The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Cora Dell Showley
Mrs. Charles (Cora Dell) SHOWLEY, 79, Hobart, a former resident of the Bruce Lake
community, died at her home at 11 p.m. Thursday after a lengthy illness.
Born Nov. 16, 1879, in Fulton county, she was the daughter of Silas and Harriet
OVERMYER SMITH. She was married Dec. 1, 1898 to Charles SHOWLEY, who survives.
Mrs. Showley was a member of the St. Paul’s Reformed and the Bruce Lake Community
churches.
Surviving besides the husband are two sons, DeForrest [SHOWLEY], Wilmette, Ill., and
Sanford [SHOWLEY], Leesburg, Fla.; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy NEFF, Hobart, and ten
grandchildren. A son, Curtis [SHOWLEY], preceded her in death.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Harrison chapel at Kwaanna with the Rev.
Clarence Y. GILMER officiating. Burial will be in the Bruce Lake cemetery.
Friends may call at the Harrison chapel after noon Saturday.
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Saturday, September 19, 1959
Monday, September 21, 1959
W. C. Roesler
W. C. “Bill” ROESLER, 41, former Rochester resident, died Sunday in a hospital at
Clinton, O., after a short illness. He left this city four years ago and while here was employed as a
roofing salesman. He also had been a member of the Manitou Moose lodge and was a World War
II veteran.
Surviving are the wife and four sons, all at home. Funeral rites and burial will be in
Hannibal, Mo., Thursday.
Mabel Lewis
Mrs. Mabel LEWIS, 72, died at 10:15 p.m. Sunday at her home in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
after a 10-month illness.
A native of the Mt. Zion community southeast of here, she was born April 25, 1887, the
daughter of Jerry and Rachel ANGLEMYER. She left the Rochester community in 1914.
Her marriage was in Chicago on Feb. 9, 1909, to Ua LEWIS, who survives. Mrs. Lewis,
a practical nurse by occupation, was a member of the Green Oak Methodist church.
Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Charlotte DEAN, Rochester; one granddaghter,
Jeannette DEAN; four sisters, Mrs. George (Ruth) Van EMAN, Mrs. Agnes QUINN, Mrs. Harold
(Mary Jane) BEAUDOIN, all of Rocheter, and Mrs. Martha PULS, Franklin, O. Three children
and one sister preceded her in death.
Funeral rites will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Wesleyan Methodist church at
Oklahoma City. The Guardian funeral home there is in charge of the rites.