The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Monday, July 6, 1959
Claude Jameson, Sr.
Claude JAMESON, Sr., 68, died Sunday at 10:05 a.m. in the Veterans hospital at Fort
Wayne where he had been a patient 12 days. A resident of Newcastle township near Talma, Mr.
Jameson had been ill about three months.
Born Aug. 26, 1890, at Tiosa, he was the son of David Lee and Mary Ellen BROWN
JAMESON. Married March 25, 1918, at Warsaw, to Treva GRUNDISCH, he had resided in
Fulton county most of his life. His wife died July 25, 1943.
Mr. Jameson was a retired telephone lineman and farmer. He was a member of the
Talma Methodist church, the Rochester American Legion Post, the Talma Rod and Gun Club,
Newcastle Township Lions club and was active as a leader in the Happy Harvester 4-H club the
past 10 years.
He was a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J. W. (Janice) RUDNICKAS, Rochester, Minn., and
Miss Sandra Ann JAMESON, at home; one son, Claude [JAMESON], Jr., R.R. 5, Rochester; one
step-brother, Alvin FINNEY, Rochester; one step-sister, Miss Helen FINNEY, Washington, D.C.,
and two granddaughers, Rochester, Minn.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral
home with the Rev. Dale BARDSLEY of Bourbon officiating, assisted by the Rochester American
Legion Post. Burial will be in Gracelawn cemetery at Claypool. Friends may call at the funeral
home after 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Clara Stretch
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara STRETCH, 71, 1015 1/2 Jefferson street, will be Tuesday
at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here. The Rev. H. Gordon HYDE of Bedford,
former Baptist minister here, will officiate and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends
may call at the funeral home.
Mrs. Stretch died of a heart attack Saturday at 2 p.m. at her home. She had been in
failing health the past year, seriously ill for 10 weeks.
Born Aug. 31, 1887, in Odell, Ill., she was the daughter of William and Martha
BOWERS and came to Rochester 30 years ago from Graymont, Ill. She was married Nov. 15,
1916, to Forrest C. STRETCH. Her husband, who was a Rochester policeman, died Dec. 28,
1952.
Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Lyle (Lavonnes) BAILEY, Mrs. Francis (Martha Jean)
CARLSON and Mrs. Frederick (Willa) WAGONER, all of Rochester; Mrs. Robert (Bonnie)
TOWNSEND, Akron, and Miss Marilyn STYRETCH, at home; one son, Louis STRETCH,
Cambridge City; two sisters, Mrs. Ed DOLTON, Pontiac, Ill., and Mrs. Bert ABELGORE,
Roseburg, Ore.; two brothers, Harry and William BOWERS, both of Roseburg; thirteen
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Vera K. Cloud
Mrs. Vera K. CLOUD, native of Rochester, died this morning at 2:55 a.m. in South
Bend’s Memorial hospital. She resided at R.R. 1, Garver Lake, near Edwardsburg, Mich.
Born in Rochester, she had lived near Edwardsburg for the past nine years, moving there
from South Bend. She was married Nov. 29, 1933, at Muncie, to Richard CLOUD, who survives.
Her parents are James and Julia KEPLER of Rochester. Her husband operates Cloud Brothers
furniture store in South Bend.