The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

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Saturday, September 12, 1959
Monday, September 14, 1959
Frank Maroney
Frank MARONEY, 63, R.R. 2, Kewanna, died of a heart attack at 8:30 p.m. Sunday as he
was driving his car on Ind. 17 two miles north of Grass Creek.
The northbound car went off the west side of the road and into a cornfield owned by John
SHEETS. Dr. Carson McGUIRE, deputy coroner, pronounced Mr. Maroney dead at the accident
site. The sheriff’s office and state police investigated.
Mr. Maroney was born in Fulton county Feb. 7, 1896 and had lived in the county all his
life. He was the son of J. W. and Mary Louis CARROLL MARONEY.
A farmer, Mr. Maroney was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the Holy Name Society
of the St. Ann church at Kewanna.
Surviving are three sisters, Miss Agnes MARONEY, Miss Gertrude MARONEY and
Miss Margaret MARONEY, all of R.R. 2, Kewanna, and several nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the St. Ann church at Kewanna with the Rev.
Father James FITZGERALD officiating. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the Krueger funeral home in Logansport.
Lewis E. France
Lewis Earl FRANCE, 73, died at 10 p.m. Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John
SNYDER, 214 South Grove st., Argos. Mr. France died of a heart attack while watching
television. He had been in ill health for the past few years.
He was born March 9, 1886, in Bremen and had spent most of his life in Plymouth before
he moved to his daughter’s home in Argos three years ago.
He was married on July 7, 1905, to Grace Edith WAREHAM, who preceded him in death
in 1935. He was the son of Thomas and Emma HANI FRANCE.
Mr. France was a member of the Plymouth Church of God and was a retired merchant,
being owner of a grocery store in Plymouth for many years.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Thomas (Venus) WAGONER, Vallejo, Cal., and
Mrs. John (Nadine) SNYDER, and Mrs. Raymond (Madge) RYAN, Argos; four sons, Vernon
[FRANCE], Benton Harbor, Mich.; Thomas, Donald and Eugene [FRANCE], all of Plymouth;
three brothers, Everett, Arthur and Ray [FRANCE], all of Pasadena, Cal.; three sisters, Mrs. Helen
SCHMIDT, Arizone, Mrs. Winifred McGOWER and Mrs. Alice GRUBE, both of Concord, Cal.;
twenty-three grandchildren, and three geart-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at the Grossman funeral home, Argos, at 2 p.m. Tuesday with the
Rev. Maynard PYLE, Warsaw, officiating. Burial will be in the Fairmount cemetery north of
Plymouth. Friends may call at the funeral home.