The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Maggie Metzger
Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie METZGER, 81, Silver Lake, who died in the Landis
nursing home at Argos at 9 a.m. Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Summe-Dickerson
funeral home at Silver Lake.
Burial will be in the Church of the Brethren cemetery west of North Manchester. Friends
may call at the Umbaugh funeral home in Argos until noon Saturday and after that at the Summe-
Dickerson funeral home.
Mrs. Metzger, who entered the nursing home about a year ago, died after a lingering
illness.
Born Aug. 6, 1878 in Indiana, she was the daughter of Daniel and Kathryn BALLINGER
VANCE. She had spent most of her life in the Silver Lake and Laketon communities.
Mrs. Metzger’s husband, Lyman [METZGER], died in 1938. She was a member of the
Seventh Day Adventist church.
Surviving are a son, George [METZGER], Argos; two sisters, Mrs. Ralph BRANDS,
Chicago, and Mrs. Warren HENRY, Silver Lake; a brother, Layman VANCE, Claypool; two
grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Saturday, November 21, 1959
William Zink
Final rites for William ZINK, 77, retired farmer, realtor and auctioneer, who died Friday,
will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here.
The Rev. Kenneth FOULKE of the Rochester E.U.B. church will officiate, assisted by the
Rev. Clyde WALTERS of Logansport. Burial will be in the Richland Center cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today
Mr. Zink, who formerly lived at 1117 Franklin avenue, died at 3 p.m. Friday in the Miller
nursing home here, where he had been a patient since September, 1958. He had been in failing
health four years.
The son of Franklin and Martha ALEXANDER ZINK, he was born in Richland township
Aug. 18, 1882. He had spent most of his life in Fulton county. On Nov. 28, 1903, he was married
in Burnettsville to Jessie Lee LEMON. He was a member of the Rochester E.U.B. church.
Surviving are his wife, 901 Jefferson street; a daughter, Mrs. Donald COOK, Valparaiso;
three sons, Harold [ZINK], Indianapolis, and Everett and Charles [ZINK], Anderson; six
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Della RAHFELDT, LaPorte. A
daughter, Maxine [ZINK], and a son, Ora [ZINK], preceded him in death.
Monday, November 23, 1959
[no obits]