The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Stella M. Fitch
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Harrison funeral home at
Kewanna for Mrs. Stella Mae FITCH, 61, who died Sunday night at Woodlawn hospital here.
The Rev. Henry TAYLOR will officiate at the last rites and burial will be in the I.O.O.F.
cemetery at Kewanna. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today.
Born June 16, 1897, in Fulton county, she was the daughter of Albert and Minnie MOON
SMITH. She was a member of the Women of the Moose at Peru and of the Baptist church.
Surviving are her husband, Harry FITCH, and her mother, Mrs. Minnie HARDY,
Kewanna.
Wednesday, February 4, 1959
C’Dale C. Miller
Mrs. C’Dale Christine MILLER, 58, died of a heart attack at 10 p.m. Tuesday in
Woodlawn hospital, where she had been admitted only 7 1/2 hours earlier. Death was unexpected,
although Mrs. Miller had been in poor health for 20 years. She resided at 314 West 11th street.
Born May 8, 1900, at Tiffin, O., she was the daughter of L. E. and Maude EGELKRAUT
CRABBS. A retired schoolteacher, she had spent her entire life in the Rochester community
except for 13 years in Elkhart.
She was married in 1939 at Indianapolis to Robert R. MILLER, who died Jan. 3, 1956.
Mrs. Miller was a member of the First Presbyterian church and of Sigma Delta Pi
sorority.
Surviving are one stepson, Burk B. MILLER, Rochester; one sister, Mrs. Betty DOWNS,
Tippecanoe; one brother, Lester CRABBS, Rochester; three step-grandchildren, several nieces and
nephews and grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
Last rites will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr.
Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home after Thursday noon.
Harry J. Leopold
Harry John LEOPOLD, 81, died Tuesday morning at his home in Culver. Mr. Leopold
had been ill since he fell in an accident at his home Jan. 2.
He was born Feb. 4, 1877, in Pulaski county near Medaryville. In 1901, he was married
to Hulda CASTLEMAN near Monterey.
The Leopolds moved to a farm southwest of Culver in 1915, living there for 40 years
before Mr. Leopold retired from farming. In 1955, the Leopolds moved into Culver.
Mr. Leopold was a member of the Grace United church and the Maccabees lodge.
Surviving are the widow, a niece, Mrs. Wilma Van DUYNE, Kewanna, whom the
Leopolds had raised from age two; three grandchildren and several other nieces and nephews.
Two daughters, Phoebe Helen [LEOPOLD], who died in infancy, and Mrs. Gladys Thelma
HOOVER, who died in 1942, preceded Mr. Leopold in death.
The Rev. Dr. Meredith SPRUNGER of the Grace United church will conduct funeral
services there at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, and burial will be in the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Friends may call at the Easterday funeral home, Culver.