The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Vera Floor
Mrs. Orvan (Vera) FLOOR, 61, Akron, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday at her home after an
illness of nine months. She had spent the majority of her life in and around the Akron community.
Mrs. Floor was born Feb. 30, 1898, in Wabash county, the daughter of Marion and Pearl
LAUTZENHIZER MARTIN. On April 20, 1916, she was married in Akron to Orvan FLOOR,
who survives.
Mrs. Floor was a member of the Lincoln Ladies Aid and attended the Akron Church of
God all her adult life. She was a graduate of Akron high school and had attended Indiana State
Teachers college at Terre Haute.
Surviving besides the widower are seven daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Phyllis) MUNSON,
Warsaw; Mrs. Victor (Frances) SLONAC, Hammond; Mrs. Horace (Norma) BARR, Akron; Mrs.
John (Jennett) SMARZ, Chicago; Mrs. Donald (Cleo) WARREN, Warsaw; Mrs. Roger (Gladys)
GAFF, Akron, and Mrs. Alonzo (Martha) HOWARD, South Bend; three sons, Marion E.
[FLOOR], Hammond; Orvan [FLOOR], Jr., Warsaw, and James R. [FLOOR], Santa Monica, Cal.
Also twenty-one grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Paul (Rachel) FLOOR, Silver Lake, and
Mrs. W. D. (Mary) KREAMER, Belvia [Belleview ?], Ill.; and a brother, Marion F. MARTIN,
Wabash. One daughter and five grandchildren preceded Mrs. Floor in death.
The Rev. C. B. ROWE of Mishawaka, assisted by the Rev. Harold CONRAD and the
Rev. Walter BLOUGH, will conduct funeral services at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Akron Church
of God. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery.
Friends may call at the Sheetz funeral home, Akron, between 7 p.m. today and noon
Thursday, when the body will be taken to lie in state at the church.
Wednesday, March 11, 1959
Della McDougle
Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton for
Mrs. Della McDOUGLE, 71, native of Fulton county, who died Tuesday noon at the home of her
son, Emerson [McDOUGLE], 27 East Second street, Peru. She had been ill two weeks.
The Rev. Gerald KREH, assisted by the Rev. C. W. MONTGOMERY, will officiate.
Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery.
The body will be taken to the residence 408 West 14th street, Peru, where friends may
call between 10 a.m. Thursday and noon Friday, when the body will be returned to the funeral
home for services.
Mrs. McDougle had lived in Peru since October, moving there from Mexico. She was
born March 7, 1888, near Fulton, the daughter of John and Emma BLOOM LEAVELL. She was
married March 14, 1909, in Fulton to Clarence McDOUGLE, who died Oct. 30, 1955. She was a
member of the Baptist church.
Surviving are three sons, Vernon and Emerson, both of Peru; Leon [McDOUGLE],
Denver; five daughters, Mrs. Georgie BARNETT, Florida; Mrs. Mabel STEININGER, Auburn;
Mrs. Maxine McDANIEL, Cedar Lake; Mrs. Ellen JOHNSON, Lowell, and Mrs. Delores
WARREN Peru; forty-two grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one brother, Clyde
LEAVELL, Fulton,and two sisters, Mrs. Anna OLIVER, Kewanna, and Mrs. Loyd SHOWLEY,
Fulton. A daughter preceded her in death.