The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

(Eva) McHATTON, Akron; Mrs. Phillip (Jennie) HARDIN, Sr.; Silver Lake; Mrs. Fred (Carrie)
GERARD, Bourbon, and Mrs. Robert (Willowdean) WEIRICK, Silver Lake; one son, Ernest H.
[SWICK], South Bend; one sister, Mrs. J. W. SWICK, Akron; one brother, Victor SUMME,
Silver Lake; nineteen grandchildren and thirty-six great-grandchildren. One daughter preceded
her in death.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Center E.U.B. church, 1 1/2 miles north
of Silver Lake on Ind. 15. Burial will be in the Center cemetery. Friends may call at the Mchatton
funeral home in Warsaw after 2 p.m. Friday until 11 a.m. Saturday, then at the church Saturday
until the hour of the service.
Friday, August 14, 1959
Minnie D. Charters
Mrs. Minnie Dell CHARTERS, 78, longtime resident of the Prairie Grove community
near Kwqanna, died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in a Warsaw nursing home after a long illness. She
had resided in Rochester before going to the nursing home.
A native of Hardin county, Ohio, she was born Nov. 4, 1880, the daughter of Abraham
and Mary TIMMONS. Her marriage was on March 13, 1912, in Rochester to Jess CHARTERS,
who died Sept. 19, 1956.
She was a member o the Prairie Grove E.U.B. church, where funeral services will be held
at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with burial in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the
Harrison funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Surviving are a niece, Mrs. William BELCHER, Rochester; two grand-nephews; a halfsister,
Mrs. Carl MARCH, Winamac, and a half-brother, Abraham TIMMONS, Ohio.
Marion Studebaker
Last rites will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton for Marion
STUDEBAKER, 82, retired farmer who died at 3:25 p.m. Thursday at the home of Ruth HILL,
two miles northeast of Twelve Mile.
He had resided at the Hill home five years. Death came after a two-month illness.
The Rev. Arthur TRUEX will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the Metea
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Born Feb. 3, 1877, in Bethlehem township of Cass county, Mr. Studebaker was the son of
David and Margaret BLACK STUDEBAKER. He was married Sept. 10, 1899, to Amy FOY,
who died Nov. 2, 1946. He had lived several years at Fulton and was a member of the Fulton
E.U.B. church.
Surviving are a brother, Ernest [STUDEBAKER], Mentone, and several nieces and
nephews, including Paul HAMMOND, Culver. Five brothers and two sisters preceded him in
death.