthur C. Helm 

Arthur Calvin HELM, 84-year-old father of Richard P. HELM of Rochester, died at 9 

p.m. Monday at the Miller nursing home here following a two-month illness. Mr. Helm, who 

lived at 2320 Coyner avenue in Indianapolis, had been suffering from a heart condition. 

Mr. Helm became ill in May while attending a convention in South Bend and later was 

taken to the Woodlawn hospital. 

He was born June 28, 1873, near Muncie, the son of John Henry and Naomi POWERS 

HELM. He was married June 16, 1903, at Muncie to Jessie Pearl PERKINS, who preceded him in 

death in 1948. The Helms moved from Muncie to Indianapolis, where Mr. Helm had lived 32 

years. 

A retired employee of the Indianapolis city engineer’s office, he was a 55-year member 

of the Brookside Masonic Order and a Past Grand Counselor of the United Commercial Travelers. 

During World War II he was active in Civil Defense work in Indianapolis. 

Survivors are two sons, Richard P. HELM, 320 West Fifth street; Arthur HELM

WALKER, Mexico City; one daughter, Mrs. William (Hannah) BORUFF, Miami, Fla.; and four 

grandchildren. Two brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Flanner and Buchanan Fall Creek 

mortuary in Indianapolis with the Rev. Richard MITCHELL of the First Baptist church of 

Rochester officiating. Burial will be in the family plot at Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. The 

Brookside Masonic Order will conduct grveside rites. 

Friends may call at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary after noon Wednesday. The 

body was taken to Indianapolis late today from the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here. 


Mary Wales 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home for Mrs. Mary WALES, 77, 1002 Elm street, who died at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday in Woodlawn 

hospital. She had been a patient there since Thursday, when she suffered a stroke while working 

at the home of Mrs. Clem MILLER 1104 Main street. 

Born April 22, 1880, in Aubbeenaubbee township, she was the daughter of Silas and Jane 

BISHER MILLISER. She was married Dec. 26, 1897, to Frank WALES, who died in 1938. Mrs. 

Wales, a member of the Burton E.U.B. church, had lived in Rochester for the past 13 years. 

Surviving are two sons, Ora [WALES], St. Petersburg, Fla., and Ernest [WALES], 

Elkhart; three daughters, Mrs. Clyde WOLF, Frankfort; Mrs. Mark SIXBEY and Mrs. Truman 

NEHER, both of near Leiters Ford; thirteen grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one brother, 

Surphes MILLISER, Rochester; and four sisters, Mrs. Esther WOLF, Peru; Mrs. Ruth CRABILL, 

Rochester; Mrs. Elizabeth WOODCOX, Rochester, and Mrs. Equilla HOLIDAY, Ontario, Ore. 

Two brothers and one sister prceded her in death. 

The Rev. George CRANE will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Guy S. Tuley 

Guy S. TULEY, 69, died at 8 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Winamac. Mr. 

Tuley, a county highway department employee for 20 years, was the brother of Theodore TULEY 

of Rochester. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Fry and Lange funeral home in Winamac. 

Burial will be in the Reed cemetery. 

Also surviving are two sisters and two other brothers. 

Thursday, August 1, 1957 

Amanda A. Kendall 

Mrs. Amanda Alice KENDALL, 90-year-old mother of Mrs. Dolly WELLER of Macy, 

died at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Webster nursing home in Logansport after two weeks’ illness. 

Also surviving are two sons; four daughters; eight grandchildren; seventeen greatgrandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Fisher funeral home in Logansport after 7 o’clock tonight.

Lawrence N. Clayton 

Lawrence N. CLAYTON, 57, San Francisco, Cal., died of a heart attack at his home 

Wednesday morning. 

Mr. Clayton was born Oct. 16, 1899, in Roann, to Lewis and Lucinda ACKERMAN 

CLAYTON. He was grocer in Roann until he moved to California five years ago for his health. 

His wife, the former Blanche KESLING, a Fulton county native, survives along with a 

daughter, Miss Jane CLAYTON. Both live in San Francisco. 

Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Scott POWERS of Fort Wayne and Mrs. W. S. 

ROBERTS of Detroit, and a brother, Hugh A. CLAYTON, Qincy, Mich. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday at the Grandstaff funeral home in Roann. Funeral 

services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Wilbert SULLIVAN officiating. Burial will be in 

the Roann I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Arla F. Weddle 

Arla F. WEDDLE, 57, Greenwood, died at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Indianapolis from a 

heart attack. He was the father of Mrs. Robert (Martha) BRIDGE of Rochester. 

A salesman for the Socony Mobil Oil company for 30 years, Mr. Weddle was a member 

of the American Legion Post of Rochester. Surviving besides his daughter are the wife, Margaret 

[WEDDLE]; three grandchildren, Steven, Nancy and John BRIDGE; two brothers, Chester 

WEDDLE, Bargersville, and Homer WEDDLE, Franklin, and one sister, Mrs. Mecie GILLETT, 

Whiteland. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Greenwood Christian church. 

Wilbur Cooper 

Wilbur COOPER, 79, died of a heart attack at 2 p.m. Wednesday at his home in the 

Burton community west of Rochester. He had resided there six years, moving from Akron. He 

also formerly lived in the Fulton area. 

Born April 12, 1878, in Wabash county, he was the son of Daniel and Mariah COOPER. 

He was married March 4, 1902, to Bertha UNGER. 

Surviving are the wife; three sons, Oral [COOPER], Lansing, Mich.; Paul [COOPER], 

South Bend, and Charles [COOPER], R.R. 1, Rochester; six grandchildren and daughter preceded 

him in death in 1940. 

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Ditmire chapel at Fulton with the Rev. 

William KEITH, of the Fulton Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Hope 

cemetery at Logansport. 

Friends may call at the chapel. 

Bertha A. Smith 

Mrs. Bertha A. SMITH, 74, died at 4 a.m. Thursday in Woodlawn hospital where she had 

been a patient since Sunday. Mrs. Smith, who resided at 303 West Third street, had been in 

failing health the past four years. 

She was born Aug. 25, 1882, near Athens, the daughter of John N. and Nancy Jane 

MOORE BRYANT. Her entire life had been spent in Fulton county, most of the time in Richland 

township. She had resided in Rochester the past 10 years. 

She was married Dec. 26, 1906, in Talma to Ernest A. “Jake” SMITH, who died Feb. 17, 

1947. Mrs. Smith, a retired school teacher, was a member of the Richland Center Methodist 

church and a charter member of the F.D.I. club.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Phyllis SHEETZ, Rochester, and Mrs. Nellie Mae 

HOOKER, Indianapolis; two sons, James SMITH, Elkhart attorney; and Joe SMITH, St. Joe, Ind.; 

ten grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Nellie SMITH, Rochester, and one niece, Mrs. Aletha 

DAVISSON, Rensselaer. 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Lloyd MENEREY of Richland Center Methodist church officiating. Burial will be 

in the Mount Hope cemetery in Athens. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Friday. 

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Friday, August 2, 1957 

Saturday, August 3, 1957 

Howard Zumbaugh 

Howard ZUMBAUGH, 84, died at 1:45 a.m. today at his home, 209 North Michigan 

street, Argos, from a sudden heart attack. 

He was born Jan. 6, 1873, in the Poplar Grove community and had lived in the Argos 

area his entire life except for three years at Bremen, during which time he taught school. He was 

married to Mollie M. DAVIS, April 21, 1897. His parents were Jacob and Ann PONTIOUS 

ZUMBAUGH and he was the last survivor of seven children. 

Mr. Zumbagh was a retired printer and a member of the Argos Methodist church. 

Surviving are the wife and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the Grossman funeral home in Argos with 

the Rev. E. J. PETERS of the Argos Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar 

Grove cemetry southwest of Argos. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Monday, August 5, 1957 

Sophia Boggess 

Mrs. Sophia Mary BOGGESS, 75, died at 12:40 a.m. Sunday at Woodlawn hospital after 

a six-months illness. Death was due to a coronary occlusion. 

Mrs. Boggess, a former Rochester resident, returned here about six months ago to make 

her home with a daughter, Mrs. Amelia DOYLE EWING, at 913 Monroe street. 

She was born in Rome, N.Y., Oct. 5, 1881, the daughter of Jacob and Mary EHMANN 

ZIMMERMAN. She was married first to Francis DOYLE and after his death was married in 1914 

to Willard BOGGESS, who prceded her in death in 1951. 

Mrs. Boggess was a member of the Verona, N.Y. Lutheran church, and spent most of her 

life in Rome, N.Y. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Amelia DOYLE EWING, Rochester, and Mrs. 

Charlotte BOGGESS FIEDLER, Glossvale, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; one sister and two brothers 

of Rome, N.Y., and several nieces and nephews. One son, Francis DOYLE, Jr., preceded her in 

death. 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Griffith and Aldrich chapel in Rome, 

N.Y., where the body has been removed from the Foster and Good funeral home here. Burial will 

be in Rome.

Ivan Pownall 

Ivan POWNALL, 59, a native of Fulton county, died Sunday night at City Hospital in 

Indianapolis following a long illness. 

He was born in Wayne township, the son of William and Margaret POWNALL and was 

married to Oneta BOGGS, who survives. Also surviving are his father, William, in Florida; one 

daughter, Mrs. Estin SWANSON, Markleville; two sons, Ermal O. [POWNALL], Wabash, and 

Edgar L. [POWNALL], Logansport; two sisters, Mrs. Edgar RANS, Elkhart, and Mrs. Loyd 

ROUCH, Rochester. 

Funeral services will be held at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton at 2 p.m. Wednesday 

with burial in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Wednesday. 

James M. Ware 

James M. WARE, 69, a lifelong resident of the Kewanna community, died Saturday 

morning at Woodlawn hospital. 

He was the son of Henry and Ann PINDER WARE and was born June 15, 1888 on the 

farm where he resided at the time of his death, four miles southeast of Kewanna. 

He was a 1913 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and was married Oct. 20, 1920, 

to Mary WALSH. They were the first couple married in the St. Ann’s church at Kewanna. 

Mr. Ware was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Leroy Shelton American 

Legion post of Rochester and president of the Holy Name Society of the St. Ann’s church. 

Surviving are his wife; one son, James H. WARE, Warsaw; two daughters, Mrs. Mary 

DAWSON, in Germany; and Mrs. Margaret ANGELL, Ukiah, Cal.; nine grandchildren, and one 

sister, Mrs. Agnes LARKIN, South Bend. 

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the St. Ann’s church with the Rev. James 

FITZGERALD officiating. The rosary will be repeated at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Harrison funeral 

home. The Leroy Shelton [American] Legion Post will conduct military rites at the St. Ann’s 

cemetry in Grass Creek, where burial will be made. 

Russell G. Callahan 

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Harrison funeral home in 

Kewanna for Russell G. CALLAHAN, 61, who died at his home southeast of Kewanna Saturday 

morning. 

Burial will be in the Grass Creek cemetery. Friends may call at the residence. 

Mr. Callahan was a native of Milford, Ill., being born there Oct. 4, 1895, the son of 

Charles and Sarah LEWIS CALLAHAN. 

Surviving are the wife, Bertha [CALLAHAN]; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy SORENSEN, 

Rockford, Ill.,; one brother, George CALLAHAN, R.R. 6, Rochester; one sister, Mrs. Ruby 

RUSH, Mahnattan, Kan. ,and one granddaughter. 

John Davis 

John DAVIS, 22, Mentone, Sunday morning became the sixth traffic fatality in Fulton 

county this year when he died in Woodlawn hospital about three hours after a three-vehicle 

accident on State Road 14, 1.7 miles north of Akron. 

Parquale LOMBARDI, 26, Logansport, suffered a fractured left arm, broken left leg and 

possible fractured pelvis in the accident and is reported in serious condition at St. Joseph’s 

hospital in Logansport. 

Three other persons, Richard P. CLARK, 19, Mentone; Harold Rae DOUGLAS, 30,

Logansport, and Floyd A. COX, R.R. 2,, Akron, escaped injury. 

Davis was a passenger in a car driven by Clark which struck a pickup truck parked on the 

highway at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, state police said. 

Officers said that Lombardi and Douglas were en route home from Warsaw, where 

Douglas had raced n a stock car event. Douglas was driving the 1939 moden pickup truck, pulling 

the stock car on a trailer, when the truck eveloped motor trouble. 

Douglas had gotten out of the truck when the Clark auto crashed into the trailer, jaming it 

against the truck and mashing the truck cab, pinning Lombardi inside. 

The tuck and trailer were shoved 60 feet down the highway and onto the berm, a state 

trooper said. 

The Clark car apparently flipped over the truck, landing on its top 156 feet down the 

highway from the point of impact. It was then hit by an auto driven by Cox, who was not hurt. 

Lombardi was freed from the truck cab by Douglas, who later was chraged by state police 

with parking on the traveled portion of the highway. 

The Clark car was demolished in the wreck and the pickup truck was listed as a total loss. 

The stock car also was badly damaged. 

The fatality was the first to occur on State Road 14 in Fulton county this year. Three 

persons have died from accidents on U.S. 31, and from a mishap on State Road 25 and another 

from an accident at the intrsection of two county roads north of Akron. 

Tuesday, August 6, 1957 

James Jacknewitz 

James JACNEWITZ, infant grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard SLONAKER, R.R. 3, 

Rocester, died 10 hours after birth Monday at Memorial hospital in South Bend of congenital 

atelactasis. 

e was the son of Stanley and Esther (SLONAKER] JACKNEWITZ, South Bend, and the 

nephew of Mrs. Laurence NORRIS and Miss Doris SLONAKER, both of Rochester. 

Also surviving is the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Barbara JACKNEWITZ, East St. Louis, 

Ill. 

Graveside services were conducted at the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. cemetery this afternoon 

with the Rev. Lloyd MONEREY, of the Richland Center Methodist church officiating. 

The Zimmerman Brothers funeral home was in charge of the arrangements. 

Melvin Hay 

Friends of Melvin HAY, 80, who died in Bakersfield, Cal., July 5, have received 

memorials of the former Fulton county and Rochester man who will be remembered by many of 

the older residents of the county. Mr. Hay had been confined to his bed for almost six years, as 

the result of a stroke. Burial was at Bakersfield. 

He was born and reared in the Leiters Ford community where he was a farmer and school 

teacher. Always an active Democrat, he entered politics and was elected Fulton county surveyor. 

He left here about 35 years ago to join an older brother in Bakersfield. 

Mr. Hay married Miss Jocie McMAHAN, a sister of Otto and Hugh McMAHAN, of 

Rochester. She passed away some years ago. They had one daugher, Mrs. Marjorie McCASLIN, 

Ontario, Cal., who survives as does a sister, Mrs. Vern WALTERS.

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Wednesday, August 7, 1957 


Virgil J. McKee 

Virgil J. McKEE, 97, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Plymouth Parkview hospital. 

Mr. McKee, a retired sawmill operator, was born in Rochester on Jan. 17, 1860, spending 

most of his life in the Bruce Lake community before moving to Plymouth 30 years ago. 

He was married May 13, 1881, in Rochester, to Lydia COSGROVE, who preceded him 

in death Nov. 16, 1919. He was a member of the Bruce Lake E.U.B. church. 

Survivors are his daughter, Mrs. Arretta PAXTON of Plymouth, with whom he made his 

home; three sons, Sam McKEE of Argos; Reed McKEE of Plymouth and Harvey McKEE of 

Hammond; twenty-two grandchildren; twenty-three great-grandchildren and six great-greatgrandchildren. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Community church in Bruce Lake. 

Friends may call at the Johnson funeral home in Plymouth after 7 p.m. tonight. 

Arthur C. Woolington 

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Burr Oak E.U.B. church for Arthur C. 

WOOLINGTON, 73, who died at his home on R.R. 3, Plymouth, Tuesday morning. 

He was born in Fulton county Feb. 22, 1884, and spent most of his life in West township, 

Marshall county. In 1904 he was married to Maggie M. ANDERSON. 

Survivors include his wife; his stepmother, Mrs. Jessie WOOLINGTON, Rochester; five 

daughters, Mrs. Helen CRAMER and Mrs. Jean BISHOP, of Burr Oak, Mrs. Frances SIDDALL 

and Mrs. Mary BRODBELT of Plymouth and Mrs. Florence ELLINGER of Walkerton; a son, 

Arthur WOOLINGTON, Jr., of Burr Oak; a brother, Lloyd WOOLINGTON of Kewanna; two 

sisters, Mrs. Ruth HOUSER of Winamac and Mrs. Goldie HAMMOND of Kewanna; fifteen 

grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. 

The Rev. Ross COOK will officiate at the services with burial in the Bur Oak cemetery. 

Zella Williams 

Funeral services for Mrs. Zella DURR WILLIAMS, Toledo, O., a former resident of 

Leiters Ford, were conducted in Toledo Wednesday. Mrs. Williams died in a Toledo hospital 

Saturday morning. 

Among the survivors are the husband, Ray WILLIAMS; a daughter, Mrs. Eleanor 

WHITEHEAD; two grandsons; two sisters, Mrs. Maude SALES and Mrs. Dessie NEWCOMER, 

both of Rochester; a brother, Guy DURR, Rochester, and several nieces and nephews from Fulton 

county.


Theodore Faulstich 

Winamac, Ind. -- Theodore FAULSTICH, 30, R.R. 1, Monterey, died at the Carneal 

hospital in Winamac at 2 p.m. Thursday, from injuries sustained when his car and a farm trailer 

collided with a pickup truck at a Pulaski county road intersection earlier in the day. 

Faulstich, father of three small children, died of internal injuries. In “good” condition at 

the hospital is Dennis SWARTZ, R.R. 1, Winamac. Young Swartz, an unlicensed driver, suffered 

a broken left wrist and cuts and bruises. 

Faulstich was en route home with a ton of farm feed on the trailer. Swartz was on his 

way to Monterey on an errand for his parents. The vehicles collided head-on at the intersection 

three miles west and a mile south of Monterey. Both the car and truck landed in a beanfield 60 

feet from point of impact. 

Deputy Sheriff Wayne KOEPKE estimated the speed of both vehicles at 45 miles per 

hour. A neighbor heard the crash and investigated. Charges are to be filed later against Swartz. 

Faulstich leaves his wife and three sons, Leon [FAULSTICH], 6, Neal [FAULSTICH], 

4, and Kent [FAULSTICH], 3. Funeral rites will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the St. Ann’s church 

in Monterey with burial in the church cemetry. 

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Henry W. Blesch 

Henry W. BLESCH, 81, Akron, a resident of the Akron and Beaver Dam vicinities for 

the last 47 years, died in his sleep at home at 3 a.m. Sunday. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Blesch was born on May 24, 1876, in Palos, Ill., to Peter and Anna 

(COCH) BLESCH. He was married to Flora CRISLER in 1907 at Goodings Grove, Ill. He was a 

member of the German Lutheran church in Lemont, Ill. 

Surviving besides the widow at home are two daughters, Miss Grace BLESCH, Fort 

Wayne, and Mrs. Roy (Evelyn) MEREDITH, Akron; two grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. 

Matilda BODENSCHATZ, Lemond, and Mrs. Frances MASKE, Glendale, Cal. A son, Ralph 

[BLESCH], two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Moyer-Haupert funeral home at Akron with the 

Rev. Claude FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Clyde Vigar 

Clyde “Jake” VIGAR, Wabash, father of Orville and Harleyglen VIGAR, both of 

Rochester, died suddenly at his home about 4 a.m. Sunday. He would have been 67 years of age 

this month. 

Born Aug. 23, 1890, in Pomeroy, O., Mr. Vigar was the son of John H. and Carrie Kay 

VIGAR. In 1911 he was married to Elizabeth FRAKER, who preceded him in death. He was a 

retired woodworker. 

Surviving besides Orville and Harleyglen Vigar are three daughters, Mrs. Walter 

ORPURT, Mexico, Mrs. Albert SMITH, Peru, and Mrs. Leonard TOWNSEND, Wabash; two

sons, Harry VIGAR, Niles, Mich., and Russell VIGAR, Wabash; five brothers, Charles [VIGAR], 

Peru; Howard and Frank [VIGAR], New Albany; and Edward and Homer [VIGAR], Delaware, 

O.; a sister, Mrs. Maude MYERS, Tanmpa, Fla.; twenty-eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. 

Four brothers and a half-sister preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Drake-Flowers funeral home at Peru with the 

Rev. Russell SHALLEY officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Hope cemetery at Peru. Friends 

may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. 

Edith Arter 

Mrs. Edith ARTER, 80, who resided with her daughter, Mrs. Fred BARR, in Talma, died 

at 8 o’clock this morning of carcinoma of the stomach at her daughter’s home. She had been in 

failing health for the past year. 

The daughter of Benjamin F. and Eliza Jane (BURNS) HOLLOWAY, Mrs. Arter was 

born in Fulton county on Oct. 7, 1876. She was married in 1894 to Frank J. ARTER, who died in 

1948. 

A practical nurse for the last seven years, Mrs. Arter was a member of the Talma 


Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. BARR and Mrs. Roy HUBBARD of near Tiosa; six 

grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; a brother, Donald V. HOLLOWAY of Mobile, Ala.; a 

sister, Mrs. A. C. TEETER of Winona Lake, and numerous nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Talma Methodist church. Burial will be in 

the Reichter cemetery. Friends may call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after 1 p.m. 

Tuesday and until 1 p.m. Wednesday. 

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Daniel T. Rose 

Daniel T. ROSE, 68, prominent Fulton county farmer who lived five miles north of 

Rochester on U.S. 31, died at 10:30 a.m. today in Woodlawn hospital of cardiovascular-renal 

disease and complications. He had been in failing health for the last 10 years and had been 

critically ill for three weeks. 

Born on Dec. 2, 1888 near Windsor, Ill., Mr. Rose was the son of Tobias Vincent and 

Virginia (WRIGHT) ROSE. He was married on Jan. 20, 1912 to Rita WRIGHT in Findley, Ill., 

and came to Fulton county from Shelby county, Ill., 27 years ago. 

He was a member of the Church of Christ. 

Surviving besides the widow at home are three sons, Daniel Vincent [ROSE], of 

Kokomo; D. Murphy [ROSE] of Rochester and Marvin E. [ROSE], of Boston; a daughter, Miss 

Virginia D. ROSE, of LaPorte; eleven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and five sisters, 

Mrs. Elsie OLSON of Windsor; Mrs. Don MOBERELY of Gays, Ill., Mrs. Roy POGUE of 

Findley, Mrs. Ron RUNKLE of North Manchester and Mrs. G. C. BARNHART of Gates, Ore. 

A son, Capt. Robert ROSE, died in 1944 during World War Two and two brothers and 

two sisters also preceded Mr. Rose in death. 

The body has been removed to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home where rites are 

pending.


Daniel T. Rose 

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home for Daniel T. ROSE, 68, well-known Fulton county farmer who died at Woodlawn hospital 


The Rev. Ralph BURRIS of the Rochester Church of Christ will officiate and burial will 

be in the Richland Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today until 10 a.m. Friday. The body 

will then be taken to the Rose farm home, five miles north of the city on U.S. 31, to be returned to 

the funeral home at 11 a.m. Saturday. 

Laura Oxley 

Mrs. Laura OXLEY, 85, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday at the McDougle nursing home in 

Fulton following a long illness. She had resided in Fulton since the death of her husband, Wilson 

[OXLEY], February 23, 1943. Prior to that, the Oxleys lived in Adams township, Cass county. 

She was born May 1, 1872, in Adams township, the daughter of Joseph and Nancy Jane 

GEHMAN. Her marriage was on Feb. 20, 1907. Mrs. Oxley was a member of the Skinner 

Christian church at Twelve Mile. The only survivors are nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Ditmire chapel at Fulton with the Rev. Lincoln 

LEHUE officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. Friends may call at the 

chapel. 

Earl Sanner 

Earl SANNER, 72, 308 East Walnut street, Argos, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday at the 

Beatty Memorial hospital in Westville. He had been ill three years. 

Mr. Sanner was born Nov. 13, 1884, in Tippecanoe to Empurtis and Sarah GRAHAM 

SANNER. He spent all his life in Tippecanoe until 1940, when he moved to Argos. 

He was first married on July 21, 1906, to Glendolen DIPERT, who preceded him in death 

on Sept. 26, 1937. He was married again on March 3, 1940, to Ella BERRY, who survives. He 

was a retired farmer and laborer. 

Survivors besides the wife include four daughters, Mrs. Vera RICHTER, Mishawaka; 

Mrs. Helen COPLEN, Talma; Mrs. Eileen ABEL, Elkhart; and Mrs. Marjorie LEWALLEN, 

Tippecanoe; three sons, Harold K. SANNER, Chicago; and B. SANNER, both of South Bend; 

[sic] a sister, Mrs. Ethel JACKSON, Elkhart; ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos after 7 o’clock this evening. 

Funeral services will be there at 2 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Robert WHITEHEAD of the Argos 

Christian church officiating. Burial will be in the Tippecanoe cemetery. 


Blanche A. Miller 

Miss Blanche Alma MILLER, 50, died this morning at 9 o’clock at the home of her 

parents, 520 East Eighth street, following a two-year illness. She had been in serious condition the 

past week. 

Born Oct. 24, 1906, at Thompsonville, Mich., she was the daughter of Frank E. and 

Jennie MOORE MILLER. Miss Miller moved to Rochester with her parents at the age of six

years and had lived here the remainder of her life. 

She was a member of the Grandview E.U.B. church. 

Surviving are the parents, three sisters, Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) COX, R.R. 4, Rochester; 

Mrs. N. E. (Esther) KESLER, R.R. 3, Rochester; and Mrs. Joseph (Edna) LEONARD, Tampa, 

Fla; two brothers, Everett MILLER, R.R. 4, Rochester, and Edward MILLER, Riviera, Cal.; and 

several nieces and nephews. One brother preceded her in death. 

Funeral rites are pending. Friends may call at the Foster and Good funeral home after 2 

p.m. Saturday. 

Daniel Fouts 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Deedsville E.U.B. church for Daniel 

FOUTS, 15, Deedsville, who died Wednesday afternoon at the Riley hospital in Indianapolis from 

a kidney infection. He had been ill a week. 

The boy would have been a sophomore in the Deedsville high school this fall. 

He was the son of Herbert and Geneva LONG FOUTS and is survived by three brothers 

and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Don FOUTS, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. 

Myrtle LONG, all of R.R. 2, Macy. 

Carl E. Anderson 

Carl Edward ANDERSON, 78, 3119 180th street, Lansing, Ill.; died Thursday at 6:30 

p.m. He had been living in Lansing with his daughter, Mrs. Norma BECKER, but was for many 

years a resident of the Rutland community on R.R. 4, Plymouth. Mr. Anderson, a retired farmer, 

had been ill four months, but his health had been failing the past 10 years. 

He was born June 18, 1879, to Nels and Johanna ANDERSON, in Sweden. He came to 

the United States at the age of 10, settling in Kankakee, Ill., until early manhood, when he moved 

to Rutland. 

He was married on Sept. 30, 1908, to Eva Ann GROVER. His wife preceded him in 

death June 30, 1946. 

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Velma SOUTH, Plymouth; Mrs. Orpha LEE, 

Whiting; Mrs. Elsie JOHNSON, Hammond; and Mrs. Norma BECKER, Lansing, Ill.; two sisters, 

Mrs. Amanda BURRILL, Kankakee, Ill.; and Mrs. Jennie POOR, Plymouth; a brother, Emile 

ANDERSON, South Bend; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos after 1 p.m. today, where 

funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Wayne A. CHILD will officiate. Burial will 

be in the Poplar Grove cemetery southwest of Argos. 

Maude M. Kreamer 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kewanna Church of Christ for Maude 

May KREAMER, 78, a former Rochester resident. Mrs. Kreamer was the widow of the late J. H. 

KREAMER, and had lived at 427 Jefferson street in Rochester. 

She was born to George and Nancy STAHL SALES on July 17, 1879, in Leiters Ford. 

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Earl SEE; and a brother Kline SALES, both of Leiters Ford; two 

step-daughters, Mrs. Mary ANDERSON and Mrs. Naomi MILLS, both of Kewanna, and several 

nieces and nephews. 

The services will be conducted by Rev. Henry F. BULGER, assisted by the Rev. Kenneth 

LUCKY. Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after 1 p.m. today. The body 

will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to the services Sunday.


Blanche A. Miller 

Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Foster and Good funeral home in 

Rochester for Miss Blanche Alma MILLER, 50, who died Friday morning. 

The Rev. James THOMAS of the Grandview E.U.B. church will officiate. Burial will be 

in the Rochestr I.O.O.F. cemetery. 


Charles H. Kercher 

Charles H. KERCHER, 83, died at 11 p.m. Sunday at his home a mile east of Gilead 

following an eight month illness, serious the past two months. 

He was born Nov. 20, 1873, in Miami county and was married Nov. 23, 1899, to Minnie 

HARMON. His parents were Frederick and Rochelle GRIMES KERCHER. 

Mr. Kercher was a member of the Akron Church of God. 

Surviving are the wife; three daughters, Marie and Marjorie [KERCHER], both at home, 

and Mrs. Opal HILL, Rochester; two sons, Ralph [KERCHER], R.R. 2, Macy, and Lamoine 

[KERCHER], at home; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. 

Elizabeth FAUROTE, R.R. 1, Macy. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Akron Church of God with the Rev. 

D. L. SLAYBAUGH, assisted by the Rev. Harold CONRAD, officiating. Burial will be in the 

Roann I.O.O.F. cemetery. The body will be taken from the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron 

to the residence at 7 p.m. today. Friends may call until noon Wednesday. The body then will lie 

in state at the church from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday. 

Guy M. Price 

Guy M. PRICE, 66, died at 4:45 p.m. Sunday at the Rochester Nursing Home following a 

long illness. Mr. Price, who resided at 917 Franklin avenue, had been seriously ill for four years. 

He was born Aug. 30, 1891, in Fulton county and lived in this community his entire life. 

He was married Feb. 14, 1912, to Rhoda May O’CONNELL, who survives. His parents were 

Wallace and Theodosia WARREN PRICE. 

Also surviving are three sons, Harold and Roy [PRICE], both of Culver, and John 

[PRICE], Rochester; five grandchildren, and several cousins. One brother and one foster sister 


Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Foster and Good funeral home with the 

Rev. George CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Grove cemetery, three miles east of 

Culver on State Road 10. Friends may call at the funeral home.

George W. Musselman 

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today in the Denver Methodist church for Dr. 

George W. MUSSELMAN of Denver, who died there Saturday, following a three-year illness. He 

was 78. 

Burial was in the Chili cemetery. 

Born in Richland township, Miami county, Sept. 12, 1878, he had lived in the Denver 

community since 1911. He was married June 26, 1902, at Logansport, to Jessie SKINNER. A 

veterinarian at Denver for the past 44 years, Dr. Musselman was a member of the American 

Veterinarian Association and the Indiana Veterinarian Association. 

Surviving are a son, Donald [MUSSELMAN], Denver; a daughter, Maxine 

[MUSSELMAN], at home, and one grandson. He was the last surviving member of a family of 11 

children. 

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Anna M. Barter 

Mrs. Anna Marie BARTER, 71, died at 4:30 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital, where she 

had been admitted Tuesday. Mrs. Barter, who resided a mile southeast of the city, had been in 

failing health for four years. Her condition had been serious the last six weeks. 

Born Sept. 2, 1885, in Richmond, Va.; she came here about 28 years ago from Fort 

Wayne. She was married Oct. 15, 1909, in Memphis, Tenn., to Harry H. BARTER. The Barters 

own and operate the Lakeview Orchard. 

Surviving, besides the husband, are two sons, Harry [BARTER], Jr., at home, and Gale 

[BARTER], Logansport; one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Gloria) FELLERS, Akron, and one 

grandson, Stephen FELLERS, Akron. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Frday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. Harold CONRAD of the Akron Church of God officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Edgar M. Fenimore 

Edgar M. FENIMORE, 70, died at 6 a.m. today at his home a mile northeast of Culver 

following an illness of several months. 

Born in Ross City, O., Nov. 20, 1886, he moved with his parents to Fulton county as a 

child. Following his marriage here to Fern ROBINSON, who survives, the couple returned to 

Ohio and in 1936 came back to reside near Culver. 

He was a member of the Culver Bible church. 

Surviving besides the wife are two sons, Donovan [FENIMORE], Mishawaka; Gerald 

[FENIMORE], Indianapolis; one sister, Mrs. Ira BUTT, Rochester; three brothers, Forrest, 

Rochester; Oscar, Peru, and Roy [FENIMORE], Oakland, Cal., and four grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Culver E.U.B. church with the Rev. 

Maynard TUTTLE officiating. Burial will be in the Culver cemetery. Friends may call at the 

Easterday funeral home in Culver.


Floyd F. Boldry 

Floyd F. BOLDRY, 69, died at 12:05 a.m. today at his home three miles northeast of 

Fulton in Liberty township from carcinoma after a three-year illness. 

Born March 1, 1886, in Ripley county, he had lived in the Fulton community eight years, 

coming there from Twelve mIle. He was married Aug. 24, 1909, to Elizabeth HANKS, who 

survives. His parents were Frank and Marie HELTKAMP BOLDRY. 

Mr. Boldry was a member of the E.U.B. church. 

Surviving besides the wife, are one son, Ralph [BOLDRY], R.R. 2, Kewanna; one 

daughter, Mrs. Louise BUZBEE, R.R. 1, Logansport; three grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; 

one brother, Everett [BOLDRY], R.R. 2, Kewanna; two sisters, Mrs. Lois 

THOMPSON, El Cajo, Cal., and Mrs. Elsie SHEETS, R.R. 1, Twelve Mile; and several nieces 

and nephews. One daughter preceded him in death. 

Rites will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton with the Rev. 

James REFFER officiating, assisted by the Rev. William KEITH. Burial will be at Greenlawn 

cemetery, Mexico. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

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Ellsworth Wagoner 

Ellsworth M. WAGONER, 68, died at 6:30 a.m. today at his home on the Tippecanoe 

river in Newcastle township. The Wagoner residence is located in Camp SHOHOLA, which Mr. 

Wagoner originated. 

Death, which came after a two-year illness, was caused from an asthmatic and heart 

condition. 

Born Nov. 25, 1888, in Crestline, O., Mr. Wagoner was the son of Milo and Etta 

EDWARDS WAGONER. He was married in Rochester May 16, 1913, to Zella Vivian ESSICK, 

who survives. 

A retired template maker for steel structures, Mr. Wagoner worked at the former 

Rochester Bridge Factory and also at Gary and in Bellefontaine, O. He returned to Rochester to 

reside in 1946 from Gary. 

He was a member of the Grace Methodist church and the I.O.O.F. lodge. 

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Vivian TROUT, Rochester; three grandchildren, 

Mrs. Herschel (Judith Ann) RIGNEY; Sarah Ellen and Philip Miles TROUT, all of Rochester; one 

great-granddaugter, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles BEISEL, Elkhart, and Mrs. I. W. MARTIN, 

North Webster. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr. 

Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the 

funeral home after noon Sunday. 

The family has rquested that flowers be omitted and memorial gifts made to the 

charitable organization preferred.


Ellsworth Snyder 

Ellsworth SNYDER, 71, R.R. 1, Argos, died suddenly of a heart attack at 11:45 a.m. 

Saturday at his home. 

He was born on Nov. 18, 1885, at the place where he died to Henry and Caroline HUFF 

SNYDER. A farmer, he had been a member of the Argos Christian church for the past 45 years. 

He was married on May 6, 1914, to Velma CLEVENGER, who survives with two 

daughters at his home. The daughters are Miss Marjorie E. SNYDER and Miss Mary Ruth 

SNYDER. 

Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Lester (Minnie) ZEHNER, R.R. 4, Plymouth, four 

brothers, George and Benjamin [SNYDER], of Argos, R.R. 1, Russell [SNYDER], of Holtville, 

Cal., and Silas Drew SNYDER of Corpus Christi, Texas. A daughter, Vera [SNYDER], died in 

1946. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, where 

services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Ernest TREBER, of Mooreland, Ind., 

will officiate and burial will be in the Maple Grove cemetery at Argos. 

William A. Thomas 

William Albert THOMAS, 46, died at 2 p.m. Sunday at his home at 723 East Ninth street 

in Rochester of a heart condition. He had been ill for the past two years. 

He was born May 20, 1911, in Howard county, but mored to Rochester shortly thereafter 

and spent the rest of his life in this city. His parents were William and Minerva FRITZ 

THOMAS. 

He was married June 28, 1930, to Mae WOLFORD. He was a co-owner of the Thomas 

Brothers garage at 266 Race street in Rochester for the past 12 years. 

He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of 

Foreign Wars, the Eagles and Moose Lodges, the Izaak Walton League and the Rochester 

volunteer fire department. 

Surviving with the widow are a daughter, Mrs. Arlen (Joan) HAMMOND of Mishawaka; 

two sons, Dale [THOMAS] of Rochester and Billy [THOMAS] at home and three 

granddaughters. Other members of his family are four brothers, Omer [THOMAS], of Fort 

Wayne, James [THOMAS], of Monrovia, Cal., and Floyd and Paul [THOMAS], of Rochester; and 

two sisters, Mrs. Charles (Reathel) CLINGER, of Flora, and Mrs. Eugene (Millie) BERGER of 

Argos. A daughter and three brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Foster and Good funeral home in 

Rochester, with the Rev. L. E. POWELL of the Rochester Church of God officiating. Military 

graveside rites will be conducted by the American Legion post and burial will be in the Citizens 

cemetery. 


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Tuesday, August 27, 1957 to Wednesday, August 28, 1957 


Cleo B. Pattee 

Cleo Bernice PATTEE, 44, R.R. 2, Rochester, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the 

Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with the Rev. Richard MITCHELL officiating. Burial will be 

in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mrs. Pattee died at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Woodlawn hospital, six hours after suffering a 

cerebral hemorrhage while at a local hairdresser’s. 

The daughter of Edward and Cora (COFFEL) FLOYD, she was born in Rensselaer on 

Jan. 26, 1913. 

She was married on Aug. 2, 1936 at Lake Village to Herman J. PATTEE and they came 

to Fulton county from Gary 15 years ago. They had lived in the Fairview Heights addition at Lake 

Manitou for the last 11 years. 

Surviving besides the husband are three sons, Richard [PATTEE], stationed with the U.S. 

Navy in Morocco, West Africa; Larry and David [PATTEE] at home; two brothers, Glen FLOYD, 

Winamac, and William FLOYD, Gary, and a sister, Mrs. Grace NELSON, Bakersfield, Cal. 


Emmett G. Floyd 

Funeral services for Emmett Glenn FLOYD, 56, Delphi, a former resident of Rochester, 

will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Jackson funeral home in Delphi. 

The Rev. J. Franklin ARTHUR will officiate and burial will be in the Masonic cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home today. 

Mr. Floyd, a native of Macy, died of a heart attack Tuesday afternoon in his car near 

Traverse City, Mich., where he was visiting relatives. 

He was born in Macy on Jan. 13, 1899, to John and Elda (MURPHY) FLOYD. He was 

married on Aug. 18, 1936, to Fanny CRUEA, who survives. 

Other survivors are four children by a former marriage, Ernest FLOYD, 1317 Elm street, 

Rochester; Edward [FLOYD], Delphi; Mrs. Edna STEWART, Cassopolis, Mich.; and Mrs. 

Virginia WINNER, Buchanan, Mich.; a sister, Mrs. Ethel KUHNS, Colburn, and two brothers, 

Lester [FLOYD], Macy, and Elmer [FLOYD], Wabash. 


Elbe H. Hassenplug 

Elbe Henry HASSENPLUG, 77, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at the Bair Nursing 

Home in Bourbon, after suffering ill health since 1952. 

He was born near Leiters Ford to Henry and Ellen HARTMAN HASSENPLUG on 

March 24, 1880. He lived in Fulton county all his life, residing near the Gandview community in 

Richland township at the time of his death. 

On Sept. 8, 1904, he was married to Estella BEEHLER, who preceded him in death in 

1932. Mr. Hassenplug worked as a farmer and was employed for 10 years by Armour’s 

Creameries. He was a member of the Rochester Church of God.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Stanley (Mabel) BROWN of Plymouth and Mrs. 

LaVerne (Aleta Ruth) BEACH, Sioux Falls, S.D.; a son, Obed [HASSENPLUG], Orangedale, 

Cal.; ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. One brother and three sisters preceded him in 

death. 

Funeral services will be Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Rochester Church of God, with the 

Rev. POWELL officiating. Burial will be in the South Germany cemetery near Leiters Ford. 

Friends may call at the Foster and Good funeral home in Rochester after 10 a.m. Saturday. 


Milo J. Norman 

Milo J. NORMAN, 93, died during the night Friday at his home in Macy, where he had 

lived his entire life. Mr. Norman, who had not been ill, died during his sleep and was discovered 

this morning. 

He leaves eight children, his wife having died in 1944. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body was taken to the Moyer-Haupert funeral 

home in Akron. 

Tuesday, September 3, 1957 

Roscoe D. Clay 

Roscoe Dennison CLAY, 50, a resident of R.R. 2, Rochester, died of a heart attack at 

2:30 p.m. Monday in Greybull, Wyo. 

Mr. Clay had been taken ill three weeks ago while he and his wife were on a vacation trip 

through the West. He had been hospitalized since that time. 

He was born Sept. 12, 1906, in Rochester, and had spent his entire life in this county. He 

was married in January, 1926, at Rochester to Mildred HORN, who survives. His parents were Ed 

and Verna DENNISON CLAY, both having preceded him in death. 

Mr. Clay, a farmer, was a member of the Richland Center I.O.O.F. lodge and of the 

Manitou Moose lodge. 

Surviving besides the wife, are two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Shirley) ALBER, 

Rochester; and Mrs. Richard (Margaret) BURKETT, Rochester; one son, Max [CLAY], 

Rochester; six grandchildren; two brothers, Homer [CLAY], Rochester, and Howard [CLAY], 

Montpelier, O.; two sisters, Mrs. Maurice (Mildred) NEWMAN, Rochester; and Mrs. John 

(Pauline) SNYDER, South Bend. One brother preceded him in death. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is being returned to the Foster and Good 

funeral home, where friends may call after 9 a.m. Thursday. 

Milo Norman 

Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Macy Methodist church for Milo J. 

NORMAN, 93, lifelong resident of Macy, who died of a heart condition at his Macy home [about 

9 p.m.] Friday. 

He was born in Miami county, Jan. 21, 1864, and was married in 1886 to Sarah Anetta 

POWELL. She died in 1944. Mr. Norman, for many years operated a threshing ring in Miami 

county. He was a member of the Macy Methodist church. 

[His parents were Josephus and Sarah RANK NORMAN.. Surviving are eight children, 

Jesse [NORMAN], R.R. 2, Macy; Perry [NORMAN], Dodson, Mont; Mrs. Ora GLASSFORD,

R.R. 1, Macy; Mrs. Louise DAYWALD, Urbana; Mrs. Alta LEEDY, Deedsville; John 

[NORMAN], R.R. 2, North Manchester; Harold [NORMAN], R.R. 2, Macy; and Mrs. Elma 

RABER, R.R. 1, Macy; one sister, Mrs. Rosa CASTLE, South Bend; twenty gandchildren; sixtynine 

great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. 

[Funeral rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Macy Methodist church with the 

Rev. Harold CONRAD officiating, and Rev. Jack PAVEY assisting. Burial will take place in 

Plainview cemetery at Macy. Friends may call at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron after 

2 p.m. Monday. The body will lie in state for an hour prior to the services at the church.] 

Myrth Proctor 

Myrth PROCTOR, 23, South Bend, husband of a former Rochester woman, died in the 

hospital at Woodsfield, O., Saturday from injuries sustained when he crash-landed his private 

plane on the Main street of the city Friday night. 

Proctor’s wife is the fomer Sally Van LUE, 22, who lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 

Harry Van LUE, on a farm east of the city. She is reported in “fair” condition at the hospital. 

Two other passengrs, Paul WILLIAMS and Russell ANDERSON, both of South Bend, were 

treated for minor injuries. 

State police said Proctor’s private plane ran out of gas and that he landed at Woodsfield, 

O. under the impression he was at Wheeling, W. Va. The four were en route from South Bend to 

Morgantown,W. Va. 

Wednesday, September 4, 1957 

Myrtle A. Pratt 

Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Kewanna Church of Christ for Mrs. Myrtle 

Alice PRATT, 81, who died Sunday at the Miller nursing home here after a long illness. 

Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Kewanna. 

Mrs. Pratt was born May 14, 1876, in Wabash county and was the daughter of William 

and Elizabeth STONE CLAYBOURNE. She was married to George PRATT, who died in 1932. 

Surviving are a son, Russell [PRATT], Rochester; and three daughters, Mrs. Roxie 

HOTT, Leiters Ford; Mrs. Freda FRIEDRICH, Star City; and Mrs. Neda HOOVER, Kewanna; 

one sister, Mrs. Jennie CLAY, Rochester; three brothers, Otto, Fred and Edward 

[CLAYBOURNE], all of Rochester; eleven grandchildren; twenty-seven great-grandchildren and 

one great-great-grandchild. 

Roscoe D. Clay 

Final rites for Roscoe Dennison CLAY, 50, R.R. 2, Rochester, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in 

the Foster & Good funeral home here with the Rev. Richard MITCHELL, of the First Baptist 

church, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Mr. Clay died of a heart attack at 2:30 p.m. Monday in Greybull, Wyo., after becoming ill 

three weeks ago while on a vacation trip through the West. 

A farmer, he was a member of the Richland Center I.O.O.F. lodge and of the Manitou 

Moose lodge.

Billy Barnett 

Billy BARNETT, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William BARNETT, was killed 

instantly at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when crossing the street in front of his home at 521 Anchorage 

drive, North Palm Beach Village, Fla. 

Billy is survived by one sister, Debbie [BARNETT]. His mother is the former Mary Jo 

SOWERS, of this city. His father is formerly of Frankfort. The maternal grandparents are Mr. 

and Mrs. William SOWERS of Rochester and his paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. William 

BARNETT of Frankfort. 

Services will be held in North Palm Beach Friday and burial will be in that city. Mr.and 

Mrs. William Sowers have left for North Palm Beach. 

Thursday, September 5, 1957 

Mrs. Owen Metsger 

Mrs. Owen METSGER, Anderson, sister of Mrs. Ethel FINGERLE and aunt of Mrs. 

Robert CAUFFMAN and Mrs. John PRICE, all of Rochester, died at her home Wednesday 

afternoon after a long illness. 

Services will be Saturday at the Beech Grove Baptist church in Pendleton. 

Friday, September 6, 1957 

Clinton Bryant 

Final rites for Clinton BRYANT, 68, Gary, a former resident of Rochester, will be at 10 

a.m. in the Gary Church of God, of which he was a member. Burial will be in the Mount Hope 

cemetery at Athens, with graveside services at 2 p.m. Monday. 

Mr. Bryant, a retired railroad employee, died in a hospital at Woodstock, Ill., Thursday 

evening after an illness of several weeks. 

The son of John F. and Lulu (LARRIMORE) BRYANT, he was born on Jan. 10, 1889. 

Among the survivors are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Omer HAIMBAUGH and Mrs. 

Robert STONER; two brothers, Wesley [BRYANT], of LaPaz and Teddy [BRYANT] of Arcola, 

Ind.; a sister, Mrs. Rudy KAISER, Rome City, Ind.; several grandchildren, nieces and nephers and 

cousins. 

Three brothers, Howard, Perry and John R. [BRYANT], and two sisters, Mrs. Eunice 

STOFFER and Mrs. Ora MOORE, preceded him in death. 

Saturday, September 7, 1957 

Charles L. Frobish 

Charles LeRoy FROBISH, 65, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 7:55 p.m. Friday at his 

home on R.R. 1, Macy, following a five-year illness. 

He was born to John and Alice DUTOIT FROBISH on Feb. 29, 1892, in Livingston 

county, Ill. In 1920 [?] he was married in Champaign, Ill. to Daisy WIRTH, who survives. 

He lived near Macy for 26 years, owning the Macy pickle plant from 1929 to 1953, when 

he retired. He was a member of the Macy Methodist church, Lincoln masonic lodgte 523 of 

Macy, Peru Commandery Post 60, Rochestr Chapter 90 of the Royal Arch Masons, the Scottish 

Rite of Fort Wayne and Peru Council 58 of the RNSM. He was a past commander of the Peru 

Commandery, a past high priest of the Rochester Masons and a past master of the Macy lodge.

Survivors besides the wife include two sons, LeRoy FROBISH, Ontario, Ill.; and John 

FROBISH, Macy; two daughters, Mrs. Edith HUNTLEY, Kankakee, Ill., and Mrs. Elaine 

ROBERTS, Macy; a brother, Birt [FROBISH], Blue Island, Ill., and eight grandchildren. Two 

brothers preceded him in death. 

Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at the McCain funeral home at the junction of U.S. 

31 and State Road 16. Funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m. in the Macy Methodist church, 

with the Rev. Jack PAVEY officiating. The body will lie in state for one hour prior to the 

services. 

Burial will be in the Plainview cemetery in Macy, with graveside rites conducted by the 

Masonic lodge. 

Monday, September 9, 1957 

Charles C. Stauffer 

Charles C. STAUFFER, 81, died Sunday noon in the Beatty Memorial hospital in 

Westville after a long illness. He resided on R.R. 2, Argos. 

Born Dec. 10, 1875, near Nappanee, he spent most of his life as a farmer in the Argos 

community. He was married April 2, 1899, to Myrta BOGGS, who survives. His parents were 

Henry and Orpha STAUFFER. 

Mr. Stauffer was a member of the Plymouth Church of God. 

Also surviving are two sons, Chester [STAUFFER], at home, and Charles [STAUFFER], 

Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Violet NELSON, Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Pansy SLAUTTERBACK, 

Elkhart, and four grandchildren. 

Services will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home inArgos with the 

Rev. Burton BARTLING of the Argos Baptist church officiating. Interment will be in the Oak 

Hill cemetery at Plymouth. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Tuesday. 

Clarence E. Ellis 

The trustee of Allen township, Miami county--Clarence E. ELLIS-- died of a cerebral 

hemorrhage at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, shortly after he was admitted to Dukes hospital in Peru. A 

resident of R.R. 2, Macy, he was 57 years of age. 

A resident of Miami county for 49 years, he was born in Indianola, Ill., on April 7, 1900, 

the son of J. Edward and Serona Dee HEDGES ELLIS. He was married Aug. 13, 1922, to Mary 

HEETER at St. Joseph, Mich. 

Mr. Ellis was a member of the Macy Christian church. 

Surviving are his wife; one son, Robert [ELLIS], South Bend; one daughter, Mrs. Martha 

HARDACRE, Bellflower, Cal.; three grandchildren. One brother preceded him in death. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Macy Christian church, with the Rev. 

William SHEWMAN officiating. Burial will be in the Plainview cemetery at Macy. Friends may 

call at the McCain funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday. 

Nellie R. Hawk 

Mrs. Nellie R. HAWK, 72, died Sunday morning at 7:55 o’clock at her home a half-mile 

north of Rochester on U.S. 31. 

She was born Oct. 2, 1884, the daughter of William and Sada BECK ROGERS. On 

March 7, 1904, she was married to Rosco HAWK, who survives. The Hawks had lived for many 

years on a farm southeast of Argos and moved three years ago to their home north of Rochester.

Mrs. Hawk lived all her live in Fulton and Marshall counties. 

She was a member of the Tiosa Christian church. 

Also surviving are one son, Roy M. [HAWK], R.R. 1, Argos; three sisters, Mrs. Charles 

(Dollie) TOWN, Rochester; Mrs. Otis (Ethel) NELLANS, R.R. 3, Argos, and Mrs. Dean (Grethel) 

MOW, R.R. 3, Rochester; and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos 

with the Rev. E. J. PETERS of the Argos Methodist church officiating. Interment will be in the 

Richland Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Monday. 

Odessa M. Murray 

Mrs. Odessa Maude MURRAY, 85, Grass Creek, died at 11:30 p.m. Sunday at 

Woodlawn hospital here where she had been a patient for three weeks. 

Born Feb. 23, 1872, near Grass Creek, she was the daugher of J. J. and Almedia URBIN 

KUMLER. She was married Sept. 21, 1892, to A. J. MURRAY, who died July 4, 1941. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Blanche BABER, Royal Center, and Mrs. Flossie 

BEHLEFELDT, Beverly Hills, Cal.; three sons, George R. [MURRAY], Washington; Rex E. 

[MURRAY], Grass Creek; Cloyd A. [MURRAY], Indianapolis; three brothers, Roy KUMLER, 

Grass Creek; Frank KUMLER, Rochester; nine grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. 

Two children died in infancy. 

Mrs. Murray, a lifelong resident of Wayne township, was a member of the Grass Creek 

E.U.B. church, and for many years served as its financial secretary. 

Friends may call at the Harrison fneralhome in Royal Center after 7 p.m. today. Funeral 

services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Grass Creek E.U.B. church with the Rev. D. H. 

PELLET officiating. Burial will be in the Grass Creek cemetery. 


Joseph Paul Marshall 

Joseph Paul MARSHALL, 51, a telephone worker being employed in this vicinity, died 

suddenly from a coronary occlusion at 10:10 p.m. Monday in his apartment at 111 1/2 West 

Eighth street. 

A native of Chester, Pa., Mr. Marshall came to Rochester about two months ago and had 

been employed as a line foreman for a construction firm erecting lines for the General Telephone 

Company in the Macy and Fulton areas. He had not been ill; in fact, worked a full day Monday. 

Born Oct. 18, 1905, in Media, Pa., he was the son of Patrick and Margaret MARSHALL. 

He was married at Elkton, Md., in 1938 to Mary Lou PORTER, who survives. 

Mr. Marshall was a member of the St. Michael’s Roman Catholic church in Chester, Pa., 

and of the Federation of Telephone Workers of America. He had spent 30 years as an employee 

of the Bell Telephone Company. 

‘ Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Patricia A. JENSON, York, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. 

Barton NESENTHALER, Lansdale, Pa., and Mrs. Walter McMAHAN, Media, Pa. One sister and 

five brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral services and burial will be in Chester, Pa., Thursday. The body is being returned 

to the White funeral home in Chester from the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home this afternoon.


Fannie Lowman 

Mrs. Maurice LOWMAN, 72, a native of Fulton, died at the St. Joseph hospital in 

Pontiac, Mich., Monday morning after a three-years illness. Mrs. Lowman resided at 191 Worth 

street, Birmingham, Mich. 

Born in Fulton on Feb. 4, 1885, she was the daughter of William and Emma CATON and 

was married to Maurice LOWMAN at Fulton on June 17, 1908. Mrs. Lowman was an aunt of 

Mrs. Paul EASTERDAY of Fulton. 

Surviving are the husband; a son, James [LOWMAN], Birmingham; a daughgter, Mrs. 

Lucille CHAMBERLIN, Los Angeles, and six grandchildren. 

Mrs. Lowman was a graduate of Rochester Normal University and a member of the 

Birmingham Methodist church. She formerly taught school in this county. 

Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Manley Bailey funeral home in 

Birmingham with burial in Acacia Park cemetery there. 

[NOTE: Maurice LOWMAN married Fannie WALTERS, June 17, 1908 - Jean C. & 

Wendell C. Tombaugh, Fulton County Indiana Marriages, 1836-1983] 


Lowe Rynearson 

Lowe RYNEARSON, 77, 1114 Franklin avenue, died in Woodlawn hospital at 12:15 

a.m. today of paralysis. He had been ill since May 19, 1950, and a patient at the hospital one 

week. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Rynearson was born in Lycoming county, Pa., Oct. 27, 1879 to 

Ellis and Sarah (FAGUE) RYNEARSON. On Aug. 31, 1905, he was married in Farragut, Pa., to 

Bernice O. HALL, who survives. 

Mr. Rynearson had lived on Franklin avenue since April 1, 1951, moving there from the 

Levi MOORE farm on the north shore of Lake Manitou. 

Surviving besides the widow at home are five sons, Reuben, Ellis, Woodrow and Joseph 

[RYNEARSON], all of Rochester, and Earl [RYNEARSON], Hughesville, Pa.; two daughters, 

Mrs. Eugene (Sarah) COPLEN, Mesa, Ariz., and Mrs. James (Marjorie) COX, Tyler, Texas; 

eleven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Mathias [RYNEARSON] 

Moorehead, Minn., and Francis [RYNEARSON], Muncy, Pa. 

A daughter, Helen [RYNEARSON], a granddaughter and three brothers preceded him in 

death. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here with 

Dr. Claude YOUNG, of the Grace Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester 


John E. Leland, Sr. 

John E. LELAND, Sr., a resident of Marshall county almost all his life, died at his home 

four miles west of Argos at 7 a.m. today after an illness of one year. He was 79 years old. 

Born in Green township, Marshall county, Jan. 9, 1878, he was the son of John and 

Marietta LELAND. He was married to Iva COREY at Argos on July 2, 1899. 

A farmer and member of the Methodist church, Mr. Leland had lived one year in 

Converse.

Surviving are the widow at home; three daughers, Mrs. Marcile MILLER and Mrs. 

Frances MELOY, both of Plymouth, and Mrs. Lola LOHT, Golden, Cal.; three sons, Keith 

[LELAND], Plymouth; Mark [LELAND], Brookville, O., and John [LELAND], Jr., R.R. 3, 

Argos; a brother, George [LELAND], Dayton, O.; eighteen grandchildren and sixteen greatgrandchildren. 

A daughter, Merriam [LELAND], died in 1928. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos with the Rev. 

Albert VERMILLION of Darlington officiating, assisted by Rev. J. PETERS of the Argos 

Methodist church. Burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. 


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Friday, September 13, 1957 to Saturday, September 14, 1957 


Herschel W. Mow 

Funeral services for Capt. Herschel W. MOW, 46, former Fulton county resident and a 

state policeman since 1942, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Grace Methodist church here 

following services in Indianapolis Tuesday morning. 

Dr. Claude YOUNG will officiate at rites here and burial will be in Richland Center 

I.O.O.F. cemetery, where graveside ceremonies will be conducted by the I.O.O.F. 

Capt. Mow, who had been in charge of the State Police records division since July of this 

year, died after a heart attack Saturday night. 

Born in Thompsonville, Mich., he was the son of Clarence and Edna (BEEHLER) MOW. 

He was a graduate of Richland Center high school and had lived in Rochester. 

He spent several years as a lineman and electrician for the Rural Electrification 

Membership Corporation before joining the state police. 

His first assignment was at Jasper. Then he was named first sergeant at the Charlestown 

post. In July, 1947, he was promoted to lieutenant and became commanding officer at the 

Lafayette post later. 

He was a member of the Washington, Ind., Masonic lodge. 

Survivors include the widow, Bernice L. MOW; a son, Randall Lee [MOW], at home; a 

brother, Charles [MOW], Elkhart; a sister, Mrs. Paul BARTS, Lawrence; two step-sisters, Mrs. 

Wesley McMURRAY, Rochester, and Mrs. Joe HENDRICKSON, Indianspolis, and a stepbrother, 

Ralph BUNN, R.R. 3, Rochester. 

Friends may call at the Foster and Good funeral home here after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The 

body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 


Fred F. Kirby 

Fred F. KIRBY, 78, a resident of Akron for 19 years, died at his home at 6:10 p.m. 

Monday of a heart ailment. He had been ill for two years and in critical condition for four months. 

Born in Alliance, O., April 13, 1878, he was the son of Charles and Mary (COHLER) 

KIRBY. He was married in Canton, O., in 1901 to Nellie RHODES, who survives. 

Mr. Kirby was a retired chief inspector for the American Fork and Hoe company and was 

a member of the St. Lois I.O.O.F. He moved to Akron from Woolbridge, N.J.

Surviving besides the widow are two daughters, Mrs. J. T. JONES and Mrs. Leonard 

COMPOLIETO, both of Canton; two sons, Edgar L. [KIRBY], Canton, and Frank E. [KIRBY], 

Pittsburgh; eight grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. A son and a daughter preceded him 

in death. 

Services will be in Canton with the Rev. E. R. BARKER of the Canton Presbyterian 

church officiating. Burial will be in the Northlawn cemetery with I.O.O.F. rites. Friends may call 

at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron this evening, after which the body will be taken to Canton. 


Mary Ettie Dawald 

Mary Ettie DAWALD, 80, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret YARIAN, R.R. 

1, Macy, died at 6 a.m. today in Dukes hospital, Peru, after an illness of one year. 

Born in Perry township, Miami county, on Sept. 16, 1877, she was the daughter of 

Agustus and Margaret (DEEDS) FITES. On June 4, 1900, she was married in Denver, Ind., to 

Henry E. DAWALD, who died in 1953. Mrs. Dawald was a member of the Ebenezer Methodist 

church near Macy and of the W.S.C.S. of the Denver Methodist church. She moved to her 

daughter’s home from Denver four years ago. 

Surviving besides Mrs. YARIAN are another daughter, Mrs. Marie McDOWELL, and a 

granddaughter, both of Green Bay, Wis. A brother and two sisters preceded her in death. 

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Denver Methodist church with the Rev. Roscoe 

PHENEGER officiating, assisted by the Rev. C. STARKWEATHER. Burial will be in the 

Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. 

Friends may call at the Yarian home, north of the junction of State Roads 16 and 19, after 

3 p.m. Thursday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 

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Alfred A. Singer 

Alfred A. SINGER, 55, 301 East Walnut street, Argos, died at 6 p.m. Thursday at 

Parkview hospital in Plymouth, where he was taken after becoming ill while working at the 

Bendix Aviation plant in South Bend, Wednesday. He died of a coronary occlusion. 

Born on June 14, 1902, in Plymouth, he was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (GURTHET) 

RINGER. [sic] He was married to Goldie STICKLER in Plymouth Nov. 8, 1924. 

He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Plymouth and moved to Argos 

four years ago from the Rutland community at Tippecanoe. 

Surviving are the widow and one son, Eugene [SINGER], at home; two other sons, Lloyd 

and Rollo [SINGER], Plymouth; a daughter, Mrs. Bernard (Lenora) BANN, Argos; seven 

grandchildren; two brothers, Ira and Roy [SINGER], Plymoth, and three sisters, Mrs. Ethel 

MORLOCK, Mrs. Orpha HARTMAN and Mrs. Irene KRIEGHBAUM, all of Plymouth. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, where 

services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday. Elder Melvin JOHNSON, of the Seventh Day Adventist 

church in Plymouth will officiate and burial will be in the Plymouth Oak Hill cemetery.

Margaret C. Dielman 

Mrs. Margaret C. DIELMAN, 64, R.R. 1, Akron, died suddenly of a heart attack at her 

home Thursday at 9:30 p.m. She had been in ill health for about three years. 

Mrs. Dielman was a member of the Sunshine club, the W.S.C.S. of the Akron Methodist 

church, the Akron Mothers club and the Akron American Legion auxiliary. 

The daughter of William and Corabell (HATCLIFF) McNOWN, she was born on March 

9, 1893. She was married in Berrien Springs, Mich., Aug. 26, 1930, to Leon DIELMAN, who 

died in 1955. Mrs. Dielman moved to Akron from Fowler 26 years ago. 

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Mary BUPP, Akron, and a nephew, George BUPP Rochester. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sheetz funeral home at Akron, with the Rev. 

Maurice KESSLER of the Akron Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Akron 

cemetery. 


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Ernest M. Fish 

Final rites for Ernest M. FISH, 82, who lived with his daughter, Mrs. Earl COX, R.R. 4, 

Plymouth, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos. 

The Rev. Elmer GOSS, of the Plymouth Jehovah’s Witnesses church, will officiate and 

burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. 

A native of Argos, Mr. Fish died suddenly of a coronary occlusion at 5:30 p.m. Saturday 

while doing chores in the barn at his daughter’s residence. 

For many years he was a harness maker at the Irvin and Walters harness and bicycle shop 

in Plymouth. He attended the Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Plymouth. 

Mr. Fish was born on Nov. 24, 1874 in Argos to Charles and Phebe (CHAPMAN) FISH. 

On April 15, 1891, he was married to Luretta YEAZEL, who died in June of 1951. 

Surviving besides Mrs. Cox are a grandson; two granddaughters and a sister, Mrs. 

Theresa CASLOW, Argos. A son, Glen [FISH], died in infancy. 


Frank M. Lowden 

Frank Morland LOWDEN, 84, one of Rochester’s first city mail carriers, died Sunday at 

2:20 p.m. at his home, 1417 Madison street, following a long illness. He had been bedfast for 

three years. 

Mr. Lowden joined the local Post Office staff as a carrier in the early years of the 

century. He also was a rural route carrier before his retirement on July 31, 1938. 

He was born Sept. 11, 1873, in Shelby county, the son of Dr. John and Margaret 

SHOWALTER LOWDEN. He was married Feb. 2, 1898, near Rochester to Ollie DICE, who 

survives. 

Mr. Lowden had lived in the city 57 years, coming here from Monticello. He was a 

member of the First Christian church and would have been a 50-year member of the Rochester 

I.O.O.F. lodge this October.

Surviving, besides the wife, are one son, Dr. Deo M. LOWDEN, O.D., Schererville; three 

granddaughters, Mrs. Gretta THORNTON, Jackson, Mich.; Mrs. Beverly GRAVES, Dyer; and 

Mrs. Patricia THEIMER, Los Altos, Cal.; eleven great-grandchildren; two half-brothers, Carl and 

Samuel LOWDEN, Shelby county; one half-sister, Mrs. Nannie SLEETH, Shelbyville, and one 

niece. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here 

with the Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD, pastor of the First Christian church, officiating, assisted by 

the Rochester I.O.O.F. lodge. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the 

funeral home. 

Oliver J. Clyde 

Oliver J. CLYDE, 29, Kewanna, took his own life with a shotgun at his home about 

10:30 a.m. Sunday. Dr. Carson McGUIRE, deputy coroner of Fulton county, returned a verdict of 

suicide after investigation. Mr. Clyde, who had been in ill health for some time, was a meat cutter 

at the Kewanna locker plant. 

He was born in Illinois on Sept. 18, 1928, to John and Carrie (HANSEL) CLYDE. On 

May 30, 1950, he was married to Violet MURHLING, who survives. 

Other survivors are two sons at home, Robert Allen and Michael Lawrence [CLYDE]; 

two daughters at home, Gwendolyn Sue and Nancy Ann [CLYDE]; the parents, R.R. 4, Rochester; 

four brothers, Donald and Robert [CLYDE], Joliet, Ill.; William [CLYDE], Plymouth, and Earl 

[CLYDE], at home; two sisters, Mrs. Shirley MOKOZITCH, Joliet, and Carol [CLYDE], at home. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Kewanna Methodist church, with the Rev. Frank R. 

CHRUST officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home at Kewanna. 

Franklin Dillman 

Franklin DILLMAN, 77, the father of Mrs. Archie McKEE of Rochester, died at 10:30 

p.m. Sunday at the Dunfee nursing home in Wabash after an illness of two years. He resided on 

R.R. 1, Peru. 

Mr. Dillman had spent most of his life in Miami and Fulton counties and was a retired 

farmer and schoolteacher. He taught at Akron school at one time. He was born in Miami county 

on Dec. 26, 1879, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris DILLMAN. 

Also surviving are a son, Aubey [DILLMAN], North Manchester; one brother, Henry 

[DILLMAN], Mexico, and one grandchild. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. 

Rites will be held at the Drake-Flowers funeral home in Peru at 2 p.m. Wednesday with 

the Rev. W. C. CORRELL officiating. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. 

William L. Hope 

William L. HOPE, 50, Logansport Ford dealer who moved to that city from Kewanna in 

1946, died Sunday morning in a Logansport hospital after suffering a heart attack. 

President of Hope-Lexom Company, Inc., he was a past president of both the Logansport 

Chamber of Commerce and United Fund. He became ill at 11:30 p.m. Saturday and died 30 

minutes after his admission to the hospital at 1 a.m. 

Surviving are two sons, his mother and two brothers. 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Kroeger chapel in Logansport and burial 

will be in the St. Anne cemetery in Grass Creek.

Ruth E. Junkin 

Ruth E. JUNKIN, seven-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. JUNKIN of Akron, 

died at 3 a.m. today in a Hammond hospital. 

She was the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. JUNKIN, Akron, and Mr. and Mrs. 

Alfred HOPPER, 419 East 14th street. 

Mrs. Junkin, the former Barbara HOPPER, and her husband formerly lived in Rochester. 

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George J. Southerton 

George J. SOUTHERTON, 83, Macy, whose marriage was the first performance in the 

present court house at Rochester, died at 1 a.m. today at his home after a serious illness of two 

weeks. He had been in ill health for two years. 

Mr. Southerton was married to Mary Eva HARTMAN on Nov. 11, 1896 and they were 

the first couple ever married in the Rochester Courthouse. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Southerton was born on Aug. 1, 1874, near Gilead to Henry and 

Lucy M. (LONG) SOUTHERTON. He had lived most of his life near Macy. 

Surviving are the widow, at home; three sons, Clifford [SOUTHERTON], Macy, R. R. 1, 

Akron; three daughters, Mrs. Ray (Elzie) ZARTMAN, R.R. 1, Macy; Mrs. Cecil FROBISH, 

Onarga, Ill., and Mrs. Carrie JENKINS, Rochester; eleven grandchildren; seventeen greatgrandchildren 

and a brother, Charley SOUTHERTON, Macy. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Macy Methodist church with the Rev. Jack 

PAVEY officiating. Burial will be in the Plainview cemetery at Macy. 

The body will be taken Thursday morning to the residence, where friends may call. 


Myrtle E. Rogers 

Mrs. Myrtle E. ROGERS, 81, died at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday at her home, five miles 

southwest of Mentone, from a heart ailment. She had been ill for 11 years, the past four months 

seriously. 

Born Jan. 28, 1876, a Churubusco, she was the daughter of Frank and Clara BUGBY. 

She had lived in the Mentone and Talma communities since she was three years old. Mrs. Rogers 

was married in 1885 at Talma to Manderville ROGERS, who died in 1937. 

She was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church. 

Surviving are three sons, Lester [ROGERS], Claypool; Bernard and Maurice [ROGERS], 

both R.R. 2, Rochester; two daughters, Mrs. Lowell (Georgia) SMITH, South Bend,and Mrs. Kyle 

(Bernice) GIBSON, Warsaw; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one sister, Grace 

BUPP, South Bend; and one brother, Loyal BUGBY, Grass Creek. 

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Baptist church southwest of 

Mentone. The Rev. Harry SMITH will officiate and burial will be in the Sycamore cemetery, four 

miles southwest of Mentone. Friends may call at the funeral home.

John C. Eisert 

John C. EISERT, 72, Logansport, died of a heart attack Wednesday afternoon while 

cutting grass at his home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph’s hospital. 

He was the uncle of Faye EISERT, Rochester. 

A retired Logansport Machine Company employee, Mr. Eisert is survived by his wife, 

three sons, seven grandchildren and a brother. Funeral rites are pending. 

Cora Mae Stamm 

Mrs. Cora Mae STAMM, 78, died early this morning at her home near Bruce Lake after a 

long illness. 

She was born Sept. 14, 1879, near Leiters Ford, the daughter of George and Ann 

SHADLE WRIGHT. She was married in 1899 to Jesse STAMM, who survives, and had lived all 

her life in the Bruce Lake community. 

She was a member of the Pleasant Hill church. 

Surviving, besides the husband, are two sons, Charles H. [STAMM], Fort Wayne, and 

Hugh A. [STAMM], Monterey; six grandchildren; one great-gandchild; and one brother, Frank 

WRIGHT, Plymouth. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. church [sic] with burial in the Pleasant Hill cemetery near 

Bruce Lake. Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after 1 p.m. today. 


Myrtle E. Rogers 

The body of Mrs. Myrtle E. ROGERS, who died Wednesday of a heart ailment, has been 

removed from the Reed funeral home at Mentone to the residence, nine miles northeast of 

Rochester, where friends may call. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bethlehem Baptist church southwest of 

Mentone. The Rev. Harry SMITH will officiate and burial will be in the Sycamore cemetery, four 

miles southwest of Mentone. 


Vivian Strong 

Vivian STRONG, 74, died at 5:30 a.m. today at his home a half-mile north of Akron 

from a coronary occlusion. He had been ill the past 10 months. 

Born in Akron, Feb. 17, 1883, he was the son of Ely and Minerva DAY STRONG. A 

lifetime resident of the Akron community, he was married in that town Feb. 10, 1904, to Lulu 

DOLLMATCH, who survives. 

Mr. Strong was a member of the Modern Woodman of America lodge at Akron. 

Also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Hazel MIDDLETON, Chicago; Mrs. Mary 

MATHIAS, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Irene IZARD, Stockton, Cal.; one son, John [STRONG], 

Chicago; one sister, Miss Norah STRONG, Akron, and nine grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in 

Akron with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 


Elmira Shafer 

Mrs. Elmira SHAFER, who lived a mile north of Gilead, died late this morning at the 

Caylor-Nickel clinic in Bluffton, where she had been a patient for two weeks. The body is at the 

Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron, where rites are pending. 

Mary C. Shore 

Mrs. Mary Caroline SHORE, 88, a former resident of Rochester, died at her home in 

Oakland, Cal, Sept. 18, friends here have been advised. She was the widow of Kline W. SHORE, 

former local grocer and one time Fulton county auditor. 

She is survived by a daughter Mrs. Lora AUGHINBAUGH, Oakland; one grandson and 

eight great-grandchildren. Funeral rites were held Sept. 20 at Oakland with burial in the Mountain 

View cemetery there. 


Sam Miller 

Sam MILLER, 77, Marion, a former resident of Akron, died Sunday night at the home of 

a nephew, Estil GINN, Marion. 

The body is to be taken to the Sheetz funeral home at Akron, where rites are pending. 

Elvira Shafer 

Mrs. Elvira SHAFER, 84, died at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Caylor-Nickel Clinic at Bluffton 

after a five-month illness. Mrs. Shafer, who had been at the clinic for the past two weeks, resided 

a mile north of Gilead. 

She was born in Miami county, June 13, 1873, the daughter of Andrew and Lydia 

SMITH PONTIOUS. She was married to William SHAFER, who died in 1952, and had resided 

in the Gilead community her entire life. 

Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Ethel HOFFMAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Mrs. Celesta 

CREEK, Fort Wayne; Ms. Edna BENNER, Peru; Mrs. Susan EATON, South Whitley; Mrs. Clara 

SMITH, Markel, and Mrs. Mary NIXON, North Manchester; two sons, Hiram and Chester 

[SHAFER], both of Gilead; twenty-two grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held today at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron with the 

Rev. Ralph HUFFMAN of Logansport officiating. Burial was in the Gilead cemetery. 

Alice Fleck 

Mrs. Alice FLECK of Akron died at 12:30 p.m. today at Woodlawn hospital. 

The Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron is in charge of the funeral arrangements, 

which as yet are incomplete. 

Tuesday, October 1, 1957 

Milton Hiland 

Milton HILAND, 75, former resident of Union township, died Monday at his home in 

Lansing, Ill. The Schroeder funeral home in Lansing is in charge of the services. 

Tentative local rites are planned for 2 p.m. Thursday at Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home, Rochester, with burial at the Kewanna cemetery.

Sam S. Miller 

Final rites for Sam S. MILLER, 76, Marion, a former Akron resident, will be at 2 p.m. 

CST Wednesday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron. The Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH will 

officiate and burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Mr. Miller died suddenly in his sleep of a heart ailment at a rest home in Marion Sunday 

at 11 p.m. 

Born in Akron on April 23, 1881, Mr. Miller was the son of Simon and Elnora 

(MASTELLER) MILLER. He had lived in Akron for 37 years before moving to Marion. 

He was married in Fulton county to Emma LANDIS, who died in 1910. 

Mr. Miller was engaged in the masonry business in Akron and after moving to 

Indianapolis was an employee of the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical company. Later he was a male 

nurse. 

Among the survivors are four nephews, Byron and James GINN, Rochester; Garrett 

GINN, Athens, and Ralph MILLER, Akron, and a sister, Mrs. Blanche DICKEY, Akron. Three 

sisters and a brother preceded him in death. 

Alice M. Fleck 

Mrs. Alice Mae FLECK,73, Akron, owner of grocery stores in Akron, Disko and 

Mentone for many years, died of a stroke at 12:30 p.m. Monday at Woodlawn hospital. She had 

been ill since Sept. 21. 

Born in Fulton county on March 3, 1884, Mrs. Fleck was married to Christian F. FLECK, 

who died in 1952. 

She and her husband had owned grocery stores in Disko and Mentone for 40 years and a 

store in Akron for the last 30 years. She was a member of the Gleaners lodge and Royal 

Neighbors club in Akron and of the Mentone Methodist church. 

Surviving aare a son, Edward [FLECK], Akron; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Bessie) 

HALDERMAN, Warsaw; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A son, Russell 

[FLECK], died in 1946. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. CST Wednesday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron. 

The Rev. M. G. PERSONS, of the Mentone Methodist church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. 

Maurice KESSLER, of the Akron Methodist church. Burial will be in Mentone cemetery. 


Wednesday, October 2, 1957 

Ora D. Taylor 

Ora D. TAYLOR, 82, R.R. 2, Logansport, died at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial 

hospital in that city after a year’s illness. He was the father of Robert TAYLOR, R.R.1, Macy. 

A retired state hospital employee, Mr. Taylor was married to Gertrude GROSS, who 

died in 1938. 

Also surviving are another son and two daughters. Funeral rites will be Friday at 2 p.m. 

at the McCloskey-Hamilton chapel and burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery.

Milton J. Hiland 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. CST Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home here for Milton J. HILAND, a native of Kewanna who died of a heart attack Monday at 11 

a.m. in the office of the Hammond Lumber Company. He was 75 years of age. 

Mr. Hiland, who had been ill several years with a heart condition, has resided at 3107 

Ridge road, Lansing, Ill., for 30 years. He moved to Lansing from Kewanna, where he had owned 

the Kewanna Lumber Company. At the time of his death he was employed at the Hammond 

Lumber Company. He was an expert cabinet-maker. 

Born March 28, 1882, in Kewanna, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton HILAND, Sr. 

He was married Feb. 17, 1910, in Chicago, to Viona Pearl MUTCHLER, who survives. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Harold (Barbara) O’NEIL, Pendleton, Ore., and 

Mrs. Howard (Mary) PETRE, San Diego, Cal.; two sons, Robert [HILAND], Follington, Kan., 

and Arthur [HILAND], Panama Canal Zone; two sisters, Mrs. Jack (Ethel) KENNARD and Mrs. 

Anna ALEXANDER, both of Munster, and five grandchildren. 

Mrs. Hiland is a niece of Charles MUTCHLER of Rochester and a sister of Howard 

MUTCHLER of Kewanna. 

The Rev. Earl HEIMBERGER of Lafayette will officiate at the local rites and burial will 

be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here instead of at Kewanna as previously announced. Brief rites will 

be held at the Schroeder funeral home in Lansing at 9 a.m. CST Thursday and the funeral cortege 

will depart for Rochester immediately following the Lansing service. 

Myrtle L. Myers 

Mrs. Myrtle L. MYERS, 45, died at 2:40 a.m. today in Woodlawn hospital from 

carcinoma. She had been ill since Dec. 22, 1956. 

Mrs. Myers, who resided at 1201 Monroe street, was born near Kewanna on Dec. 28, 

1911, the daughter of Charles and Emma SWANGO HIGGINS. She had spent her entire life in 

the county. She was married Sept. 14, 1940, at Rochester to Glen O. MYERS, who survives. 

Mrs. Myers was a member of the VFW Auxiliary, Rochester. 

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Shirley Jean) WILKINSON, Rochester; 

two sons, Richard and Leroy [MYERS], both at home; the mother, Mrs. Emma HIGGINS, 

Rochester; one sister, Mrs. Devon (Cecil) PFEIFFER, Rochester, and two grandchildren, Gary and 

Ronnie WILKINSON. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with the 

Rev. Henry M. TERRY of the Rochester Nazarene church officiating. Burial will be in the 

I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 


Thursday, October 3, 1957 

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Friday, October 4, 1957 

Bert Servaas 

Funeral rites were held Thursday afternoon in Indianapolis for Bert H. SERVAAS, 

longtime summer resident of Lake Manitou, who died suddenly of a heart attack Monday. 

Mr. Servaas and his wife were returnining to their home at 4515 Carleton avenue, 

Indianapolis, after spending a weekend at their cottage here. He stopped in Broad Ripple and was 

fatally stricken while entring a drug store. 

The Servaases had spent their summers at Manitou for the past 24 years, residing in the 

old White City addition on the northeast shore. Mr. Servass had been in failing health, but seemed 

improved lately. He was a retired Sinclair oil company executive. 

Surviving beasides the wife are two sons, Bert [SERVAAS], Jr., and William 

[SERVAAS], both of Indianapolis, and one daughter, Mrs. Leta Jo WILLIAMS, Rockford, Ill. 

Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Saturday, October 5, 1957 

Clarence Stuber 

Clarence STUBER, 64, Gilead, died suddenly at 10:45 o’clock this morning of a heart 

attack in downtown Akron. 

The body was taken to the Sheetz funeral home in Akron. Funeral arrangements are 

incomplete. 

Monday, October 7, 1957 

Clarence Stuber 

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Olive Banch Church of God 

near Gilead for Clarence STUBER, 66, R.R. 2, Macy, who died suddenly in Akron of a heart 

attack in his car at 10:45 a.m. Saturday. He had been in ill health a year. 

The Rev. Victor YEAGER and the Rev. Gerald STUBER, a brother of Clarence, will 

officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery, Mexico. 

Friends may call at te Stuber residence until 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, when the body will be 

taken to the church to lie in state from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. 

A retired Miami county farmer, Mr. Stuber had been employed by the State Highway 

Department the past five years. He was a Republican precinct committeeman 30 years and janitor 

of the Gilead school 12 years. He had spent his entire life in the Gilead community. 

Born in Miami county, Jan 18, 1891, he was the son of J. W. and Flora CUNNINGHAM 

STUBER. He was married Jan. 23, 1909 at Denver to Cleo B. ZARTMAN, who survives. Also 

surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Vada KERSCHNER, Denver; one son, Paul [STUBER], R.R. 1, 

Roann; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one brother, the Rev. Gerald STUBER, 

Pulaski, Tenn.,and eight sisters, Mrs. Cleo BURROUS, Peru; Flossie BECKER, Defiance, O.; Fay 

GRISWOLD, Plymouth; Sylvia MOORE, Calumet, Ohio; Daisy READ, Plymouth; Lillian 

BABCOCK, Lowell, O.; Mabel GODFREY, Denver; Lillian DAVIS, Dearborn, Mich. Two 

daughters and three brothers preceded him in death.

Guy Urbin 

Guy URBIN, 65, who had been a Chevrolet auto dealer in Kewanna for 30 years, died 

Saturday night at Woodlawn hospital after a long illness. 

He was born July 2, 1892, in Fulton county, the son of Joseph and Harriet LOUER 

URBIN. On Oct. 15, 1913, he was married to Jessie LISEY, who survives. 

Mr. Urbin was a member of the Kewanna Methodist church, the Masonic lodge and 

Order of Eastern Star. 

Also surviving are one son, John [URBIN], Kewanna; two daughters, Mrs. Martha Ann 

COOK, Kewanna, and Mrs. Clara Jane KUMLER, Birmingham, Mich.; eleven grandchildren and 

one sister, Mrs. George BOOKS, Marion. 

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Kewanna Methodist church with the 

Rev. Frank B. CHRUST officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna cemetery where the Masonic 

Lodge 546 will conduct rites. Friends may call at the Harison funeral home. 


Jacob Crabill 

Jacob CRABILL, former Fulton county resident and brother of Mrs. Milo STEININGER, 

R.R. 3, Rochester, died Monday morning at the home of a sister in Knox, where he was living. 

Services will be in Hamlet Wednesday afternoon, and burial will be in the Rochester 

I.O.O.F. cemetry at about 2:30 p.m. 

Josephine DeWald 

Mrs. Josephine DeWALD, 92, a native of Fulton county, died Monday at the Lutheran 

Old People’s Home in Kendallville, where she had resided since January, 1952. 

Mrs. DeWald, who formerly resided in Richland township, is survived by two daughters, 

Mrs. Orpha UMBAUGH, Tiosa, and Mrs. Eva PENCE, Phoenix, Ariz.; one sister, Mrs. Eva 

UMBAUGH, also at the Lutheran Home in Kendallville; one brother, Delbert LEAVELL, 

Mentone, and two nephews and two nieces. 

Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the St. John’s Lutheran church here, 

where the body will lie in state from noon until the hour of the services. Burial will be in the 

Reichter cemetery, Talma. 

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Martha Eash 

Martha EASH, former Rochester resident, died Wednesday morning at the Sylvester 

Nursing Home in Muncie at the age of 92 years. She had lived in Muncie the past 50 years. 

Wife of the late Charles EASH, she was a member of the High Street Methodist church in 

Muncie. 

Surviving are three sons, Clarence D. [EASH], Jackson, Mich.; Ralph D. [EASH], 

Holland, Mich., and John T. [EASH], Westfield, N.J.; seven grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

here with Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the 

I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday. The Meeks 

funeral home in Muncie also will conduct rites at 10 a.m. Saturday. 


Charles C. Russell 

Charles C. RUSSELL, 83, Mentone, died at 5:45 p.m. Thursday at Woodlawn hospital 

after a long illness. 

A native of Kosciusko county Mr. Russell was born on July 17, 1874 to Zane and Ellen 

(TULLIS) RUSSELL. He was one of 11 children. On Jan. 7, 1899, he was married to Dora R. 

TAYLOR, Newcastle township, who survives. He spent most of his life in Detroit, Mich., and 

was a member of the Church of Christ at Sycamore, near Mentone. 

Surviving besides the widow are two sons; Herschel [RUSSELL], Clearwater, Fla., and 

Taylor [RUSSELL], Detroit; four grandsons; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Clarence 

(Beulah) PETERSON, Rochester; a brother, Fred F. RUSSELL, Washington Courthouse, O.; 

several nieces and nephews. A son, Harry [RUSSELL], and a daughter, Mary [RUSSELL], 

preceded Mr. Russell in death. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. CST Sunday at the Vance Johns funeral home in Mentone with 

the Rev. Ralph BURRIS, pastor of the Mentone Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be at the 

Sycamore cemetery four miles southwest of Mentone. 

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Roy Hill 

Roy HILL, 44, R.R. 4, Rochester, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in South Bend’s St. 

Joseph hospital at about 8:45 a.m. today. He was taken there from Woodlawn hospital following a 

fall in the Fulton county jail Sunday night. Hill, a barber, lived a mile west of the city on State 

Road. 14. 

The cause of the cerebral hemorrhage was not immeditely detrmined, according to the 

doctor at St. Joseph hospital who was assigned to the case. Hill was picked up by city police 

about 12:45 a.m. Sunday at the south edge of Rochester and taken to the county jail on a 

preliminary charge of drunken driving. 

Sheriff Laurence NORRIS said that when he took breakfast to the prisoners at 5 a.m., 

Sunday, Hill apparently was in sober condition. Hill also appeared to be in good condition at the 

noon meal, said Norris. 

At about 3 p.m., Norris said, other prisoners called for Deputy Sheriff Richard 

DICKSON and City Policeman Robert TERRY, who discovered that Hill had had a seizure. They 

called a local physician, who attended him at that time. 

During supper, a loud noise was heard in the sheriff’s office and officers were told by the 

prisoners that Hill had fallen and struck his head. Norris called an ambulance, which took Hill to 

Woodlawn hospital. At about midnight, Hill was admitted to St. Joseph hospital in South Bend. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.


Roy E. Hill 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home for Roy E. HILL, 44, Rochester barber who died at 8:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph hospital 

in South Bend of a cerebral hemorrhage. 

The Rev. Richard MITCHELL of the First Baptist church will officiate and burial will be 

in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Mr. Hill, who lived on R.R. 4, a half-mile west of Rochester on State Road 14, was born 

May 6, 1913, a mile south of the Fulton county line on State Road 25 in Cass county, the son of 

Harry and Glenn POWELL HILL. He had resided in the Rochester community 16 years, coming 

here from Fulton. 

He was married July 14, 1932, in Royal Center to Lucille REDD, who suvives. Also 

surviving are two sons, Robert J. [HILL], Mentone, and Jack [HILL], at home; one daughter, 

Linda [HILL], at home; one sister, Mrs. John (Wilma) SNYDER, Metea; one brother, Robert 

[HILL], Rochester; his mother Mrs. Glenn HILL, Metea; one granddaughter and several nieces 

and nephews. 

He was a member of the Moose and Eagles lodges and of the Izaak Walton League of 

America. 

Tony Miller 

Tony MILLER, 85, died at noon today in the Landis Nursing home at Argos. He was 

employed as custodian of the State Exchange Bank in Argos for many years. The Grossman 

funeral home is in charge of the funeral arrangements which are incomplete. 

Fred Herbert McKee 

Fred Herbert McKEE, 75, retired farmer and livestock broker, died Monday at 4 p.m. in 

Woodlawn hospital where he had been confined since Oct. 5. Death was attributed to injuries 

sustained in a fall at his home a half mile west of here Oct. 4, altough he had been in ill health the 

past six years. 

He was the son of Jesse and Luvina Alice BALDWIN McKEE and was born March 14, 

1882, near Kewanna. On April 20, 1910, in Rochester, he was married to Hattie Mae 

SHOWLEY, who survives. 

Mr. McKee had spent most of his life in the Rochester commnity. 

Also surviving are three brothers, Lewis [McKEE], Royal Center; Jesse [McKEE], Piper 

City, Ill.; and Clarence [McKEE], Earl Park; and two sisters, Mrs. Edna ZELLERS and Mrs. Nita 

GILLESPIE, both of Kewanna. Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. George R. CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the Bruce Lake cemetery. Friends 

may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.


Tony Miller 

Tony MILLER, 85, custodian of the Argos State Excange Bank since 1918, died at 11:30 

a.m. Tuesday in the Landis Nursing Home at Argos. 

Born Oct. 29, 1871, in Chicago, he came to Argos in 1918 from Bremen. His parents 

were Daniel and Anna MILLER and he was a member of the Argos Izaak Walton League. 

There are no immediate survivors. His brother, Julius [MILLER], Bremen, died in 1930. 

Mr. Miller lived to realize his fondest wish, that of seeing the completion of the Argos bank’s 

remodeling program. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. CST Thursday at the Grossman funeral home with the 

Rev. Ernest TREBER of Mooreland officiating. Burial will be in the Maple Grove cemetery. 


Raymond F. Kirkendall 

Raymond F. KIRKENDALL, 64, Cincinnati, O., a member of one of Rochester high 

school’s first basketball teams, died Tuesday morning at Cincinnati from a heart attack. He had 

been in failing health several months. 

Born Feb. 2, 1893, in Rochester, he was graduated from RHS in 1913 after playing in the 

first state basketball torney in 1911. He had been in the business of pressure refining of precious 

metals in Cincinnati. In February of this year, Mr. Kirkendall returned to Rochester for the golden 

anniversary observance of RHS basketball. 

His parents were William F. and Sarah Ellen TILBERRY KIRKENDALL and his wife 

was the former Adline SEIFREID, who survives. He was active in civic and chrch circles in 

Cincinnati. 

Surviving, besides the widow, are one son, Raymond Frederick [KIRKENDALL], Jr., 

and one daughter, Mrs. Louis ( Ruth Anne) SCHNEIDER, Jr., both of Cincinnati; one brother, 

Hugh [KIRKENDALL], Rochester; one sister, Mrs. Walter (Kathrine) FREE, Cleveland, O., and a 

nephew, Robert CARLSON, Indianapolis. 

Prayer services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in Cincinnati and Shrine services will be 

conducted at 8 p.m. at the ShrineTemple. Burial will be in Cincinnati. The Hugh 

KIRKENDALLs will attend the services. 

J. Frank Kumler 

J. Frank KUMLER, 83, 915 Jefferson street, a native of Fulton county, died at 1:30 a.m. 

today at Woodlawn hospital after a serious illness of one month. 

Born in Grass Creek on Feb. 22, 1874, Mr. Kumler was the son of John and Almeda 

(URBIN) KUMLER. On Oct. 2, 1898, he was married to Mary Dale BRADY, who died in 1949. 

Mr. Kumler was employed for 18 years by the former United States Bank and Trust 

company here and also had worked for the General Insurance company and the Blue Products 

company, the latter for 10 years. 

In 1896 he moved with his parents from Grass Creek to Rochester, where he was a 

member of the Rochester E.U.B. church. 

Surviving are two sons, Alden D. [KUMLER], Detroit, and Don [KUMLER[, Rochester; 

a daughter, Mrs. Henry J. [Ollivene) REYNOLDS, Morgan Hill, Cal; two granddaughters, Mrs. 

Keith (Nancy) SHAFER and Mrs. John (Anne) STEWART, both of Rochester; a grandson, Jeff 

REYNOLDS, California; six great-grandchildren; two brothers, Roy [KUMLER], Grass Creek

and H. T. KUMLER, Mount Pleasant, Mich.; a sister, Mrs. Carrie PULLEN, Rochester, and 

several nieces and nephews. 

One son, three brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Rochester E.U.B. church with the Rev. F. I. 

WILLMERT officiating. Burial will be in the Grass Creek cemetery. 

Friends may call after 9 a.m. Thursday at the Foster and Good funeral home here. The 

body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 


Ivan Boylan 

Ivan BOYLAN, 56, prominent Akron insurance agent, died at 1:05 a.m. today here in 

Woodlawn hospital, where he had been confined the past nine days. He had been in ill health two 

months, his condition being serious the past two weeks. 

Manager of the Schultz Brothers Co. variety store here for 11 years, Boylan moved to 

Akron nine years ago to open his insurance agency. He was active in the Rochester country club, 

having served as its secretary-treasurer the past three years. 

He was born Nov. 16, 1900, in Calamus, Ia., the son of Dennis and Laura SHAW 

BOYLAN, and came to Rochester from Calamus. He was married Sept. 2, 1934, at Nassau, Ia., 

to Mildred DISSELBRET, who survives. 

Mr. Boylan was a member of the Akron Methodist church, the Akron Chamber of 

Commerce, Akron Masonic lodge, Order of Eastern Star, Royal Arch lodge of Rochester and the 

Akron Lions club. 

Surviving are the wife; two sisters, Mrs. Mary ANDERSON, Calamus, Ia., and Mrs. 

Millicent HOFFMAN, West Branch, Ia.; and two brothers, Clifford [BOYLAN], Charles City, Ia., 

and Glen [BOYLAN], Haddon Heights, N.J. A half-brother preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with 

the Rev. Claude FAWNS and the Rev. Maurice KESSLER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron 

cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Zella Mae Clemans 

Mrs. Zella Mae CLEMANS, 79, died at 1:10 a.m. today at her home a mile southwest of 

Macy following a four-year illness. 

She was born Oct. 16, 1878, at Tiffin, O., and had lived in the Macy community since she 

was two years old. She was married Dec. 3, 1898, in Peru, to Sollie CLEMANS, who survives. 

Her parents were Alfred B. and Mary Ellen GRELLE DUEY. Mrs. Clemans was a member of the 

Macy Christian church. 

Also surviving are one son, Meritt D. [CLEMANS], R.R. 6, Rochester; four 

grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, George DUEY, R.R. 1, Rochester, and 

Phillip DUEY, Ann Arbor, Mich.; four sisters, Miss Edith DUEY, R.R. 1, Akron; Mrs. Anna 

SMITH, Indianapolis; Mrs. Mary RUNKLE, R.R. 1, Akron, and Mrs. Hattie NICOL, Portland, 

Ore. One daughter, one brother and one sister preceded her in death. 

Funeral rites will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Macy Christian church with the Rev. 

William SHEWMAN officiating, assisted by the Rev. I. T. ROGERS. Burial will be in the 

Plainview cemetery, Macy. The body will be removed from the Ditmire funeral home in Macy 

Friday noon to the residence where friends may call. The body will lie in state at the church an 

hour before services.


Walter D. Leininger 

Walter D. LEININGER, 54, lifetime resident of Akron, died at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. 

Vincent’s hospital after a 3 1/2 month illness. 

Born in Akron July 3, 1903, he was the son of Willis and Anna KING LEININGER. His 

marriage was on Sept. 2, 1924, in Chicago, to Barbara BLUM, who survives. Mr. Leininger was 

employed at the Leininger Department Store in Akron. He served with the Marine Corps from 

1921-1924. 

He was a member of the Manitou Moose lodge, Rochester. 

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Edward (Beryl) SECOR, Knox; two sons, Dean 

[LEININGER], South Bend, and Don [LEININGER], in the Air Force at Donaldson AFB, 

Greenville, S.C.; six grandchildren; his parents, of Akron, and one brother, Ralph [LEININGER], 

Akron. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. CST Sunday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in 

Akron with the Rev. Claude FAWNS officiating, assisted by the Rev. Harold CONRAD. Burial 

will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday until the 

hour of the services. 

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Oliver Smith 

Oliver SMITH, 78, died at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital after a lingering 

illness. 

A resident of Kewanna, Mr. Smith was born Jan. 28, 1879, in Union township and had 

lived in that community his entire life. He was married Nov. 29, 1902, in Kewanna, to Ruth 

BARNETT, who survives. His parents were Samuel and Josephine MOORE SMITH. 

Mr. Smith was a retired farmer and a member of the Kewanna Methodist church. 

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Helen ANDERSON, Kewanna; three 

grandchildren; one brother, Bert SMITH, Kewanna, and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Harrison funeral home with the Rev. 

Frank R. CHRUST officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may 

call at the funeral home. 

Dorothy Reno 

Donald RENO, 47, R.R. 5, Rochester, confessed orally to Sheriff Laurence NORRIS 

Sunday night that he shot and killed his wife, fired at his 16-year-old son and then shot himself 

Sunday afternoon at the family residence in Richland township, about five miles northeast of 

Rochester. 

Dead is Mrs. Dorothy RENO, 43, who was shot seven times by a .22 caliber pistol of 

Italian make. The son, John [RENO], was not hurt. 

Norris said he will seek a charge of first degree murder, pending grand jury action, 

against Reno, who is listed in “serious” condition today at Woodlawn hospital with a bullet in his

left lung just above the diaphragm. 

The attending physician said Reno is expected to live. 

Pieced together from Reno’s confession and accounts given by neighbor, Don Cohagen, 

and investigating officers was the following description of the episode. 

Mrs. Reno had visited her husband at the Norman M. Beatty hospital at Westville, where 

Reno had voluntarily committed himself for treatment of alcoholism, Sunday afternoon. She 

brought him to their residence northesast of Rochester. Reno told Norris he had received a pass to 

be absent from the hospital for the afternoon. 

At about 4 p.m. Mrs. Reno prepared to take Reno back to the hospital but he decided he 

didn’t wish to return. As he got into the family car in the garage adjoining the house, he and Mrs. 

Reno who was sitting in the right front seat, began arguing about his return to the hospital. 

Reno told Norris in his confession that his wife had the .22 caliber pistol and that he 

grabbed it from her and shot her seven times. Four of the bullets became imbedded in the pelvis 

area, one in the right shoulder, one went through the neck and another through the right arm. 

The son, John, rushed out of the house with a .22 caliber rifle. Reno shot wildly at his 

son and John fired over his father’s head. Reno then shot himself in the right side at his chest. 

The bullet went into the left lung above the diaphragm. 

Reno then went to the home of neighbor Cohagen, who made him lie down on the 

ground. Cohagen went to the Reno home, calmed John and sent him into the Cohagen home. 

Cohagen called the sheriff’s office. 

On July 25, 1954, in Rochester city court, Reno was convicted of drunken driving 

following his arrest by state police. 

On Aug. 26, 1957, Reno was charged in Fulton circuit court with assault and battery and 

public intoxication. The assault affidavit was filed by Mrs. Reno. 

The public intoxication charge later was dropped, but Reno was convicted of assault and 

battery upon his wife and was given a six-month penal farm term. The sentence then was 

suspended upon the condition that Reno voluntarily commit himself to the Beatty hospital for 

treatment of alcoholism. Reno did this. 

Dorothy S. FISHER RENO, was born on March 9, 1914 in Richland township to Frank J. 

and Ellen I. CLEMENS FISHER and had been employed since Aug. 8, 1948, at the Indiana Metal 

Products plant north of Rochester. She was one of the firm’s first local employees. 

She was married in Peru on Sept. 12, 1930. 

Surviving besides the husband and son, John, are another son, Gene [RENO], who is 

stationed at Cherry Point, N.C., with the U.S. Marine Corps; two granddsons; six brothers, Forrest, 

Alvah and Everett J. [FISHER], all of Benton harbor, Mich.; Fred [FISHER], Watervliet, Mich.; 

Loy [FISHER], Hartford, Mich., and Donald C. [FISHER], Berrien Springs, Mich.; two sisters, 

Mrs. D. C. (Opal) ANDERSON, 816 Pontiac street, and Mrs. Jack (Treva) MARION, Los 

Angeles, Cal. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here 

with the Rev. Donald DECKER of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Tuesday.

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Joseph T. Grindle 

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. CST Thursday at the St. Ann’s church in 

Monterey for Joseph T. GRINDLE, 73, who died at 7 p.m. Monday in Carneal hospital at 

Winamac after a long illness. 

A lifelong resident of the Monterey community, Mr. Grindle was born July 4, 1884, and 

was married Nov. 17, 1914, to Attia OVERMYER, who survives. 

Also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Clara BAILEY, LaGrange; Mrs. Mildred 

WINTER, Monterey, and Mrs. Margaret BAIR, Rochester; and two sisters, Mrs. Henry BRAUN, 

Winamac, and Mrs. Frank BENDER, South Bend. 

Father Charles REMAKLUS will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the St. 

Ann’s cemetry. Friends may call at the residence, two miles west of Monterey. 

Sarah E. Grogg 

Sarah Ethel GROGG, 74, who resided with her niece, Mrs. Margaret ROCKEY, at 410 

West Third street, Peru, died at 10:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Armstrong nursing home in that city 

after a six-year illness. 

Born March 31, 1883, in Miami county, she moved to Peru 14 years ago from Gilead. 

She was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Anna MORRIS GROGG. Miss Grogg was a 

member of the First Baptist church in Peru. 

Surviving are one brother, Clarence [GROGG], R.R. 1, Roann; one sister, Mrs. Harry 

MALOTT, Seattle; and eight nieces and nephews. A sister preceded her in death. 

Rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Drake-Flowers funeral home in Peru and burial 

will be in the Gilead cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. 


Rex D. Shobe 

Rex DeMoine SHOBE, 59, a native of Rochester, died at 6:10 a.m. today in the Veterans 

hospital in Indianapolis after a six-month illness. Death was caused by Hodgkins’ disease. 

He was born March 22, 1898, in Rochester and had lived here most of his life. He was 

married in Rochester in 1923 to Goldie HODGE. His parents were Sam and Josephine ARNOLD 

SHOBE. Recently, Mr. Shobe had been employed at the Veterans’ hospital at Marion. 

He was a veteran of World War I, having served with the Second Division in France. He 

was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Moose Lodge. 

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Henry ENTSMINGER, Rochester; two daughters, Mrs. 

Barbara JONES, East Chicago, and Mrs. Betty BARKLEY, Newark, O.; three grandchildren; and 

several half-sisters. One son, Rex Michael [SHOBE], preceded him in death. 

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Foster and Good funeral home with 

Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery, where the American Legion will conduct graveside rites. Friends may call at the funeral 

home after noon Friday.

Harley E. Zolman 

Funeral services have been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers 

funeral home here for Harley E. ZOLMAN, 63, who died in Woodlawn hospital at 4 p.m. 

Wednesday following a heart attack. 

Mr. Zolman, who had been in failing health for the last six years, suffered his attack 

about 1:30 p.m. while working as a clerk at the Rochester postoffice. A postoffice employee since 

1921, he had only recently returned to work there from several months’ sick leave. 

Born March 25, 1894, in Newcastle township, he was the son of John and Nancy Adeline 

(ZOLMAN] ZOLMAN. He was a lifelong resident of this community. He was married on Aug. 

18, 1923, at St. Joseph, Mich., to Bernice A. HORN, who survives. 

He was a member of the First Presbyterian church, American Legion and Odd Fellows 

lodge. A veteran of World War I, he served in several major European battles. Zolman was a 

graduate of Rochester high school, where as an athlete he played on the school’s first baseball 

team in 1915. He continued his baseball career as a top-notch pitcher on local independent teams. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Anne) Van DALSEN, Macy; and Mrs. 

Donn (Donna Jo) NICHOLS, Jr., Fort Wayne, ad four grandchildren. 

The Rev. Donald DECKER of the First Presbyterian church will officiate at the last rites 

and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. The Leroy Shelton American Legion Post will hold 

graveside rites. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Edward F. Erlenbaugh 

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the St. Charles church at Peru for Edward F. 

ERLENBAUGH, 85, retired Wabash railroad engineer from Macy, who died at 11:40 p.m. 

Tuesday at the Wabash Employee hospital after a two-month illness. 

Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery and friends may call at the Brookman funeral 

home in Peru. 

Mr. Erlenbaugh was born in Huntington on July 29, 1872, the son of John and Mary 

BARBER ERLENBAUGH. He was married in 1899 to Nellie EDSON, who died in 1947. He 

was a member of the St. Joseph church of Rochester, and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. 

Surviving are three sons, Paul [ERLENBAUGH], Peru; Herman [ERLENBAUGH], 

South Bend, and Edward [ERLENBAUGH], Macy; two daughters, Mrs. Verna KEELEY, 

Cromwell, and Mrs. Helen DANCEY, Peru; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and 

one brother, Charles [ERLENBAUGH], Chicago. 


Judy Lou Fred 

Judy Lou FRED, 12-year-old daughter of Cecil and Edith REED FRED, who live four 

miles southwest of Fulton, died at 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Woodlawn hospital after being ill two 

days. Cause of death was not immediately determined. 

Born at Woodlawn hospital Feb. 2, 1945, Judy was a seventh grade pupil at Grass Creek 

school and a member of the Olive Branch E.U.B. church. She had attended first grade at the 

Fulton school. Surviving besides the parents and two brothers, Howard [FRED], Rochester, and 

Bobby [FRED], at home; three sisters, Mrs. Robert (Catherine) STANER, South Bend, and Mrs. 

Raymond (Betty) GOTSHALL and Mrs. Arthur (Barbara) WADDUPS, both of Logansport. 

Services will be at 2 p.ml Monday at the Ditmire chapel in Fulton and burial will be in 

the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Saturday.


Ralph M. Newton 

Ralph M. NEWTON, 57, Fulton, died at his home today at 8:30 a.m. after an illness of 

four years. He was the son of Peter and Charlotte RILEY NEWTON, and was a barber by 

profession. 

The body lies at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton, where funeral arrangemens are 

incomplete. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. 


Carol Hawk 

Carol HAWK, 18-year-old daughter of Ed and Leona HAWK, Tiosa, died at 6 a.m. today 

at Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis, several days after her admittance there. 

No other information was available this morning. 

The body is to be taken to the Foster & Good funeral home here, where funeral 

arrangements are pending. 

Theodore Combs 

Theodore “Ted” COMBS, 54, Chicago, a native of Leiters Ford who moved to Chicago 

15 years ago, died Saturday evening in Chicago after an illness of six years. 

Formerly associated with his mother, Mrs. Ruby OVERMYER, Rochester, in the 

Overmyer poultry business here, Mr. Combs was born on July 2, 1903, to Clyde and Ruby 

COMBS. His wife, Ethel MILLISER, died several years ago. 

Surviving besides the mother, are a daughter, Mrs. Gene TIPPY, Rochester; three halfsisters, 

Mrs. Jack (Henrietta) GARVEY, South Bend, Mrs. Lloyd (Florence) BEEHLER, Argos, 

and Mrs. Herschel (Harriet) ROBERTS, Anaheim, Cal.; two half-brothers, Robert OVERMYER, 

Rochester, and James OVERMYER, Indianapolis, and two aunts, Mrs. Minnie CANNON, 

Kewanna, and Mrs. Clyde LOUGH, Rochester. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Foster & Good funeral home here with the 

Rev. F. I. WILLMERT officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 


Ralph M. Newton 

Final rites for Ralph M. NEWTON, 57, Fulton barber, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the 

Ditmire chapel in Fulton. The Rev. William KEITH will officiate and burial will be in the Fulton 

cemetery. Mr. Newton, who had lived in Fulton for 12 years, died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at his 

home after an illness of four years. 

Born in Dubois county on Jan. 19, 1900, he was the son of Peter and Charlotte RILEY 

NEWTON. He was married on Aug. 6, 1922, to Dessie BYERLE at Corydon. 

Surviving are the widow, at home; two sons, Pete [NEWTON], stationed with the U. S. 

Air Force at Norton AFB, Highland, Cal., and Gerald [NEWTON], stationed with the Air Force at 

West Palm Beach, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Dorothy) BAIRD and Mrs. Ronnie (Lois) 

GUNDRUM, both of Fulton. Also eight grandchildren; the mother, Mrs. Charlotte NEWTON, 

Eckerty, Ind.; a sister, mrs. Ollie BROWN, Eckerty; three brothers, Oscar [NEWTON], Eckerty; 

Otis [NEWTON], Indianapolis; and James [NEWTON], McNaughton, Wis. A daughter preceded 

him in death. Friends may call at the funeral home

William R. Hentzler 

William R. HENTZLER, 31, Bourbon, who belonged to the Rochestr Eagles lodge, was 

killed instantly at 8 p.m. Saturday when his car failed to make a curve on a road northeast of New 

Haven in Allen county. The auto struck a utility pole. Hentzler’s death being due to a skull 

fracture. 

He was born Nov. 10, 1926, in Fort Wayne and had lived in Bourbon the past 18 months. 

He was married July 8, 1954 in Los Angeles, to Joanne MILLER, who survives, along with one 

son, Allen [HENTZLER]; his parents, Arthur and Edna HENTZLER, Bourbon, and his maternal 

grandmother, Mrs. William HARMON, Tippecanoe. 

Mr. Hentzler, a carpenter, was employed at the Elcar Coach company. He was a Navy 

veteran of World War II. 

Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos with the 

Rev. Eldon EVANS of the Walnut Church of the Brethren officiating. Burial will be at the 

Walnut cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. 


Carol Beth Hawk 

Funeral services for Carol Beth HAWK, 18, R.R. 5, Rochester, will be at 1:30 p.m. 

Wednesday at the Tiosa Brethren church with the Rev. Wayne SWIHART officiating. Burial will 

be in the Richland Center cemetery. 

The daughter of Ed and Leona GIBSON HAWK, Miss Hawk died of encephalitis at 6:30 

a.m. Monday at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis. She had been ill one week. 

Born Oct. 12, 1939 in Fulton county, she was a member of the Mount Hope Methodist 

church. 

Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Robert [HAWK], Rochester, and Donald 

[HAWK], Warsaw; one sister, Terry [HAWK], at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 

Earl GIBSON, Rochester; the great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary WIDEMAN, Akron; several aunts 

and uncles; one niece and one nephew. Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home here 

until noon Wednesday, when the body will be taken to the church. 


Earl Wicks 

Earl WICKS, 86, South Bend, husband of the former Maude [H. ODAFFER] of 

Rochester, died at 11 p.m. Tuesday at a South Bend nursing home after an illness of several 

months. 

Born in Luscola, Ill., on July 21, 1871, he moved to South Bend from Logansport six 

months ago. 

Surviving besides the widow are three daughters, Miss Lola WICKS, Anchorage, Alaska; 

Mrs. Charles SHIRLEY, Newark, N.J., and Mrs. Ila Jean LEWELLEN, Huntington, and one 

grandson. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Forrest G. Hay funeral home in South Bend 

with the Rev. Donald TAYLOR officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview cemetery. Friends 

may call after 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.


Clarence M. Hisey 

Clarence M. HISEY, 60, died at 6:30 a.m. today in Woodlawn hospital after a five-year 

illness. He resided on R.R. 1, Winamac. 

Born May 18,1897, in Richland township, he was the son of Clayton and Augusta BECK 

HISEY. He was married first to Gladys COX, who preceded him in death, and in 1944 was wed 

at Hammond to Julia BRUST, who survives. The Hiseys moved to Winamac community six 

months ago from Tucson, Ariz. 

Formerly engaged in farming, Mr. Hisey had been employed at the Standard Oil 

company refinery in Whiting. 

He was a member of the Sand Hill Methodist church. 

Surviving are the wife; one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Mae LANTZ, Bakersfield, Cal.; two 

sons, Ralph [HISEY], Hobart, and Ernest [HISEY], Bakersfield, Cal; seven grandchildren; one 

brother, Wilford HISEY, R.R. 5, Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. E. L. (Rosa) KESSLER, Rochester, 

and Mrs. Jennie WILTSHIRE, Bartow, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Foster & Good funeral home with 

the Rev. Brian JOHNSON of Star City officiating. Burial will be in the Sand Hill cemetery. 

Friends may call after noon Friday at the funeral home. 

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Friday, November 1, 1957 to Saturday, November 2, 1957 

Mnday, November 4, 1957 

Lewis Truax 

Lewis TRUAX, formerly of Rochester, died Sunday morning at his home in Evansville, it 

was learnd today. Mr. Truax moved from this city about 10 years ago. 

Among the survivors is a daughter, Mrs. Cecil (Norma Jean) HUDKINS, also a former 

Rochester resident. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Evansville. 

Ole C. Mork 

Ole Cornelius MORK, 60-year-old farmer who lived on R.R. 6, died at 7:15 a.m. Sunday 

at Woodlawn hospital after a serious illness of six months. He had been in failing health for the 

last year. 

Born in Hanley Falls, Minn., Sept. 3, 1897, Mr. Mork came to the Rochester community 

35 years ago. He was married in Rochester Nov. 18, 1924, to Faye STEININGER of Rochester, 

who survives. 

Before becoming a farmer, Mr. Mork was an auto mechanic. He was a member of the 

Grandview E.U.B. church. 

Surviving besides the wife are a son, Loy Ray [MORK], stationed at Ft. Bliss, Tex., with 

the U.S. Army; a sister, Mrs. Hugh (Gertrude) MILLER, Rocheter; a brother, Carl [MORK], 

Minneapolis, Minn.; a half-brother, Albert [MORK], Minneapolis; several nieces and nephews. A 

daughter and a sister preceded him in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Grandview E.U.B. church with the Rev.

James THOMAS officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call until noon Tuesday at the Foster & Good funeral home here, after which 

the body will be taken to the church to lie in state one hour. 

The family has requested that flowers be omitted and that contributions be made instead 

to a church mission or the heart fund. 

Tuesday, November 5, 1957 

Oliver M. Wilhelm 

Oliver “Cute” M. WILHELM, 89, South Bend, a former resident of Rochester, died at the 

Whiteman nursing home in South Bend at 2:15 a.m. Monday after an illness of seven months. 

Born in Miami county Aug. 23, 1868, Mr. Wilhelm moved from Rochester to South Bend 

about 50 years ago. He was a retired painter. His parents were Alexander and Rachel WATTS 

WILHELM. 

Mr. Wilhelm was married in South Bend to Carrie MORTZ, who died in 1947. 

Among the survivors is a niece, Mrs. Jack PRESS, R.R. 3, Rochester. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Welsheimer funeral home in South Bend 

with the Rev. Robert WILBURN officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview cemetery at South 

Bend. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Hanna Rickel 

Mrs. Horace (Hanna) RICKEL, 75, who lived five miles north of Akron with her niece, 

Mrs. Juanita (FEAR) BOGANWRIGHT, died at 4:30 a.m. today at home after an illness of several 

years. 

Born in Kosciusko county March 13, 1882, shehad lived her entire life in that county. 

She was the daughter of Cyrus and Ann McFARLAND JULIAN. Her husband, to whom she was 

married on Jan. 28, 1899, died in February, 1940. 

Surviving besides Mrs. Boganwright are a son, Karl [RICKEL], San Jose, Cal.; three 

grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren. A daughter, three sisters and a brother preceded her in 

death. 

Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of the son. Friends may contact 

the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron for information. 

Wednesday, November 6, 1957 

Hanna Rickel 

Final rites for Mrs. Horace (Hanna) RICKEL, 75, who lived five miles north of Akron, 

will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Moyer-Haupert funeral home at Akron. The Rev. D. L. 

SLAYBAUGH will officiate and burial will be in the Palestine cemetery. 

Mrs. Rickel, who had lived her entire life in Kosciusko county and resided on her farm 

with a niece, Mrs. Juanita (FEAR) BOGANWRIGHT, died at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday after an illness of 

several years. 

Friends may call at the fneral home.

Thursday, November 7, 1957 

Wilson Steffey 

Funeral rites were held this afternoon in Peru for Wilson STEFFEY, 84, a native of 

Rochester, who died at 5:25 p.m. Tuesday at the Dukes hospital in Peru following a long illness. 

He resided at 175 Eighth street in that city. 

Burial was in the Mount Hope cemetery. 

A retired Wabash railroad car repairman, Mr. Steffey was born Feb. 10, 1873, in 

Rochester, the son of Abraham and Sara CUBERLEY STEFFEY. He was married first to Jennie 

TORRENCE, who died in 1919. His second marriage was to Stella HALL, who died in 1940. 

His third wife, Viola FUNK, preceded him in death in 1955. 

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Edith ROSE, Mishawaka; one son, Darrald STEFFEY, 

Bunker Hill; twelve grandchildren. Three daughters, three brothers and one sister preceded him in 

death. 

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Friday, November 8, 1957 

Saturday, November 9, 1957 

Glen D. Brown 

Prof. Glen D. BROWN, 66, College Park, Md.; a former resident of the Fulton vicinity 

and teacher for 10 years at Deedsville school, died Friday morning at his home of a heart attack. 

Prof. Brown was born April 2, 1891 in Greentown, Ind., and moved to the Fulton area 

when he was nine years old. His wife is the former Suzette WILKINS, Greentown. They were 

married n Greentown in 1916. 

Prof. Brown had been an instructor at the University of Maryland for the last 30 years. 

Among the survivors is a sister, Mrs. Clara KNAUFF, 309 West 11th street, who will 

leave this evening for College Park. Services for Prof. Brown will be Monday morning. 

Evert Baker 

Final rites for Evert BAKER, 63, lifelong resident of the Urbana-North Manchester 

vicinity, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the West Manchester Church of Brethren. 

The Rev. T. G. WEAVER of Marion will officiate and burial will be in the church 

cemetery. 

The body was removed from the Moyer-Haupert funeral home at Akron to the residence 

three miles west of North Manchester on State Road 14, where friends may call until noon 

Sunday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 

Mr. Baker, a farmer, died at the Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw at noon Thursday of 

a coronary occlusion. He had been ill one month.

Dr. R. E. McLochlin 

Dr. R. E. McLOCHLIN, 55, a doctor in Little Rock, Ark., for over 20 infirmary six 

months after he discovered he had incurable cancer. [sic] 

A native of Fulton county, Dr. McLochlin visited with relatives here in August. 

He first learned of his condition last April during the convention of the American 

Medical Society. After taking tests on machines exhibited at the meeting, Dr. McLochlin received 

“suspicious” results. Further tests confirmed the presence of a lung lesion. He continued his 

practice, however, until two weeks ago when he was forced to enter the infirmary for treatment. 

Born on a farm near Kewanna, Dr. McLochlin was former chief of staff at St. Vincents 

Infirmary at Little Rock and also was a member of the board of trustees of Little Rock high 

school, scene of recent integration disturbances. Recently he was honored when two of his friends 

donated $200,000 toward an auditorium in his name at a new Little Rock hospital, now under 

construction. Funeral services will be Monday afternoon and burial will be in Little Rock. 

Surviving are the widow; one son; four brothers, John McLOCHLIN, water works superintndent 

at Rochester, Will McLOCHLIN, Winamac, Albert McLOCHLIN, Star City, and Patrick Omar 

McLOCHLIN, Kewanna; four sisters, Mrs. Frank HENDRICKSON, Kewanna; Mrs. Will 

SCHEETZ, Lafayette; Mrs. Lawrence HOLLAND, Rochester, and Sister M. FABIANA, 

Indianapolis. 

Monday, November 11, 1957 

Walter J. Snyder 

Walter James SNYDER, 40, R.R. 2, Argos, died suddenly at 11:45 p.m. Saturday of a 

heart seizure at his home, three miles east of Argos. A lifetime resident of Argos and a farmer, 

Mr. Snyder was born May 15, 1917 in Argos to Benjamin and Effie SULLIVAN SNYDER. He 

was married to Mary FEAR in Plymouth on Dec. 3, 1938, and was a member of the Walnut 

Gospel church. 

Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Sally and Sharon [SNYDER], and a son, Darrell 

[SNYDER], all at home; the parents, R.R. 2, Argos; a sister, Mrs. Raymond (Alberta) 

MIDDAUGH, R.R. 1, Argos; three brothers, Welcome and Gerald [SNYDER], Holtville, Cal., 

and Clarence [SNYDER], Argos. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Grossman funeral 

home in Argos with the Rev. Ernest TREBER, Mooreland, Ind., officiating. Burial will be in the 

Argos Maple Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Earl H. Nafe 

Earl Herbert NAFE, 81, died at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at his home in the Burton community, 

R.R. 4, Rochester. He had been ill one year. 

Born July 12, 1876, in Rochester township, he had lived in this area his entire life. He 

was married March 4, 1898, to Edna BERRIER, who survives. Mr. Nafe’s parents were James H. 

and Sarah MEHRLING NAFE. He was a member of the former Mud Creek Baptist church. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Miss Marie NAFE, South Bend, and Mrs. C. R. 

(Mabel) LOUNSBURY, Indianapolis; one son, Harry E. NAFE, South Bend; one grandson, 

Ronald C. LOUNSBURY, with the U.S. Air Force at Selfridge Air Base, Mt. Clemans, Mich; and 

one great-granddaughter, Barbara Jean LOUNSBURY, Mt. Clemans, Mich. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. Richard MITCHELL officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday.


Grace C. Lisey 

Grace C. LISEY, 67, former resident of Kewanna, died at Milford, Mich., Monday. She 

had gone to Michigan from Kewanna in 1950. 

Born July 10, 1890, she was the widow of John W. LISEY, who died eight years ago. 

She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge and of the Kewanna Church of Christ. 

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. John EMILY, Milford, Mich. 

Funeral rites will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Harrison chapel in Kewanna with the Rev. 

Kenneth LUCKY officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call 

at the funeral home after noon Wednesday. 

John C. Lange 

John C. LANGE, 61, died of a heart attack at 7:05 p.m. Monday in his Lake Manitou 

home on Wolf’s Point. Death came suddenly as Mr. Lange had not been previously ill. 

He was born in Readlyn, Ia., May 20, 1896, the son of Henry and Minnie HAGENAU 

LANGE. He was married in Westgate, Ia., where he then lived, to Martha RUECKERT, Sept. 3, 

1919. 

Mr. Lange was employed by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation in South Bend and was 

a member of the St. John’s Lutheran church here. He had resided in Rochester 20 years. 

Surviving are the wife; his mother, Mrs. Minnie LANGE, Westgate, Ia.; two daughters, 

Mrs. James (Elverna) WILKES, Rochester; Miss Elaine LANGE, Indianapolis; two sons, Arthur 

[LANGE], Winamac, and Donald [LANGE], South Bend; four brothers, Henry, Reinhart, Herman 

and Ernest [LANGE]; all living in Iowa; and six grandchildren. One son, Wilbert [LANGE], 8, 

and a sister, Meta [LANGE], preceded him in death. 

The Rev. Delmar O. KRUEGAR will officiate at the funeral rites Thursday at 2 p.m. in 

the St. John’s Lutheran church. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call 

after 7 p.m. today at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The body will lie in state at the 

church one hour before services Thursday. 

Anna Ella Norris 

Mrs. Anna Ella NORRIS, 95 years old, died early today at the Miller Nursing Home in 

Rochester. She had been a resident of the Culver community since 1911. Death came after a 

three-month illness. 

Born March 2, 1862, in Wolleytown, near Denver, Ind., she was the daughter of John and 

Aisla WARWICK NELSON. Her husband was the Rev. S. C. NORRIS, pastor of the 

Maxinkuckee Methodist church in 1923-24. He died in April, 1925. 

She was a member of the Poplar Grove Methodist church, where final rites will be held at 

2 p.m. Friday with the Rev. E. J. PETERS officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Grove 

cemetery. Friends may call at the Easterday funeral home in Culver after noon Wednesday. 

Surviving are one son, Everett [NORRIS]; one stepson, Marvin L. [NORRIS], Fort 

Wayne; seven gandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.


George Overmyer 

George OVERMYER, 82, former Rochester township farmer and onetime Woodrow 

school janitor, died Tuesday at the home of his son, Harley, 314 Melville street, Mishawaka. He 

had been ill a year with a heart condition. 

Born in Winamac, Feb. 22, 1875, he moved to Mishawaka 10 years ago from Rochester. 

His parents were Henry and Louisa Van DUYNE OVERMYER. He was married to Bertha REED 

and later to Minnie MYERS, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Overmyer was a member of the 

Sand Hill Christian church. 

Surviving are two sons, Russell and Harley [OVERMYER], both of Mishawaka; one 

brother, Henry [OVERMYER], Mishawaka; two sisters, Mrs. Valorous (Lilly) BECK, Sand Hill 

community, and Mrs. Frank (Sarah) BARNHART, now in the Miller nursing home here. 

Rites will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Bubb funeral home in Mishawaka. Burial 

will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Rites also will be conducted at the grave. 

Ruth Overmyer 

Mrs. Ruth OVERMYER, 39, Kewanna, died early today at a hospital in Winamac. 

Born in Kewanna, Sept. 20, 1918, Mrs. Overmyer was the daughter of Chris and Ida 

COMPTON ELSTON. On May 14, 1948, she was married to Laphon OVERMYER, who 

survives. 

She was a member of the Kewanna Methodist church and the Kewanna Order of Eastern 

Star. 

Surviving besides the husband are four children at home, Thomas, Daniel, James and 

Susan [OVERMYER], and a sister, Mrs. Harriet STOUDT, Kewanna. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Kewanna Methodist church with the Rev. 

Frank CHRUST officiating. Burial arrangements are incomplete. 

Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after 3 p.m. Thursday. The 

body will lie in state at the church for one hour before services. 

Emma L. Gottschalk 

Mrs. Emma L. GOTTSCHALK, 78, died at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Wabash county 

hospital, where she had been admitted only 90 minutes earlier. Death came from a cerebral 

hemorrhage after a long illness. 

A resident of Lagro at the time of her death, Mrs. Gottschalk was born May 3, 1879, near 

Rochester, the daughter of George and Fietta NOFTSKER SWANK. She was married in 

Rochester, April 6, 1902, to George A. GOTTSCHALK, who survives. 

Mrs. Gottschalk was a former member of the Rebekah lodge of Rochester. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Andy LEWIS, Three Rivers, Mich., and Mrs. 

Omer WAGONER, Kokomo; five sons, John [GOTTSCHALK], at home; Lyman 

[GOTTSCHALK], R.R. 1, Lagro; Cecil [GOTTSCHALK], Hoagland, Ind.; Noah 

[GOTTSCHALK], Wabash, and Lester [GOTTSCHALK], South Whitley; one sister, Mrs. 

William GOTTSCHALK, Rochester; seventeen grandchildre; five great-grandchildren. One son, 

a sister and a brother preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Wire funeral home in Wabash with 

burial in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Rochester. Friends may call at the residence until Friday 

morning when the body will be returned to the funeral home.


John E. Westwood 

John E. WESTWOOD, 47, Mishawaka, a former resident of Rochester, died at Memorial 

hospital in South Bend , at 3:45 a.m. today of a heart ailment. He had been ill for three weeks. 

Born in Fulton county to James and Tressa BLOOM WESTWOOD, he moved from 

Rochester to Dowagiac, Mich.; in 1950 and then to Mishawaka several months ago. He was an 

employee of the Utica-Bend Corporation in South Bend. 

Mr. Westwood first was married to Ella WAGONER, who died March 8,1938. He then 

married Eva BAILEY, Akron, and later Ethel CUNNIGHAM, who survives. 

Other survivors are a son, Delbert [WESTWOOD], 531 East Eighth street, Rochester; 

three step-sons, Norman CUNNINGHAM, Dowagiac; David CUNNINGHAM, LaPorte, and Earl 

CUNNINGHAM, stationed with the U. S. Air Force at Tucson, Ariz.; a step-daughter; two sisters, 

Mrs. Harvey COLEMAN and Mrs. Albert WOOD, Rochester; two brothers, Fred 

[WESTWOOD], Rochester, and Robert [WESTWOOD], Fowler. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Rochester E.U.B. church and burial will be 

in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. The body is now at the Forrest G. Hay funeral home in South 

Bend. 

John C. Hudkins 

John C. HUDKINS, 66, Kalamazoo, Mich., formerly of Kewanna, died at 6:30 p.m. 

Wednesday at his home after being ill six years. 

Born in Kewanna in March, 1891, he was the son of L. J. and Mary GRAHAM 

HUDKINS and was employed by the Bourroughs Adding machine company. His wife is the 

former Ethel MEYERS of Kewanna. 

Surviving besides the widow are two sons, Jack and Robert [HUDKINS], Kalamazooo; a 

gandson; two brothers, Frank G. [HUDKINS] and William J. [HUDKINS], Rochester; and two 

sisters, Mrs. Harold (Jane) AUSTIN and Mrs. Frank (Corcas) KINTZ, Fort Wayne. Also 

surviving is an aunt, Mrs. Norman STONER, Rochester. 

Sevices will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Kalamazoo. Burial will also be at Kalamazoo. 

Gregory Glen Mosier 

Gregory Glen MOSIER, six-day-old son of William and Margie MOSIER, R.R. 2, 

Rochester, died at 3:30 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital. 

Surviving with the parents are a sister, Cheryl [MOSIER], at home; the paternal 

grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl MILES, Kokomo; and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 

James ELLISON, Galveston, Ind. 

Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Crown Point cemetery. The Long 

funeral home at Kokomo is in charge of arrangements.


Harley H. Haggerty 

Harley Hudson “Pop” HAGGERTY, 77, 924 Monroe street, died at his home at 3:55 a.m. 

today of a heart condition after being ill for two years. 

A resident of Fulton county for the last 37 years, Mr. Haggerty was a baker for several 

years and custodian at Rochester high school for 19 years, retiring two years ago. 

Mr. Haggerty was born in Miami county on Oct. 24, 1880, the son of Albert and Martha 

HALE HAGGERTY. On May 6, 1903, he was married in Peru to Frances PREISER, who 

survives. He was a member of the Rochester E.U.B. church. 

Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Walter (Mildred) BURKETT, R.R. 2, Rochester, 

and Mrs. Doc (Louise) MILLER, Mrs. Paul (Jean) WALTERS, and Mrs. Joan BUNN, all of 

Rochester; a son, Roy HAGGERTY, Elkhart; a brother, Raleigh [HAGGERTY], Greenfield; 

eleven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

A daughter and two sisters preceded Mr. Haggerty in death. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Rochester E.U.B. church with the pastor, the 

Rev. F. I. WILLMERT, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home after 7 p.m. today until 12 noon 

Sunday, when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state. 

Grace Sriver 

Mrs. Walter (Grace) SRIVER, 74, died suddenly at 10:15 a.m. today at her home west of 

Akron. 

The Sheetz funeral home at Akron is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are 

incomplete. 


Grace Sriver 

Funeral services for Mrs. Walter (Grace) SRIVER, 73, R.R. 2, Akron, will be at 2 p.m. 

Sunday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron with the Rev. Wayne JOHNSON officiating. Burial 

will be in the Mount Hope cemetery at Athens. 

Mrs. Sriver, a lifelong resident of the Akron community, died suddenly of a heart attack 

at 10 a.m Friday at her home. She had been in ill health for four years. 

Born on Jan. 15, 1884 in Henry township, she was the daughter of Milton and Eliza 

ALMAN SWARTZLANDER. Her first marriage was in 1903 to Omer Van LUE, who died in 

1913. She was married in 1915 at Rochester to Walter A. SRIVER, who survives. 

Mrs. Sriver was a member o the Athens E.U.B. church and the Omega club. 

Other survivors are a son, Myron Van LUE, R.R. 1, Akron; three grandchildren; two 

great-grandchildren and a brother, Earl SWARTZLANDER, Logansport. Two brothers and a 

sister preceded her in death. 



Henry Bless 

Henry BLESS, 80, Akron, a native of Austria, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 11 a.m. 

Sunday in the Miller Nursing home here after an illness of three weeks. 

He had been a farmer in the Akron area for 11 years, having moved to Fulton county 

from Lakin, Kan. He moved to Lakin from Austria in 1909. 

Mr. Bless was born on July 11, 1877, and was married in Austria to Elizabeth RHINE in 

1896. His wife and two daughters preceded him in death. 

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Mike RUDO, Akron, and Mrs. Julia FORENSEN, 

Pasadena, Cal., Frank [BLESS], Lakin, Kan., and Henry [BLESS], Omaha, Neb.; fifteen 

grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren and a sister, Mr. Veronica LONGENEKER, Saginaw, 

Mich. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Sheetz funeral [home] in Akron, with the 

Rev. Harold CONRAD officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Wednesday. 

Martha M. Douglass 

Mrs. Martha M. DOUGLASS, 87, of near Grass Creek, died this morning at St. Joseph 

hospital in Logansport after a long illness. 

She was born March 16, 1870, in Bethlehem township, Cass county, the daughter of 

Virgil and Ann HORN PINKERTON. She was married to Frank DOUGLASS, who died Oct. 18, 

1935. Mrs. Douglass was a member of the Lucerne Presbyterian church. 

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Eva) SAUNDERS, Logansport; three sons, 

Albert [DOUGLASS], Ottawa, Mich.; Joseph [DOUGLASS], Fort Wayne, and Elmer 

[DOUGLASS], Kewanna, who is county road superintendent; one brother, John PINKERTON, 

Fabens, Texas; twelve grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. One son, John 

[DOUGLASS], preceded her in death. 

Funeral rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Harrison chapel in Royal Center with 

the Rev. Gene SELLERS officiating. Burial will be in Indian Creek cemetery near Lucerne. 

Friends may call at the chapel after 1 p.m. Tuesday. 

Buelah Cook 

Mrs. Buelah COOK, 75, Akron, died at 8:30 o’clock this morning at a nursing home in 

Berrien Springs, Mich, after an illness of two months. 

A beautician, Mrs. Cook was a member of the Eastern Star, the Christian Scientist church 

and the Beavr Dam home economics club. 

She was the daughter of Elias and Amanda KISTLER LEININGER. Her husband, 

George COOK, preceded her in death. 

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Karl (Mabelle) GAST, Rochester, and Mrs. Ida 

THOMPSON, Warsaw; a brother, Dan LEININGER, Leesburg; and two step-children, Merl 

COOK and Mrs. Grace CRAIG, Akron. 

The Moyer-Haupert funeral home at Akron is in charge of funeral arrangements, which 

are incomplete.

Infant Swango 

The Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milo (Joe) SWANGO, 509 East Ninth street, died at 

10:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital, where she was born at 3 p.m. Sunday. 

Prayer services were held this afternoon at the Foster & Good funeral home with the Rev. 

George CRANE in charge. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

The baby’s mother is the former Josephine WYNN, Also surviving are the maternal 

grandparents, Mrs. Bert LEEDY, Rochester, and Arlie WYNN, Warsaw, and the paternal 

grandfather, Edward SWANGO, Rochester. 


Buelah Cook 

Funeral services for Mrs. Buelah COOK, 75, Akron, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the 

Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron. Practitioner J. F. SELLS, Ft. Wayne, will officiate and 

burial will be in the Akron cemetery. 


Mrs. Cook died at 8:30 a.m. Monday at a nursing home in Berrien Springs, Mich., after 

an illness of two months. 


Frederick W. Rosentreter 

Frederick W. ROSENTRETER, 83, a resident of the Argos community for 38 years, died 

of a stroke at - - - p.m. Tuesday at his home, 306 - - ort street, Argos. He had been ill for one 

week. 

Employed in Argos by the E. E. Eley sawmill for about 30 years, Mr. Rosentreter moved 

to Argos from Plymouth after spending his early life in LaPorte county. 

He was born in Stillwell, Ind., on Jan. 12, 1874, the son of August and Henrietta 

ROSENTRETER. His first marriafge was to Emma Mc--one, who died in 1928. On Nov. - -, 

1929 he was married to Tillie - - DUNLAP, who survives. 

He had been a member of the I.O.O.F. for 58 years, the last few were belonging to the 

Maxinkuckee lodgte. 

Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lowell (Wilma) BROWN, Argos; two 

granddaughters, and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Grossman funeral home at Argos with the Rev. 

Burton BARING officiating. Burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove cemetery. The 

Maxinkuckee I.O.O.F. also will conduct rites. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Ralph Overmyer 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Ellers chapel, 725 South Main 

street, Kokomo, for Ralph E. OVERMYER, 64, who died at 5 a.m. Tuesday of a heart ailment. 

Death came from a long illness at his home, 1116 Taylor street, Kokomo. 

Born Feb. 14, 1893, in Rochester, Mr. Overmyer was the son of Chauncey and Sarah 

MYERS OVERMYER. He was married in 1913 to Ethel COBLENTZ, who survives. Mr. 

Overmyer operated a realtor agency from his home in Kokomo. 

He was a member of the Bunker Hill Methodist church and Bunker Hill Masonic lodge. 

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jean KIMBALL, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Margaret 

PECONGE, Fort Wayne; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Two children died in 

infancy. 

The Rev. Floyd SMITH will officiate at the final rites and burial will be in the Springdale 

cemetery, Bunker Hill. The Masonic lodge will conduct its ritual at the grave. Friends may call at 

the Ellers chapel. 

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Charles Pagel 

Final rites for Charles PAGEL, 80, R.R. 2, Greencastle, a former resident of Fulton 

county, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Haverstock chapel in LaPorte. 

The Rev. Daniel HALL will officiate and burial will be in the Patton cemetery at 

LaPorte. Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of services. 

Mr. Pagel, who was born in LaPorte Sept. 6, 1877, died at 11:43 p.m. Wednesday at the 

Putnam county hospital. He had been ill for three years. 

A retired farmer, he was married to Olive E. SELLERS May 30, 1905 in Knox. 

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Blanche HACK, Greencastle; Mrs. Nora WHITE, 

LaPorte, and Mrs. Crystal RAMSEY, Indianapolis; two sons, Kenneth and William [PAGEL], 

both of LaPorte; four grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Albert WALTON, South Bend. 

Pearl Barnhart 

Mrs. C. L. (Pearl) BARNHART, the former Pearl EMMONS of Rochester, died 

Thursday in Canton, Ill. Funeral rites will be Saturday in LaPorte with burial in that city. 

Mrs. Barnhart leaves five sons and five daughters. She was a sister of Isaac EMMONS 

of this city and also is survived by another sister, Mrs. Charles FLANDERS, Flint, Mich. 


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Walter H. Lowry 

Walter H. LOWRY, 71, 305 Apple street, Argos, died at the Parkview hospital in 

Plymouth after a serious illness of one month. He was admitted to the hospital 10 days before his 

death. 

A liftime resident of the Argos community, Mr. Lowry was born Oct. 3, 1886 in Green 

township, southwest of Argos, to John and Elizabeth LOWRY. 

On Oct. 6, 1900, he was married to Nora SMITH, who died April 19, 1938. He was a 

retired Nickel Plate railroad maintenance man. 

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Dorothea ELLIOTT, Argos, and Mrs. Edith ROSS 

and Mrs. Margueriette BAKER, both of Kokomo; a son, Johnny [LOWRY], Plymouth; eighteen 

grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos with the 

Rev. E. J. PETERS of the Argos Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Grove 

cemetery southwest of Argos. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. 

Frank Kammerer 

Frank KAMMERER, 178 Monticello road, died at the age of 92 years Sunday morning at 

10:05 o’clock in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Nov. 16. 

Born Jan. 15, 1865, in Rochester, he had lived in this community his entire life. He was 

married here June 13, 1947, to Elsie D. OMLOR. Mr. Kammerer was the son of Christopher and 

Mary SCHALL KAMMERER and was a retired farmer. Surviving are the wife, at home, three 

stepchildren, Mrs. Lloyd MATHIAS, Mrs. Ruth RUTLEDGE and Leroy WEBBER, all of 

Rochester; and numerous nieces and nephews. Two brothers, Henry and William 

[KAMMERER], and one sister, Mrs. Sanford (Tillie) PAINTER, preceded him in death. 

Rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. George CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends 

may call after 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. The family has requested the omission of flowers. 

Rettie M. Holloway 

Mrs. Rettie May HOLLOWAY, 76, who lived most of her life in the Talma community, 

died at 7 a.m. today at the home of her son, Herman H. HOLLOWAY, R.R. 7, Rochester. She had 

been ill six months. 

Mrs. Holloway was born in Kosciusko county May 2, 1881, to Ancil and Emmaline 

McINTYRE BRYANT. In 1901 she was married to Charles B. HOLLOWAY, who died in 1949. 

She was a member of the Talma Christian church. 

Surviving besides her son, Herman, are three other sons, Omer and Samuel 

[HOLLOWAY], R.R. 5, Rochester, and James [HOLLOWAY], Argos; six daughters, Mrs. Harry 

(Agnes) JORDAN, Mishawaka; Mrs. Edwin (Beryl) CLEMENTS, Twelve Mile; Mrs. Wesley 

(Elsie) DAY, Kent City, Mich.; Mrs. Charles (Edith) MILKOVICH and Mrs. Pauline OCVIREK, 

Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. Walter (Irene) HYDE, Warsaw. 

Also, a brother, William BRYANT, South Bend; five sixters, Mrs. Bertha CLARK and 

Mrs. Clarence O’CONNER, Rochester; Mrs. Ted LANDIS, Akron; Mrs. Charles CLARK, 

Milford; and Mrs. Henry BIXLER, South Bend; twenty-four grandchildren and nineteen greatgrandchildren. 

A daughter, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. The Foster & 

Good funeral home here is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are incomplete.


Rettie Holloway 

Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Talma Christian church for Mrs. 

Rettie May HOLLOWAY, 76, who died at 7 a.m. Monday after a six-month illness. She lived in 

the Talma community practically all her life. 

The Rev. Delbert RHUBERT will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the 

Reichter cemetery near Talma. 

Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home. The body will be taken to the 

church one hour before the services to lie in state. 


Charles Pontious 

Graveside rites will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here for Charles 

PONTIOUS, 79, former Mt. Olive community resident, who died early Tuesday at his home in 

Kalkaska, Mich. 

The Rev. George CRANE will officiate at the local rites. Funeral services were held in a 

Kalkaska mortuary today. 

Mr. Pontious’ wife, the former Charlotte EBER, survives. Friends may call at the 

Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday. 




Verna M. Embrey 

Funeral services were held this afternoon in Lodi, Cal., for Mrs. Verna May EMBREY, 

76, a native of Fulton county, who died at a Lodi hospital Tuesday following a long illness. Burial 

was in the Cherokee Memorial Park cemetery, Lodi. 

Mrs. Embrey, the daughter of John and Mary HAY, was born in Fulton county March 31, 

1881. Her parents had homesteaded in Indiana in the early years of the 19th century and her 

brother, George HAY, was one of the founders of Bakersfield, Cal. 

Mrs. Embrey came to Bakersfield in 1922 and spent six years in the Oakland San 

Francisco area before moving to Lodi in 1955. She was a member of the Methodist church. 

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Frances) WELCH, Lodi; two sons, 

George W. GORDON, Bakersfield, and Harry V. GORDON, Alhambra, Cal.; six grandchildren; 

one great-grandchild and sevral nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Leo Lambert 

Mrs. Leo LAMBERT, 78, a resident of Argos for 20 years, died at 10 a.m. Thursday at 

the Osteopathic hospital in South Bend after an illness of three months. She had been living with 

her daughter, Mrs. A. Waite (Mildred) MAHONEY, R.R. 3, Argos. 

Born in Rocky Springs, Miss., on March 27, 1879, Mrs. Lambert lived in St. Louis, Mo., 

for 20 years before moving to Argos. 

Surviving besides Mrs. Mahoney are another daughter, Mrs. Gilbert (Nell) 

SCHUMACHER, Omaha, Neb., and two sons, Henry L. FLOOD, Cincinnati, O., and C. S. J. 

FLOOD, St. Louis. 

Christian Science services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Grossman funeral home in 

Argos. Cremation will follow in Indianapolis. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. 

Saturday. 


Martin L. Shively 

Services have been set for 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Foster & Good funeral home here for 

Martin L. SHIVELY, 75, former Rochester resident, who died at 6 a.m. Friday at his home in 

Osceola. He had been ill six months. 

Born Sept. 26, 1882, in Kosciusko county, he was the son of William and Mary HEETER 

SHIVELY. He was married in Rochester May 6, 1905, to Inez BUEHLER, who survives. 

Mr. Shively had lived most of his life in Rochester, moving to Osceola seven years ago. 

Also surviving are a son, Ivan [SHIVELY], Dowagiac, Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. 

Claude BURKS, Osceola, and Carrie SHIVELY, at home; six grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; 

two brothers, Everett and Noah [SHIVELY], both of Rochester, and one sister, 

Viola [SHIVELY], Rochester. 

The Rev. Daniel SLAYBAUGH of Akron will officiate at the last rites and burial will be 

in the Athens cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. 

Clarence Leininger 

Clarence LEININGER, 79, a lifelong resident of the Akron and Mentone communities, 

died at 9 p.m. Friday at his home, a mile south of Mentone. He had been ill for several years and 

in critical condition seven weeks. 

Born near Mentone Aug. 25, 1878, Mr. Leininger was the son of David and Hester 

THOMPSON LEININGER. On Jan. 21, 193, he was married to Myrtle NELSON. 

Mr. Leininger was a retired farmer and a member of the Mentone Church of Christ, of 

which he was an elder for 30 years. 

Surviving are the widow at home; a daughter, Mrs. Delois (Marcella) WHITE, Kokomo; 

five grandchildren; a brother, Oliver [LEININGER], Akron, and a sister, Mrs. Lum (Grace) 

SMITH, Rochester. A daughter, Leona DEESON, died in 1939. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Mentone Church of Christ with the Rev. Ralph 

BURRIS officiating. Burial will be in the Mentone cemetery. 

Friends may call at he Johns funeral home in Mentone after 7 p.m. today until noon 

Monday and then at the church.

Monday, December 2, 1957 

Ruth E. Hopper 

Mrs. Ruth Elnora HOPPER, 51, 419 East 14th street, a resident of Rochester for 35 years, 

died at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at Woodlawn hospital after a serious illness of five weeks. 

A native of Plymouth, Mrs. Hopper was born Aug. 27, 1906 to Joseph and Ella 

MANUEL BARTS. On Aug. 29, 1925, she was married in Tyner to Alfred E. HOPPER, who 

survives. She was a member of the Rochester First Christian church. 

Other survivors are six daughters, Mrs. Gordon (Nancy) LEBO, Mrs. William (Dortha) 

EADS and Mrs. Glen (Carol) HEDRICK, all of Rochester; Miss Blanche Kay HOPPER, at home; 

Mrs. Carl (Barbara) JUNKIN, Hammond, and Mrs. Kenneth (Martha) WEST, Mesa, Ariz.; a son, 

Garl [HOPPER], Rochester; nine grandchildren; three brothers, Howard and Ralph BARTS, 

Rochester, and Paul BARTS, Lawrece, Ind. Two grandchildren and a brother, Russell [BARTS], 


Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Christian church with the Rev. C. A. 

UNDERWOOD officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. 

Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home here. The body will be removed to 

the church one hour before services to lie in state. 

Ida M. Bell 

Mrs. Ida M. BELL, 85, former resident of the Santa Anna community southwest of 

Argos, died Saturday in Gary, where she had lived many years. She was the wife of the late 

Thomas BELL. 

Mrs. Bell’s daughter is Mrs. Bertha VERMILLION of Darlington, wife of the Rev. 

Albert VERMILLION. 

Funeral rites will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the William and Burns funeral home in 

Gary. Graveside services will be held at the Poplar Grove cemetery southwest of Argos at 2 p.m. 

Tuesday. 

Charles D. Estep 

Charles D. ESTEP, 80, former Laketon resident, died suddenly Thursday at his home in 

Santa Paula, Cal., where he was proprietor of a hotel. 

Born April 1, 1877, in Milford, he moved to California in 1919. He was married n 1946 

to Gladys OGDEN ESTEP. His parents were William and Hannah ESTEP. 

Surviving are the wife; two step-daughters, Mrs. William (Iona) GUSHARD, Laketon, 

and Mrs. Ray (Serry) BANNISTER, Santa Paula; two step-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. 

Lula RUPLE, Leesburg. 

Graveside rites will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Leesburg cemetery with the Rev. 

Howard REES of Laketon officiating. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Moyer- 

Haupert funeral home in Akron.

Arthur J. Cutshaw 

Arthur Jay CUTSHAW, 74, longtime resident of Fulton county, died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday 

at the Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw, where he had been a patient since Nov. 20. 

Death, caused by pneumonia, came after five weeks’ illness. He had lived the past year 

with his son, William CUTSHAW, at Bourbon. 

Born June 3, 1883, at Akron, he had spent his entire life in Fulton county except for the 

last year. He was married in Akron in 1913 to Lucinda Alice SAYGERS, who died in 1935. Mr. 

Cutshaw’s parents were Wilson S. and Ella Margaret PARKER CUTSHAW. He was a retired 

interior decorator. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Margaret) STANTON and Mrs. Emerson 

(Juanita) JOHNSON, both of Athens; two sons, Paul [CUTSHAW], Tuscon, Ariz., and William 

[CUTSHAW], Bourbon; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Harvey F. SMITH, Macy, and Mrs. James 

O’BRIEN, Chicago; ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Daniel SLAYBAUGH of Akron officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope 

cemetery at Athens. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Monday. 

Tuesday, December 3, 1957 

Karl Mueller 

Karl MUELLER, a resident of Argos since 1943, died suddenly of a heart seizure at 7:15 

o’clock this morning at the home of his son, William L. MUELLER, six miles southwest of 

Argos. 

Mr. Mueller and his wife, the former Katharina PLANTHALER,had lived with their son 

since moving to Argos. 

A retired merchant who had operated a meat business in Chicago for many years, Mr. 

Mueller was born in Gersenbrun, Germany, on Jan. 28, 1873 to John and Helen MUELLER. One 

year after his marriage in Germany in 1908, he and his wife moved to Chicago, where they lived 

for 33 years before moving to Argos. 

Surviving besides the widow and son William are another son, John Paul MUELLER, 

Springfield, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Ray (Frieda) PAULSEN, Chicago, and seven grandchildren. 

Friends may call after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, where 

funeral arrangements are pending. 

Wednesday, December 4, 1957 

Daniel Leroy Eiler 

Funeral services for Daniel Leroy EILER, two-year-old son of Earl and Mary 

OVERFIELD EILER, Peru, will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Peru Assembly of God church. The 

Rev. Frank FORTIER will officiate and burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. 

The boy died at 4:55 a.m. Tuesday at Dukes hospital in Peru, after being ill since birth. 

He was born on Oct. 3, 1955, in Rochester. 

Surviving besides the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Millard OVERFIELD, 

Mexico, and Quinter EILER, Argos, and the great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles FOSTER, 

Dayton, O. Friends may call until 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Drake-Flowers funeral home in Peru. 

The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services.

Mellie M. Wertzberger 

Mrs. Mellie M. WERTZBERGER, 77, died at 2 a.m. today in the Miller Nursing Home 

here, where she had been a patient since Oct. 24. Mrs. Wertzberger, who resided at 700 Pontiac 

street, had been in failing health the past three years, in serious condition for six weeks. 

Born Aug. 3, 1880, in Rochester, she was the daughter of William and Leah FISHER 

REAM. She was married in 1905 to Ardenius WERTZBERGER, who died in 1924. They 

returned to Rochester in 1921 from Tulsa, Okla. 

She was a member of the First Christian church, Rochester. 

Surviving are two sons, Howard [WERTZBERGER], Rochester, and William 

[WERTZBERGER], Fort Worth, Texas; two grandsons, James [WERTZBERGER], Elkhart, and 

Dennis [WERTZBERGER], Columbus, Ind.; one great-grandson, Marc [WERTZBERGER], 

Columbus, and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with 

the Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD of the First Christian church officiating. Burial will be in the 

I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Thursday. 

Karl Mueller 

Final rites for Karl MUELLER, 84, of near Argos, will be given at High Mass Saturday 

at 10 a.m. in St. Michael’s church at Plymouth with Father Casmir MOSWINSKI officiating. 

Burial will be in the New Oak Hill cemetery at Plymouth. 

The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, 

where friends may call after 7 p.m. Thursday. 

Mr. Mueller, a native of Germany and resident of the Argos community for 14 years, died 

Tuesday morning at the home of his son, William L. MUELLER, six miles southwest of Argos. 

Henry N. Wilson 

Funeral services for Henry N. WILSON, 98, Buchanan, Mich., will be held at 10:30 a.m. 

Friday at the Foster & Good funeral home here with the Rev. Phillip WELKLIN, of the local 

Seventh Day Adventist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Indian Creek cemetery near 

Lucerne. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Thursday. 

Mr. Wilson, a former resident of Indianapolis and a native of Cass county, died at 2:30 

a.m. today at his home after an illness of two weeks. 

He was born on June 20, 1859, to James and Catherine SHAFER WILSON and moved 

from Indianapolis to Buchanan last year. He was married on June 3, 1882, to Marie HOUSE. He 

was a member of he Seventh Day Adventist church. 

Surviving besides the widow are one son, Harry L. WILSON, Niles, Mich.; two 

granddaughters, and a sister, Sarah LUEY, Lucerne. Four brothers and two sisters preceded him 

in death.

Thursday, December 5, 1957 

Howard Gillespie 

Howard GILLESPIE, 70, a former resident of Kewanna, died at his Indianapolis home 


A teacher at Indianapolis Technical high school, Mr. Gillespie and his wife, the former 

Lillie KURTZ of Kewanna, had lived in Indianapolis for the last 35 years. They had spent their 

summers at a cottage at Bruce Lake since moving to the capitol. 

Surviving brsides the widow, at home, are two sons, Dr. Charles GILLESPIE, 

Indianapolis, and Robert GILLESPIE, Walpole, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. Ed MURRY, Antigonish, 

Nova Scotia; four brothers, Bert, Warren and VanTuyl [GILLESPIE], all of Kewanna, and Victor 

[GILLESPIE], address unknown; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel BECKNER, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. 

Arthur CASUBE, Orlando, Fla., and eight grandchildren. 

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Harrison funeral home at Kewanna and 

burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friday, December 6, 1957 

Paul H. Fleming 

Paul H. FLEMING, 29, South Bend, died at the Hines (Ill.) Veterans hospital at 9:30 p.m. 

Wednesday after an eight-week illness. His brother, Lawrence FLEMING, resides in Argos. Paul 

lived in Argos for some time and was a member of the Argos Merchants baseball team. 

He was born in Chicago and had been employed as an accountant at the Studebaker- 

Packard Corporation, in South Bend. He was a World War II veteran. 

Funeral rites will be at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Michael’s church in Plymouth with burial in 

the St. Peter’s cemetery in Winamac. Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos 

after noon Saturday. 

Saturday, December 7, 1957 

Reathel D. O’Dell 

Reathel Dell O’DELL, 53, died Friday at 5 p.m. in her R.R. 5, Rochester, home after an 

illness of two years. 

She was born Nov. 10, 1904, in the same house where she died, the daughter of Valorous 

and Lilly OVERMYER BECK. On Feb. 16, 1924, at Rochester, she was married to Lester 

O’DELL, who survives. She had lived in Mishawaka for 30 years and returned to Rochester eight 

years ago. She was employed at the Topps Manufacturing Company. 

Mrs. O’Dell was a member of the Sand Hill Methodist church and of the Richland Center 

Naomi Rebekah lodge. 

Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lester (Eva) BEEHLER, R.R. 3, Rochester; four 

sons, Bill and James [O’DELL], both at home; Maurice [O’DELL], Bourbon, and Richard 

[O’DELL], Indianapolis; one granddaughter; the parents, R.R. 5, Rochester; one sister, Miss Edna 

BECK; several aunts and uncles and several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Sand Hill Methodist church with the 

Rev. E. J. PETERS officiating. Burial will be in the Reichter cemetery. The body will be taken 

from the Foster & Good funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 3 p.m. today. 

The body also will lie in state at the church an hour before services.

Robert Royer 

Robert ROYER, 55. a native of Akron who has been head swimming coach at Indiana 

university since 1931, died in his home near Bloomington Friday. He had been in ill health since 

an operation last spring. 

Royer was born near Akron and gradated from high school there. He taught at Akron 

high school following his graduation from I.U. in 1928, then returned to the university as 

swimming coach in 1931. He also had served as assistant dean of men at I.U. and had written 

articles for popular magazines. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Reuben ROYER. 

He was chairman of the swimming rules committee of the National Collegiate Athletic 

Association at the time of his death. Two of his swimmers, Bill WOOLSEY and Dick TANABE, 

were members of the 1956 U. S. Olympic team. 

He is survived his wife, the former Catherine EDWARDS of Windfall; a five-year-old 

daughter, Janet [ROYER], and a brother, Vern [ROYER], Akron. Mrs. Royer has been secretary 

to I.U. President Herman B. WELLS for 10 years. 

Royer’s death came just as he had assembled the potentially greatest swimming squad in 

I.U. history. He will be succeeded as swim coach by Dr. James COUNSILMAN, who has been in 

charge of the squad during Royer’s illness. 

Lucretia G. Calloway 

Lucretia G. CALLOWAY, 76, died at 5:55 p.m. Friday at her home on R.R. 2, Macy, 

after a five-year illness. 

She was born in Allen township, Miami county, Sept. 10, 1881, the daughter of Robert P. 

and Mary ELDER BRIGGS. She had lived in the Macy community her entire life. Her marriage 

was on April 12, 1900, at Macy, to Willard G. CALLOWAY, who survives. 

Mrs. Calloway ws a member of the Macy Christian church. 

Surviving, besides the husband, are three sons, Omar W. [CALLOWAY], Indianapolis; 

Forrest J. [CALLOWAY], and Glen R. [CALLOWAY], both of R.R. 2, Macy; five grandchildren; 

one great-grandchild; one brother, Albert M. BRIGGS, Macy; one sister, Mrs. Jennie L. 

SLUSSER, Peru. Five sisters and a brother preceded her in death. 

Rites will be 2 p.m. Monday at the Macy Christian church, with the Rev. I. L. ROGERS 

officiating. Burial will be in the Plainview cemetery, Macy. Friends may call at the McCain 

funeral home, junction of Roads 16 and 31, after 2 p.m. Sunday. The body will lie in state at the 

church an hour prior to the services. 


Earl McCoy 

Final rites for Earl McCOY, 52, Warsaw, owner and manager of the K. and M. Food 

company at Warsaw and past director of the Indiana Saddle Horse Association and the Tennessee 

Walking Horse Association, will be at 2 p.m. CST Tuesday in the Warsaw Methodist church. 

The Rev. Albert E. HABGOOD will officiate and burial will be in the Oakwood 

cemetery at Warsaw. 

Mr. McCoy, whose wife, the former Mary Marjorie KESLER, is well-known in the 

Rchester communithy, died at 11:45 a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne after an 

illness of four months. 

Friends may call at the MaHatton funeral home in Warsaw until 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and 

then at the church until the services.

Sophia O. Thorington 

Sophia Opal THORINGTON, 72, was discovered dead in her home, on Fulton avenue 

just north of the city limits, about 4:45 p.m. Sunday by a neighbor. Death was attributed to a heart 

attack, an autopsy conducted by Dr. Howard ROWE, county coroner, revealed. 

Ed CARPENTER, the neighbor, noted that Mrs. Thorington’s chickens had not been 

attended and called at the house. Mrs. Thorington lived alone. 

A resident of this community 35 years, Mrs. Thorington was born Nov. 5, 1885, in 

Carroll county. She was married to Henry THORINGTON, who died in 1918. Her parents were 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank HUGHES. 

Surviving are two sons, Oral [THORINGTON], Kokomo, and Emmett 

[THORINGTON], Argos; two daughters, Mrs. Howard (Marie) HAYES, Rochester, and Mrs. Ica 

(Floy) EDING, Phoenix, Ariz.; ten grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. 

Maggie CREE, Walton; Mrs. Grace JAMES, Winamac; Mrs. Florence HUGHES and Mrs. Mabel 

CREE, both of Camden; one brother, Arlie HUGHES, Camden. One daughter and several 

brothers and sisters preceded her in death. 

Funeral rites are pending. Foster & Good funeral home is in charge of arrangements. 

Clarence M. Binney 

Rosary services will be recited tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the Foster & Good funeral home 

here for Clarence Martin BINNEY, 52, who died suddenly at 7 p.m. Saturday in his home on R.R. 

3, Rochester. 

Funeral rites will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the St. Joseph church here with Father George 

LANNING officiating. Burial will be in the Royal Center cemetery. Friends may call at the 

funeral home. 

A farmer by profession, Mr. Binney was born Aug. 2, 1905, at Chicago, the son of 

William and Leona BINNEY. He was married July 1, 1930, at Chicago to Agnes KWIATT, who 

survives. 

A member of the St. Joseph church, he had lived in the Rochester community 10 years. 

Also surviving are a daughter, Judy [BINNEY], at home; a stepson, Donald McKEONE, 

Phoenix, Ariz.; three grandchildren; two brothers, William BINNEY, R.R. 3, Rochester; Roy 

BINNEY, Royal Center; three sisters, Lillian RUE, Laura MAHONEY and Leona KISTLER, all 

of Chicago, and several nieces and nephews. 

Lucille Bloom 

Mrs. Herman [Lucille] BLOOM, Columbus, O., died Sunday at her home there from 

pneumonia. Mrs. Bloom, the former Lucille HELM, was in charge of the German and history 

departments at Rochester high school from 1907-1912. 

She was a graduate of Bryn Maur college in Pennsylvania and had lived in Williamsburg, 

Ind., in Wayne county before coming to Rochester. 


Sophia O. Thorington 

Final rites for Mrs. Sophia Opal THORINGTON, 72, who died at her home here Sunday 

afternoon will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Foster & Good funeral home with the Rev. Wayne 

TIPPY, Wesleyan Methodist church, officialing. Burial will be in the Woodville cemetery, 

Burrows, Ind. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Merta Waltz 

Mrs. George (Merta) WALTZ, 89, formerly of Newcastle township, died this noon at the 

home of her son, Omer S. WALTZ, Hungington. Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here is in 

charge of arrangements, which are pending. 

Frances Mow 

Graveside rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here for Mrs. 

Frances MOW, about 68, who died at Indianapolis Monday morning following a long illness. 

Mrs. Mow, the former Frances GROVE, was born in Rochester, the daughter of Orange 

and Isabelle GROVE. She graduated from Rochester high school and was married to Ray MOW 

in Rochester. The Mows left the city about 35 years ago. 

Surviving, bedsides the husband, is one son, John [MOW], Columbus, O. 

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m.Thursday in the Flanner-Buchanan funeral home in 

Indianapolis. 


Myrta O. Waltz 

Mrs. Myrta O. WALTZ, 89, a native of Newcastle township, died at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday 

at the home of her son, Omer F. WALTZ, a mile north of Huntington on State Road 5. She had 

been bedfast since June 1 following injuries sustained in a fall. 

Born Nov. 4, 1868, in Newcastle township near Talma, she was the daughter of Chancy 

and Margaret WILSON COPLEN. She had spent her entire life in the Newcastle township 

community. Her marriage was on Nov. 27, 1887, to George R. WALTZ, who died Jan. 17, 1942. 

Mrs. Waltz was a member of the Rochester Baptist church. 

Surviving are two sons, Truman [WALTZ], South Bend, and Omer [WALTZ], 

Huntington; seven grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; and one half-brother, Grover 

COPLEN, Des Moines, Ia. Two daughters and one son preceded her in death. 

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with the Rev. Richard MITCHELL of the First Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in the 

Walnut cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. 

Orpha D. Rhodes 

Final rites for Mrs. Orpha D. RHODES, 90, R.R. 3, Peru, a native of Fulton county, were 

conducted this afternoon at the Drake-Flowers chapel in Peru, with the Rev. Etta TATE, Dayton, 

O., officiating. Burial was in the Mt. Hope cemetery. 

Mrs. Rhodes died at 7 a.m. Monday at her home following a year’s illness. 

Born Jan. 25, 1867 to Phillip and Orpha GERARD MIKESELL, Mrs. Rhodes was 

resident of Peru for 27 years. She was married in 1888 to Thomas RHODES, who died in 1949. 

Several nieces and nephews in Miami and Fulton counties survive, including Mrs. Alva 

HOPPER, with whom Mrs. Rhodes lived in Peru. A son, six brothers and two sisters preceded her 

in death.

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Thursday, December 12, 1957 to Friday, December 13, 1957 


E. A. Gast 

E. A. “Chub” GAST, 75, Warsaw, a native of Akron, drowned Friday in Fort Lauderdale, 

Fla. Mr. Gast drowned when he fell from a dike while fishing. 

Head of the [Gast] Construction Company, [Warsaw], and a resident of that city for 40 

years, Mr. Gast was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. GAST of Akron. He graduated from Akron 

high school, attended Rochester Normal University and graduated from Indiana University. 

Until entring the constuction business at Warsaw, he was editor of the former Warsaw 

Union in that city. 

Surviving are his wife, the former Blanche HESS of Brook; two sons, David and Robert 

[GAST], both of Warsaw; one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Martha Jane) MYERS, Bloomington; three 

brothers, Karl [GAST], Rochester, Whit [GAST], Akron, and Robert [GAST], Warsaw; and one 

sister, Mrs. Marie TALBOTT, Los Angeles. 

Funeral rites will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Methodist church in Warsaw with burial in 

the Oakwood cemetery there. Friends may call at the Landis funeral home from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. 

Monday and until 10 a.m. Tuesday. 

Eldora M. Henderson 

Mrs. Eldora May HENDERSON, 70, Wabash, former resident of Rochester, died Friday 

evening near Evansville when the car in which she was a passenger was involved in a car-truck 

accident on State Road 57. 

Mrs. Henderson, widow of the late Elmer HENDERSON, former city street department 

employee, had been returning to Indiana with her son, Howard [HENDERSON]. The extent of his 

injuries were not immediately learned. They had been visiting with Mrs. Henderson’s daughter, 

Mrs. Edith BURMBAUGH, Dayton, O., who is vacationing in Hollywood, Fla. 

Mrs. Henderson, daughter of George W. and Susan SHONTZ, was a member of the 

Rochester E.U.B. church. Her husband died in 1941. 

Also surviving are one sister, Leona [SHONTZ], South Bend. 

The body is being removed to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here. Final rites 

are incomplete. 


Infant Winterrowd 

A short prayer service for the infant daughter of Robert and Ruth HARTMAN 

WINTERROWD, 423 East 14th street, was conducted this afternoon at the Foster & Good funeral 

home. The Rev. Lloyd POWELL officiated and burial was in the Athens cemetery. 

The girl died at birth Sunday. 

Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Michael and Dennis [WINTERROWD], 

and a sister, Darlene [WINTERROWD], at home, and several aunts and uncles.

Eldora Henderson 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

for Mrs. Eldora HENDERSON, 70, who died at 9:40 p.m. Friday in an automobile accident 4 1/2 

miles northwest of Evansville on State Road 57. 

The Rev. F. I. WILLMERT of the Rochester E.U.B. church will officiate and burial will 

be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. 

Mrs. Henderson, native of Fulton county, died instantly of a basal skull fracture when the 

auto driven by her son, Howard [HENDERSON], ran into a truck parked on the highway. Mrs. 

Henderson and her son had just returned by plane from Miami where they had visited her 

daughter, Mrs. Clarence BURMBAUGH, vacationing in Hollywood, Fla. 

Mrs. Henderson had been residing with her son in Oakland City. 

Born Feb. 2, 1887, near Talma, she had spent most of her life in Rochester and 

surrounding community. Her husband was Elmer HENDERSON, who died in 1941, and her 

parents were George W. and Susan BRYAN SHONTZ. 

Mrs. Henderson was a member of the E.U.B. church, where she was a Sunday School 

teacher for many years and of the Rochester Evergreen Rebekah lodge. She served as Noble 

Grand and District Deputy of District 23 of the Rebekahs. 

Surviving are the son, Howard, Oakland City; the daughter, Mrs. Clarence O. (Edith) 

BURMBAUGH, Dayton, O., and one sister, Mrs. Lena ANDERSON, Lakeville. 

E. A. Gast 

Burial of E. A. “Chub” GAST, 75, Warsaw, a native of Akron, will be in the Akron 

cemetery Tuesday instead of the Oakwood cemetery at Warsaw as previously reported. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist church in Warsaw. Friends may call 

at the Landis funeral home until 5 p.m. and from 7-9 p.m. today and until 10 a.m. Tuesday. 

Mr. Gast, head of the [Gast] Construction Company and a Warsaw resident for 40 years, 

drowned Friday at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when he fell from a dike while fishing. He was a 

graduate of Akron high school. 

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Tuesday, December 17, 1957 to Wednesday, December 18, 1957 


Minnie M. McPherron 

Mrs. Minnie May BIDDINGER McPHERRON, 82, R.R. 1, Tippecanoe, a native of 

Fulton county, died of a stroke at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bair nursing home in Bourbon. She 

had been ill for six months and suffered the stroke three weeks ago. 

Mrs. McPherron lived in the Sand Hill and Richland Center communities before moving 

to near Tippecanoe 20 years ago. She was a member of the Tippecanoe Progress club, the 

Tippecanoe Community church and the W.S.C.S. of that church. 

Born Dec. 22, 1874 in Fulton county, Mrs. McPherron was the daughter of William and 

Lydia LEITER BIDDINGER. She was married in Rochester in 1893 to Thomas McPHERRON, 

who died in 1914. 

Surviving are two daughters, Miss Wilma McPHERRON BIDDINGER, Indianapolis, 

and Mrs. Armen (Mary) WARNOCK, Converse; four sons, Edwin [McPHERRON],

Bloomington, Clarence and Harry [McPHERRON], Tippecanoe, and Emile [McPHERRON], 

address unknown; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and a brother Harry E. 

BIDDINGER, Billings, Mont. 

The body lies at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, where rites are pending. 

Charles N. Bailey 

Charles Nelson BAILEY, 69, native of Fulton county, died in Chicago last week and 

burial was made in the Mt. Hope cemetery, Chicago. 

Born near Leiters Ford on Sept. 18, 1888, he was the son of William and Emma 

KIRKENDALL BAILEY. 

He had spent most of his life in the insurance business, working in several cities in 

Indiana and Illinois. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. John MOULTON, Deedsville; six sons, 

and one sister, Mrs. Anna MILLER of Indianapolis. 


Birda McCutchan 

Mrs. Birda McCUTCHAN, 68, died at 1:30 p.m. today at the home of her nephew, 

Donald B. PONTIUS, 5346 Central avenue, Indianapolis. 

She was born May 19, 1890, in Fulton county, the daughter of Sanford and Katherine 

BECK. A former Rochester resident, she had lived in Indianapolis the past 35 years. Her husband 

was Charles McCUTCHAN. 

Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Rollin (Mona) PONTIUS, Rochester; one brother, Charles 

BECK, Milwaukee; the nephew, Donald PONTIUS; three nieces, Pauline PONTIUS, 

Indianapolis, Beverly BECK, Milwaukee, and Katherine BECK, San Francisco. 

Rites will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes in 

Indianapolis with burial in the Crown Hill cemetery there. 

Minnie M. McPherron 

Final rites for Mrs. Minnie May BIDDINGER McPHERRON, 82, R.R. 1, Tippecanoe, a 

Fulton county native, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos. 

The Rev. Henry HIDDINGS will officiate and burial will be in the Reichter cemetery, 

northeast of Rochester. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

Mrs. McPherron died of a stroke at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bair nursing home in 

Bourbon. She had been ill for six months and suffered the stroke three weeks ago. 

She had lived in the Sand Hill and Richland Center communities before moving to near 

Tippecanoe 20 years ago. 

Louise Ryan 

Mrs. Estel BEMENDERFER, 1407 Main street, has received word of the death of Mrs. 

Frank (Louise) WILHOIT RYAN, San Francisco, Cal., a native of Fulton couty and former 

Rochester resident. 

Mrs. Ryan, who had lived in California for about 40 years after moving there from 

Rochester, died Monday. 

She was a half-sister of Mrs. Charles TOWNE, 213 West Third street.

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Lydia Brubaker 

Mrs. Lydia BRUBAKER, 89, a resident of the Argos community for many years, died in 

Logansport at 11:55 p.m. Sunday. She had lived most of her life in Fulton and Marshall counties. 

Born Oct. 25, 1868, in Miami county, Mrs. Brubaker was the daughter of Daniel and 

Lucinda ROHRER. In 1893 she was married to Tillman BRUBAKER, who died several years 

ago. She was a member of the Walnut Church of the Brethren. 

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Esta KLOTZ, South Bend; three grandchildren; nine 

great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Frank and Harry ROHRER, 

both of Argos. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Church of the Brethren and burial will 

be in the church cemetery. 

Friends may call at the Grossman funeral home in Argos after 7 p.m. Tuesday until noon 

Thursday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. 

John A. Rouch 

John A. ROUCH, pioneer Tulsa (Okla.) building contractor and father of Dwight 

ROUCH, Fulton, died at his home in Tulsa after a three-week illness. He was 91 years old. 

Mr. Rouch went to Tulsa from Fulton and built several schools, apartments, business 

buildings and other structures in the city from 1903 until 1942, when he retired. He was an 

architect for and part owner of the Latimer and Rouch Construction company. 

Surviving are his wife, at home; five sons, Ancil [ROUCH], at home; Irvin [ROUCH], 

Nashville, Tenn.; Raymond [ROUCH], LaMirada, Cal.; Ira [ROUCH], Dallas, Texas, and Dwight 

[ROUCH], Fulton; one daughter, Mrs. Ruth DAWSON, Tulsa; one brother; ten grandchildren and 

five great-grandchildren. 

Ellsworth Brauneller 

Ellsworth BRAUNELLER, 84, who lived in Marshtown, west of Fulton on State Road 

114, became Fulton county’s seventh traffic fatality of the year at 11:30 p.m. Sunday when he died 

in Woodlawn hospital of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car as he was walking on Road 

114 in Marshtown. 

The Sheriff’s off said Brauneller received compound fractures of both legs, severe 

bruises on the head and internal injuries when struck at 5:50 p.m. Sunday by a car deiven by 

Russell F. POENIX, 66, R.R. 2, Kewanna. 

Poenix told the sheriff’s office that as he passed an oncoming car, he thought that his car 

had hit something and that he found Brauneller on the ground after he stopped his car. Brauneller 

had been walking on the right side of the highway, an officer said. Poenix was not charged. 

Brauneller was rushed to the hospital in a Fulton ambulance. 

Born April 10, 1873, near Macy, Brauneller had been a resident of the Marshtown 

community for 35 years. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Augusta BRAUNELLER. He made his 

home with a niece, Mrs. Oscar MANNIES. 

On Aug. 4, 1896, he was maried to Carrie COLLINS, who died April 24, 1946.

Surviving besides Mrs. Mannies are a half-sister, Mrs. Tressie CRAIG, Kokomo, and 

several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton with the Rev. 

Lloyd OVERMYER officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. 


Berna Good 

Funeral rites were held this afternoon at the Tippecanoe church west of Pulaksi for Mrs. 

Berna GOOD, 81, Kewanna, who died at her home near that town Saturday night. Burial was in 

Paul’s chapel cemetery. 

Born April 9, 1906, in Pulaski county, Mrs. Good was the daughter of Fred and Albert [?] 

WOOD FITZ. She was married on Aug. 4, 1924, to Loyal M. GOOD, who survives. Mrs. Good 

was a member of the Tippecanoe church. 

Also surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Pauline STEVENSON, Monticello; Mrs. Gene 

CRIST, Star City; Mrs. Marlene KELLEY, Chicgo; Mrs. Janet COX, Logansport, and Joyce 

[GOOD], at home; five sons, Norman [GOOD], Lafayette; Donald [GOOD], Star City; Larry 

Robert and Loyal, [GOOD], Jr., all at home; four brothers, Wayne, Orvan and Clyde FITZ, all of 

Winamac, and Carl FITZ, Crumtown, and seven grandchildren. 




John W. Mathias 

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Wesleyan Methodist church at Argos 

for John Wesley MATHIAS, 78, former resident of the Burton community, who died at 11 p.m. 

Tuesday in the Parkview hospital at Plymouth. He had been seriously ill for a month. 

The Rev. George CRANE will officiate at the last rites, assisted by the Rev. Harold 

RAINBOLT. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Born Dec. 5, 1879, to John and Suzan WALES MATHIAS, he had resided in the Burton 

area before moving to the county line road north of Rochester, in 1921. He first ws married Dec. 

20, 1901, at Burton to Ida MOORE, who died in 1909. Later he married Helen WARFIELD. 

A retired farmer, Mr. Mathias was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church. 

Surviving are one son, Paul E. MATHIAS, Hinsdale, Ill., two daughters, Mrs. Charles 

CROCKER, Plymouth, and Mrs. George BAUER, Chicago; eight grandchildren; thirteen greatgrandchildren; 

several nieces and nephews; two sisters, Mrs. Ora MARSH and Mrs. Lloyd 

CASTLEMAN, both of Rochester. 

Three brothers and one sister preceded him in death. 

Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home here. The body will lie in state at 

the church prior to the services.


Ruth B. Spencer 

Ruth B. SPENCER, 58, a resident of Argos her entire life, died at 8 a.m. today in 

Parkview hospital, Plymouth, after an illness of six months. She had been a patient at the hospital 

for two months. 

Born in Argos Dec. 16, 1899, Miss Spencer was the daughter of Allie and Emma 

HAINES SPENCER. She was a member of the Argos Congregational church, the Argos Izaak 

Walton League auxiliary and the Maxinkuckee Rebekah Lodge. 

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Clarence (Lesta) ZIMMERMAN and Mrs. Chester (Fawn) 

BERRY, both of Plymouth, and several nieces and nephews. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Grossman funeral home in Argos, where Miss 

Spencer was employed. Officiating will be the Rev. Albert VERMILLION and the Rev. 

HALBERT, with burial in the Richland Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. 

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Saturday. 

Edward Charles Kuncl 

Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the First Christian church for Edward 

Charles KUNCL, three-year-old son of Donald and Verda RUDD KUNCL, Macy. 

The child was killed in an automobile accident Wednesday on U.S. 30, a mile east of 

Wanatah. 

The Rev. C.A. UNDERWOOD will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. 

cemetery here. Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home. 

Byron Ellis Border 

Byron Ellis BORDER, infant son of Dairl and Wilma DITTMER BORDER, 630 Fulton 

avenue, died at 4:30 a.m. today at Woodlawn hospital, 19 hours after his birth. 

Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Joan and Karen [BORDER]; two brothers, 

William and Duane [BORDER]; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William DITTMER, 

Rochester, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ellis BORDER, Elkhorn, Wis. 

Prayer services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Foster & Good funeral home with the 

Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. 


Steven Wallis, 

Dennis Howard and 

Robert Vandermark 

Warsaw, Ind. (INS) -- Authorities today tried to piece together the events that led to the 

drowning of three young fathers in Palestine Lake, eight miles southwest of Warsaw. 

The three men, Steven WALLIS, 21; Dennis HOWARD, 22, both of Warsaw, and Robert 

VANDERMARK, 27, of Mentone, apparently drowned while fishing Thursday. Their bodies 

were recovered late Friday. 

Born July 8, 1932, in Mentone, Mr. Vandermark was a lifelong resident of that 

community, and attended Mentone high school. His parents were Orville and Laura 

VANDERMARK, who survive, along with the wife, Helen [VANDERMARK], and one son, 

Robert [VANDERMARK], at home.

He was emploed as a tree timmer for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company out 

of the Warsaw office. 

Also surviving are one sister, Mrs. Gordon WOLFE, Laketon, and one brother, Fred 

[VANDERMARK], Mentone; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. WAGONER, 

Mentone, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Levi VANDERMARK, Mentone. 

Funeral services have been set for 1 p.m. Monda but the remainder of the arrangements 

are as yet incomplete. 

There were no witnesses to the tragedy and state police said they could only assume that 

the boat, found partially filled with water 300 feet from shore, tipped--plunging one or more into 

the icy water and the others drowned attempting to rescue. 

For the Howards it was the second tragedy in four months. They lost their only son, 

Larry [HOWARD], in a Sept. 19 auto accident. 

Police said a 13-year-old Palestine girl Friday reported hearing cries from the lake 

Thursday. When the car, in which the three men had driven to the lake, was still parked at the 

landing Friday, a search was started. 

Skin divers tried to locate the bodies but were stopped by the dense vegetation on the 

bottom of the lake. Crews using drag lines finally brought the three bodies to the surface. The 

three men were dressed in heavy clothing which police said probably contributed to the 

drownings. 


Cyrus B. Carlton 

Cyrus B. CARLTON, 88, died at 8:50 p.m. Saturday in the I.O.O.F. Home at Greensburg, 

where he had lived since Jan. 6, 1953. Death came to the former Rochester resident after a 

month’s illness. 

Born March 25, 1869, in Paulding county, O., he was the son of John D. and Isabelle 

MILLINGER CARLTON. He was married Feb. 20, 1895, in Logansport to Carrie SINES 

MARTIN, who died June 27, 1955. 

Mr. Carlton resided in Rochester from 1905 to 1927, when he moved to Lucerne. He 

also had resided a short time in both Fulton and Kewanna. A retired grain elevator manager, he 

had been in that business for over 60 years. 

Mr. Carlton was a member of the Grace Methodist church here and of the I.O.O.F. lodge. 

Surviving are one son, Francis D. “Bud” CARLTON, Woodstock, Ill.; three daughters, 

Mrs. Carl (Isabelle) KEEL, Detroit; Mrs. LVR (Josephine) LOUDERBACK, Rochester, and Mrs. 

Jeles (Mary) FASTOFF, Long Island City, N.Y., six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home 

with Dr. Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may 

call at the funeral home. 

Mary Schneider 

Mrs. Mary SCHNEIDER, 85, Hoover, Ind., (Cass county) who was known in Fulton, 

died Sunday morning at the home of her son, George [SCHNEIDER], in Toledo, O. She had been 

ill for two weeks. 

The body will be returned to the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton where friends may call 

after noon Tuesday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Hoover Methodist church with 

the Rev. Tom SWANTNER officiating. Burial will be in the Corinth cemetery. The body will lie 

in state at the church one hour before services.

Benjamin C. Mullican 

Benjamin C. “Ben” MULLICAN, 74, died Sunday at 2:45 p.m. in the Methodist hospital 

at Indianapolis, where he had been a patient since Dec. 10. He had been in failing health for the 

past month, having suffered a heart attack Dec. 17. 

Mr. Mullican had been superintendent of Rochester City Park for the past two years. He 

was known widely throughout Fulton and surrounding counties. 

Long active in Democratic party work, Mr. Mullican for four years was an inspector for 

the Indiana Highway Department, prior to taking the City Park post here. Before that he was a 

livestock dealer. Also an accomplished tenor vocalist, in his earlier years he was a member of 

various men’s quartets which appeared at political and social meetings throughout northern 

Indiana. 

Born Sept. 8, 1883, on a farm two miles north of Macy, he was the son of Isaac and 

Catherine DICKMAN MULLICAN. He was married Feb.1, 1906, at Macy to Mary BELT, who 

died June 5, 1945. The Mullicans moved to Rochester from the Macy community in 1920. 

He was a member of the Grace Methodist church and of the Rochester I.O.O.F. lodge. 

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mark (Kathleen) LOWE, 3708 Lorrain road, 

Indianapolis, and Mrs. James Frank (Eileen) BURNETT, 6315 West Jackson street, Indianapolis; 

three grandchildren, Karen, Robert and Michael BURNETT, In Indianapolis; one sister, Mrs. Ada 

DARNELL, Clear Lake, Ia., and several nieces and nephews. A brother, Charles [MULLICAN], 

died March 15, 1957. 

Funeral rites will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral 

home here with Dr. Claude YOUNG officiating, assisted by the local I.O.O.F. lodge. Burial will 

be in the Five Corners cemetery near Macy. Friends may call at the funeral home. 

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, contributions might be made in Mr. 

Mullican’s memory toward the City Park equipment fund. 

[NOTE: See Wendell C. & John B. Tombaugh, Fulton County Indiana HANDBOOK, 

“LANE SISTERS.”] 

Harold L. Kaley 

Services for Harold LaVon KALEY, 36, South Bend, a native of Fulton county who 

moved from Rochester to South Bend three years ago, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Forrest 

G. Hay funeral home, South Bend. The Rev. E. Richard HALEY of the Epworth Memorial 

Methodist church at South Bend will officiate. 

Burial will be in the Mount Hope cemetery at Athens, where graveside services will be 

held at 3 p.m. The casket will be opened at that time. 

Mr. Kaley died at 9:15 p.m. Saturday at the Hines hospital in Chicago after an illness of 

one and a half years. He was an employee of the Bendix corporation in South Bend. 

He was born Sept. 11, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. John KALEY, who now live in Logansport. 

On Sept. 18, 1943, he was married in Bowling Green, Ky., to Eileen BRYANT of Rochester, who 

survives. 

Also surviving are three daughters, Carolyn, Marilyn and Helen Jean [KALEY], all at 

home; the parents; four brothers, Virgil and Philip [KALEY], Logansport; Robert [KALEY], Lake 

Cicott; and Kenneth, LaPorte, and two sisters, Mrs. Ernest (Betty) McQUESTION, Logansport, 

and Mrs. Eileen HIZER, Indianapolis. One brother preceded him in death.

Laura E. Long 

Mrs. Laura E. “Grandma” LONG, 89, a resident of the Akron community her entire life, 

died at 4 a.m. today at the home of her daughter, Ruth M. NYE, Akron. Mrs. Long had been ill 

for five years. 

Born in Miami county July 23, 1868, Mrs. Long was the daughter of Robert and Naomi 

MILLER CHESTNUT. In 1893 she was married in Miami county to Harvey LONG, who died in 

1936. 

Mrs. Long was a member of the Akron Methodist church, the W.S.C.S. and Loyal 

Workers class of that church and the Akron Home Economics club. 

Surviving besides the daughter are three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one 

step-grandchild. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron. The Rev. 

D. L. SLAYBAUGH will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Claude FAWNS. Burial will be in the 




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ABBEY 

Donald, Rev. 7, 13, 59, 91 

ABBOTT 

Alice 39 

Bypherd 39 

Francis 39 

George Wheeler 39 

Martha (Drumm) 39 

Mary (Griner) 39 

Nettie Elizabeth 42 

Robert E. 39 

Ruby 39 

Sadie Eleanor 39 

Samuel Gale 39 

Willie 39 

ABEL 

Eileen 111 

ABSHIRE 

Charlotte 18 

ACKERMAN 

Lucinda 104 

ACKERT 

Anna 82 

Carson 82 

Richard 82 

ADAMS 

Bertha 67 

H. L., Rev. 17 

I. C., Mrs. 51 

Mabel 32 

Waldo, Mrs. 32 

AGLE 

Margaret 100 

AGNEW 

Virginia 2 

AGSTER 

Horatio 42 

AHLSTROM 

Ilo, Mrs. 83 

ALBER 

Richard, Mrs. 118 

Shirley 118 

ALBERT 

Forrest 90 

Homer 90 

Howard 90 

ALEXANDER 

Anna 132 

Nettie 91 

ALLEN 

Ann 25 

Danny R. 82 

Elva 44 

Hiram, Mr. & Mrs. 82 

Kenneth Calvin 44 

Kevin Michael 82 

Robert Wayne 44 

Robert, Mr. & Mrs. 82 

Ross "Whitie" 44-45 

William 44 

William, Mr. & Mrs. 45 

INDEX 

ALLMAN 

Alice (Koch) 48 

Lester K. 48 

Meyer 48 

Sol 48 

ALMAN 

Eliza 152 

ALSPACH 

Alfred O. 27 

Ambrose 27 

John, Mrs. 100 

Leslie 27 

Samantha 27 

ALTHEIDE 

Effie 78 

ALVAREZ 

Antonio 7 

Golda 7 

ANDERSON 

Carl Edward 112 

D. C., Mrs. 140 

Emile 112 

Emra G. 70 

Helen 39, 139 

Ira 70 

Iva 33 

Johanna 112 

Lena 167 

Loy L., Dr. 67, 70 

Maggie M. 108 

Mary 112, 138 

Naomi (Hizer) 3 

Nellie 17, 72 

Nels 112 

Opal 140 

Oren, Mrs. 45 

Phillip 3 

Russell 119 

Sarah (Rice) 70 

ANGEL 

Ella 95 

ANGELL 

Margaret 106 

APT 

Grace 5 

ARMSTRONG 

Louise 47 

ARNDT 

Margaret 64 

ARNOLD 

Joseph 21 

Josephine 141 

Ralph J. 21 

Samuel H. 21 

ARTER 

Edith 110 

Frank J. 110 

ARTHUR 

J. Franklin, Rev. 117 

ASHBY 

Sara 20 

ASHTON 

Nancy Alphretta 45 

ATHA 

Sarah 91 

AUGHINBAUGH 

Edward 79 

Edward, Mrs. 79 

Lora 130 

AUSMUN 

Benjamin F. 91 

Sarah (Williams) 91 

AUSTIN 

Harold, Mrs. 151 

Jane 151 

AZBELL 

Merrill, Mrs. 87 

BABCOCK 

James L. 62 

James L., Dr. 61 

Lillian 31, 133 

Nellie 61 

BABER 

Blanche 122 

BACH 

Susan 83 

BACON 

Charles E. 12 

Effa 61 

BAER 

Joe, Rev. 91, 95 

BAILEY 

Amanda 35 

Charles Nelson 168 

Clara 141 

Clark D. 35 

Ella 64 

Emma (Kirkendall) 168 

Eva 151 

Lewis 35 

Maude (Davidson) 35 

William 168 

BAIR 

Celesta M. 101 

Clarence E. 101 

Clarence E., Jr. 101 

Margaret 141 

BAIRD 

Charles, Mrs. 143 

Dorothy 143 

BAKER 

Evert 147 

Margueriette 156 

Marie 67 

Marvin, Rev. 84 

BALDWIN 

Luvina Alice 136 

BALL 

Hazel 94 

J. E., Mrs. 94 

Laura 54 

Mary 72 

BALLINGER 

Martha 30

BANN 

Bernard, Mrs. 125 

Lenora 125 

BANNISTER 

Ray, Mrs. 159 

Serry 159 

BANTZ 

Everett 18 

Noah, Mr. & Mrs. 18 

BANZ 

Oliver Perry 18 

BARBER 

Louie 53 

Mary 142 

BARDSLEY 

Dale, Rev. 41 

BARGER 

Mary Ann 69 

BARING 

Burton 154 

BARKER 

E. R., Rev. 125 

BARKLEY 

Betty 141 

BARKMAN 

Earl, Mrs. 29 

BARLOW 

Charles 86 

Edward, Rev. 8 

Elizabeth (Church) 86 

Harold 86 

Joseph 86 

Marion 86 

William Warren 86 

BARNES 

James M. 98 

Martha 51 

Mary Wilhelmina 98 

Mortimer Grant 98 

BARNETT 

Billy 120 

Debbie 120 

Ruth 139 


BARNHART 

C. L., Mrs. 155 

Cynthia (Ralston) 30 

Frank, Mrs. 150 

G. C., Mrs. 110 

Horace 30 

Pearl 155 

Sarah 150 

BARR 

Fred, Mrs. 110 

BARTER 

Anna Marie 114 

Gale 114 

Harry H. 114 

Harry, Jr. 114 

BARTLING 

Burton, Rev. 121 

BARTS 

Ella (Manuel) 159 

Howard 159 

Joseph 159 

Paul 159 

Paul, Mrs. 124 

Ralph 159 

Russell 159 

BASH 

Edna 69 

BASTOW 

Arabelle 83 

Charles 83 

Francis 83 

Ira A. 83 

Ira Albert 83 

John 83 

BATHRICK 

Cora, Mrs. 57 

BAUER 

George, Mrs. 170 

BAUMAN 

Emma Jane 86 

BAXTER 

Douglas 55 

Frances 55 

LeAnn 55 

BEACH 

Aleta Ruth 118 

LaVerne, Mrs. 118 

BEATTIE 

Donald M. 88 

Eva 88 

Robert 88 

Ruby L. 87-88 

BEATTY 

Bobbie 46 

Dale, Rev. 67 

Debra Sue 23 

Dennis 23 

Esther 84 

Flossie (Eash) 23 

Glen 46 

Ives 46 

Loran 23 

Loren 46 

Loren, Mr. & Mrs. 23 

Louisa (Cox) 46 

Stephen 23 

BECK 

Augusta 145 

Beverly 168 

Charles 168 

Edna 162 

Elmer 7 

Grace E. 7 

Katherine 168 

Lilly 150 

Lilly (Overmyer) 162 

Sada 121 

Sanford 168 

Valorous 162 

Valorous, Mrs. 150 

BECKER 

Flossie 133 

Norma 112 

BECKNER 

Hazel 162 

BEEDS 

Saloma Jane 13 

BEEHLER 

Alvah 1 

Charles F. 1 

Earl 1 

Edna 124 

Ellen Barbara 1 

Estella 117 

Etta 84 

Eva 162 

Florence 143 

Ida 80 

Lee 1 

Lester, Mrs. 162 

Lloyd, Mrs. 143 

BEERY 

Carrie (Tyler) 48 

Evelyn V. 48 

Otto R. 48 

Wayne T. 48 

BEHLEFELDT 

Flossie 122 

BEHNKE 

Bonnie 46 

BEISEL 


BELCHER 

William, Mrs. 20 

BELL 

Elizabeth 98 

Hattie 83 

Ida M. 159 

Lois 2 

Robert, Rev. 2 

Thomas 159 

BELT 

Margaret 30 

Mary 173 

Robert 58 

Robert, Rev. 58, 79 

BEMENDERFER 

Estel, Mrs. 168 

BENCE 

Phyllis 76 

BENDER 


BENNER 

Edna 130 

BERGER 

Almeda 41 

Claude 41 

Eugene, Mrs. 116 

Henry, Mrs. 41 

Millie 116 

Minnie 96 

Vida 8 

William Henry 41 

BERKHEISER 

Emma 69 

Franklin 69 

Harvey 69 

Howard 69 

Lewis 69 

Mary Ann (Barger) 69 

BERNARD 

Berna V. 42 

BERRIER 

Edna 148 

BERRY 

Chester, Mrs. 171 

Ella 111 

Fawn 171 

BEVARD 

Margaret 2 

BICCARD 

Adolph, Mr. & Mrs. 48 

BICK 

Debra Kay 36 

Dennis 36 

Jack 36 

Jack, Sr., Mr. & Mrs. 36 

Marcia Sue (Kistler) 36 

BIDDINGER 

Harry E. 168 

Lydia (Leiter) 167 

Minnie May 167-168

Susie Mae 73 

William 167 

Wilma McPherron 167 

BINNEY 

Clarence Martin 164 

Judy 164 

Leona 164 

Roy 164 

William 164 

BISHER 

Jane 103 

BISHOP 

Jean 108 

BITTERS 

Etta 54 

BIXLER 



BLACKBURN 

Fred A. 37 

Hanley 37 

Harold 37 

Matilda (Brugh) 37 

Thomas 37 

BLACKETOR 

Panthier 92 

BLESCH 

Anna (Coch) 109 

Grace 109 

Henry W. 109 

Peter 109 

Ralph 109 

BLESS 

Frank 153 

Henry 153 

BLESSING 

Josephine 91 

BLINK 

Edward, Rev. 99 

BLOCKER 

Kathryn 38 

BLOOM 

Herman, Mrs. 164 

Lucille 164 

TRessa 151 

BLUE 

Bernice 94-95 

Nancy 59 

Ocie, Mrs. 27 

BLUM 

Barbara 139 

BOASE 

Edward, Rev. 38, 44, 60, 70 

BODENSCHATZ 

Matilda 109 

BOGANWRIGHT 

Juanita (Fear) 146 

Lois 15 

BOGGESS 

Charlotte 105 

Sophia Mary 105 

Willard 105 

BOGGS 

Marita 3 

Myrta 121 

Oneta 106 

BOLDRY 

Everett 115 

Floyd F. 115 

Frank 115 

Marie (Heltkamp) 115 

Ralph 115 

BONINE 

Harvey, Rev. 10 

BOOKER 

Caleb 77 

Rachel (Smith) 77 

Roney 77 

William 77 

BOOKS 


Guy, Mrs. 70 

BOOR 

Eva 86 

BOOSE 

Doris 66 

BORDEN 

Elmer 51 

Emma 51-52 

BORDER 

Byron Ellis 171 

Dairl 171 

Duane 171 

Ellis, Mrs. 171 

Joan 171 

Karen 171 

William 171 

Wilma (Dittmer) 171 

BORUFF 

Hannah 103 


BOWEN 

Mary 22, 32 

Willis, Mrs. 32 

BOYER 

Arresta 29 

BOYLAN 

Clifford 138 

Dennis 138 

Glen 138 

Ivan 138 

Laura (Shaw) 138 

BRACKETT 

Bernice 22 

BRADSHAW 

Harriett 34 

BRADWAY 

Clifford, Mrs. 57 

BRADY 

Mary Dale 137 

BRAGUNIER 

Nevada Jane (Runkle) 92 

William 92 

BRAMAN 

Albert 9, 11 

Jennetta (Burton) 9 

John 9 

Layman 9 

BRANSFORD 

Bertha 38 

Oscar 70 

Paul O. 70 

Sophia 70 

Woodrow B. 70 

BRAUN 


BRAUNELLER 

Augusta, Mr. & Mrs. 169 

Ellsworth 169 

BRIDGE 

John 104 

Martha 104 

Nancy 104 

Robert, Mrs. 104 

Steven 104 

BRIGGS 

Albert M. 163 

Mary (Elder) 163 

Robert P. 163 

BRIGHT 

Anna 86 

BRINKROEGER 

June 61 


BRITTON 

Charles 69 

Daniel 69 

Grover 69 

John 69 

John Park 69 

Lillie Leona 69 

Park 69 

BROCK 

Lana 58 

BRODBELT 

Mary 108 

BROOKER 

Isaac 72 

Rudolph 72 

Sarah (Updegrove) 72 

Walter 72 

BROWN 

Alice (Liming) 79 

Arthur E. 27 

Bernice L. 96 

Bessie 16 

Bessie S. 55 

Betty (Sopko) 40 

Clayton 79 

Cleatis G. 40 

Cleatis G., Mr. & Mrs. 40 

Clyde 66 

Frank 79 

George Robert 58 

Gerald G. 40 

Gerald, Mr. & Mrs. 40 

Glen D. 147 

Grace 21 

Grace Marie 21 

Harriet Belle "Hattie" 55 

Harry 99 

Harvey 79 

Herbert M. 27 

Jacob P. 55 

Kenneth E. 21 

Laura 54 

Lowell, Mrs. 154 

Mabel 118 

Mamie E. 55 

Mary M. (Spohn) 55 

Ollie 143 

Reena 60 

Richard 66 

Robert 66 

Roland 66 

Ruth 27 

Stanley, Mrs. 118 

Wilma 154 

BRUBAKER 

Lydia 169 

Tillman 169 

BRUGH

Matilda 37 

BRUNER 

Edith, Rev. 55 

BRUST 

Julia 145 

BRYAN 

Susan 167 

BRYANT 

Alice (Kuhn) 40 

Ancil 156 

Celia Ann 40 

Clinton 120 

Eileen 173 

Emmaline (McIntyre) 156 

Harley 40 

Howard 120 

John 40 

John F. 120 

John N. 104 

John R. 120 

Lulu (Larrimore) 120 

Marjorie 45 

Nancy Jane (Moore) 104 

Perry 120 

Roy 40 

Sam 40 

Teddy 120 

Wesley 120 

William 156 

BUCHER 

Louise 94-95 

BUCHLER 

Nellie (Plantz) 13 

Rudolph 13 

BUCKINGHAM 

Hazel 99 

BUEHLER 

Inez 158 

BUGBY 

Clara 128 

Frank 128 

Loyal 128 

BULGER 

Henry F., Rev. 49, 112 

BULLIS 

Wesley, Rev. 32-33, 56 

BUNN 

Don, Mrs. 76 

Joan 152 

Ralph 124 

BUPP 

George 126 

Grace 128 

Mary 126 

BURKETT 

James 15 

Margaret 118 

Maynard 15 

Mildred 152 


Samuel 15 

Walter, Mrs. 152 

BURKHOLDER 

Mary Jane 69 

BURKS 

Claude, Mrs. 158 

BURMBAUGH 

Clarence O., Mrs. 167 

Clarence, Mrs. 167 

Edith 166-167 

BURNETT 

Eileen 173 

James Frank, Mrs. 173 

Karen 173 

Michael 173 

Robert 173 

BURNS 

Bridget 93 

Eliza Jane 110 

Jack 76 

James M. 76 

Joseph 93 

Martin 93 

Mary 93 

Nancy Ellen (Halterman) 76 

Oral F. "Zeke" 76 

Paul 76 

BURRILL 

Amanda 112 

BURRIS 

Ralph, Rev. 111, 135, 158 

BURROUGHS 

Helen 86 

Ora, Mrs. 86 

BURROUS 

Cleo 133 

BURTON 

Jennetta 9 

BUTLER 

Foster E. 33 

Jacob Harlan 33 

Jacob Leo 33 

John Leroy 33 

Sarah Rebecca 33 

William 33 

BUTT 

Ira 8 

Ira, Mrs. 114 

Margaret 8 

Mary 8 

Richard 8 

BUZBEE 

Louise 115 

BYBEE 

Hal, P., Dr. 43 

Halbert 43 

Martha Ellin 43 

Robert 43 

Wilbur 43 

BYER 

Doria 94 

BYERLE 

Dessie 143 

CAIN 

Marcia 96 

CALLAHAN 

Bertha 106 

Charles 106 

George 106 

Russell G. 106 

Sarah (Lewis) 106 

CALLOWAY 

Forrest J. 163 

Glen R. 163 

James E., Mrs. 89 

Lucretia G. 163 

Omar W. 163 

Willard G. 163 

CALVERT 

Del, Mrs. 70 

Jess 29 

CALVIN 

Omer T. 14 

CAMP 

James 75 

Katherine (Dickerhoff) 75 

Nathaniel 75 

Reuben 75 

CAMPBELL 

Albert A. 69 

B. B., Mrs. 35 

Barcher 69 

Barry, Rev. 100 

C. C. 69 

Christopher 69 

Forrest, Mrs. 59 

Rebecca 69 

CANNON 

Minnie 143 

CAPLE 

Alfred Z., Dr. 65 

Charles 65 

Mary, B. 65 

CAPLINGER 

Minnie 61 

CARDEN 

Bertha (Zook) 13 

Fieldon 13 

Fieldon, Jr. 13 

Linda 13 

Robert 13 

CAREY 

Edna 27 

CARINI 

Cordelia Ann 21 

Louis Joseph 21 

CARITHERS 

Clara 29 

Edwin 29 

Francis, Mrs. 99 

John 29 

Kathleen 99 

nellie Edith 72 

CARLSON 

Carl 4 

Donald 102 

Frances 102 

Francis 102 

Otto 4, 102 

Robert 137 

CARLTON 

Cyrus B. 172 

Francis D. "Bud" 172 

Isabelle (Millinger) 172 

John D. 172 

CARNS 

Suzanne 79 

CARPENTER 

Arthur 77 

Byron N. 17 

David 17 

Ed 164 

Elizabeth 100 

Teresa (Hutchinson) 17 

CARR 

Daniel Ray 50 

Floy L. 73 

Margaret 70 

Marjorie 50 

Reuben R. 73 

Roy 50

CARRUTHERS 

Harold 74 

CARTER 

Albert C. 46 

Carrie 46 

CASAD 

Mabel 69 

CASADY 

Florence 102 

CASE 

Onis 56 

Rhoda (Dukes) 56 

Rollie 56 

CASLOW 

Ernest 42 

Theresa 126 

CASTLE 

Rosa 119 

Wilbur, Mrs. 75 

CASTLEMAN 

Edith 28 

Gladys Gay (Garner) 55 


Peter, Mr. & Mrs. 28 

Vernon "Bill" 55 

CASUBE 

Arthur, Mrs. 162 

CATON 

Emma 123 

William 123 

CAUFFMAN 


CESSNA 

Frederick Brice "Fritz" Felty 47 

Otto, Mrs. 47 

CHALK 

Lunetta Grace 37 

CHAMBERLIN 

Lucille 123 

CHAMBERS 

John Rev. 52 

CHAMPAYNE 

Fred, Mrs. 59 

CHAPIN 

Sarah 6 

CHAPMAN 

Mary Evelyn 17 

May 81 

Phebe 126 

CHESTNUT 

Naomi (Miller) 174 

Robert 174 

CHILD 

Wayne A., Rev. 112 

CHRISTENSEN 

Lillian 55 

CHRISTIAN 

Andrew J. 47 

Ann (Tebbetts) 47 

CHRUST 

Frank B., Rev. 134 

Frank R., Rev. 127, 139 

Frank, Rev. 150 

CHURCH 

Elizabeth 86 

Jesse 89 

CLARK 

Allen 48 

Bertha 156 


Earl, Mrs. 6 

Evelyn V. (Clark) 48 

Harry B. 60 

Mary Louise 6 

Richard P. 106 

Susann 48 

Wilma 36 

CLAY 

Ed 118 

Homer 118 

Howard 118 

Jennie 119 

Max 118 

Roscoe Dennison 118-119 

Verna (Dennison) 118 

CLAYBOURNE 

Edward 119 

Elizabeth (Stone) 119 

Fred 119 

Otto 119 

William 119 

CLAYTON 

Hugh A. 104 

Jane 104 

Lawrence N. 104 

Lewis 104 

Lucinda (Ackerman) 104 

CLEMANS 

Merritt D. 138 

Sollie 138 

Zella Mae 138 

Zella, Mrs. 41 

CLEMENS 

Ellen I. 140 

Roxy Lucille 70 

CLEMENTS 

Beryl 156 

Edwin, Mrs. 156 

Flossie 90 

CLEVENGER 

Velma 116 

Verna Maxine 67 

CLINGENPEEL 

Alta, Mrs. 46 

CLINGENTELL 

Mary 67 

CLINGER 


Rethel 116 

CLYDE 

Carol 127 

Carrie (Hansel) 127 

Donald 127 

Earl 127 

Gwendolyn Sue 127 

John 127 

Michael Lawrence 127 

Nancy Ann 127 

Oliver J. 127 

Robert 127 

Robert Allen 127 

William 127 

CLYFORD 

Louise 13 

COBLENTZ 

Ethel 155 

COCH 

Anna 109 

COFFEL 

Cora 117 

COFFMAN 

Mildred 66 

COHLER 

Mary 124 

COLE 

Nora 5 

COLEMAN 

Donald 3 

Donald, Mrs. 3 

Harvey, Mrs. 151 

Kim 3 

Marilyn 3 

Pam 3 

COLESON 

Ralph, Rev. 35 

COLFER 

Frank 57 

Ruth 57 

COLLINS 

Carrie 169 

Donna 81 

Gertrude 92 

Lola 6 

Lucy Belle 24 

Mildred 9 

COMBS 

Clyde 143 

Ruby 143 

Theodore "Ted" 143 

COMPOLIETO 

Leonard, Mrs. 125 

COMPTON 

Ida 150 

CONRAD 

Harold, Rev. 15, 46, 71, 75, 81, 

113-114, 119, 139, 153 

COOK 

Beulah 94-95 

Buelah 153-154 

George 153 

Jessie Ray 15 

Martha Ann 134 

Mary Elizabeth 15 

Merl 153 

Ross, Rev. 108 

Walter, Mr. & Mrs. 23 

COOPER 

Charles 104 

Daniel 104 

Emma 91 

Mariah 104 

Oral 104 

Paul 104 

Wilbur 104 

COPELAND 

Elwood 89 

Mary (Taylor) 89 

Shirley 89 

COPLEN 

Chancy 165 

Donna Elizabeth 42 

Eugene, Mrs. 123 

Grover 165 

Guy 42 

Helen 111 

James H. 42 

Julia 42 

Margaret (Wilson) 165 

Nettie Elizabeth (Abbott) 42 

Porter, Mrs. 75 

Sarah 123

COREY 

Iva 123 

CORKEY 

James, Jr., Mrs. 50 

CORMICAL 

Clair 90 

Paul 90 

CORMICAN 

A. B. 90 

Ellis 90 

Emmarella (Strosnyder) 90 

Milo E. 90 

Theodore 90 

CORNWELL 

Armilda 65 

CORRELL 

W. C., Rev. 127 

COSGROVE 

Lydia 108 

COSKEY 

Bessie 72 

COTNER 

Emma 15 

COUGHENOUR 

Thurl 94 

COUGHLIN 

Irene 9 

COUNSILMAN 

James, Dr. 163 

COVER 

Alfred 13 

James T. 13 

Louise (Clyford) 13 

COX 

Billy J., Rev. 50 

Dorothy 112 

Earl, Mrs. 126 

Floyd A. 107 

Gladys 145 


James, Mrs. 123 

Janet 170 

Louisa 46 

Marjorie 123 

Rosa (Shriver) 46 

Rose 23 

Wilson 46 

CRABBS 

Lawrence E. 4 

Lester 4 

Maude E. 4 

CRABILL 

Carrie 73 

Jacob 134 

Ruth 103 

CRAGG 

Lura 81 

CRAIG 

Grace 153 

Tressie 170 

CRAMER 

Helen 108 

CRAMPTON 

Don, Mrs. 13 

CRANE 

George R., Rev. 136 

George, Rev. 34, 36, 72, 83, 103, 

113, 154, 156-157, 170 

CRAWFORD 

D. A., Mrs. 1 

E. E., Mrs. 9 

Minnie 9 

CREE 

Mabel 164 

Maggie 164 

CREEK 

Celesta 130 

CRISINGER 

Velma 33 

CRISLER 

Flora 109 

CRIST 

Gene, Mrs. 170 

CROCKER 


CROWDER 

Sarah 12 

CRUEA 

Fanny 117 

CRUTCHFIELD 

Ruth Ann 96 

CUBERLEY 

Sara 147 

CUMBERLAND 

Edith 6 

Elden 26 

Elizabeth (Lowe) 26 

Frank 26 

Fred 26 

George 26 

Lorin 26 

Thomas W. 26 

Vernon 26 

Walter Edgar 26 

Walter G. 26 

Warren 26 

CUMMINS 

Carter, Rev. 51 

CUNNIGHAM 

Ethel 151 

CUNNINGHAM 

David 151 

Earl 151 

Flora 133 

Norman 151 

CUTSHALL 

Arnold 64 

Milo 64 

Sarah (Eshelman) 64 

Willis 64 

CUTSHAW 

Arthur Jay 160 

Ella Margaret (Parker) 160 

Paul 160 

William 160 

Wilson S. 160 

DAHLKE 

Ida 81 

DAINE 

Lydia 18 

DANCEY 

Helen 142 

DARNELL 

Ada 37, 173 

DARR 

C. H. 45 

Charles N. 45 

Edith 45 

Elizabeth Echo 45 

Howard 45 

DARRAH 

Mary 18 

DAULTON 

Ada (Hitchcock) 15 

Ben 16 

Candy 10 

Charles B. 15 

Dale 16 

Glen 16 

Jack 10 

Jean 10 

Jill 10 

Joe 15 

Wayne 16 

Wayne, Mrs. 10 

William 16 

DAVIDSON 

Franklin 77 

Julia Etta 77 

Maude 35 

Robert L. 78 

Samuel A. 78 

DAVIS 

Berne E. 63 

Ellen Jane 49 

Harley, Rev. 55 

John 106 

John, Rev. 35 

Leona 49 

Lillian 133 

Marilyn (McKee) Whitehead 63 

Mollie M. 105 

Olive 9 

Robert A. 63 

DAVISSON 

Aletha 105 

DAWALD 

Henry E. 125 

Josie 51 

Mary Ettie 125 

DAWSON 

Mary 106 

Ruth 169 

DAY 

Bill 14 

Carrie 38 

Cecil, Mrs. 65 

Christine 14 

Elsie 156 

Fred M. 65, 94 

Gene 14 

Harold 94 

Herschel 38 

Howard 14 

Howard, Mr. & Mrs. 14 

Larry 14 

Lolitta 14 

Minerva 129 

Newell C. 1 

Opal Esther 94 

Paul 38 

Peggy 14 

Phyllis 14 

Ralph 14 

Ralph Newton 14 

Ralph, Mrs. 14 

Ruth (Gilland) 14 

Sonny 14 

Stella (McKee) 38 


Thurl 94 

Wesley, Mrs. 156

DAYWALD 

Louise 119 

DEAMER 

George 9 

DEATON 

Granville, Mrs. 95 

DeBOLD 


DECKER 

Donald, Rev. 4, 10, 46, 140, 142 

DEEDS 

Margaret 125 

DEESON 

Leona 158 

DENNISON 

Verna 118 

DENTON 

John, Mrs. 29 

DeWALD 

Josephine 134 

DEWALT 

Elsie M. 38 

Zela 38 

DEWITT 


DICE 

Ollie 126 

DICK 

Otis, Mrs. 3 

DICKERHOFF 

Katherine 75 

DICKEY 

Blanche 131 

Elmer 32 

Floyd 57 

Floyd, Mrs. 57 

George 32 

J. Frank 32 

Sarah (Rickel) 32 

William T. 32 

DICKMAN 

Catherine 37, 173 

DICKSON 

Richard, Deputy Sheriff 135 

DIELMAN 

Leon 126 

Margaret C. 126 

Sylvia 80 

DILLMAN 

Aubey 127 

Franklin 127 

Henry 127 

Morris, Mr. & Mrs. 127 

DILLON 

Leona 21 

DIPERT 

Glendolen 111 

DISSELBRET 

Mildred 138 

DITTMER 


Wilma 171 

DOCK 

Lessel, Mrs. 75 

DOLBEE 

Edith 83 

Nettie 83 

DOLL 

Pauline 62 

DOLLMATCH 

Lulu 129 

DORSETT 

Paul, Mrs. 60 

Pearl 60 

DOUGLAS 

Harold Rae 106 

DOUGLASS 

Albert 153 

Elmer 153 

Frank 153 

John 153 

Joseph 153 

Martha M. 153 

DOWNS 

Emerson, Mrs. 4 

DOYLE 

Amelia 105 

Francis 105 

Francis, Jr. 105 

DRUDGE 

Elenore (Richter) 28 

Francis 28 

DRUMM 

Martha 39 

DuBOIS 

Amy (Horton) 31 

Don L. 31 

Dwight, Dr. 31 

Fred H. 31 

George W. 31 

Rex B. 31 

DUEY 

Alfred 41 

Alfred B. 138 

Edith 41, 138 

George 41, 138 

Mary (Grelle) 41 

Mary Ellen (Grelle) 138 

Phillip 41, 138 

DUKES 

Rhoda 56 

DULL 

Bessie (Graffis) 1 

Robert B. 1 

DUNKIN 

LaVaun 42 

DUNLAP 

Mary 46 

DURBIN 

Emma 9 

DURHAM 

Ralph, Mrs. 59 

DURR 

Guy 108 

Zella 108 

DUTOIT 

Alice 120 

DYSERT 

J. F. 48 

Joseph F. 6 

Laura A. 6 

EADS 

Darla 14 

Dortha 159 


EASH 

Charles 134 

Clarence D. 134 

Flossie 23 

John T. 134 

John, Mrs. 23 

Leo, Mr. & Mrs. 23 

Martha 134 

Ralph D. 134 

EASTER 

Pauline 45 

EASTERDAY 

Alex 19 

Caroline (McCarter) 19 

Chloris 76 

Claude 19 

Clyde C. 19 

Frank "Jack" 76 

Luella 76 


Walter 76 

EASTWOOD 

Ethel 34 

EATMON 

Alene (Gower) 58 

Billy Wayne 58 

Charlotte 58 

Melvin 58 

Odie, Mr. & Mrs. 58 

EATON 

Susan 130 

EBER 

Burl E. 12 

Charlotte 157 

Cora 80 

Dona L. 12 

Lary 12 

Lora 12 

EDING 

Floy 164 

Ica, Mrs. 164 

EDSON 

Nellie 142 

EDWARDS 

Carmen 24 

Catherine 163 

Dexter, Mrs. 24 

Etta 115 

EGELKRAUT 

Davie 4 

Rose (Miller) 4 

EGGE 

Naomi 8 

EHMANN 

Mary 105 

EHRN 

Louis 36 

EILER 

Daniel Leroy 160 

Earl 160 

Mary (Overfield) 160 

Qinter 160 

EISERT 

Faye 129 

John C. 129 

ELDER 

Mary 163 

ELIN 

Seymour, Mrs. 83 

ELLINGER 

Florence 108 

Katherine 28 

ELLIOTT 

Dorothea 156 

Lucy 18 

ELLIS 

Clarence E. 121 

J. Edward 121 

Robert 121

Serone Dee (Hedges) 121 

ELLISON 

James, Mr. & Mrs. 151 

Stella 64 

ELSTON 

Chris 150 

Ica (Compton) 150 

EMBREY 

Verna May 157 

EMERY 

Carl, Mrs. 91 

EMILY 


EMMERSON 

Oma, Mrs. 52 

EMMONS 

Isaac 155 

Pearl 155 

ENGLE 

Ada 32 

Almeda 39 

ENTSMINGER 


Josie 21 

ENYEART 

Myrtle 3 

EPLER 


EPSTEEN 

Goldie 30 

L. G. 30 

Ralph 30 

ERLENBAUGH 

Charles 142 

Edward 142 

Edward F. 142 

Herman 142 

John 142 

Mary (Barber) 142 

Paul 142 

ERWIN 

Betty 19 

Don 19 


Wilma 19 

ESHELMAN 

Sarah 64 

ESSICK 

Zella Vivian 115 

ESTEP 

Charles D. 159 

Gladys (Ogden) 159 

Hannah 159 

William 159 

EVANS 

Eldon, Rev. 144 

EVERSOLE 

Minerva 27 

Noah 27 

Noah, Mrs. 27 

EWEN 

Marie 83 

EWING 

Amelia (Doyle) 105 

FABIANA 

M., Sister 148 

FAGUE 

Sarah 123 

FAHLBERG 

Fred, Jr., Mrs. 49 

Leota 49 

FANSLER 

Helen 45 

FARLEY 

Inez 12 

FASTOFF 

Jeles, Mrs. 172 

Mary 172 

FAULSTICH 

Albert 89 

Ida May (Maxwell) Vandergrift 

89 

Kent 109 

Leon 109 

Neal 109 


FAUROTE 

Elizabeth 113 

FAWNS 

Claud 57 

Claude, Rev. 11, 20, 23, 25, 30, 

35, 54, 63-64, 75, 81, 100, 

109, 138-139, 174 

FAYLOR 

Fannie 44 

FEAR 

Juanita 146 

Mary 148 

FEASTER 

Dora 18 

FELDER 

Christian 66 

Christian L. 64 

George 66-67 

George W. 64 

Howard B. 65 

Louise (Hook) 66 

Louise (Huck) 64 

Lynn 65 

Tom 65 

FELDMAN 

Linnie, Mrs. 34 

FELIX 

May (Chapman) 81 

William 81 

FELLERS 


Gloria 114 

Stephen 114 

FELTY 

Frederick 47 

Frederick Brice "Fritz" 47 

Louise (Armstrong) 47 

FENIMORE 

Donovan 114 

Edgar M. 114 

Forrest 114 

Gerald 114 

Oscar 114 

Roy 114 

FENSTERMAKER 

Albert 99 

Cecil 99 

Emma 99 

Hannah 99 


FENTERS 

Elsie M. (Dewalt) 38 

James 38 

Myron P. 38 

Phillip LeRoy 38 

Richard 38 

FIEDLER 

Charlotte (Boggess) 105 

Dan 87-88 

George, Mrs. 87-88 

FINGERLE 

Ethel 120 

FINNEY 

Arresta (Boyer) 29 

Charles E. 29 

Curtis 29 

George E. 29 

FISH 

Charles 126 

Ernest M. 126 

Glen 126 

Phebe (Chapman) 126 

FISHBURN 

Arthur 88 

Donald 88 

Doyle 88 

Dwight 88 

Margaret (McClure) 88 

Samuel 88 

Wade 88 

FISHER 

Albert 60 

Alvah 140 

David E. 88 

Donald C. 140 

Dorothy S. 140 

Edna B. 60 

Ellen I. (Clemens) 140 

Ernest 88 

Everett J. 140 

Forrest 140 

Frank J. 140 

Fred 140 

J. R. 60 

Leah 161 

Loy 140 

Perry A. 60 

Raymond 60 

Roy D. 60 

Russell 60 

Virgil E. 84 

FISK 

Stephen 101 

FITES 

Agustus 125 

Margaret (Deeds) 125 

FITZ 

Albert (Wood) 170 

Carl 170 

Clyde 170 

Fred 170 

Orvan 170 

Wayne 170 

FITZGERALD 

James M., Rev. 93 

James, Rev. 106 

Rev. 22 

FLECK 

Alice 130 

Alice Mae 131 

Christian F. 131 

Edward 131 

Russell 131 

FLEMING 

Lawrence 162 

Paul H. 162 

FLOOD

C. S. J. 158 

Harry L. 158 

FLORA 

Marguerite 91 

FLOYD 

Cora (Coffel) 117 

Edward 117 

Elda (Murphy) 117 

Elmer 117 

Emmett Glenn 117 

Ernest 117 

Glen 117 

John 117 

Lester 117 

William 117 

FOLLIN 

Earl Edward 68 

Earl, Jr. 69 

James 69 

Lee 69 

Matilda (Newport) 69 

Robert 69 

FOOR 

Martha 25 

FORBES 

Grace 67 

FORENSEN 

Julia 153 

FORTIER 

Frank, Rev. 160 

FORTNA 

Alice 98 

C. L., Mrs. 98 

FOSTER 

Charles, Mr. & Mrs. 160 

Edith 29 

FOUTS 

Daniel 112 

Don, Mr. & Mrs. 112 

Geneva (Long) 112 

Herbert 112 

Marjorie 44 

Mildred 44 

FOWLER 

Eleanor 74 

FOX 

Alvin, Mrs. 75 

Fanny 19 

FRAKER 

Elizabeth 109 

FRANCE 

Alvin 62 

Eugene 62 

Nina A. (Putman) 62 

Shirley 62 

Tommy 62 

FRANK 

Ernest, Mrs. 98 

Marilyn 98 

Roberta 98 

FRANKLIN 

Merle, Mrs. 44 

FRECHTEL 

Mary 47 

FRED 

Bobby 142 

Cecil 142 

Edith (Reed) 142 

Howard 142 

Judy Lou 142 

FREE 

Kathrine 137 


FREEMAN 

Merlin, Mrs. 37 

FRIEDRICH 

Freda 119 

FRITZ 

Frances 4 

Minerva 116 

FROBISH 

Alice (Dutoit) 120 

Birt 121 


Charles LeRoy 120 

John 120-121 

LeRoy 121 

FROMM 

Edna (Hall) 71 

Fred 71 

Fredrick W. 71 

FROUHAUF 

Lilah 54 

FRY 

Orpha 2 

FRYER 

Zula Ethel 68 

FRYMIRE 

Harry, Mrs. 30 

FUNK 

Viola 147 

GAGNON 

Mary 53 

GALLMEIER 

A. H., Rev. 45 

GAMBLE 

Arletha 8 

Edward 8 


Frederick 8 

John 8 

GARNER 

A'Della (Prill) 55 

Clyde 55 

George 21 

Gladys Gay 55 

Thomas 21 

V. L., Rev. 92 

William 55 

GARVEY 

Henrietta 143 

Jack, Mrs. 143 

GARVIN 

George 85 

Myrtle 85 

GASKINS 

Martha 11 

GAST 

A. A., Mr. & Mrs. 166 

Andrew 53 

Andrew Almondo 53 

David 166 

E. A. "Chub" 166-167 

Estel A. 54 

Karl 54, 166 

Karl, Mrs. 95, 153 

Mabel 94-95 

Mabelle 153 

Robert 54, 166 

Tom 54 

W. H. 54 

Whit 166 

GAVIN 

Larry K. 78 

GEARHART 

Charles 56 

Clyde A. 56 

Earl 56 

Emma (Hileman) 56 

Frank 56 

Geneva 56 

Gloria 81 

Guy 56 

John 56 

Ralph 56 

GEHMAN 

Joseph 111 

Nancy Jane 111 

GERALD 

Grover 97 

Walter 97 

GERARD 

Orpha 165 

GERBER 

Gideon 77 

GERLACH 

Elizabeth 43 

GIBSON 

Bernice 128 

Earl, Mr. & Mrs. 144 

Edith 32 

Kyle, Mrs. 128 

Leona 144 

GILES 

Mabel 5 

GILLAND 

Newton, Rev. 14 

Ruth 14 

GILLESPIE 

Bert 162 

Charles, Dr. 162 

Nita 136 

Robert 162 

VanTuyl 162 

Victor 162 

Warren 162 

GILLETT 

Mecie, Mrs. 104 

GILLILAND 

Newton, Rev. 38 

GINN 

Byron 131 

Estil 130 

Garrett 131 

James 131 

GLASSFORD 

Ora 118 

GLICK 

R. F., Mrs. 48 

GODFREY 

Mabel 133 

GOHN 

C. E. 40 

Charles 40 

Charles, Jr. 40 

Duane 40 

Eva Jane 40 

James 40 

Kizzie 40 

Lloyd 40 

Raymond 40 

Robert 40 

Russell 40 

GOLDEN 

Billy D. 36 

C. F., Rev. 8, 67

GOOD 

Berna 170 

Bessie 73 

Blanche 78 

Donald 170 

Joyce 170 

Larry 170 

Loyal M. 170 

Loyal, Jr. 170 

Mabel 70 

Mertie 56 

Norman 170 

Robert 170 

Russell, Rev. 17 

GOODALE 

Samuel, Mrs. 50 

GORDON 

Etta Faye 59 

George W. 157 

Harry V. 157 

GORSELINE 

Bert 49 

Charles E. 49 

John 49 

Susanna (Riggle) 49 

GORSLINE 

Donald, Dr. 66 

J. C., Mrs. 65 

John C. 66 

John, Dr. 66 

Marie 67 

Marie Elizabeth 66 

Robert 66 

GOSS 

Edna 10 

Elmer, Rev. 126 

Obie 5 

Robert 5 

Sebastian, Mr. & Mrs. 5 

William 5 

GOSSER 

David, Rev. 3 

GOTSHALL 

Betty 142 

Raymond, Mrs. 142 

GOTT 

Olive 91 

GOTTSCHALK 

Cecil 150 

Emma L. 150 

George A. 150 

John 150 

Lester 150 

Lyman 150 

Noah 150 

Viola M. 83 


GOULD 

Alice 102 

Francis B., First Lt. 102 

George 102 

Mary 102 

Willard 102 

GOWER 

Alene 58 

W. J., Mr. & Mrs. 58 

GRAFFIS 

Addie (Moore) 1 

Bessie 1 

Clarence 1 

Levi 1 

GRAHAM 

Mary 151 

Sarah 111 

GRAU 

Julius, Sr. 97 

GRAVES 

Beverly 127 

GRAY 

Ancil Clark 83 

Everett 83 

George 83 

Howard B. 83 

Lizzie 83 

Mary 83 

Sarah Jane (Griffith) 83 

William 83 

William S. 83 

GREATHOUSE 

Dessie 65 

GREENBURG 

Joan 48 

Merry 48 

Peter 48 

GREENWALT 

Ben 4 


GREER 

Emerald 70 

Frederick 70 

Robert 70 

William 70 

GREGG 


GREGSON 

Alda 21 

Harvey, Mrs. 78 

GRELLE 

Mary 41 

Mary Ellen 138 

GRIFFIN 

Gordon 60 

India May 60 

GRIFFITH 

Sarah Jane 83 

GRIGONIS 

Mildred 58 

GRIMES 

Rochelle 113 

GRIMM 

Nora 64 

GRINDLE 

Joseph T. 141 

GRINER 

Mary 39 

GRISWOLD 

Fay 133 

GROGG 

Anna (Morris) 141 

Benjamin Franklin 141 

Clarence 141 

Sarah Ethel 141 

GROSS 

Bessie 45 

Gertrude 131 

GROSSMAN 

Florence 88 

GROVE 

Celia Ann (Bryant) 40 

Frances 165 

Genevere 28 

Isabelle 165 

Lou 40 

Orange 165 

Orange K., Mr. & Mrs. 28 

GROVER 

Betty 77 

Eva Ann 112 

GROVES 

Ellie 5 

Francis 5 

Pauline 5 

Phoncian "Pete" 5 

Rex 5 

Rose Alice 5 

GRUBE 

Hannah 84 

GUARD 

Berth 73 

GULLETT 

Mona 14 

GUNDRUM 

Lois 143 

Ronnie, Mrs. 143 

GURTHET 

Elizabeth 125 

GUSHARD 

Iona 159 


HABGOOD 

Albert E., Rev. 163 

HACK 

Allen, Mrs. 64 

Blanche 155 

Coral 64 

HACKWORTH 

Margie (Lee) 63 

Vernal 63 

HAGENAU 

Minnie 149 

HAGGERTY 

Albert 152 

Harley Hudson "Pop" 152 

Martha (Hale) 152 

Raleigh 152 

Roy 152 

HAHN 

Ida Mae 20 

HAIGH 

Donna 68 

HAIMBAUGH 

Apolina (Holmes) 27 

Dow 27 

Henry 27 

Mead 27 

Obe 27 

Omer, Mrs. 120 

Rex 27 

HAINDES 

Ida 7 

HAINES 

Emma 171 

HALBEISEN 

Marie 53 

HALBERT 

Rev. 171 

HALDEMAN 

Henry 12 

Lloyd 12 

Sarah (Leininger) 12 

Vernon L. 12 

HALDERMAN 

Bessie 131 

Kenneth, Mrs. 131

HALE 

Martha 152 

HALEY 

E. Richard, Rev. 173 

HALL 

Bernice O. 123 

Charlotte 48 

Daniel, Rev. 155 

Edna 71 

Stella 147 

HALTERMAN 

Nancy Ellen 76 

Rosetta 25 

HAMILTON 

Betty 53 

Delores 82 

HAMMOND 

Annabelle 46 

Arlen, Mrs. 116 

Goldie 108 

Joan 116 

HAMPTON 

Harley, Mr. & Mrs. 44 

James N., Dr. & Mrs. 44 

Michael James 44 

Peggy Jean 44 

Stehen Thornton 44 

HAND 

Lamoine, Mrs. 64 

Marie 64 

HANEY 

C. L., Rev. 47 

Charles L. 31 

Charles L., Rev. 33 

HANKS 

Elizabeth 115 

HANNA 

Mary 23 


HANSEL 

Carrie 127 

HANSON 

Blanch T. 26 

HARDACRE 

Martha 121 

HARDING 

Lenora 49 

HARLEY 

Ortha 28 

HARMON 

Minnie 113 


HARPER 

June 38 

HART 

Orpha 81 

HARTMAN 

Ellen 117 

Mary Eva 128 

Orpha 125 

Ruth 166 

HASKELL 

Lewis E., Rev. 50 

Louis, Rev. 48, 79 

HASSENPLUG 

Elbe Henry 117 

Ellen (Hartman) 117 

Henry 117 

Obed 118 

HATCH 

Sarah M. 91 

HATCLIFF 

Corabell 126 

HATTERY 

Alvina (Riggs) 24 

Clarence 24 

Edward 24 

Effie 70 

Ernest 24, 70 

Francis 70 

Luther 24 

Margaret 39 

Ora 70 

Roy D. 24 

HAVENS 

Robert 73 

HAWK 

Carol 143 

Carol Beth 144 

Donald 144 

Ed 143-144 

Leona 143 

Leona (Gibson) 144 

Nellie R. 121 

Robert 144 

Roscoe 121 

Roy M. 122 

Terry 144 

HAWN 

Nina Marie 39 

HAY 

George 157 

John 157 

Mary 157 

Melvin 107 

HAYES 

Howard, Mrs. 164 

Marie 164 

HEATH 

Curtner M. 26 

Glendola 26 

Perry 26 

HEDGES 

Serone Dee 121 

HEDRICK 

Carol 159 

Glen, Mrs. 159 

HEETER 

Mary 121, 158 

HEIMBERGER 

Earl, Rev. 132 

HELM 

Arthur 102 

Arthur Calvin 102 

Dora 15 

John Henry 102 

Lucille 164 

Naomi (Powers) 102 

Richard P. 102 

HELTKAMP 

Marie 115 

HELTON 

Myrtle 93 

HELTZEL 

Gordon 71 

Jeannette (Penrod) 71 

Kevin David 71 

Michael 71 

HEMIG 

Della (Latshaw) 32 

Fred 32 

Marshall 32 

Ralph W. 32 

William 32 

HEMINGER 

Whit 82 

HENADY 

Phyllis 46 

HENDERSHOT 

Beatrice 82 

HENDERSON 

Effe 41 

Eldora 167 

Eldora May 166 

Elmer 166-167 

Howard 166-167 

HENDRICKSON 


Joe, Mrs. 124 

HENSLEY 

:Ledford 94 

HENTZLER 

Allen 144 

Arthur 144 

Edna 144 

William R. 144 

HERENDEEN 

Ben, Mrs. 57 

HERROLD 

Carl 50-52 

Don 51 

Don W., Dr. 52 

Henry C. 52 

James 51 

Janice 50 

John W. 49-50 

John W., Mr. & Mrs. 52 

L. O. 52 

Pearl 49-50 

Sarah (Julian) 52 

HESS 

Blanche 166 

Charles 96 

Etruria (Hill) 96 

Kimberly 97 

Noel Daniel 97 

Robin 97 

Stanley E. 97 

Trudy 96 

HETZNER 

Michael 77 

Roberta 77 

HIATT 

May Louise 44 

HIDDINGS 

Henry, Rev. 168 

HIFFLEFINGER 

Joe 15 

John 15 

Mary (Meichael) 15 

HIGGINS 

Charles 132 

Emma 132 

Emma (Swango) 132 

HILAND 

Arthur 132 

Milton 130 

Milton J. 132 

Milton, Sr., Mr. & Mrs. 132 

Robert 132 

HILEMAN 

Emma 56 


HILL 

Etruria 96

Glenn (Powell) 136 

Harry 136 

Jack 136 

Levi, Rev. 78 

Linda 136 

Lucille 42 

Noel 97 

Noel B., Mr. & Mrs. 96 

Opal 113 

Robert 136 

Robert J. 136 

Roy 135 

Roy E. 136 

HIRE 

Virgil, Mrs. 57 

HISEY 

Augusta (Beck) 145 

Clarence M. 145 

Clayton 145 

Ernest 145 

Ralph 145 

Wilford 145 

HITCHCOCK 

Ada 15 

HITZMAN 

Pearl 97 

HIZER 

Anna 52 

Eileen 173 

Naomi 3 

HOBBS 

Carrie 5 

HOBSEN 

Maude 11 

HODGE 

Evelyn 45 

Goldie 141 

HOEGER 

Anna Marie 91 

HOESEL 

Alpha 31 

Cora V. 31 

Evert 31 

John 31 

John Lewis 31 

Suzanne (Overmyer) 31 

HOFFMAN 

Anna E. 93 

Carrie N. 75 

Charles 75 

Dewey 75 

Ella 82 

Ethel 130 

Florence 57 

Lillian 43 

Millicent 138 

Nellie 19 

Ralph 75 


Sam, Mr. & Mrs. 42 

Walter 75 

William Monroe 42 

HOGAN 

Donna (Collins) 81 

Elra 81 

Ernest 81 

Jack 81 

Roy E. 81 

William 81 

HOLEM 

Hannah (Grube) 84 

Ira J. 84 

John 84 

Mary A. 84 

HOLIDAY 

Equilla 103 

HOLLAND 

Lawrence, Mrs. 148 

HOLLOWAY 

Benjamin F. 110 

Charles B. 156 

Donald V. 110 

Eliza Jane (Burns) 110 

Elvin, Mr. & Mrs. 71 

Herman H. 156 

James 156 

Omer 156 

Rettie May 156-157 

Rosemary 71 

Samuel 156 

HOLMAN 

Faye 28 

HOLMES 

Apolina 27 

HONEYWELL 

Miriam 93 

HOOD 

Helen 2 

Isiah B. 54 

Laura (Brown) 54 

Otto 54 

HOOK 

Louise 66 

HOOKER 

Barbara 66 

Nellie Mae 105 

Patricia 92 

HOOVER 

Goldie 56 

Neda 119 

HOPE 

William L. 127 

HOPPER 

Alfred E. 159 

Alfred, Mr. & Mrs. 128 

Alva, Mrs. 165 

Barbara 128 

Blanche Kay 159 

Garl 159 

Ruth Eldora 159 

HORN 

Ann 153 

Bernice A. 142 

Burson L. 100 

Eldon, Mrs. 26 

Emma 57 

Levi 57 

Mary 26 

Mildred 118 

HORNBURG 

Fred 27 

HORNSBECK 

Emma 70 

John 70 

Wesley 70 

HORTON 

Amy 31 

HOTT 

Roxie 119 

HOUSE 

Marie 161 

Marjorie 3 

Raymond 3 

W. Robert 3 

William 3 

HOUSER 

Clara Ellen 66 

Ruth 108 

HOWARD 

Dennis 171 

Dorothy 1 

Larry 172 

HUBBARD 

Roy, Mrs. 110 

HUCK 

Louise 64 

HUCKINSON 

David 67 

HUDKINS 


David 79 

Ethel 52 

Frank G. 151 

Jack 151 

John C. 151 

L. J. 151 

Mary (Graham) 151 

Norma Jean 145 

Robert 151 

Sylvia 79 

William J. 151 

HUDSON 

Debra 23 

Elda 14 

Howard, Mr. & Mrs. 23 

Kenneth 23 

Kenneth, Mr. & Mrs. 22 

Rita 23 

Rita Sue 22 

Robert 23 

Roger 23 

HUEY 

Frank 97 

Jonas 97 

Mary Elizabeth (Swint) 97 

HUFF 

Caroline 116 

HUFFMAN 

Clarence W. 44 

Ethel 44 

Everett 44 

Howard 44 

John 44 

Lloyd 44 

Ralph, Rev. 9, 74, 130 

Susan (Leasure) 44 

Thurman 44 

HUGHES 

Arlie 164 

Florence 164 

Frank, Mr. & Mrs. 164 

HUNNESHAGEN 

Hugh V., Mrs. 72 

HUNTER 

Carolyn 55 

Edna 12 

Otis, Mrs. 5 

HUNTLEY 

Edith 121 

HUPPERT 

Beverly Ann 20 

Chris 20 

Grace (Owings) 20 

Harry T. 20 

Robert 20

Stanley 20 

William 20 

HUTCHINSON 

Teresa 17 

HYDE 

H. G., Rev. 92 

Irene 156 


IMLER 

Maude 81 

IRVINE 

Lucile 31 

Minnie 5 

IRWIN 

Nettie 47 

ISOM 

Don E. 80 

Mildred M. 80 

William R., Jr. 80 

William R., Sr. 80 

IZARD 

Irene 129 

JACKNEWITZ 

Barbara 107 

Esther (Slonaker) 107 

Stanley 107 

JACKSON 

Ethel 111 

JACNEWITZ 

James 107 

JAMES 

Grace 164 

JENKINS 

Carrie 128 

Vernon L., Mrs. 97 

JENSON 

Patricia A. 122 

JERRALD 

Otho, Mr. & Mrs. 23 

JOHNSON 

Brian, Rev. 145 

Ella 65 

Elsie 112 

Emerson, Mrs. 160 

John, Mr. & Mrs. 76 

Juanita 160 

Melvin, Elder 125 

Wayne, Rev. 26, 152 

JONES 

Barbara 141 

Charles, Jr., Mrs. 11 

J. T., Mrs. 125 

Mary 21 

Ralph M., Rev. 73 

Robert Emerald, Rev. 95 

Wallace E., Rev. 33 

JORDAN 

Agnes 156 

Brenda 68 

Dale 68 

Floyd 68 


Hugh L. 67 

Mildred 68 

Phyllis 68 

Roger 68 

Sandra 68 

Tom 68 

Virginia 68 

JOSEPH 

Clyde, Rev. 27 

JULIAN 

Ann (McFarland) 146 

Cyrus 146 

Sarah 52 

JUMP 

Paul, Rev. 94, 98 

Ransom 20 

Sara (Ashby) 20 

William G. 20 

JUNKIN 

Barbara 159 

Carl E., Mr. & Mrs. 128 

Carl, Mrs. 159 

Ruth E. 128 

JUSTICE 


KAISER 

Rudy, Mrs. 120 

KALEY 

Carolyn 173 

Harold LaVon 173 

Helen Jean 173 


Kenneth 173 

Marilyn 173 

Philip 173 

Robert 173 

Virgil 173 

KALMBAKER 

Lillie 28 

KAMMERER 

Christopher 156 

Frank 156 

Henry 156 

Mary (Schall) 156 

William 156 

KAMP 

Ada 12 

KAPLAN 

Goldie 30 

Phil, Mrs. 30 

KARN 

Lucille 99 

KATH 

Carmen, Mrs. 68 

KEEL 

Carl, Mrs. 172 

Isabelle 172 

KEELEY 

Verna 142 

KEIM 

Arthur 74 

Dessie 8 

Eleanor (Fowler) 74 

Gene 74 

Geraldine 74 

James E. 74 

Nathaniel 74 

Sadie 8 

Walter, Mrs. 77, 79 

KEITH 

William, Rev. 82, 98, 100, 104, 

115, 143 

KELLER 

Don 16 

Elizabeth 51 

George 16 

Larry 16 

Mary 16 

KELLEY 

Ida 91 

Marlene 170 

KELLY 

Lewis, Mrs. 34 

KENDALL 

Amanda Alice 103 

Leo V., Mrs. 60 

Marjorie 47 

KENNARD 

Ethel 132 


KENNEDY 

G. C., Mrs. 46 

KENNELL 


KERCHER 

Charles H. 113 

Frederick 113 

Henry 9 

Lamoine 113 

Marie 113 

Marjorie 113 

Martin 9 

Melinda (Kesling) 9 

Ralph 113 

Rochelle (Grimes) 113 

KERLIN 

John, Mrs. 16 

Marie 16 

KERN 

Georgia 70 

KERR 

Margaret 39 

KERSCHNER 

Vada 133 

KESLER 

Esther 112 

Loyd, Mrs. 27 

Lucile 27 

Mary Marjorie 163 

N. E., Mrs. 112 

KESLING 

Blanche 104 

Melinda 9 

KESSLER 

E. L., Mrs. 145 

Maurice, Rev. 126, 131, 138 

Rosa 145 

KESTER 

Marjory 8 

KESTLE 

John Loyd 12 

Joseph 12 

Sarah (Crowder) 12 

KESTNER 

Roy, Mrs. 37 

KIMBALL 

Jean 155 

KIMBLE 

Frank 98 

Mary Bell 98 

KIMSEY 

James E., Rev. 78 

James, Rev. 7, 21, 25, 61, 89 

KINDER 

E. J., Mrs. 2 

Emery, Mrs. 25 

KINDIG 

Cleve, Mrs. 19 

Ethel 19 

Henry D. 84 

Irvin 84 

Irvin L. 84

Roy, Mrs. 77 

Tenia 84 

KING 

Anna 139 

Clyde 81 

Clyde T., Mrs. 81 

Cora 69 

Mable 81 

KINGERY 

Edyth Alma 61 

Hiram 61 

Minnie (Caplinger) 61 

Ollie 6 

KINTNER 

Christina 102 

KINTZ 

Corcas 151 


KIRBY 

Charles 124 

Edgar L. 125 

Frank E. 125 

Fred F. 124 

Mary (Cohler) 124 

KIRK 

Margaret 93 

KIRKENDALL 

Emma 168 

Hugh 137 

Raymond F. 137 

Raymond Frederick, Jr. 137 

Sarah Ellen (Tilberry) 137 

William F. 137 

KIRKLIN 

Byrl R., Dr. 31 

KISER 

Lucille 84 

KISTLER 

Amanda 95, 153 

Leona 164 

Marcia Sue 36 

Wayne, Mr. & Mrs. 36 

KLEIHENZ 

John 5 

Peter 5 

KLEINHENZ 

Joseph 5 

KLINE 

Ronald 3 

KLOTZ 

Esta, Mrs. 169 

KNAUFF 

Clara 147 

KNOPP 

June 61 

K. W., Mrs. 61 

KOCH 

Alice 48 

Clifford, Mr. & Mrs. 43 

Russell, Mrs. 63 

Solomon, Mr. & Mrs. 48 

KOCHER 

Florence 29 

James 29 

KOCZAN 

Charles, Jr., Mrs. 77, 79 

KOENIG 

Floyd 82 

George 81 

Lena 81 

Roy 82 

William 81 

KOEPKE 

Wayne, Deputy Sheriff 109 

KONOW 

Lola 68 

KORBY 

Edgar 11 

Frank 11 

KOSLOFF 

Marietta 47 

KRAFT 

Darrell, Rev. 84 

KRATHWOHL 

Armilda (Cornwell) 65 

Frank 65 

KREAMER 

Andrew 45 

Harry 36, 45 

J. H. 112 

Jacob H. 45 

Maude May 112 

Susanna (Rickabaugh) 45 

KREIG 

George W. 35 

KREIGHBAUM 

Edwin 101 

Frances 101 

Fred 101 

Mary (Singer) 101 

KRETZMEIER 

Neva 64 


KRIEGHBAUM 

Irene 125 

KRUEGAR 

Delmar O., Rev. 149 

KRUEGER 

Delmar O. 88 

Delmar O., Rev. 52 

Delmar, Rev. 71 

KUHN 

Alice 40 

Luedva 28 

KUHNS 

Ethel 117 

KUMLER 

Alden D. 137 

Almeda (Urbin) 137 

Almedia (Urbin) 122 

Clara Jane 134 

Don 137 

Frank 122 

H. T. 138 

J. Frank 137 

J. J. 122 

John 137 

Roy 122, 137 

KUNCL 

Donald 171 

Edward Charles 171 

Verda (Rudd) 171 

KURTZ 

Lillie 162 

KUTZ 

John 60 

KWIATT 

Agnes 164 

LAMBERT 

Ida 24 

Leo, Mrs. 158 

LAMBORN 

Martha 76 

Oliver 76 

LANCE 

Fred, Mrs. 76 

LANDGRAVE 

Susan 89 

LANDIS 

Eliza 80 

Emma 131 

Ted, Mrs. 156 

LANE 

Sisters 173 

LANGE 

Arthur 149 

Donald 149 

Elaine 149 

Ernest 149 

Henry 149 

Herman 149 

John C. 149 

Meta 149 

Minnie 149 

Minnie (Hagenau) 149 

Reinhart 149 

Wilbert 149 

LANNING 

George, Rev. 164 

LANTZ 

Ethel Mae 145 

LARKIN 

Agnes 106 

LARRIMORE 

Lulu 120 

LATSHAW 

Della 32 

LAUDBAUGH 

Elizabeth 42 

LAUER 

Emma 45 

LAWSON 

Marietta 47 

LEACENBY 

Martin, Mrs. 82 

LEASURE 

Susan 44 

LEAVELL 

Delbert 51, 134 

Lon, Mrs. 40 

LEBO 

Gordon, Mrs. 159 

Nancy 159 

LEE 

Margie 63 

Orpha 112 

Ruth 86 

LEEDY 

Alta 119 

Bert, Mrs. 154 

Grace 79 

Grace Elizabeth 77 

Lloyd 77 

Susan 65 

LEHAMAN 

Freda 27 

Herschel, Mrs. 27 

LEHMAN 

Ida 78 

LEHN 

Edward 22 

George Paul 22

LEHUE 

Lincoln, Rev. 111 

Lloyd, Rev. 65 

LEININGER 

Amanda (Kistler) 95, 153 

Anna (King) 139 

Bertha L. 28 

Charles H. 94-95 

Clarence 158 

Dan 95, 153 

Daniel 94 

David 158 

Dean 139 

Don 139 

Elias 95, 153 

Elias, Mr. & Mrs. 94 

Elmer 28 

Hester (Thompson) 158 

Kermit 94-95 

Oliver 158 

Ralph 139 

Sarah 12 

Walter D. 139 

Willis 139 

LEITER 

Clara 69 

Lydia 167 

LELAND 

George 47, 124 

John 47, 123 

John E., Sr. 123 

John, Jr. 124 

Keith 124 

Lawson L. 47 

Lester 47 

Lloyd 47 

Marietta 123 

Marietta (Lawson) 47 

Mark 124 

Merriam 124 

LENNON 

Stella 11 

LEONARD 

Daniel 96 

Edna 112 

Ethel E. 56 

Harvey A. 96 

Jean 56 

Joseph, Mrs. 112 

Lydia (Otis) 96 

Ollie 56 

Onis M. 56 

Viola M. 80 

LESLEY 

Elizabeth Ellen 75 

James 75 

LESLIE 

Kate 21 

LEWALLEN 

Marjorie 111 

LEWELLEN 

Ila Jean 144 

LEWIS 

Andy, Mrs. 150 

Sarah 106 

LICHTENBERGR 


LIENTZ 

Ed 82 

Mahlon 82 

Mary Lee 82 

LILLARD 

Ralph 62 

LIMING 

Alice 79 

LISEY 

Grace C. 149 

Jessie 134 

John W. 149 

LIVENGOOD 

Melvin, Rev. 83 

LIZENBEE 

Alice 63 

LLOYD 

Marjorie 44 

LOCKHART 

Estella 13 

LOCKWOOD 

Anita 67 

Delbert Lewis 67 

Dennis Delbert 67 

Ethert 67 

George 67 

Glen Albert 67 

Mary (Clingentell) 67 

William Howard 67 

LOHT 

Lola 124 

LOLLAR 

Dorothy 11 

LONG 

Charlotte (Abshire) 18 

Daisy 18 

Doris 68 

Frederick 18 

Geneva 112 

Harvey 174 

Laura 64 

Laura E. "Grandma" 174 

Lucy M. 128 

Myrtle 112 

Orville, Mrs. 68 

Thomas 18 

William 18 

Wilvin 70 

LONGENEKER 

Veronica 153 

LOUDERBACK 

Josephine 172 

LVR, Mrs. 172 

LOUER 

Harriet 134 

LOUGH 

Betty Jean 34 

Clyde, Mrs. 143 

Gresham, Mr. & Mrs. 34 

LOUNSBURY 

Barbara Jean 148 

C. R., Mrs. 148 

Mabel 148 

Ronald C. 148 

LOWDEN 

Carl 127 

Deo M., Dr. 127 

Frank Morland 126 

John, Dr. 126 

Margaret (Showalter) 126 

Samuel 127 

LOWE 

Clarence 1 

Elizabeth 26 

Emma 1 

Gurney 1 

Kathleen 173 

Mark, Mrs. 173 

Quimby 1 

LOWMAN 

James 123 

Maurice, Mrs. 123 

LOWRY 

Elizabeth 156 

John 156 

Johnny 156 

Walter H. 156 

LUBBE 

John 2 

Kathleen 2 

Kathlene 3 

LUCKY 

Kenneth, Rev. 112 

Kenneth. Rev. 149 

LUEY 

Sarah 161 

LUNDQUIST 

August, Rev. 22 

LYNCH 

Helen 78 

Jesse, Mr. & Mrs. 78 

MAERZ 

Sara 69 

MAHONEY 

A. Waite, Mrs. 158 

J. B. 27 

Laura 164 

Mildred 158 

Pearl (Shafer) 27 

William 27 

MALLOT 

Ronnie 94 

MALONE 

Ellen 39 

MALOTT 

Eleanor 95 


MANDLECO 


MANNIES 

Oscar, Mrs. 169 

MANNS 

Dayton 87 

Debra Sue 87 

Dolly (Mullins) 87 

Dorton 87 

Edward 87 

Eugene 87 

Mitchell 87 

Ortia 87 

Russell 87 

MANUEL 

Ella 159 

MARINE 

Clyde 25 

Henry 25 

Laura Ann (Wright) 25 

MARION 


Treva 140 

MARKER 

Sarah 92 

MARQUARDT 

Dorothy 27 

MARRIOTT 

Elma 30

MARSH 


Ora, Mrs. 170 

MARSHALL 

Joseph Paul 122 

Margaret 122 

Patrick 122 

MARSHMAN 

Edna 83 

Richard 83 

MARTIN 

Carrie Sines 172 

I. W., Mrs. 115 

Ina 29 

Nancy 63 

Ornell 64 

Orville 63 

MASKE 

Frances 109 

MASON 

Henry 9 

James T. 9 

Lavina (Morrison) 9 

William Walter 8 

MASTELLAR 

Retha 42 

MASTELLER 

Elnora 131 

MATHIAS 

John 170 

John Wesley 170 


Mary 129 

Paul E. 170 

Suzan (Wales) 170 

MAUS 

Gilbert, Rev. 69 

MAXWELL 

Alice 100 

Elias 89 

Ida May 89 

Sarah (Squires) 89 

MAY 

Esther (Miller) 98 

John 98 

MAYER 

Walter, Rev. 8, 35 

McCAIN 

Mildren 24 

McCARTER 

Caroline 19 

McCARTY 

Mary 65 

McCASLIN 

Marjorie 107 

McCLURE 

Dwight, Rev. 62 

Margaret 88 

McCLURG 

Winifred Scott 15 

McCOY 

Earl 163 

McCUTCHAN 

Birda 168 

Charles 168 

McDOWELL 

Marie 125 

McELHENY 


McFADDEN 


McFARLAND 

Ann 146 

McGLOTHIN 

Carol Ann 71 

Connie Sue 71 

Dianna Lynn 71 

Fred 71 

Fred Allen 71 

John Ray 71 

Rosemary (Holloway) 71 

McGUIRE 

Carson, Deputy Coroner 127 

Lowell 2 

Patrick 101 

McHENRY 

Max W. 5 

McINTYRE 

Emmaline 156 

McKEE 

Archie, Mrs. 127 

Betty (Grover) 77 

Clarence 136 

Deborah Sue 77 

Fred Herbert 136 


Harvey 108 

Hazel 97 

Jesse 136 

John 77 

Lewis 136 

Luvina Alice (Baldwin) 136 

Marilyn 63 

Mark 77 

Michael 77 

Nellie 94 

Reed 108 

Sally Elaine 77 

Sam 108 

Sarah 77 

Stella 38 

Virgil J. 108 

McKENZIE 

Mary Louise 88 

McKEONE 

Donald 164 

McKESSON 

A. R., Mrs. 90 

McKINLEY 

L. K., Rev. 3 

McLEMORE 

Glendola Heath 26 

Robert L. 26 

McLOCHLIN 

Albert 148 

John 148 

Patrick Omar 148 

R. E., Dr. 148 

Will 148 

McMAHAN 

Hugh 107 

Jocie 107 

Otto 107 


McMURRAY 

Wesley, Mrs. 124 

McNAMARA 

Alice 25 

Frank 2 

Frank C. 25 

James 2, 25 

Margaret 25 

Margaret (Bevard) 2 

McNOWN 

Corabell (Hatcliff) 126 

William 126 

McPHERRON 


Clarence 168 

Edwin 167 

Emile 168 

Harry 168 

Helen 41 

Minnie May (Biddinger) 167-168 

Thomas 167 

Wilma 167 

McQUESTION 

Betty 173 


McSHERRY 

C. E., Rev. 91 

E., Rev. 95 

MEANS 

Fannie 85 

MEDLOCK 

Clarence A. 33 

Effie 33 

William 33 

MEHRLING 

Sarah 148 

MEICHAEL 

Mary 15 

MELOY 

Frances 124 

MELVIN 

Charles 25 

Rosetta (Halterman) 25 

MENEREY 


MEREDITH 

Daisy 50 

Emma 34 

Evelyn 109 

Roy, Mrs. 109 

MERRAMAN 

Albert, Mrs. 24 

Frances 24 

MERRITT 

Clara 39 

Horace 9 

Tura 9 

METSGER 

Owen, Mrs. 120 

MEYERS 

Ethel 151 

Frances 98 

George 98 

MICK 

Rosalea 69 

MIDDAUGH 

Alberta 148 

Raymond, Mrs. 148 

MIDDLETON 

Hazel 129 

Nellie D. 30 

Ray 30 

Rex 30 

MIKESELL 

Orpha (Gerard) 165 

Phillip 165 

MILES 

Earl, Mr. & Mrs. 151

MILEY 

Avery W., Rev. 77 

MILKOVICH 


Edith 156 

MILLER 

Agnes 36 

Alice 38 

Alva 52 

Anna 137, 168 

Barbara Jean 91 

Betty 16 

Blanche Alma 111, 113 

C'Dale 4 

Charles 52 

Clark 18 

Clem, Mrs. 103 

Clyde E. 52 

Daniel 137 

Delmar 35 

Doc, Mrs. 152 

Donald 18 

Earl 35, 52 

Edward 91, 112 

Elmer 52 

Elnora (Masteller) 131 

Esther 98 

Everett 112 

Frank E. 111 

Fred E. 92 

Frienda, Mrs. 81 

Gertrude 145 

Glen 35 

Harley 52 

Harold E., Mrs. 28 

Herman 92 

Hiram G. 91 

Hiram, Jr. 91 

Hugh, Mrs. 145 

Irvin S. 18 

Jacob 52 

Jake, Mrs. 16 

Jennie (Moore) 111 

Joanne 144 

Joe, Mrs. 63 

John M. 92 

Julius 137 

Karen Sue 91 

Laura Anne 91 

Laura Belle 91 

Lola 15 

Louise 152 

Lovell G. "Peck" 92 

Lydia 35 

Lydia (Snyder) 52 

Marcile 124 

Marjorie Ann 91 

Mary (Rogers) 52 

Maude 70 

Michael 52 

Mojeska 70 

Naomi 174 

Norma 36 

Panthier (Blacketor) 92 

Pearl F. 52 

Perry 35 

Phill A. 92 

Ralph 131 

Ray, Mrs. 67, 70 

Roscoe, Jr. 15 

Rose 4 

Ross 18 

Roy, Mrs. 70 

Sam 130 

Sam S. 131 

Simon 131 

SLAYBAUGH 131 

Suzie Jane 18 

Tola 81 

Tony 136-137 

MILLINGER 

Isabelle 172 

MILLISER 

Ethel 143 

Jane (Bisher) 103 

Jennie 59 

Silas 103 

Surphes 103 

MILLS 

Bess 82 

David 24 

Debra 24 

Earl, Mrs. 45 

John 24 

Maribeth 24, 26 

Mary F. 24 

Mildren (McCain) 24 

Naomi 112 

Robert 24 

Virginia 24 

Wayne E. 24 

MITCHELL 

Richaard, Rev. 84 

Richard, Rev. 26, 47, 61, 103, 

117, 119, 136, 148, 165 

MOBERELY 

Don, Mrs. 110 

MODOSKI 


MOHLER 

Aaron 96 

Carl 96 

Earl, Sr. 96 

Frederick W. 96 

James Thomas 96 

Mary Elaine 96 

Minnie (Berger) 96 

MOKOZITCH 

Shirley 127 

MONEREY 


MOON 

Almeda 3 

Charles 59 

Charles, Mr. & Mrs. 58 

Cheryl Lynn 52 

Clarence William 51 

Floyd 52 

Frank 59 

George 59 

Irene 52 

Jennie (Milliser) 59 

John Paul 52 

Sam 59 

William 3 

MOORE 

Addie 1 

Charlotte M. 70 

Dorothy 92 

Ida 170 

Jennie 111 

Josephine 139 

Levi 123 

Marvin 70 

Mary 43 

Nancy Jane 104 

Ora, Mrs. 120 

Sylvia 133 

William 70 

Wuanita 96 

MOOREHOUSE 


MORGAN 

Charles 65 

Susan (Leedy) 65 

MORK 

Albert 145 

Carl 145 

Loy Ray 145 

Ole Cornelius 145 

MORLOCK 

Ethel 125 

MORRETT 

Anna 81 

Carl 81 

Clarence 81 

Orpha (Hart) 81 

Wilbur 81 

MORRIS 

Alden 16 

Anna 141 

Clarence L. 11 

Delson 16 

Ella (Parker) 16 

Fank Irvin 16 

Frankie 16 

Henry D. 11 

Joe 16 

Loa 12 

Merlyn 16 

Robert 11 

Sheila 16 

Stella (Lennon) 11 

MORRISON 

Lavina 9 

MORROW 

Abner 22 

Allen Lee 22 

Charles Ross 22 

Dewayne 22 

Ellsworth 22 

Kirk 22 

Leo 22 

Margaret (Teel) 22 

Mary 35 

MORTS 

Elberta 56 

MORTZ 

Carrie 146 

MOSIER 

Cheryl 151 

Gregory Glen 151 

Margie 151 

William 151 

MOSWINSKI 

Casmir, Rev. 161 

MOULTON 


MOW 

Bernice L. 124 

Charles 124 

Clarence 124 

Dean, Mrs. 122 

Edna (Beehler) 124 

Frances 165

Grethel 122 

Herschel W., Capt. 124 

John 165 

Randall Lee 124 

Ray 165 

MOWISER 

Ernest 86 

Eva (Boor) 86 

Frank 86 

John 86 

Mathias 86 

Ralph 86 

MUELLER 

Helen 160 

John 160 

John Paul 160 

Karl 160-161 

William L. 160-161 

MULLICAN 

Ben 37 

Benjamin C. "Ben" 173 

Catherine (Dickman) 37, 173 

Charles 173 

Charles Henry 37 

Isaac 37, 173 

Nettie K., Rev. 37 

MULLINS 

Dolly 87 

MURHLING 

Violet 127 

MURPHY 

Dora 69 

Elda 117 

Jean 33 

Maurine 88 

MURRAY 

A. J. 122 

Cloyd A. 122 

Everett 85 

Frank 85 

George R. 122 

James 85 

Louis Samuel 85 

Mark 85 

Odessa Maude 122 

Rex E. 122 

Tressa 85 

MURRY 

Ed, Mrs. 162 

MUSSELMAN 

Donald 114 

George W., Dr. 114 

Maxine 114 

MUTCHLER 

Charles 132 

Howard 132 

Viona Pearl 132 

MYERS 


Enoch 26 

Glen O. 132 

Glendola 26 

Hala (Troutman) 26 

Kurt Dee 34 

Leroy 132 

Martha Jane 166 

Maude 110 

Merle 34 

Merle R., Mr. & Mrs. 34 

Minnie 150 

Myrtle L. 132 

Richard 132 

Sarah 68, 155 

NAFE 

Earl Herbert 148 

Harry E. 148 

James H. 148 

Marie 148 

Sarah (Mehrling) 148 

NEHER 

Truman, Mrs. 103 

NELLANS 

Ethel 122 

Otis, Mrs. 122 

NELSON 

Aisla (Warwick) 149 

Celia 45 

Grace 117 

John 149 

Myrtle 158 

Violet 121 

NESENTHALER 

Barton, Mrs. 122 

NEWCOMB 

Cora 88 

Gertrude 35 

NEWCOMER 

Dessie 108 

NEWELL 

Carolyn 56 

Everett, Mr. & Mrs. 56 

NEWHOUSE 

Alan Wayne 78 

Cathy 78 

Charles 78 

George, Mr. & Mrs. 78 

Helen (Lynch) 78 

NEWMAN 

Maurice, Mrs. 118 

Mildred 118 

Rachel 81 

NEWPORT 

Matilda 69 

NEWTON 

Charlotte (Riley) 143 

Gerald 143 

James 143 

Lottie 90 

Oscar 143 

Otis 143 

Pete 143 

Peter 143 

Ralph M. 143 

NICCUM 

Elaine 16 

NICHOLS 

Donn, Mrs. 142 

Donna Jo 142 

Hattie 41 

NICKELS 

Alta G. 47 

William 47 

NICODEMUS 

Jessie 33 

NICOL 

Hattie 138 

NICOLL 

Gail 2 

NIXON 

Mary 130 

NOFTSKER 

Fietta 150 

NORDLOH 


NORMAN 

Emma 89 

Harold 119 

Jesse 118 

John 119 

Joseph, Mr. & Mrs. 75 

Josephus 118 

Milo 75 

Milo J. 118 

Perry 118 

Sarah (Rank) 118 

NORRIS 

Anna Ella 149 

Everett 149 

Fern 89 

Floyd 34 

Harriett (Bradshaw) 34 

Laurence, Mrs. 107 

Laurence, Sheriff 36, 135, 139 

Lewis 34 

Marvin L. 149 

Pearl 34 

Roy 34 

S. C., Rev. 149 

NUNNERY 

Annabelle 8 

NYE 

Ora, Mrs. 24 

Ruth M. 174 

OCVIREK 

Pauline 156 

ODAFFER 

Maude H. 144 

OGDEN 

Gladys 159 

OHLANDER 

Anna 4 

OLMSTED 

Anna M. 82 

Charles 82 

Elza C. 82 

Lee 82 

OLSON 

Elsie 110 

Irwin, Rev. 28 

OMLOR 

Elsie D. 156 

ORDWAY 


ORPURT 


OTIS 

Lydia 96 

OTT 

Clara Anna 86 

OVERFIELD 

Mary 160 

Millard, Mr. & Mrs. 160 

OVERMYER 

Alice (Miller) 38 

Alpha 17 

Ambrose 17 

Attia 141 

Charles S. 61 

Charles S., Mrs. 61 

Chauncey 155 

Clarence "Pat" 17 

Daniel 150 

Darold 38 

Eddie 38

Edward 38 

Edyth Alma 61 

Elizabeth 61 

George 150 

Harley 150 

Harry, Sr. 17 

Henry 150 

Howard 17, 38 

Ira 92 

Israel 68 

Jack K. 61 

James 143, 150 

Jennifer 61 

Laphon 150 

Laura 61 

Lilly 162 

Lloyd, Rev. 20, 29, 170 

Louisa (Van Duyne) 150 

Nora 17 

Ralph 38 

Ralph E. 155 

Raymond E. 38 

Robert 143 

Ruby 143 

Russell 150 

Ruth 150 

Sarah 61 

Sarah (Myers) 68, 155 

Susan 150 

Suzanne 31 

Thomas 150 

William 17 

OVERSTREET 

Kenneth, Mr. & Mrs. 24 

OWEN 

Dale, Rev. 34 

OWINGS 

Grace 20 

OXLEY 

Laura 111 

Wilson 111 

O’BRIEN 


O’CONNEL 

Clarence 60 

Ina 60 

O’CONNELL 

Rhoda May 113 

O’CONNER 


James 101 

John 101 

Ruth Ellen 101 

O’DELL 

Bill 162 

James 162 

Lester 162 

Maurice 162 

Reathel Dell 162 

Richard 162 

O’NEIL 

Barbara 132 


PAGEL 

Charles 155 

Kenneth 155 

William 155 

PAINTER 

Sanford, Mrs. 156 

Tillie 156 

PALMER 

Cecil 68 

Dewald 68 

James 68 

PARKER 

Ella 16 

Ella Margaret 160 

PARKHURST 

Alice 60 

Arthur 60 


Guy 60 

John 60 

Ronald 60 

PARKS 

Mable 11 

PATTEE 

Cleo Bernice 117 

David 117 

Herman J. 117 

Larry 117 

Richard 117 

PATTON 

Margaret 99 

PAULSEN 

Frieda 160 

Ray, Mrs. 160 

PAVEY 

Jack, Rev. 1, 7, 56, 82, 119, 121, 

128 

PAXTON 

Arretta 108 

PECONGE 

Margaret 155 

PEDDYCORD 

Ivo, Mrs. 59 

PELLET 

D. H., Rev. 122 

PELLETT 

Rev. 3 

PENCE 

Eva 134 

PENROD 

Bertha 71 

Jeannette 71 

PERKINS 

Jessie Pearl 102 

PERRY 

Doris 19 

PERSCHBACHER 

Alma 102 

John 64 

Mary Catherine 64 

Miles 46 

Nora 27 

PERSONS 

M. G., Rev. 131 

PETERS 

E. J., Rev. 92, 105, 122, 149, 156, 

162 

Ernest J., Rev. 88 

Frank J. 32 

J., Rev. 124 

Verda B. 32-33 

PETERSON 

Arlavine 84 

Beulah 135 


PETRE 

Howard, Mrs. 132 

Mary 132 

PETTY 

Alva, Mrs. 62 

PFEIFFER 

Cecil 132 

Devon, Mrs. 132 

PFLEGER 

Louise 39 

PHEBUS 

Daniel 28 

Foster 28 

Howard 28 

John 28 

Lillie (Kalmbaker) 28 

Max 28 

Walter 28 

PHENEGER 

Roscoe, Rev. 125 

PIERSON 

Gus, Rev. 95 

PIMENTAL 

Carlton 71 

Charles 71 

PINDER 

Ann 106 


PINKERTON 

Ann (Horn) 153 

John 153 

Virgil 153 

PLANTHALER 

Katharina 160 

PLANTZ 

Nellie 13 

PLATTE 

Carl, Mrs. 76 

PLETCHER 

Mertie 73 

POENIX 

Russell F. 169 

POFFENBARGER 

Clarence 13 

POGUE 

Roy, Mrs. 110 

PONTIOUS 

Andrew 130 

Ann 105 

Charles 157 

Lydia (Smith) 130 

PONTIUS 

Clair 8 

Donald B. 168 

Dora 8 

Harry 8 

Ledger 8 

Martha 64 

Mona 168 

Pauline 168 

Richard 8 

Rollin, Mrs. 168 

POOR 

Jennie 112 

PORTER 

Mary Lou 122 

POWELL 

Amanda 62 

Elmanda 10 

Glenn 136 

L. E., Rev. 3, 71, 116 

Lloyd, Rev. 25, 73, 166 

Marie 62 

Rev. 118 

Ruth 39 

Sarah Anetta 118 

POWERS

Naomi 102 

Scott, Mrs. 104 

POWNALL 

Edgar L. 106 

Ermal O. 106 

Ivan 106 

Margaret 106 

Sarah (Williams) Ausmun 91 

Vachael J. 91 

William 106 

PRATT 

Ethel 18 

George 119 

Myrtle Alice 119 

Russell 119 

PREISER 

Frances 152 

PRESS 


PRESSLER 

Mary 69 

PRICE 

Guy M. 113 

Guy, Mrs. 60 

Harold 113 

John 113 


Mildred 38 

Rhoda 60 

Roy 113 

Theodosia (Warren) 113 

Wallace 113 

PRILL 

A'Della 55 

PRIZER 

Abram 79 

Suzanne (Carns) 79 

PROBASCO 

Dorothy 46 

PROCTOR 

Myrth 119 

PULLEN 

Carrie 138 

PUTMAN 

Doyle 62 

Folen 62 

Marie (Powell) 62 

Marvin 62 

Nina A. 62 

PYLE 

Charles 5-6 

Donald 5 

Donald, Mr. & Mrs. 85 

Dora 5 

RABER 

Elma 119 

RADER 

Bethany 61 

Charles 25 


Lula Marie 25 

Ralph 25 

RAINBOLT 

Harold, Rev. 170 

RALSTON 

Cynthia 30 

RAMSEY 

Connie Jo (Singpiel) 63 

Crystal 155 

James 63 

Raymond Lee 63 

Verlin, Mr. & Mrs. 63 

RANDALL 

Lewis 88 

Mary 88 

Mary Louise (McKenzie) 88 

RANK 

Sarah 118 

RANKOVICH 

Ilia 99 

Yevka 99 

RANNELLS 

E. A. 99 

Mabel (Seece) 99 

Robert 100 

Robert I. 99 

RANS 

Delbert, Jr. 2 

Edgar, Mrs. 106 

Ethel Faye 2 

Harold 2 

Hubert 2 

Joe 2 

Larry 2 

Paul 2 

Raymond 2 

Roy 2 

RARRICK 

George 94 

Nellie (McKee) 94 

RASMUSSEN 

Angy 89 

RAVER 

Cora 42 

Elizabeth (Llaudbaugh) 42 

Ira 42 

REA 

Lucretia 85 

O. A., Dr. 85 

Robert 85 

Sylvia 85 

READ 

Daisy 133 

Edith 91 

REAM 

Belle (Watson 32 

Charles 32 

Irene 62 

Leah (Fisher) 161 

William 161 

REASON 

Beth Ann 90 

Claude 90 

Donald C. 90 

Donnie 90 

Flossie (Clements) 90 

Linda 90 

REBER 

Cora 42 

REDD 

Lucille 136 

REECE 


REED 

Bertha 150 

Edith 142 

Ida 2 

Melda 81 

REES 

Howard, Rev. 159 

Virginia 44 

REFFER 

James, Rev. 115 

REICHARD 

Gertrude 84 

REISH 

W. H. 54 

REITENEIER 


REMAKALUS 

Claude W., Rev. 16 

REMAKLUS 

Charles, Rev. 141 

RENO 

Chloa 54 

Donald 139 

Dorothy 139 

Dorothy S. (Fisher) 140 

Gene 140 

John 139 

RENTSCHLER 


Maribeth (Mills) 24, 26 

Ned 24 

REYBURN 

Bernice 66 

REYNOLDS 

Bert, Mrs. 99 

Betty (Miller) 16 

Bloice, Mr. & Mrs. 16 

Dana Eugene 16 

Don 16 

Henry J., Mrs. 137 

Jeff 137 

Ollivene 137 

RHINE 

Elizabeth 153 

RHOAD 

Sally 78 

RHODES 

Nellie 124 

Orpha D. 165 

Thomas 165 

RHUBERT 

Delbert, Rev. 157 

RICABAUGH 

Susanna 45 

RICE 

Glen 18 

James 18 

Mary L. "Bonnie" 35 

Robert 18 

Rose 18 

Sarah 70 

William 18 

RICH 


RICHARD 

Arthur 10 

Edward 10 

Edward, Mr. & Mrs. 10 

Paul 10 

RICHARDSON 

Deane E., Dr. 10 

E. M., Dr. 10 

Kline T. 10 

Ruth (Tracy) 10 

RICHEY 

Ray, Rev. 18 

Roy, Rev. 86 

RICHTER 

Elenore 28

Vera 111 

RICKEL 

Hanna 146 

Horace, Mrs. 146 

Karl 146 

Sarah 32 

RIDER 

Albert, Rev. 19 

RIDGEWAY 

Alton, Mrs. 90 

RIETER 

Pearl 47 

RIGGLE 

Susanna 49 

RIGGS 

Alvina 24 

RIGNEY 


Judith Ann 115 

RILEY 

Charlotte 143 

James Whitcomb 60 


RINER 

Hugh H. 54 

Lucille D. 54 

RINGER 

Alfred A. 125 

Elizabeth (Gurthet) 125 

Jacob 125 

RITTINGER 

John 4 

Nicholas 4 

ROBBINS 

Anna E. 46 

Edward V. 46 

Ruth 56 

Susan 56 

ROBERTS 

Elaine 121 

Harriet 143 


W. H. 73 

W. S., Mrs. 104 

ROBINSON 

Fern 114 

Jack 36 

Jessie, Mrs. 17 

Norma (Miller) 36 

Randy 36 

ROCKEY 

Margaret 141 

ROGERS 

Bernard 128 

Carrie 70 

Hobart, Dr. 88 

I. L., Rev. 163 

I. T., Rev. 13, 18, 56, 138 

Lester 128 

Manderville 128 

Mary 52 

Maurice 128 

Myrtle E. 128-129 

Sada (Beck) 121 

Susan 88 

William 121 

ROHRER 

Daniel 169 

Frank 169 

Harry 169 

Lucinda 169 

ROSE 

D. Murphy 110 

Daniel T. 110-111 

Daniel Vincent 110 

Edith 147 

Marvin E. 110 

Robert, Capt. 110 

Robias Vincent 110 

Virginia (Wright) 110 

Virginia D. 110 

ROSENTRETER 

August 154 

Frederick W. 154 

Henrietta 154 

ROSS 

Edith 156 

Minnie 85 

ROUCH 

Ancil 169 

Dwight 169 

Earl 2 

Ezra 2 

Ida (Reed) 2 

Ida May 59 

Ira 169 

Irvin 169 

John A. 169 

Lela 59 

Lloyd 2 

Loyd, Mrs. 106 

Raymond 169 

S. Earl, Mrs. 91 

Schuyler 59 

Vern, Mrs. 91 

ROWE 

Howard, Coroner 36, 58 

Howard, Dr. 164 

Howrd, Coroner 74 

ROYER 

Janet 163 

Reuben, Mr. & Mrs. 163 

Robert 163 

Vern 163 

RUCKER 

Mable 62 

RUDD 

Verda 171 

RUDO 

Mike, Mrs. 153 

RUE 

Lillian 164 

RUECKERT 

Martha 149 

RUNKLE 

Edgar 7 

Edgar, Mrs. 41 

Ida (Haindes) 7 

Isaiah 7 

James 92 

Mary 41, 138 

Nevada Jane 92 

Ron, Mrs. 110 

Sarah (Marker) 92 

RUPLE 

Lula 159 

RUSH 

Clyde D., Rev. 24 

Ruby 106 

RUSSELL 

Charles C. 135 

Ellen (Tullis) 135 

Fred F. 135 

Harry 135 

Herschel 135 

Mary 135 

Taylor 135 

Zane 135 

RUTLEDGE 

Ruth 156 

RYAN 


Louise (Wilhoit) 168 

RYNEARSON 

Beulah 66 

Earl 123 

Ellis 123 

Francis 123 

Helen 123 

Joseph 123 

Lowe 123 

Mathias 123 

Reuben 123 

Sarah (Fague) 123 

Woodrow 123 

SADLER 


SALES 

George 112 

Kline 112 

Maude 45, 108 

Nancy (Stahl) 112 

SANDS 

Kendall, Rev. 101 

SANNER 

B. 111 

Earl 111 

Empurtis 111 

Harold K. 111 

Sarah (Graham) 111 

SATTERFIELD 

Earl, Mrs. 82 

SAUNDERS 


Eva 153 

SAUSAMAN 

Earl A. 57 

Florence (Hoffman) 57 

Jack 57 

Robert 57 

Thomas 57 

SAVAGE 

George B. 100 

John 100 

Malcolm 100 

Noble 100 

Richard 100 

Scott 100 

Winston 100 

SAYGERS 

Lucinda Alice 160 

SCALES 

Pauline 44 

SCHALL 

Mary 156 

SCHEETZ 

Will, Mrs. 148 

SCHEUER 

Hazel 44 

SCHMICKER 

William 75 

SCHMITT 

David 73 

SCHNEIDER 

George 172

Louis, Jr., Mrs. 137 

Mary 172 

Ruth Anne 137 

SCHOEFF 

John 99 

SCHOONOVER 

Burwell C. 54 

Frances 54 

SCHRADER 

Fred, Mrs. 79 

SCHRAEDER 

Fred, Mrs. 77 

SCHROEDER 

William 78 

SCHULTZ 

Lodmilla, Mrs. 5 

Orville, Rev. 5 

SCHUMACHER 

Gilbert, Mrs. 158 

Nell 158 

SCOFIELD 

LaVeta 33 

SCOTT 

Adella 22 

Fern 83 


Oscar 17 

SCROXTON 

Mary 57 

SECOR 

Beryl 139 


SEDAM 

Laura 52 

SEE 

Earl, Mrs. 112 

Luce, Mrs. 6 

SEECE 

Mabel 99 

SEELY 

Delta 15 

SEIDNER 

Jacob 35 

Mary (Morrow) 35 

SEIFREID 

Adline 137 

SELLERS 

Gene, Rev. 153 

Olive E. 155 

SELLS 

J. F., Practitioner 154 

SERVAAS 

Bert H. 133 

Bert, Jr. 133 

William 133 

SHADEL 

Guy 72 

Harry 72 

Martha 72 

Solomon J. 72 

SHADLE 

Ann 129 

SHAFER 

Catherine 161 

Chester 130 

Elmira 130 

Elvira 130 

Hiram 130 

Keith, Mrs. 137 

Nancy 137 

Pearl 27 

William 130 

SHAFFER 

Lucy 15 

SHALLEY 


SHARP 

Isabel 39 

Myrta Ostila 39 

Samuel 39 

SHARRON 

Josephine 11 

Virgil 11 

SHAW 

Connie 81 

Laura 138 

Stacey, Rev. 47 

SHAWHAN 


SHEANE 

Rose 89 

SHEETS 

Elsie 115 

SHEETZ 

John, Mrs. 65 

Mrs. 66 

Phyllis 105 

SHEPHERD 

Eva 87 

SHEPLER 

H. L., Mr. & Mrs. 89 

SHETL 

Eldrith, Mr. & Mrs. 29 

Ethel 29 

SHEWMAN 

William, Rev. 121, 138 

SHIELDS 

Eloise 90 

SHILLING 

Leona 39 

SHIRLEY 


SHIVELEY 

Martha 13 

SHIVELY 

Carrie 158 

Everett 158 

Ivan 158 

Martin L. 158 

Mary (Heeter) 158 

Noah 158 

Viola 158 

William 158 

SHOBE 

Alma (Perschbacher) 102 

Amanda 87 

Cyrus 102 

Josephine (Arnold) 141 

Rex DeMoine 141 

Rex Michael 141 

Sam 141 

SHOCK 

E. F., Mrs. 46 

H. R., Rev. 97 

SHOCKLEY 

Cleta 85 


SHOEMAKER 

Diana (Swick) 53 

Elmer 53 

Joseph 53 

Ora "Ode" 53 

Pearl 31 

SHOGREN 

A. R. 28 

Genevere (Grove) 28 

SHOHOLA 

Camp 115 

SHONTZ 

George W. 166-167 

Leona 166 

Susan 166 

Susan (Bryan) 167 

SHORE 

Kline W. 130 

Mary Caroline 130 

SHOWALTER 

Margaret 126 

SHOWLEY 

Hattie Mae 136 

SHRIVER 

Martin, Mrs. 36 

Rosa 46 

SIDDALL 

Frances 108 

SILER 

James 41 

Jane 41 

Leona 41 

SIMCOE 

Elizabeth 28 

SINES 

Carrie 172 

SINGER 

Alfred A. 125 

Elizabeth (Gurthet) 125 

Eugene 125 

Ira 125 

Jacob 125 

Lloyd 125 

Mary 101 

Rollo 125 

Roy 125 

SINGLETON 

Florence 9 

SINGPIEL 

Con 63 

Connie Jo 63 

SIPLE 

Blanche 72 

SISSEL 

Charles 35 

David 35 

Gertrude (Newcomb) 35 

Joe 35 

Richard S. 35 

SIXBEY 

Mark, Mrs. 103 

SKINNER 

Jessie 114 

Maude 100 

SKOOG 

Clayton, Mrs. 94 

Joan 94 

SLAUGHTER 

.J. P., Rev. 17 

SLAUTTERBACK 

Pansy 121 

SLAYBAUGH 

D. L., Rev. 12, 25, 28, 33, 51, 54, 

57, 113, 129, 131, 146, 174 

Daniel, Rev. 37, 41, 158, 160 

SLEETH

Nannie 127 

SLOAN 


SLONAKER 

Doris 107 

Esther 107 

Leonard, Mr. & Mrs. 107 

SLUSHER 

Ida 97 

Marvin 97 

William 97 

SLUSSER 

Jennie L. 163 

SMALLEY 

Olive 3 

SMITH 

Albert 6, 59 

Albert "Bud" 6 


Alta 70 

Alta, Mrs. 70 

Anna 41, 138 

Arthur 76 

Bert 139 

Bertha 53 

Bertha A. 104 

Beulah 51 

Blanche 37 

Carl 76 

Carrie 76 

Charles 6 

Clara 130 

Curtis E. 59 

Dell 59 

Della 68 

Donald J. 6 

Elba L., Mrs. 76 

Ella 38 

Emma 68 

Erma 91 

Ernest A. "Jake" 104 

Floyd, Rev. 155 

Frank 38 

Garland 93 

Georgia 128 

Gordon 59 

Grace 158 

Guy 68 

Harold 6, 59 

Harold, Mrs. 1, 80 

Harry, Rev. 128-129 

Harvey F., Mrs. 160 

Haywood 19 

Henry M. 93 

Ira 1 

Irene 30 

Jacob 35 

Jacob B. 93 

James 6, 105 

James Omer 6-7 

Joe 105 

Josephine (Moore) 139 

Lowell, Mrs. 128 

Lum, Mrs. 158 

Lydia 130 

Myrtle B. 1 

Nancy (Blue) 59 

Nellie 105 

Nora 156 

Oliver 139 

Ollie (Kingery) 6 

Paul 59 

Paul, Mr. & Mrs. 86 

Rachel 77 

Rose E. 25 

Roy 68 

Samuel 139 

Sarah (Whitmyre) 93 

Thomas 6 

Tressie 80 

Virginia 80 

SMOUSE 

Glen, Rev. 80 

SNYDER 

A. F., Mrs. 46 

Benjamin 116, 148 

Caroline (Huff) 116 

Clarence 148 

Darrell 148 

Effie (Sullivan) 148 

Ellsworth 116 

George 116 

Gerald 148 

Henry 116 

John, Mrs. 118, 136 

Lydia 52 

Marjorie E. 116 

Mary Ruth 116 

Pauline 118 

Russell 116 

Sally 148 

Sharon 148 

Silas Drew 116 

Vera 116 

Walter James 148 

Welcome 148 

William, Sr. 15 

Wilma 136 

SOALES 

Cy 57 

SOPHER 

Charles 39 

David 39 

Ezra 39 

James 39 

Margaret (Hattery) 39 

Moses 39 

SOPKO 

Betty 40 

Elizabeth 40 

SORENSEN 

Dorothy 106 

SORENSON 

Arthur, Mr. & Mrs. 82 

SOUTH 

Velma 112 

SOUTHERTON 

Charley 128 

Clifford 128 

George J. 128 

Henry 128 

Lucy M. (Long) 128 

SOWARDS 

Betty 44 

SOWERS 

Mary Jo 120 


SPAID 

Barbara 86 

Danny Lee 86 

Earl 86 

Marianne Marie 86 

SPENCER 

Allie 171 

Ellery, Mr. & Mrs. 101 

Emma (Haines) 171 

Ruth B. 171 

SPOHN 

Mary M. 55 

SPURLOCK 

Calvin 73 

Ethel 73 

Mary 73 

Thomas 73 

SQUIRES 

Elma 9 

Minnie 89 

Sarah 89 

SRIVER 

Grace 152 

Walter A. 152 


St. CLAIR\ 

Arthur 19 

Edgar 19 

Flora Foy 19 

George 19 

Glen 19 

Orin 19 

STACKHOUSE 

Alice (Lizenbee) 63 

Hugh 63 

Ralph 64 

Tom 64 

STAHL 

Gertrude 6 

Nancy 112 

STAILEY 

Minnie Pearl 89 

STAMM 

Charles H. 129 

Cora Mae 129 

Hugh A. 129 

Jesse 129 

STANER 

Catherine 142 


STANLEY 

Aaron 87 

STANSELL 

Frank 43 

Franklin T. 43 

Margaret (Sterling) 43 

Sterling 43 

STANTON 


Margaret 160 

STARKEY 

Alva O. 32 

Frank 32 

Harold 32 

W. R. 32 

STARKWEATHER 

C., Rev. 125 

STASICH 

Nasta 99 

STAUFFER 

C. O. 84 

Charles C. 121 

Charles, Jr. 121 

Chester 121 

Henry 121 

Orpha 121 


STEELE


STEFFEY 

Abraham 147 

Coral, Mrs. 49 

Darrald 147 


Sara (Cuberley) 147 

Tressie 49 

Viola 49 

Wilson 147 

STEINHEISER 

Christian 92 

Harrietta 92 

Mary Della 92 

STEININGER 

Faye 145 

Ida Belle 73 

Milo, Mrs. 134 

STEPP 

Ralph 101 

STERLING 

Margaret 43 

Mary 12 

STEVENS 

Bethany (Rader) 61 

James 61 

STEVENSON 

Pauline 170 

STEWART 

Anne 137 

Barbara 45 

Edna 117 


M. B., Coroner 19 

STICKLER 

Goldie 125 

STILLMAN 

Stella 98 

STINGELY 

Esther 36 

STINGLY 

Grace S. 9 

Peter J. 9 

STITT 

Ethel 2 

STOFFER 

Eunice 120 

STONE 

Elizabeth 119 

STONER 

Norman, Mrs. 151 


Victor E., Rev. 69 

STOOKEY 

Bernice 13 

STOUDT 

Harriet 150 

STRANG 

Berniece 96 

STROM 

Florence B. 98 

STRONG 

Ely 129 

John 129 

Minerva (Day) 129 

Norah 129 


Vivian 129 

STROSNYDER 

Emmarella 90 

STRYCKER 

James 78 

John 78 

Joseph Eldon 78 

Joseph Eldon, Airman 3-C 79 

Linda 78 

Walter 78 

STUBER 

Clarence 133 

Flora (Cunningham) 133 

Gerald, Rev. 133 

J. W. 133 

Paul 133 

STUDEBAKER 

Faye 57 

SULLIVAN 

Effie 148 

Ilo 66 


Wilbert, Rev. 104 

SULT 

Clifford 42 

SUMNEY 

Margaret 21 

SUTTON 

Don 66 

Homer 66 

Ruth D. 65 

SWAIN 

Goldie 16 

SWANGO 

Edward 154 

Emma 132 

Infant 154 

Milo, Mr. & Mrs. 154 

SWANK 

Fietta (Noftsker) 150 

George 150 

SWANSON 

Estin, Mrs. 106 

SWANTNER 

Tom, Rev. 172 

SWARTZ 

Dennis 109 

SWARTZLANDER 

Earl 152 

Eliza (Alman) 152 

Milton 152 

SWICK 

Claude 15 

Dean 15 

Diana 53 

Elizabeth (Keller) 51 

Henry 51 

Herman 51 

Jesse T. 51 

Lloyd 51 

Lois 15 

Lowell 15 

Maggie (Weisse) 15 

Merle 51 

Percy 15 

Ray 51 

Sherman 15 

SWIHART 


SWINEHART 

Carrie May 64 

Daniel Marion 64 

Dean Marion 64 

Fred C. 64 

Marion 64 

Ormond E. 64 

SWINT 


SWITZER 

Flora 85 

TALBOT 

Marie 54 

TALBOTT 

Charles 30 


Marie 166 

TANABE 

Dick 163 

TATE 

Etta, Rev. 165 

TAYLOR 

Donald, Rev. 144 

Dora R. 135 

Mary 89 

Ora D. 131 

Robert 131 

TEBBETTS 

Ann 47 

TEEL 

Margaret 22 

TEETER 

A. C., Mrs. 110 

TERRY 

Henry M., Rev. 132 

Henry, Rev. 23 

Robert, City Policeman 135 

THEIMER 

Patricia 127 

THOMAS 

Benjamin, Rev. 45 

Billy 116 

Dale 116 

Elma 91 

Floyd 116 

Georgianna 93 

James 116 

James, Rev. 113, 146 

Minerva (Fritz) 116 

Omer 116 

Paul 116 

Ruby 33 

William 116 

William Albert 116 

THOMMEN 

Carrie M. 13 

Fred 13 

Luccius T. 13 

THOMPSON 

Carrie Jane 17 

Hester 158 

Ida 94-95, 153 

Lois 115 

Mary 7 

Robert E. 7 

THORINGTON 

Emmett 164 

Henry 164 

Oral 164 

Sophia Opal 164 

THORNTON 

B. D., Mr. & Mrs. 44 

Gretta 127 

THOUSAND 

H. H. 37 

L. D. "Milt" 37 

L. D., Mr. & Mrs. 37 

TILBERRY

Sarah Ellen 137 

TIMMONS 

Elizabeth 20 

TIPPEY 

Wayne, Rev. 66 

TIPPY 

Gene, Mrs. 143 


TIPTON 

Homer Leroy 45 

Nancy Alphretta (Ashton) 45 

TODD 

Rheta 52 

TOMLISON 

Beth 90 

TORRENCE 

Jennie 147 

TOWN 


Dollie 122 

TOWNE 


TOWNSEND 

Leonard, Mrs. 109 

May 83 

TRACY 

Elmanda (Powell) 10 

Flavilla 10 

Frank 10 

Ruth 10 

TRAINER 

Margaret 4 

TRAPP 


TRAUSCH 

Jane 83 

TREBER 

Ernest, Rev. 96, 116, 137, 148 

TREGER 

Nathan 14 

TRICKLE 

Bertha E. 62 

TROUT 

Philip Miles 115 

Sarah Ellen 115 

Vivian 115 

TROUTMAN 

Hala 26 

TRUAX 

Lewis 145 

TRUE 

Minnie 85 

TRUXELL 

Bessie 78 

TUCKER 

Charles 91, 100 

Dearl 3 

Elizabeth (Carpenter) 100 

Hollis 91 

Horace 91 

Merl E. 91 

Nettie (Alexander) 91 

Olive (Smalley) 3 

Terry 3 

Thomas 91 

TULEY 

Guy S. 103 


TULLIS 

Ellen 135 

TURNER 


Mabel 49 

R. H., Rev. 26 

TUTTLE 

Maynard, Rev. 114 

TWEEDDALE 

William, Rev. 62 

TYLER 

Carrie 48 

Mary Kathryn 101 

TYRRELL 

John, Mrs. 9 

Mabel 9 

UMBAUGH 

Eva 134 


Orpha 134 

UNDERWOOD 

A. C., Rev. 75 

C. A., Rev. 127, 159, 161, 171 

Claude 46 

Louisa (Cox) Beatty 46 

Louise 23 

UNGER 

Bertha 104 

UPDEGROVE 

Sarah 72 

URBIN 

Almeda 137 

Almedia 122 

Guy 134 

Harriet (Louer) 134 

John 134 

Joseph 134 

UTTER 

Arthur 80 

Bertha 6 

Clarence 80 

David 80 

Eliza (Landis) 80 

Frank 1, 79-80 

Ida C. 1 

James 80 

Van LUE 

Omer 152 

Van CURREN 

Mary 100 

Van DALSEN 

Anne 142 


Van DIEN 

Alf 46 

Bert 46 

Burdette, Mrs. 76 

Mary (Dunlap) 46 

Richard 46 

Roscoe 46 

Van DUYNE 

Louisa 150 

Van KIRK 

Lucretia 69 

Van LUE 

Anna 92 

Harry, Mr. & Mrs. 119 

Myron 152 

Sally 119 

VANATTER 

Elizabeth, Mrs., Rev. 86 

VANCE 

Etta 2 

Glen 2 

VANDERGRIFT 

Albert 89 

Harold 89 

Ida May (Maxwell) 89 

John 89 

VANDERMARK 

Elgie 19 

Fred 172 

Helen 171 

Joseph 19 

Laura 171 

Levi, Mrs. 172 

Orville 171 

Robert 171 

VASER 

Blanche 30 

E. M. 30 

Frances M. 30 

William M. 30 

VAWTER 

Irvin, Mrs. 82 

VEHR 

Maryanna Ruth 10 

VERMILLION 

Albert, Rev. 124, 159, 171 

Bertha 159 

VERNON 

Ben, Mrs. 42 

VIGAR 

Carrie Kay 109 

Charles 110 

Clyde "Jake" 109 

Edward 110 

Frank 110 

Harleyglen 109 

Harry 110 

Homer 110 

Howard 110 

John H. 109 

Orville 109 

Russell 110 

VIGUS 

Velma 16 

VINSON 

Iva 89 

VOLLMER 

Drucella 40 

VOREIS 

Louise 47 

WADDUPS 


Barbara 142 

WAGNER 

Effa (Bacon) 61 

James Phillip 61 

William 61 

WAGONER 

Dora (Pontius) 8 

E. E., Mr. & Mrs. 172 

Edward 8 

Ella 151 

Ellsworth M. 115 

Etta (Edwards) 115 

Milo 115 

Omer, Mrs. 150 

WALES 

Ernest 103 

Frank 103 

Mary 103

Ora 103 

Suzan 170 

WALKER 

Arthur Helm 102 

Lola 83 

WALLACE 

Jean 40 

WALLIS 

Steven 171 

WALSH 

Mary 106 

WALTERS 

Edith 17 

Fannie 123 

Jean 152 

Josie 24 

Norman, Mrs. 71 


Vern, Mrs. 107 

WALTON 


Claude H. 83 

James 83 

WALTZ 

George R. 165 


Merta 165 

Myrta O. 165 

Omer 165 

Omer F. 165 

Truman 165 

WARE 

Ann (Pinder) 106 

Henry 106 

James H. 106 

James M. 106 

WARFIELD 

Helen 170 

WARNOCK 

Armen, Mrs. 167 

Mary 167 

WARREN 

Theodosia 113 

WARWICK 

Aisla 149 

WATSON 

Belle 32 

WATTS 

Rachel 146 

WEAVER 

Jessie 73 

T. G., Rev. 147 

WEBBER 

Leroy 156 

WEBSTER 

Gladys 31 

WEDDLE 

Arla F. 104 

Chester 104 

Homer 104 

Margaret 104 

WEISS 

Annabelle 20 

WEISSE 

Maggie 15 

WELCH 


Frances 157 

WELKLIN 

Phillip, Rev. 161 

WELLER 

Dolly 103 

Mildred 8 

WELLS 

Herman B. 163 

WENGER 

Ethel, Spurlock 73 

Samuel 73 

WENTZEL 

Amanda 89 

WERNER 

Charles 98 

Dora J. 98 

Levi 98 

WERTZBERGER 

Ardenius 161 

Dennis 161 

Howard 161 

James 161 

Marc 161 

Mellie M. 161 

William 161 

WEST 

Kenneth, Mrs. 159 

Martha 159 

WESTWOOD 

Delbert 151 

Eva 62 

Fred 151 

James 151 

John E. 151 

Robert 151 

TRessa (Bloom) 151 

WHEELER 


Mildred 24 

WHETSTONE 

Ethel 51 

WHITCOMB 

Paul 36 

WHITE 

Delois, Mrs. 158 

Lawrence, Rev. 2, 79-80 

Marcella 158 

Nora 155 


WHITEHEAD 

Eleanor 108 

Marilyn (McKee) 63 

Robert, Rev. 70, 111 

WHITMYER 

Lucy 74 

WHITMYRE 

Sarah 93 

WHITNEY 

Bert 75 

Delmar 75 

Glen 75 

Leo 75 

WHITTAKER 

Willis, Rev. 63 

WHITTENBERGER 

Merl, Mrs. 25 

Stella 80 

WHITTON 

Dottie 70 

Doyle 68 

Jerry 68 

Paul 68 

Robert 68 

WICKS 

Earl 144 

Lola 144 

WIDEMAN 

Marie 46 

Mary 144 

WIKE 

Floyd, Mrs. 24 

Margaret 24 

WILBURN 


WILHELM 

Alexander 146 

Oliver "Cute" M. 146 

Rachel (Watts) 146 

WILHOIT 

Louise 168 

WILKES 

Elverna 149 


WILKINS 

Phil, Rev. 42 

Suzette 147 

WILKINSON 

Gary 132 


Ronnie 132 

Shirley Jean 132 

WILLARD 

Bertha 34 

Charles 34 


Daniel 34 

Dorsey 34 

James 34 

Joshua 34 

Katherine 34 

Wanda 34 

William 34 

WILLIAMS 

Arthur 66 

Cindy Lou 66 

Dianne Lynn 66 

Elizabeth 100 

Ilo (Sullivan) 66 

Joseph 91 

Leta Jo 133 

Martha (Gaskins) 11 

Paul 119 

Pearl 52 

Ralph 85 

Ray 108 

Robert E. 11 

Sarah 91 

Sarah (Atha) 91 

Wilber E. 11 

Zella (Durr) 108 

WILLMERT 

F. I., Rev. 76, 85, 92, 138, 143, 

152, 167 

F. L., Rev. 11 

Fremont, Rev. 16, 19, 42, 55, 61, 

69 

R. L., Rev. 36 

WILMERT 

F. L., Rev. 11 

WILSON 

Amos 10 

Andrew 10 

Andrew "Jack" 10 

Catherine (Shafer) 161 

Dick 10 

Elizabeth 10 

Harry L. 161 

Henry N. 161

James 161 

Margaret 21, 165 

Orma 69 

Sam 21 

Samuel H. 21 

Walter 21 

WILTSHIRE 

Jennie 145 

WINDBIGLER 

Henry 34 

Levi 34 

Pearl (Norris) 34 

WINEBREMER 

Larry, Rev. 41 

WINNER 

Virginia 117 

WINTER 

Mildred 141 

WINTERROWD 

Darlene 166 

Dennis 166 

Infant 166 

Michael 166 

Robert 166 

Ruth (Hartman) 166 

WIRTH 

Daisy 120 

WISENBERG 

Victor, Mrs. 40 

WISLEY 

Frank 41 

WOLF 

Clyde, Mrs. 103 

Daisy 9 

Ella (Johnson) 65 

Elsie 65 

Esther 103 

Ethel (Shetl) 29 

George 65 

Ora 65 


WOLFE 

Gordon, Mrs. 172 

WOLFORD 

Mae 116 

WOOD 

Albert 170 


Elizabeth (Bell) 98 

Lorene 2 

Mathew 98 

WOODCOX 

Carrie 73 

Eli 73 

Elizabeth 103 

Jonas 73 

Leonard 73 

Marion 73 

Paul 73 

Ray, Mrs. 57 

WOOLEY 


WOOLINGTON 

Arthur C. 108 

Arthur, Jr. 108 

Charles 58 

Dean 58 

Donald 58 

Harold 58 

Jessie 108 

Leroy, Mr. & Mrs. 58 

Lloyd 108 

WOOLSEY 

Bill 163 

WRIGHT 

Ann (Shadle) 129 

Ellen Jane (Davis) 49 

Everett M. 49 

Frank 129 

George 129 

George, Rev. 12, 76 

Grace 89 

Jennings 49 

Laura Ann 25 

Nola 49 

Oscar 49 

Owen 49 

Reece McNeil 49 

Rita 110 


Russell 49 

Sam 49 

Virginia 110 

William Wallace 49 

WRIGHTSMAN 

Edward 91 

Samuel 91 

Sarah M. (Hatch) 91 

WYNN 

Arlie 154 

Josephine 154 

YAKIMICHI 

Daralys, Mrs. 47 

YARIAN 

Mararet 125 

YEAGER 

Victor 53 

Victor, Rev. 14, 16, 37, 64, 133 

YEAZEL 

Luretta 126 

YELTON 

Clara 59 

YOUNG 

Alice 97 

Claude, Dr. 85, 173 

Claude, Rev. 4, 9-10, 40, 65, 102, 

115, 123-124, 135, 141, 172 

Evelyn 6 

Jessie, Rev. 15 

Viola 15 

YOVANAVICH 

Nasta (Stasich) 99 

Tanasko 99 

YOWELL 

Gladys 25 

ZAHNISER 

Ellis, Mrs. 55 

ZARTMAN 

Carolyn (Zartman) 56 

Cleo B. 133 

Dean 100 

Elzie 128 

Ernest 100 

Gertrude 100 

Kenneth 100 

Paul 100 

Ray, Mrs. 128 

Robert, Mr. & Mrs. 56 

Tom 56 

Wayne 100 

ZEGAFUSE 

Esther 68 

ZEHNER 

Lester, Mrs. 116 

Minnie 116 

ZELLERS 

Edna 136 

Louise 66 

ZIMMERMAN 

Allen 8 

Allen A. 8 

Clarence Russell 8 


Ellis 8 

Jacob 105 

Lesta 171 

Mary 8 

Mary (Butt) 8 

Mary (Ehmann) 105 

ZOLMAN 

Harley E. 142 

John 142 

Nancy Adeline 142 

Nancy Adeline (Zolman) 142 

ZOOK 

Bertha 13 

ZOROVICH 

Mike 63 

Mildred 63 

ZUCK 

Phila 47 

ZUMBAUGHzszz 

Ann (Pontious) 105 

Howard 105 

Jacob 105 

John, Mrs. 17 

Mary 68

FULTON COUNTY INDIANA 

OBITUARIES 

1957 

The News-Sentinel 

Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh 

TOMBAUGH HOUSE 

700 Pontiac Street 

Rochester, Indiana 46975-1538 

2001

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