The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Anna F. Gray
Funeral services will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton for
Mrs. Anna F. GRAY, 80, Fulton, who died at St. Joseph hospital in Logansport at 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday after a six-month illness.
The Rev. William KEITH will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Fulton
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
A resident of the Fulton community since 1904, Mrs. Gray was born June 6, 1879, in
Benton county, the daughter of William and Malvinana LIPSCOMB NUTT. She was married Jan.
3, 1900, to William H. GRAY, who survives. Mrs. Gray was a charter member of the Fulton
Order of Eastern Star and of the Fulton Baptist church.
Also surviving are one son, Floyd [GRAY], West Palm Beach, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs.
Kline REED, R.R. 1, Rochester; Mrs. Oscar MILLER, Logansport, and Mrs. Clayson BAILEY,
R.R. 6, Rochestr; eight grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; two brothers, Roy NUTT,
Kewanna, and Oliver NUTT, Selma, Ala., and one sister, Mrs. Grace NEWCOMER, Indianapolis.
Martha Clinker
Mrs. Alvin (Martha) CLINKER, 73, at 4 p.m. Wednesday of carcinoma in her home, two
miles north of Akron. She had been ill three years, in serious condition for five months.
Born June 18, 1886 in Kosciusko county, Mrs. Clinker had lived in the Akron vicinity all
her life. She was the daghter of John and Mary BURKETT MEREDITH.
In 1907, Mrs. Clinker was married to Alvin CLINKER. She was a memer of the Beaver
Dam E.U.B. church and the Ladies Aid Society.
Surviving are the husband; a daughter, Mrs. Eldon (Lora) CUMERLAND, R.R. 2, Akron;
a son, Gerald [CLINKER], Akron; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs.
Zora McFARLAND, Akron, and several nieces and nephews. Two brother preceded her in death.
Services will be at 2 p.m. CST Saturday at the BeavrDam E.U.B. church with the Rev.
Lloyd OVERMYER officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery.
Friends may cll at the Sheetz funeral home in Akron from 7 p.m. CST today until noon
Saturday and at the church from 1-2 p.m.
Amelia Deeb
Mrs. Amelia DEEB, 69, Indianapolis, mother of Si DEEB, 1209 Hill street, died at 10
p.m. Wednesday in her home.
Mrs. Deeb lived for 20 years in Twelve Mile, leaving that community in 1952.
The body is at the Flanner and Buchanan funeral home in Indianapolis, where services
are pending.
Hazel Bowers
Mrs. Hazel May BOWERS, 66, died Wednesday at 4:35 p.m. in the home of her son,
James BOWERS, 916 Monroe street. A resident of 509 East 13th street, she had been living with
her son since becoming ill July 25. Death was due to hepatitis.
Born Feb. 11, 1893, at Winamac, she was the daughter of Mose and Nettie TOBEY
HEATER. She was married Sept. 30, 1919, at Winamac, to George BOWERS, who died June 28,
1953. The Bowerses had resided in Rochester for 30 years, moving here from Kewanna.
Mrs. Bowers was a member of the First Christian church.