The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

John W. McGriff
John W. McGRIFF, 49, Schererville, a former Fulton county resident, died in the hospital
at Hines, Ill., at 6:30 a.m. Saturday after an illness of several weeks.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGRIFF, who live on an Argos rural route near
Richland Center. A member of the U.S. Navy during World War Two, Mr. McGriff was
employed for a number of years as an assistant engineer at Inland Steel corporation in Indiana
Harbor.
Among the survivors, besides the parents, are an uncle, Albert McGRIFF, R.R. 2,
Rochester; three cousins, Ray and Roy McGRIFF and Max O’BLENIS, all of near Rochester, and
a sister, Edna McGRIFF, Hammond, who formerly lived in Fulton county.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Highland, Ind., with graveside rites and burial in
the Richland Center cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Tuesday, July 14, 1959
Brent L. Blacketor
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist church for Brent L.
BLACKETOR, 19, Rochester, who was killed Monday morning when he was crushed under a 25ton
road grader on a highway construction project near Culver.
The Rev. James RHOADS 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 after 4 p.m. today.
Blacketor was employed for the summer as a truck driver for the McMahan Construction
company. He resided wih his parents,Mr. and Mrs. Kline BLACKETOR, Jr., a mile east of the
city on the Fort Wayne road. The youth would have been a sophomore at the University of
Arizona, Tucson, this fall.
Born March 1, 1940, at Santa Monica, Cal., he was the son of Kline and Mabel
BARKMAN BLACKETOR. He was a member of the First Baptist church and of Phi Gamma
Delta social fraternity at the University of Arizona.
A 1958 graduate of Rochester high school, Brent had starred for three years as a regular
guard and tackle for the RHS football team, also competing in track and basketball.
Surviving are the parents; the paternal grandfather, Kline BLACKETOR, Sr., Rochester;
and the maternal grandfather, Harley BARKMAN, Rochester.
Myrtle M. Chapman
Mrs. Myrtle M. CHAPMAN, 75, who resided northeast of Mentone, died Sunday at 5:30
p.m. of a heart attack at her home. She had been in failing health two years.
Last rites will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Reed funeral home at Mentone with the
Rev. H. R. STEELE officiating. Burial will be in the Harrison Center cemetery northeast of
Mentone. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Born in Harrison township, Kosicuusko county, on Aug. 14, 1883, she was the daughter
of Josiah and Rowena BAKER SENSIBAUGH. She was married July 3, 1905, at Winona Lake,
to Earl CHAPMAN, who survives. The Chapmans formerly resided in the Burton and Talma
communities, operating a store at Talma.
Mrs. Chapman was a member of the Harrison Center E.U.B. church.
Surviving, besides the husband, are two brothers, Hiner [SENSIBAUGH], Warsaw, and
Curtis [SENSIBAUGH], Washington state, and one sister, Mrs. S. M. BAKER, Bethlehem, Pa.