The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

She was a member of the Edwardsburg chapter of Eastern Star.
Also surviving are a brother, Orlen KEPLER, and a sister, Mrs. Roscoe PLUNKETT,
both of Indian Rock Beach, Fla.
Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Edwardsburg Methodist church with the
Rev. Norman KNIGHT officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Memorial Park at South Bend.
Friends may call at the Pifer-Mayhew funeral home in Edwrdsburg.
James A. Williams
James A. WILLIAMS, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester WILLIAMS, died Sunday
morning at 8:20 o’clock in the Bluffton clinic after a two-year illness. The Williams family
resides three mines northeast of Fulton.
Born Oct. 25, 1938, in Fulton county, James was the son of Chester and Donna
GORDON WILLIAMS. He was a member of the Fulton E.U.B. church.
Surviving, besides the parents, are two brothers, Mark [WILLIAMS], R.R. 1, Rochester,
and Dee [WILLIAMS], at home; two sisters, Betty Jo and Sara Lou [WILLIAMS], both at home;
the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard WILLIAMS, Fulton, and the maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene GORDON, R.R. 6, Rochester. One sister, Bonnie Jean
[WILLIAMS], preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Fulton E.U.B. church with the Rev.
Arthur TRUEX officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at he
residence. The Ditmire funeral home at Fulton is in charge of the rites.
Myron E. Conover
Last rites were held this afternoon from the Grace Methodist church in South Bend for
Myron E. CONOVER, 66, former Rochester resident, who died Friday in St. Joseph’s hospital at
South Bend after a six-week illness. He resided at 1217 East Fox street in South Bend.
The Rev. Ralph STEELE officiated at the rites and burial was in the Maplewood
cemetery, Valparaiso.
A veteran of World War I, Mr. Conover left Rochester five years ago for South Bend. He
was born in Bradford, Ill., Oct 29, 1892, and on April 22, 1917, was married at Valparaiso to
Bernice WOLFE, who survives.
A member of the Grace church in South Bend, Mr. Conover had been a representative for
the Monarch Finer Foods firm of chicago in this area the past 40 years.
Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Charles G. GETMAN, Fort Wayne; two
granddaughters, Karen and Sandra GETMAN; two sisters, Miss Nina CONOVER, Hammond, and
Mrs. Wade C. HOLT, Bloomfield, Ky., and several nieces and nephews.
Russell V. Mathias
Last rites were held this afternoon at Pleasant Hill Methodist church for Russell Vern
MATHIAS, 62, who resided south of Akron in Miami county. Burial was in the Akron cemetery.
Mr. Mathias was found dead Friday at his home. Dr. O. B. JOHNSON, Miami county
coroner, attributed death to a self-inflicted wound from a .12 gauge shotgun. Mathias’ body was
discovered about 1 p.m. by his wife, Charlotte [MATHIAS], when she returned from a shopping
trip to Akron. He had been in ill health about four years.
Born Feb. 16, 1897, in Miami county, he was the son of Jacob and Suffronia CRIST
MATHIAS. He was a member of the Pleasant Hill church. His marriage was to Charlotte
DEILMAN on Oct. 23, 1919.