The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

R. Lee Overstreet
R. Lee OVERSTREET, 86, who was associated with Overstreet’s Resort at Lake
Manitou for 15 years, died at 1:40 a.m. today in the Rochester nursing home, where he had lived
for the last two years. He had been seriously ill for about five months.
Mr. Overstreet was the father of Kenneth OVERSTREET, who operated the resort
busines on the southwest side of Lake Manitou until selling it a few years ago.
A 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge at Pittsboro, Ind., Mr. Overstreet was a past
master of the lodge. He also was a member of the Pittsboro Christian church and of the
Brightwood chapter of the Order of Eastern Star at Indianapolis. He had been a farmer until he
retired from that occupation in 1940.
Mr. Overstreet was born in Lizton, Ind., on Jan. 22, 1873, the son of Aaron and Catherine
ELDER OVERSTREET. On Jan. 23, 1879, he was married in Pittsboro to Julia KEENY, who
died in 1938.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Max (Clarice) DAVIS, Speedway City, Ind., two sons,
Kenneth [OVERSTREET], of Rochester and Noblesville, and Charles [OVERSTREET],
Sheridan; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A son, three sisters and five brothers
preceded him in death.
Services in Rochester will be at the Foster & Good funeral home at 2 p.m. Thursday with
the Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD officiating. The body then will be removed to the Gregory funeral
home at Pittsboro. Services in Pittsboro will be in the Christian church at 2 p.m. Friday with the
Rev. Raymond O’HAVER officiating. Masonic rites also will be conducted. Burial will be in the
K. of P. cemetery at Lizton.
Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home after 7 p.m. today and at the Gregory
funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday.
Charles T. Beets
Funeral services will be Friday at 1 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here
for Charles T. BEETS, 79, Lake, who died at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Woodlawn hospital of a heart
ailment.
Burial will be in Galveston. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Mr. Beets, ill for the past week, had been a hospital patient since April 20. He had
resided seven years in the “Beets-All” cottage on the west side of Lake Manitou. A native of
Peoria, Ill., he was born July 28, 1879, the son of Thomas and Ellen BEETS. He was married in
1900 to Nora DAVIS, who died in 1932.
Surviving are one son, John [BEETS], Kokomo; four daughters, Mrs. John FETTERS,
Roann; Mrs. Virgil SCOTT, Peru; Mrs. Al HARBER, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Joe GILMORE, New
York City, and one brother, Chester [BEETS], Frankfort.
Thursday, April 30, 1959
Mildred Thompson
Mrs. Mildred Pauline THOMPSON, 54, 329 Jefferson street, died Wednesday at 2:45
p.m. in Woodlawn hospital, where she had been a patient since April 23. She had been seriously
ill since her admittance to the hospital.
A lifelong resident of this community, she was born Oct. 2, 1904, in Richland township,
the daughter of Alva Paul and Harriet Lovina WALTERS KALE. She was married here June 26,
1926, to Dallas THOMPSON, who died Nov. 14, 1958.