The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

William M. Brown
William M. BROWN, 87, 415 West Third street, died at 4:40 a.m. today at the Rochester
nursing home. Mr. Brown had been a patient there since Dec. 27, 1958, after suffering a stroke in
March of 1957.
A lifelong rsident of Rochester, he was born here Nov. 23, 1871, the son of Angus and
Lucy CHINN BROWN. He was married twice, the first time to Nellie Mae OWENS on Oct. 29,
1892. She died Feb. 13, 1936, and on Oct. 9, 1937, he was married to Bertha M. ALSPACH. The
second Mrs. Brown died March 24, 1953.
Mr. Brown was retired. He was a member of the Christian church and the Knights of
Pythias.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Georgie) NAVLICK, 415 West Third street; two
step-sons, Louis ALSPACH, Rochester, and John R. ALSPACH, Sturgis, Mich.; several nieces
and nephews, and a step-grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral
home by the Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may
call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Earl Wilson
Earl WILSON, 30, 1119 Jefferson street, died of a heart attack about 9:30 o’clock this
morning at the Walburn Feed Store, 419 Main street, where he was employed. Keith WALBURN,
store owner, was Mr. Wilson’s son-in-law.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body was removed to the Zimmerman
Brothers funeral home, where friends may call after noon Sunday.
Monday, March 2, 1959
Earl Wilson
Final rites for Earl WILSON, 59, 1119 Jefferson street, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the
Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here. The Rev. George R. CRANE, retired Rochester E.U.B.
pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Mr. Wilson died at 9:30 a.m. Saturday of a heart attack at the Walburn Feed Store, 419
Main street, where he was employed. He was the father-in-law of Keith WALBURN, the store
owner.
A member of the Priaire Grove E.U.B. church, Mr. Wilson had worked at Walburn’s
since 1946. He was born on April 13, 1899, southwest of Rochester, the son of John S. and Jennie
McCAY WILSON, who survive.
Also surviving are a son, Wayne [WILSON], Rochester; three daughters, Mrs. Martha
MATHIAS, South Bend, Mrs. Helen WALBURN and Mrs. Marjorie MUTCHLER, both of
Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Sarah FITZ, South Bend; three brothers, George [WILSON], Rochester,
Hobart [WILSON], Plymouth, and Clifford [WILSON], New Castle.
Friends may call at the funeral home.