The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Dr. Guy V. Pontius
Funeral services for Dr. Guy Victor PONTIUS, 61, son of Mrs. Della PONTIUS of 130
West Eighth street, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Canes funeral home, 2121 West 35th street,
Chicago. Burial will be in the Beverly Hills cemetery at Chicago.
Dr. Pontius, one of the country’s outstanding physicians and surgeons, died Sunday
afternoon at his Orland Park, Ill., home following a heart attack.
Dr. Pontius was a native of Rochester, having been born here March 9, 1897, and was a
star on the RHS basketball teams of 1912-15 coached by R. C. JOHNSON.
Robert R. Reinholt
Robert R. REINHOLT, 30, son of Roy and Lottie HOOVER REINHOLT, died at 9:30
a.m. Monday at his home west of Kewanna in Pulaski county. He had long been in ill health.
Born in Pulaski county Nov. 6, 1928, he was a member of the St. Ann’s church of
Kewanna.
Surviving are the parents, seven sisters, Virginia, Lucille, Judy and Ruth Ann
[REINHOLT], all at home; Mrs. Phyllis REUTEBUCH, Winamac; Mrs. Maxine RAMSEY,
Logansport; Mrs. Wilma LYTLE, Lucerne; two brothers, Gene [REINHOLT], Chicago, and
Gerald [REINHOLT], Indianapolis, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth REINHOLT,
Buchanan, Mich. One brother, Kenneth [REINHOLT], preceded him in death.
The Harrison funeral home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete. Friends
may call at the funeral home.
Frederick A. Fenstermaker
Word has been received here of the death in Hammond last Thursday of Frederick A.
FENSTERMAKER, 74, former resident of Rochester and brother of Mrs. Lulu BLUE of
Rochester. Mr. Fenstermaker was stricken with a heart attack while cleaning the sidewalk at his
home. Funeral services were conducted Saturday.
Surviving besides Mrs. Blue are the widow, Laura [FENSTERMAKER], four daughters
and two sons.
Wednesday, January 7, 1959
Daniel F. Hizer
Daniel F. HIZER, 79, Grass Creek, died early today in Memorial hospital at Logansport
following an extended illness.
Mr. Hizer, a retired mail carrier, was born Sept. 17, 1880, near Grass Creek, Ind., was the
son of A. D. and Caroline SOMMERS HIZER. He was married Nov. 4, 1903, to Anna
HERROLD, who survives. Mr. Hizer was a member of the Grass Creek E.U.B. church.
Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Icel C. SHINDLEDECKER, Logansport; a son,
Fred [HIZER], Grass Creek, eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two half-sisters, Mrs.
Martha DIVELY, Grass Creek, and Mrs. Rose JACKSON, Kewanna, and three brothers, Joseph,
Dennis and Nelson [HIZER], all of Kewanna.
Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. D. H. KELLETT, at the Grass Creek
E.U.B. church at 1:30 p.m. Friday and burial will be in the Grass Creek cemetery. The body will
be taken from the Harrison funeral home, Kewanna, where friends may call after noon Thursday,
to the church one hour before the ceremony.