The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Wayne COOK, Akron; two sons, Floyd [SIPLE],
Mishawaka, and Jacob [SIPLE], Culver; eleven grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; a
sister, Mrs. Elzena HERNEW, South Bend, and a brother, Clyde [SIPLE], Mishawaka.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Grossman funeral home,
Argos, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. The Rev. James REFFETT of the Jordan Baptist
church will officiate and burial will be in the Jordan cemetery, Argos.
Friday, April 10, 1959
Homer L. Kiser
Homer L. KISER, 76, a former resident of Akron making his home in Highland, died at
10 a.m. Thursday at Highland hospital of a heart attack. Mr. Kiser had been ill one day.
He had lived in Highland for the last two years, moving there from Akron. He had
operated the Shell service station in Akron for 26 years before moving.
He was born Nov. 1, 1883, in East Chicago. On April 14, 1905, in Wabash, he was
married to Rose BALL. Mrs. Kiser died in 1956 at Akron.
Mr. Kiser was a member of Akron Masonic Lodge 659, the East Chicago Low 12 and
the East Chicago Knights of Templar.
Surviving are a son, Harold [KISER], Highland, with whom Mr. Kiser made his home;
two granddaghters; two great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Marie MILLER, Riverale, N.D.,
and Mrs. Bertha BREWER, South Bend.
The Rev. Maurice KESSLER will conduct funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday at the
Sheetz funeral home, Akron, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday. Graveside rites will be
conducted by the Akron Masonic lodge and burial will be in the Akron cemetery.
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Saturday, April 11, 1959
Monday, April 13, 1959
James Eiler
An accidental dynamite explosion hurled James EILER, 65, 315 East 14th street, about
40 feet through the air and killed him instantly Saturday afternoon on his farm five miles southeast
of Argos.
Eiler moved to Rochester five months ago after living on the Marshall county farm for 25
years. He was removing stumps with the dynamite when the accident occrred.
Dr. James COURSEY, Marshall county deputy coroner, and Jerry GREENLEE, Marshall
county sheriff, placed the time of death at about 2:30 p.m. They said Eiler apparently leaned over
a box of the dynamite and accidentally exploded it.
Eiler’s body was found by his wife, Evelyn [EILER], and a neighbor, Leonard LOWE,
Rochester, about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. They had gone to look for him when Mrs. Eiler, a nurse at
Woodlawn hospital, returned from work at 11:30 p.m. Saturday and her husband was not home.
Eiler had left Rochester with 5 1/2 pounds of dynamite about 8 a.m. Saturday, authorities
said. Mrs. Eiler called Rochester police after she returned home and when they could tell her
nothing of her husband, she and the neighbor went to the farm.
Eiler was born in Delaware county April 15, 1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
EILER. His first marriage was to Virginia ROOSE, who died in 1952. He then married Evelyn