The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Harvey A. Hessler
Harvey A. HESSLER, summer resident of Nyona Lake for 10 years, died in a Logansport
hospital Thursday at 4:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Hessler had just returned from their winter home in
Tavares, Fla., where they spent the winter.
Mr. Hessler was present president of the Nyona Lake Fish and Game Club, Inc.; he had
served as president of the club also when the dam was constructed at the lake. He was interested in
all community projects at the lake.
Mr. Hessler retired five years ago from railroad work and belonged to many Masonic
organizations and the Lions club.
Besides the wife, he is survived by a son, Harvey HESSLER of Logansport, and a
daughter, Mary Lou SKAGGS, Martinsville, and four grandchildren.
Services and burial will be Sunday in Plainfield, where he was born.
Saturday, May 2, 1959
Charles E. Mutchler
Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist church for
Charles E. MUTCHLER, 86, 1315 Bancroft avenue, who died at 3:45 p.m. Friday at Woodlawn
hospital. Mr. Mutchler had been a patient in the hospital for three days, since suffering a cerebral
hemorrhage Tuesday.
The Rev. James RHOADS will have charge of the rites, and burial will be in Citizens
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Mr. Mutchler was born Jan. 19, 1873, near Upper Sandusky, O., to Jacob and Matilda
WILMUTH MUTCHLER. When he was five years old, the family moved by wagon from that
city to the Bearss community near Reiter. Except for living several years in Hammond and
Kewanna, he was a lifetime resident of Rochester.
At one time the owner of the Ault Medicine company, Mr. Mutchler later became a
carpenter. He was a member of the First Baptist churcvh and the Masonic lodge.
He was married at Young America Aug. 12, 1952, to Emma GILLILAND, who survives.
Other survivors include two stepsons, Edward and Orville GILLILAND, both of
Rochester; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Chester McCALLA, also of here, and several nieces and nephews.
Mary B. Purcell
Final rites for Mrs. Mary Barbara PURCELL, 74, a lifetime resident of the Delong and
Culver areas, will be in the Monterey Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. Paul
JUMP officiating. Burial will be in the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Mrs. Purcell died just before midnight Thursday in the Norman Beatty Memorial hospital
at Westville, where she had been a patient six years.
She was born in Delong Feb. 28, 1885, the daughter of Nicholas and Emma
HEMMINGER HARTZ. Mrs. Purcell was a member of the Monterey Methodist church.
Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Margaret PHILLIPS and Miss Ethel HARTZ, both of
South Bend; Mrs. Netti REUTER, Dowagiac, Mich, and Mrs. Lena PERYAN, Mishawaka; and
one brother, Harry HARTZ, R.R. 4, Rochester.
Friends may call at the Easterday funeral home in Culver.