The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Blanche Edington
Word has been received here of the death in Manchester, O., of Mrs. Blanche
EDINGTON, 81, mother of Charles EDINGTON, who lived in Rochester until about two weeks
ago.
Mrs. Edington died last Sunday morning aftr being in ill health for several years and
bedfast for the last 20 months. Burial was in Manchester last Tuesday.
Other survivors are a son, two daughters, a sister, a brother, ten grandchildren and twelve
great-grandchildren. Charles Edington moved to Manchester two weeks ago.
Saturday, March 28, 1959
Ella May Hill
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zimmerman Brothers
funeral home here for Mrs. Ella May HILL, 81, who died at Parkview hospital, Plymouth, at 11:30
a.m. Friday.
Mrs. Hill was a native of Rochester, being born here March 31, 1877, the daughter of
Zachary Taylor and Laura Matilda LACKEY PRIEST. On Dec. 25, 1898, she was married here to
Edward M. HILL, who preceded her in death on May 27, 1955.
Mrs. Hill, a housewife, had lived in Plymouth for the last two years, moving there after
living at Inwood for 12 years. She moved from Rochester in 1917. She was a member of the
Baptist church.
Surviving are three daughters, Miss Loreen HILL, Plymouth; Mrs. Zelna (Mildred)
SPARKS, Hammond, and Mrs. Joseph (Jenesse) BARKER, Portage, Wis.; six grandchildren;
twelve great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Amy MARSHALL, Whiting, and Mrs. Della
THRUSH, Milwaukee, and a brother, Arnold PRIEST, South Bend. Two sisters and a brother
preceded her in death.
The Rev. Richard MITCHELL of Fort Wayne, formerly pastor of the Rochester Baptist
church, will be in charge of services. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends
may call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after 3 p.m. today.
Monday, March 30, 1959
Nellie E. Howard
Mrs. Nellie E. HOWARD, 86, 700 Pontiac street, died at 5:30 a.m. today at Woodlawn
hospital, where she had been a patient since March 13. Mrs. Howard was the widow of William
A. HOWARD, long time Rochester jeweler.
She was born in New York in 1872 but had lived in Rochester for about 75 years. She
was the adopted daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. LYNK, former station agent for the
L.E. & W. (now the Nickel Plate) railroad here.
Mrs. Howard was married here Dec. 16, 1897. Mr. Howard preceded her in death on
Nov. 20, 1948. A housewife, she was a member of the Rochester Presbyterian church.
Surviving are two sons, Ayrton [HOWARD], LaPorte, and George [HOWARD],
Rochester. A brother, George [LYNK], preceded her in death.
The body was taken to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home, where funeral
arrangements are pending.