The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Harry Phillips
Harry PHILLIPS, of near Bourbon, died at 2:20 a.m. today at the Murphy Medical
cEnter, Warsaw, after an illness of several months. He is survived by his wife and several
children.
Mrs. Carl PHILLIPS, secretary at Rochester high school, is a daughter-in-law.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at the E.U.B. church in Bourbon.
Tuesday, October 20, 1959
Charles H. Long
Charles H. LONG, 79, R.R. 3, Argos, was found dead in his home six miles southwest of
Argos at 7 p.m. Monday. The Marshall county coroner said Mr. Long died of a heart attack,
possibly early Sunday night.
Neighbors of Mr. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd SEE, noticed there were no lights burning in
his home after dark Monday, so they called his niece, Mrs. Owen SMITH. The three went to the
Long house and found him dead in his bed.
A lifelong resident of the Argos vicinity, Mr. Long was born in Marshall county July 28,
1880, to Joseph and Rebecca BELL LONG. On Nov. 26 1910, he was married to Actie
ZOLMAN, who died Jan. 12, 1919. Mr. Long, a retired farmer, was the last of seven children in
his family.
Surviving besides Mrs. SMITH, of R.R. 3, Argos, are two nephews, Otto LONG and
Neal LONG, South Bend.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos. The Rev.
Harry CLAYBAUGH retired minister of Argos, will officiate and burial will be in the Richland
Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Wednesday, October 21, 1959
Anna Gray
Mrs. Anna GRAY, Fulton, wife of William H. GRAY, died at 11 a.m. today in St. Joseph
hospital at Logansport. The body will be taken to the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton, where
funeral arrangements will be made.
Thursday, October 22, 1959
R. C. Fansler
Last rites will be Friday at 2 p.m. CDT in Coldwater, Mich., for R. C. “Buck”
FANSLER, 48, a former resident of Fulton county. He died suddenly Wednesday morning of a
heart attack in his home at Coldwater.
Funeral services will be held at the Jutnam funeral home in Coldwater.
One of a family of 15 children, he was the son of Steven and Lena FANSLER of Bruce
Lake.
Surviving are the wife; one son and three daughters; five brothers, Arthur and Earl
FANSLER, both of Rochester; William FANSLER, Royal Center; Gilbert [FANSLER],
Milwaukee, and Lester [FANSLER], Gary; five sisters, Mrs. Mary CHAMBERS, Logansport;
Mrs. Bertha ZEIDERS, Niles, Mich.; Miss Emma FANSLER, Logansport; Mrs. Viola
CLAWSON, Medaryville and Mrs. Amy CRABB, Kewana.