The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Thursday, April 23, 1959
Jesse Button
Funeral rites will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ditmire funeral home in Fulton for Jesse
BUTTON, 46, who died in Woodlawn hospital Wednesday morning of burns sustained in a
gasoline fire at his farm home three miles southwest of Fulton
The Rev. William KEITH will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Cline
cemetery, Royal Center. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Button was alone about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and apparently had begun to fill his tractor
with gasoline from an overhead tank in the barnyard. It is surmised that the gasoline spilled on
him and ignited from some spark. The tractor itself was not burned.
Mrs. Button was attracted to the scene by the barking of the family dog. She and her
brother, Frank SERA, rushed to Button’s aid and smothered the fire with blankets. Sera was
burned about the hands in this effort.
The Fulton fire department was summoned and used a resuscitator both at the farm and in
the ambulance which rushed Button to the hospital. He died 15 minutes after admittance. Dr.
Howard ROWE, Fullton county coroner, and Dr. Carson McGUIRE, deputy coroner, were called
on the case.
The Button family had resided in Liberty township the past 10 years, moving there from
Winamac.
Button was born March 27, 1913, west of Royal Center, the son of George and Anna
KOSKO BUTTON. He was married March 15, 1937, to Kathryn SERA.
Surviving ar the wife; three daughters, Mrs. Eldon (Virginia) GOHN, R.R. 4, Rocheter;
Mrs. Robert (Elsie) SHOUP, R.R. 1, Logansport, and Lois [BUTTON], at home; one son, Donald
[BUTTON], at home; one granddaughter; two brothers, Forrest [BUTTON], R.R. 3, Winamac;
Clyde [BUTTON], Logansport; two sisters, Mrs. W. L. BAUER, Logansport, and Mrs. James
STELLHORN, Monon.
Elmina Insley
Services will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton for Mrs.
Elmina INSLEY, 82, who died at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Fulton home of her daughter, Mrs.
William (Ruth) ABBOTT. Death came after a three-month illness.
The Rev. William KEITH will officiate at the funeral and burial will be in the Fulton
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mrs. Insley was born in Bloomington, Ill., March 27, 1877, the daughter of Thomas and
Alcinda ALLEN WOOD. She came to Fulton 38 years ago from Hoopeston, Ill.
She was married Jan. 12, 1889, to Othel INSLEY, who died Dec. 5, 1958. Mrs. Insley
was a member of the Church of the Brethren.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. ABBOTT; eight grandchildren; twenty greatgrandchildren,
and a sister, Mrs. Ellen LAFLEN, Hoopeston, Ill.