The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Betty Lou [NEWGENT], at home; two brothers, Don and Clyde [NEWGENT], Greencastle; and
six sisters, Mrs. Floyd STODDARD, Mrs. Willard CLODFELTER and Mrs. Claude STEWART,
all of Greencastle, Mrs. Franklin FORD, Roachdale, Mrs. Dale EUBANKS, Indianapolis, and
Mrs. Ermal KALEY, Plymouth.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Harrison funeral home at
Kewanna. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Millie Borton
Last rites have been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Forest G. Hay funeral
home at South Bend for Mrs. Millie BORTON, 72, of that city, who died at 5:55 p.m. in her home,
718 East Wayne street. She had been ill since last September.
Mrs. Borton was a native of Fulton county, being born Dec. 17, 1886. She moved to
South Bend from Kewanna in 1925. Mrs. Borton was a member of the Mothers of World War II.
Surviving are the husband, Earl R. BORTON; one daughter, Mrs. Clifford BATSON,
Granger; three sons, Joe E. ROBINSON, Miami; Paul E. ROBINSON, and Vories J. ROBINSON,
both of Mishawaka; two step-children, Mrs. Clarence HENSEL, South Bend, and Russell E.
BORTON, Santa Ana, Cal.; ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Cora E. Heckathorn
Cora Edith HECKATHORN, 83, Macy, died Monday at 4:10 p.m. in Woodlawn hospital
here following a nine-day illness.
A native of Fulton county, Mrs. Heckathorn was born June 17, 1875, the daughter of
Frank and Sara Jane NIXON HARTMAN. She was married March 30, 1893, to Henry
HECKATHORN, who died Oct. 14, 1955.
Mrs. Heckathorn had lived in Macy the past 10 years, moving there from Fulton county.
She was a member of the Macy Methodist church.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Alta EYTCHESON, Fulton; Mrs. Edna PRATT and
Mrs. Goldie BAKER, both of Macy; three sons, Lester [HECKATHORN], R.R. 4, Rochester;
Kirch [HECKATHORN], Nyona Lake, and Kenneth [HECKATHORN], Fulton; twelve
grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; one brother, Esta HARTMAN, Macy, and one sister,
Mrs. Eva SOUTHERTON, Macy.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Macy Methodist church with the
Rev. Richard SUMMER officiating. Burial will be in Plainview cemetery. Friends may call at the
McCain funeral home, junction of U.S. 31 and Ind. 16 near Denver, or at the church one hour
preceding the service.
Stanley Nelson
Funeral services were held this afternoon near Silver Lake for Stanley NELSON, 25, of
near Pierceton, who was killed in a two-car crash Sunday on Ind. 13 just west of Liberty Mills in
Wabash county. He was the nephew of Mrs. Orville HARTZLER, 1121 Washington boulevard.
Operator of the Mentone Co-op Feed Mill, Nelson died from injuries suffered when his
car collided with another operated by Paul LEWIS, Jr., 29, Marion. Lewis, his iwfe and their two
children were not seriously hurt.