The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

others, Clark HANKS, Fairbury, Ill., and William HANKS, Delong; two sisters, Mrs. Rose
HAASE, Rochester, and Miss Charlotte HANKS, Fairbury, Ill.; three grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren. A daughter preceded her in death.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton with the Rev.
William KEITH officiating. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. Friends may
call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Friday.
Janice Lynn Vanatta
Janice Lynn VANATTA, three-month-old daughter of Donald and Evelyn SIDERS
VANATTA, Logansport, former residents of near Kewanna, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday in the St.
Joseph hospital at Logansport. Cause of death is undetermined. The infant was ill two days.
Janice Lynn was born in St. Joseph hospital last May 23. Her parents moved to
Logansport about a year ago.
Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Danny and Alan [VANATTA], and two
sisters, Linda and Nancy [VANATTA], all at home; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry VANATTA, R.R. 2, Kewanna, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
SIDERS, R.R. 2, Kewanna.
Services will be at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Burial will be
in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Friday, September 11, 1959
Celia Shelton
Mrs. Mary Celia SHELTON, 67, 301 Main street, died suddenly at 2:45 a.m. today in her
home of a heart attack. She had suffered from a heart ailment the past 20 years.
Born May 16, 1892, at Pontiac, Ill., she was the daughter of Michael and Charlotte
MURPHY FOX. Her parents died when she was six years of age and she was raised by foster
parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. David SMITH, who lived east of Rochester. She came to Rochester
55 years ago from Paxton, Ill.
Her marriage was on Aug. 14, 1919, in Rochester, to Ray SHELTON, who survives.
Mrs. Shelton was a member of the St. Joseph church, the Rosary and Altar Society,
NCCW of the Catholic church, was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary, a charter
member of the Onawa club and belonged to the Radio club.
Surviving, besides the husband, are one son, James [SHELTON], San Jose, Cal.; three
grandchildren; several nieces, including Mrs. Albertus Van DIEN and Mrs. Donald POLK, both of
Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. Otto POLLISCHECK, Muskatine, Ia., and Mrs. Harry SHEKEY,
Kankakee, Ill.; and one brother, Hugh FOX, Rockford, Ill. One son, two brothers and one sister
preceded her in death.
Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. in the St. Joseph church here with Msgr. J.
SHALL of St. Vincent’s church in Logansport officiating, assisted by Father George LANNING
of the St. Joseph church. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Foster & Good
funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday.