The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Mrs. Thompson was a member of the VFW Auxiliary and the Rochester E.U.B. church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Marvin HAYS, Rochester; three grandchildren; three
sisters, Mrs. Jacob MILLER, Sr., Mrs. Claude JOHNSON and Mrs. Virgil LONG, all of
Rochester, and three brothers, Walter KALE, Rochester; Charles KALE, Mishawaka, and Paul
KALE, East Chicago.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with
the Rev. George CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at
the funeral home.
Thelma Krouse
Mrs. Thelma Grace KROUSE, 47, Tiosa native, died at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday at her
home five miles southeast of Argos after an illness of one and one-half years.
Born Jan. 16, 1912 to David and Molly DREW SWIHART, she had lived all her life in
Fulton and Marshall counties. She was married Marc 23, 1939, to Lloyd KROUSE, who survives,
and was a member of the Tiosa Brethren church.
Surviving besides te widower are a brother, Melvin SWIHART, Kokomo; a sister, Mrs.
Ruth BAILEY, Tippecanoe, and nine nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Wayne SWIHART Saturday at 2 p.m. at
the Tiosa Brethren church, with burial to be in New Oak Hill cemetery, Plymouth. Friends may
call at the residence, where the body is being taken from the Umbaugh funeral home in Argos,
after 7 p.m. today.
Friday, May 1, 1959
Leo W. Beehler
Leo W. BEEHLER, 54, a lifetime resident of the Richland Center vicinity, died at his
home on R.R. 1, Rochester, at 10:45 p.m. Thursday of a coronary embolism. He had been ill since
last November.
Born in Richland township April 14, 1905, he was the son of William and Christina
COPLEN BEEHLER. On Dec. 18, 1926, he was married in Huntington to Treva L. HAMLETT.
Mr. Beehler was a mechanic at the Jennings Motors Corp. in Rochester.
Surviving are the widow at home; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur D. (Mayzanna) PETERSON,
Phoenix, Ariz.; two grandsons, Dennis and Douglas [PETERSON], also of Phoenix; four sisters,
Mrs. Clair (Ruth) NELLANS and Mrs. Wilby (Rethal) EVANS both of R.R. 3, Rochester; Mrs.
Lee (Mary) THOMPSON, R.R. 2, Akron, and Mrs. Dwight (Alpa) ROUCH, Fulton; a brother,
Clyde J. BEEHLER, R.R. 3, Rochester, and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Beehler’s parents, a brother and a sister preceded him in death.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Foster & Good funeral home here, with the Rev.
C. J. MOWRER officiating, assisted by the Rev. Lloyd MENERY. Burial will be in the Rochester
I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after after 10 a.m. Saturday