The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Saturday, August 1, 1959
Elizabeth Miller
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton for
Mrs. Elizabeth MILLER, 76, who died at 7 p.m. Friday in her home one mile south of Fulton on
Ind. 25.
The Rev. Delmar KRUEGER of Rochester will officiate and burial will be in the Fulton
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today.
Mrs. Miller, the daughter of Peter and Eva KLAUS KALE, was born in Yugoslavia on
Dec. 24, 1882. She was married first to George GRAF, who died in 1914. Her second marriage
was Dec. 24, 1945, to Ernest MILLER. She had resided in the Fulton community since moving
there from Chicago in 1945. She was a member of the St. John Lutheran church at Rochester.
Surviving are the husband; two sons, Peter GRAF, R.R. 1, Macy, and George GRAF, in
Germany; two grandsons; five great-grandchildren; two step-children, Mrs. Anna Marie
SUTTON, Fulton, and Bernhard LATTERNER, R.R. 6, Rochester; one step-grandson and one
sister, Mrs. Margaret FREUND, Toronto, Canada.
Wendell Newcomb
Wendell NEWCOMB, 59, a native of Fulton county, died Thursday at 11 p.m. in the
University Medical Center at Portland, Ore. He resided at Newburg, Ore.
Born Aug. 2, 1899, in Fulton county, he had moved to Oregon 50 years ago from Argos.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt NEWCOMB of Argos. Mr. Newcomb belonged to the
McMinville (Ore.) Christian church.
Surviving are one son, Trent [NEWCOMB]; and a daughter, Nona Rae [NEWCOMB],
both of Dallas, Ore.; his father and stepmother, R.R. 1, Argos; one brother, Roy [NEWCOMB],
North Liberty; one sister, Mrs. Ruth HALTERMAN, R.R. 5, Rochester; one half-brother, Alvin
NEWCOMB, Tippecanoe; one half-sister, Mrs. Lydia SHOEMAKER, Stevensville, Mont.
Funeral services and burial will be at Newburg Monday. The Brown funeral home is in
charge of arrangements.
Nellie Richardson
Graveside rites will be Sunday at 3:45 p.m. in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here for Mrs. Nellie
RICHARDSON, 82, who died at Knox Thursday. She was a former Rochester resident. Mrs.
Richardson was a member of the Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary.
Monday, August 3, 1959
Pearl Czapansky
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist church for Mrs. Frances
Pearl CZAPANSKY, 64, 1229 Elm street, who died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday in her home.
Mrs. Czapansky’s death came suddenly, of a heart attack. She had attended an ice cream
social the previous evening and apparently had been in good health.
The Rev. James RHOADS will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Citizens
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until Tuesday noon, when the body will be taken
to the church to lie in state.
Born Nov. 29, 1894, in Rochester, she had resided here her entire life except for a few
years in Oklahoma. Her parents were Benjamin Franklin and Lydia May HARRING OWENS