The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

grandsons; two sisters, Mrs. Darwin (Sylvia) GROSSMAN, Elkhart, and Mrs. Dewey (Anna)
CENTERS, Logansport.
Christian Science services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Ditmire funeral home in
Fulton with burial in the Fulton cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Monday, May 11, 1959
Bernice O. Rynearson
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for
Mrs. Bernice O. RYNEARSON, 71, who died about 9 a.m. Saturday at her home, 1114 Franklin
avenue.
Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace Methodist church will officiate at the funeral and burial
will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mrs. Rynearson’s death was sudden. Her body was found by a neighbor about 11 a.m.
Saturday. Dr. Howard ROWE, county coroner, established cause of death as a coronary
embolism.
Born Nov. 22, 1887, at Montoursville, Pa., she was the daughter of Bert and Aurilla
MOON HALL. She was married Aug. 3, 1905, at Farragut, Pa., to Lowe RYNEARSON, who
died Sept. 12, 1957. Mrs. Rynearson had lived at the Franklin avenue address since April 1, 1951,
moving there from the Moore farm three miles east of Rochester.
Surviving are five sons, Earl [RYNEARSON], Hughesville, Pa., and Ellis, Woodrow,
Reuben and Joseph [RYNEARSON], all of Rochester; two daughters, Mrs. Sarah COPLEN,
Mesa, Ariz., and Mrs. James (Marjorie) COX, Elwood; ten grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren
and one brother, Justin L. HALL, Rochester. One daughter, Helen
[RYNEARSON], prceded her in death in 1924.
Harold Overmyer
Services for Harold OVERMYER, 52, Mishawaka, a former Rochester resident, have
been set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Bubb funeral home in Mishawaka. Burial will be in the St.
Joseph Valley Memorial Park at Mishawaka.
Mr. Overmyer died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday at the St. Joseph hospital in Mishawaka. He
had been ill four months.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry OVERMYER, he is survived by a brother, Raymond
[OVERMYER], South Bend; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy MOYER, LaPorte; an aunt, Mrs. V. D.
BECK, Rochester, and several cousins of Rochester.
Tuesday, May 12, 1959
Manford C. Newgent
Manford C. NEWGENT, 48, a member of the board of directors of the Fulton County
Farm Bureau Cooperative the past three years, died suddenly of a heart attack Monday afternoon
at his home near Kewanna.
He was born May 8, 1911, at Greencastle, the son of Thomas and Millie CRICK
NEWGENT. His marriage was on Dec. 17, 1939, to Rosetta WOOLINGTON, who survives.
Mr. Newgent also was a member of the Methodist church, I.O.O.F. lodge, Pinhook
Grange and Fulton County Farm Bureau.
Also surviving are two sons, Robert and John [NEWGENT], at home; one daughter,