The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Wednesday, April 8, 1959
Omer Rouch
Funeral services will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton for
Omer ROUCH, 78, Fulton, who died at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne.
Death came after a month’s illness.
The Rev. George CRANE of Rochester will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the
Salem cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Born Nov. 7, 1880, in Fulton county, Mr. Rouch was the son of Emmanuel and Amanda
SHELTON ROUCH. He was married in 1915 to Claudia GOODNER.
A member of the Fulton E.U.B. church, he is survived by the wife and one brother, Vuel
[ROUCH], Fulton.
Thursday, April 9, 1959
Mary C. Black
Mrs. Mary C. BLACK, longtime resident of Rochester, died at 90 years of age
Wednesday at 10:15 p.m. in the Mabel Waddle nursing home, 2112 North Delaware street,
Indianapolis.
Mrs. Black was the widow of George BLACK, who was a partner in the Black and
Bailey Hardware in Rochester for 19 years until his death Dec. 24, 1943. The Blacks had resided
many years at 1014 Monroe street.
Mrs. Black, in failing health for several years, had been residing in Indianapolis where
her son, Thomas, lives.
Born in Miami county Sept. 4, 1868, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
BUTLER and had spent most of her life in the Rochester community. She was married Sept. 17,
1893, at Rochester.
Mrs. Black was a member of the Grace Methodist church, Eastern Star and Rebekah
lodge. While a Rochester resident, she was most active in local women’s affairs, also belonging to
the Pythian Sisters, Victoria Reading Circle and Woman’s Club.
Surviving are the son, Thomas [BLACK], Indianapolis; one grandson, Thomas
[BLACK], Jr., a student at Wabash college; one granddaughter, Mrs. William PURCELL,
Princeton, N.J., and numerous nieces and nephews. One son, John [BLACK], preceded her in
death in 1918.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home
with Dr. Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may
call at the funeral home after noon Friday.
John Siple
John “Jay” SIPLE, 82, Mishawaka, a native of Argos, died at 4 a.m. today of a heart
seizure at St. Joseph hospital, Mishawaka, where he had been admitted at 7 p.m. Wednesday
evening. Mr. Siple had been ill several years.
He was born June 8, 1876, in Argos, the son of Jacob and Anna FISH SIPLE. He was
first married to Myrtle SMITH, who died in 1904, and then to Dora MUNSELL, who died in
1932.
Mr. Siple had lived in Mishawaka since 1934, moving there from Argos. He was a
farmer while living in Argos, but had been employed by the C. J. Turk company in Mishawaka.
He was a member of the Jordan Baptist church, Argos.