The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Charles O. Watson
Funeral services for Charles O. WATSON, 81, Bradenton, Fla., father of Paul WATSON
of Rochester, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Biggs funeral home in Marion.
Mr. Watson, who had spent most of his life in Huntington county, died about 6 p.m.
Monday. He had been ill for some time.
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Friday, September 25, 1959 to Saturday, September 26, 1959
Monday, September 28, 1959
Cora F. Rogers
Mrs. Cora F. ROGERS, 88, 1013 Monroe street, died Sunday evening at the Pontious
nursing home after a three-week illness.
Born Sept. 21, 1871, near Rochester, she had spent her entire life in Fulton and
Kosciusko counties. Her parents were George W. and Catherine SHAFFER GREGSON. She was
married Sept. 6, 1890, in Rochester, to Walter L. ROGERS, who died in 1937.
She was a member of the Rochester E.U.B. church.
Surviving are one daughter, Vera P. ROGERS, at home; two sons, Estel ROGERS,
Rochester, and Harley L. ROGERS, Akron; seven grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.
One daughter, Edith [ROGERS], died in 1900. Mrs. Rogers was the last surviving member of
nine children.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home
with the Rev. I. E. LONGENBAUGH of Warsaw, former E.U.B. pastor here, officiating. Burial
will be in the Nichols cemetery north of Akron. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m.
today.
John E. Richardson
John Edward RICHARDSON, 47, of Rochester, died suddenly of a heart attack at 2 a.m.
Sunday while visiting friends in Chicago.
The son of Fred and Mary BALDWIN RICHARDSON, he was born July 20, 1912 and
had lived in Benton Harbor 25 years. He was co-owner of the Office Equipment company and
was active in a Little Theater group there. He attended Rochester high school.
Surviving are his wife, Louise [RICHARDSON]; a brother, Robert [RICHARDSON],
Dayton, O.; a sister, Mrs. Al (Mary Jayne) DASSE, Benton Harbor; and an uncle, Dr. Charles
RICHARDSON, Rochester. The brother and the sister both are former Rochester residents.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Kirlikouske funeral home in St. Joseph,
Mich.
Tuesday, September 29, 1959
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