The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Nettie Costello
Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie COSTELLO, 84, Metea, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at
the Metea Baptist church with the Rev. Raymond SHELTON officiating. Burial will be in Indian
Creek cemetery.
Mrs. Costello died after a lingering illness Monday at 2:45 p.m. in Akron. The body will
be taken from Sheetz funeral home at Akron to the home of a daughter, Mrs. William MANNING
in Metea at 3 p.m. today and friends may call there until one hour before the funeral. The body
will be taken then to the church to lie in state.
Born March 31, 1875, near Grass Creek, Mrs. Costello was the daughter of James and
Mary BAUMAN WARE. She was married in 1893 to Levi BUNDY, who died in 1911. Her
second marriage was to Edward POWNALL, who died in 1939. She married P. A. COSTELLO,
who survives, in 1950.
Mrs. Costello was a member of the Metea Baptist church.
Surviving besides the husband, are two daughters, Mrs. William (Olive BUNDY)
MANNING, Metea, and Mrs. Louis (“B” BUNDY) TOBISON, Harvard, Ill.; two stepdaughters,
Mrs. Gail (Genevieve POWNALL) DAVIS, Muncie, and Mrs. Winnie (COSTELLO) BRAATZ,
Arvada, Colo; one stepson, Jerry COSTELLO, Fargo, N.D., one sister, Mrs. Eva BEATTIE,
Rochester; four grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and three stepgreat-grandchildren.
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Wednesday, April 15, 1959
Thursday, April 16, 1959
Martha A. Gottschalk
Martha A. SWANK GOTTSCHALK, 88, Green Oak, died at 4:10 a.m. today, at her
home after a three months’ illness.
Mrs. Gottschalk was born Aug. 14, 1870 in Miami county, the daughter of George and
Fietta NOECKER SWANK. She was married Nov. 8, 1890, in Fulton county to William A.
GOTTSCHALK, who died in December, 1953.
Mrs. Gottschalk had lived most of her life in Fulton county, residing in Green Oak for the
last 56 years. She was a member of the Rochester E.U.B. church.
Surviving are four daughters, Miss May GOTTSCHALK, at home; Mrs Clarence
(Bertha) MURPHY, Denver, Ind.; Mrs. Alice FOUTS, Rochester, and Mrs. Ralph (Laura)
SHINDLER, R.R. 1, Rochester; two sons, Charles and Fred [GOTTSCHALK], both of R.R. 1,
Rochester; nine grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. The husband, a daughter, a grandson,
three great-grandchildren, two sisters and a brother preceded her in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Rochester E.U.B. church
by the Rev. F. I. WILMERT of Wabash, assisted by the Rev. Kenneth FOULKE, and burial will
be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
The body will be taken from the Foster & Good funeral home to the Gottschalk residence
where friends may call between 7 p.m. today and 11 a.m. Saturday when the body will be taken to
the church.