The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

conservatory of music and had been employed by schools at Laurel, Del., and Prestonburg and
Pikesville, Ky.
He was married Dec. 24, 1946, to Vada REFFETT, who survives. She is a teacher at
Riddle elementary school. Mr. Barts was a member of the Grace Methodist church and Rochester
Lions club and was a veteran of World War II.
Surviving besides his wife are one son, Charles Keith [BARTS], two years of age; his
parents, Rochester; one brother, Joseph [BARTS], Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. June VRANA,
Rochester, and Mrs. Alice SROUFE, Macy; one niece and four nephews.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grace Methodist church, with Dr. Claude
YOUNG officiating, assistd by the Rev. James REFFETT and the American Legion. Burial will
be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Ferris Hatfield
Mrs. Ferris [BRYANT] HATFIELD, 60, Talma, who with her husband, Ralph
[HATFIELD], operated the Talma general store, died at 1 a.m. Sunday at her residence after an
illness of three weeks.s
A native of Akron, Mrs. Hatfield had spent her entire life in Fulton county, most of it in
Talma. She was born June 8, 1898, the daughter of Phillip and Florence NELSON BRYANT.
She was married May 29, 1932, in Akron and was a member of the Talma Methodist
church.
Surviving are the husband; her step-mother, Mrs. Cora BRYANT, Talma; a sister, Mrs.
Glen EMMONS, Talma; a brother, Estel BRYANT, Akron, and several nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here with
the Rev. Delbert RUBERG, Huntington, officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F.
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Tuesday, March 24, 1959
Robert J. Minglin
Robert J. MINGLIN, 39, 429 West Fifth street, died Monday at 9 p.m. at Woodlawn
hospital, where he had been a patient the past week. Death came after six months’ illness and was
attributed to uremic poisoning, following a gallbladder operation.
Employed as custodian of Lincoln junior high school, Mr. Minglin was born near
Logansport on March 29, 1919, the son of William R. and Rosa DOHLE MINGLIN. He was
married April 1, 1945, at Rochester to Willetta Van LUE, who survives. Mr. Minglin had resided
in Rochester since 1935, coming here from Logansport.
He was a World War II veteran and a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church.
Also surviving are one daughter, Rosa Jane [MINGLIN], 11; one son, Richard J. H.
[MINGLIN]; his mother, South Bend; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth HOOVER and Mrs. Margaret
KINGERY, both of South Bend; two brothers, Charles and Glen [MINGLIN], both of South
Bend, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Last rites will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with the Rev.
James RHOADS of the First Baptist church officiating, assisted by the Rochester American
Legion Post. Burial will be at the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7
p.m. Tuesday.