The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Wednesday, January 21, 1959
Emma L. Agnew
Mrs. Emma Loraine AGNEW, 91, who lived with her daughter, Ethel Troutman, R.R. 4,
Rochester, died at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at her daughter’s home. Mrs. Agnew had spent most of her
life in Winamac.
Born Nov. 8, 1867 in Cass county, Mrs. Agnew was the daughter of Jasper and Amanda
BROWN. She was married to Frank AGNEW, who died Jan. 27, 1933. She was a member of the
Winamac Christian church and a charter member of the Monroe Township No. 1 Home
Economics club.
Surviving are four daughters, Faye SMITH, Winamac, Ruth SAYLOR, Las Vegas, Nev.,
Mrs. Lucy CULLEN, Helena, Mont., and Ethel TROUTMAN; two sons, Gordon [AGNEW],
Santa Cruz, Cal., and Sam [AGNEW], Culver; twenty-nine grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren
and great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Fry and Lange funeral home at Winamac. The
Rev. C. D. BARRINGER will officiate and burial will be in the Crown Hill cemetery at Winamac.
Lucas Snyder
Lucas SNYDER, 77, father of Harold SNYDER of Rochester, died at his home in
Toledo, O., Tuesday night following a year’s illness. He had resided in Toledo his entire life.
Also surviving are the wife; four other sons including Lee SNYDER, Winamac; two
daughters and one brother. Funeral servies and burial will be Friday at Toldeo.
Thursday, January 22, 1959
Faye Wright
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Foster & Good funeral home for Miss
Faye WRIGHT, 73, 1025 Madison street, who died Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in her home of a heart
ailment. She had been in ill health six months.
Dr. Claude YOUNG will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the Reichter
cemetery six miles northeast. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Born March 5, 1885, in Richland township, she was the daughter of William and Amanda
SWINEHART WRIGHT. A lifelong resident of this community, Miss Wright was for many years
a stnographer for the local law firm of Holman, Bernetha and Miller. She had been admitted to the
State Bar Association.
She was a member of the Grace Methodist church and the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving are four sistrs, Miss Lefa WRIGHT, Mrs. Ruth COPPEDGE and Miss Rena
WRIGHT, all of 1025 Madison street, and Mrs. Mazie SEE, Oakland, Cal.; three nieces and three
nephews. Her parents and two sisters preceded her in death.