The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Friday, June 19, 1959
Carl Silveus
Carl SILVEUS, 69, R.R. 1, Silver Lake, died at 11:05 p.m. Thursday at his home after a
three-year illness.
Born Aug. 22, 1889, in Kosciusko county, he had spent his lifetime in the Silver Lake
area. His parents were Perry and Della SEWARD SILVEUS. His marriage was in November,
1909, to Beulah PORTER, who survives.
Also surviving are one son, Howard [SILVEUS], at home; two daughters, Mrs. Joe
(Mildred) LECKRONE, R.R. 1, Silver Lake; Mrs. Willis (Gladys) PFEIFFER, Silver Lake; seven
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and one brother, Ernest [SILVEUS], R.R. 2, Akron.
Funeral rites will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Akron Church of God with the Rev. D. L.
SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the Tom
Haupert funeral home in Akron after 1 p.m. Saturday until noon Sunday, when the body will be
taken to the church to lie in state.
Nellie Steffey
Mrs. Nellie STEFFEY, Fort Wayne, died Thursday in that city. She was 76 years of age
and was born four miles east of Rochester. She was the daughter of Lawrence A. and Mary
RICKLE DURBIN.
She married Melvin STEFFEY Dec. 24, 1898. Four children survive, William, Robert,
Lester [STEFFEY], and Mrs. Lola JENNY, and of Fort Wayne. Also surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. A.L. BRAMAN, 607 Clayton street, and Mrs. Agnes WOODHOUSE, Peru.
The funeral will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in the D. O. McComb funeral home, 1140 Lake
avenue, Fort Wayne.
Everett E. Gray
Everett E. “Duke” GRAY of Fulton, Liberty township’s justice of the peace for the last
seven years, died Thursday night at 10:15 o’clock in his home. He was 77 years of age.
Gray, who assumed the justice of the peace post in 1952, had been in ill health the past 18
months. He also served in the J.P. position from 1921-23.
He was born June 5, 1882, in Ripley county, the son of William S. and Sarah GRIFFITH
GRAY. He moved to Fulton from Seattle, Wash., 15 years ago. On March 11, 1955, at Fulton, he
was married to Mary MORECRAFT, who survives.
Mr. Gray was a member of the Fulton E.U.B. church.
Also survivingt are one son, Paul [GRAY], Fowler; one granddaughter; two greatgrandsons;
two brothers, William [GRAY], Fulton, and George [GRAY], Union City, Mich.; four
sisters, Miss Mary GRAY, Fulton; Mrs. Edith DOLBEE, Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Ernest (Nettie)
DOLBEE, Union City, Mich, and Mrs. Elizabeth GRAY, Union City, Mich.; five stepsons,
Dwight, Jack, Orville and Dan MORECRAFT, all of Peru, and Kenneth MORECRAFT, Carlsbad,
N.M.; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Lucille Van METER, Peru; twelve step-grandchildren and one stepgreat-grandchild.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Fulton E.U.B. church with the Rev.
Arthur S. TRUEX officiating, assisted by the Rev. Lincoln LEHUE. Cremation will follow.
Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton and the body will lie in
state at the church one hour prior to the service. The family has requested that flowers be omitted.