The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Wesleyan Methodist church with the
Rev. WAYNE of Fairmount officiating. Burial will be in the Walnut Church of the Brethren
cemetery. Friends may call at the Umbaugh funeral home in Argos until 1 p.m. Sunday, when the
body will be taken to the church to lie in state.
Monday, July 13, 1959
James H. Shobe
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home
for James Herbert SHOBE, 86, who died at Woodlawn hospital Saturday at 2:45 p.m. after a 10month
illness. He had been a hospital patient nine weeks.
The Rev. James RHOADS will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the I.O.O.F.
cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mr. Shobe, one of Rochester’s earliest car dealers, resided at 1127 Jefferson street. He
was born Aug. 5, 1872, in Lima, O., and had lived in this community 78 years, coming here as a
child with his family via covered wagon. His marriage was Feb. 27, 1895, at Macy, to Leora
SEVERNS, who died June 17, 1955. His parents were Samuel and Cinderella CONRAD SHOBE.
Mr. Shobe had been a dealer in Haynes autos, one of the earliest makes, and later sold
Studebaker, Dodge and Nash cars. He also had been a livestock broker.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Hattie PENNINGTON, Rochester, and Mrs. Mattie
CHRISTMAN, Indianapolis; one granddaughter, Mrs. Patricia BETTCHER, Phoenix, Ariz.; three
great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Minnie D. Cannon
Mrs. Minnie Dell CANNON, 90, Kewanna, died Snday at 12:40 p.m. in the Miller
nursing home here following a long illness.
Born March 4, 1869, in Flton county, she was the daughter of John M. and Sarah Jane
LOUGH. She was married Sept. 3, 1890, to William T. CANNON in Kewanna. He died in 1927.
Mrs. Cannon was a member of the Rebekah Past Grand club and of the Kewanna Baptist
church.
Surviving are two sons, Hugh [CANNON], Winamac, and Dean [CANNON], St.
Petersburg, Fla.; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Harrison chapel at Kewanna with the
Rev. Harry TAYLOR officiating. Burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetry. Friends may
call at the Harrison chapel.
Brent Blacketor
Brent BLACKETOR, 79, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kline BLACKETOR, Jr., R.R. 5,
Rochester, was killed this morning about 11:40 o’clock when he was crushed by a 25-ton road
grader on a highway construction project near Culver.
Blacketor, employed as a truck driver for the McMahan Construction company, was
working on the new location of Ind. 17, a mile south of Ind. 10, when the accident occurred.
Sheriff Jerry GREENLEE of Marshall county, Chief of Police Don MIKESELL of
Culver, State Trooper James YOUNG and Dr. Marshall STINE of Bremen, Marshall county
coroner, investigated.
According to reports, Blacketor was standing behind the large road grader, which had