The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Elva Johnson
Mrs. Elva JOHNSON, 80, widow of John JOHNSON and a native of Fulton county, died
Tuesday morning at her home in Chicago.
Mrs. Johnson was born Feb. 1, 1879, in Fulton county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles HOOVER. For many years she and her father operated Hoover’s grocery store on Main
street in Rochester.
Mrs. Johnson’s only survivor is a cousin, Mrs. Marie MILLER of Rochester.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday and burial will be in Streator, Ill.
Mrs. Clyde Biddinger
Mrs. Clyde BIDDINGER, wife of Clyde BIDDINGER, former resident of Leiters Ford,
died Wednesday morning at her home in East Chicago.
The husband and several nieces and nephews survive.
Funeral services will be conducted in East Chicago Saturday at 2 p.m. Kermit
BIDDINGER, R.R. 5, Rochester, a nephew, his wife and Clarence HINTON, a brother-in-law
plan to attend the funeral.
Simon B. Zehner
Simon B. ZEHNER, 80, R.R. 3, Argos, a retired farmer, died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at
his home, four miles west of Argos, of a heart ailment. Mr. Zehner has been ill two months.
A lifelong resident of Marshall county, he was born Nov. 10, 1878, in Green township,
the son of Michael and Melinda VOREIS ZEHNER. On June 10, 1900, he was married to Mina
ZUMBAUGH, who died May 29, 1954. Mr. Zehner had lived in his present home for the last 50
years.
He was a member of the Argos Methodist church, a past master of Argos Masonic Lodge
399 and a member of the Marshall County Actual Past Masters’ association.
Surviving are three sons, Henry and Welland [ZEHNER], of R.R. 3, Argos, Zehner
home, and Milo [ZEHNER], Akron, O.; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild and a sister,
Mrs. Newton CLEVENGER, Plymouth. A son, Orville [ZEHNER], died in 1951.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday by the Rev. E. J. PETERS of the
Argos Methodist church at the Grossman funeral home, Argos, where friends may call after 7 p.m.
today. Burial will be in New Oak Hill cemetery, Plymouth.
The Argos Masonic Lodge will conduct graveside rites.
Friday, April 17, 1959
Flora May Delp
Miss Flora May “Flo” DELP, 93, 1402 Main street, died about 11:15 o’clock this
afternoon at Woodlawn hospital, where she had been taken Sunday after suffering a stroke. She
had been in failing health for some time.
Born in Fulton county May 30, 1865, the daughter of the Rev. Edward J. and Mary Ann
MOON DELP, she had spent almost her entire life in Fulton and Miami counties. She came to
Rochester from Miami county in 1881 and was the last of a family of 12 children.
Miss Delp attended schools in the county and in Rochester, being graduated from Bryant
and Stratton’s business college in Chicago. She was employed in Chicago until returning to
Rochester in 1893.
A member of the First Baptist church here since 1882, she had been active in various