The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Monday, April 6, 1959
Martha Smith
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for
Mrs. Martha Ann SMITH, 80, who died at 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the Miller nursing home, 719
Madison street. A patient there 14 months, she had been ill two years. Her residence was at 602
1/2 Madison street.
The Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD of the First Christian church will officiate at the funeral
and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
A native of Farmers City, Ill., Mrs. Smith was born March 19, 1879, the daughter of
David A. and Amanda OFTERDINGER WALLER. She came here 15 years ago from
Huntington. Married in Benton county June 10, 1903, her husband, Warren C. SMITH, died in
1944.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the First Christian church.
Surviving are a brother, Emerson [WALLER], Fowler; one granddaughter, Sue Ann
PHEBUS, Rochester; and several nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Ernest D. BONINE,
Rochester. One daughter, Mrs. Julia Ann PHEBUS, died in 1952.
Sollie Clemans
Sollie CLEMANS, 82, Macy farmer, died at 9:10 a.m. Sunday at his home one mile
southwest of Macy. He had been ill one month.
Mr. Clemans was born Oct. 10, 1876, in Newcastle township, Fulton county, the son of
David and Maria NICHOLS CLEMANS. He had lived in Macy for about 50 years.
On Dec. 3, 1898, he was married to Zella Mae DUEY, who died Oct. 17, 1957. Mr.
Clemans was a member of the Macy Christian church.
Surviving are a son, Merritt [CLEMANS], R.R. 6, Rochester; four grandchildren; ten
great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Ralph (Gladys) COFFING, Macy. A daughter, Mrs.
Florence MILLER, preceded him in death.
The Rev. I. T. ROGERS will conduct funeral services Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Macy
Christian church. Burial will be in Plainview cemetery, Macy.
The body will lie in state at the church one hour before the funeral. It was taken from the
Ditmire funeral home, Fulton, at noon today to the home, where friends may call.
Mrs. Howard Severied
Services for Mrs. Howard SEVERIED, 58, New Augusta, Ind., a former Monterey
resident, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the New Augusta Lutheran church. Burial will be in New
Augusta, also.
Mrs. Severied, sister of Mrs. Johanna WARREN and Isaac SLONAKER, both of
Rochester, died Saturday at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis.
The former Noretta SLONAKER, Mrs. Severied was born May 30, 1920, the daughter of
Plake and Effie WENTZEL SLONAKER.
Other survivors are the husband; two daughters, Sheila and Constance [SEVERIED], and
a son, Ralph [SEVERIED], all at home; the mother of Gary and two sisters, Mrs. Bill (Betty)
GOODMAN, Gary, and Mrs. Howard (Ethel) GOSS, Plymouth.