The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Wednesday, May 13, 1959
Sarah Reid
Mrs. Sarah “Sadie” REID, 91, a native of Akron and former Rochester resident, died
sudeenly at the Masonic home in Franklin at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. She had lived at the home the
last 10 years.
Born Aug. 24, 1867, she was the daughter of William and Catherine KOONS BITTERS.
On Oct. 24, 1893, she was married in Rochester to Lester S. REID, who died in 1919.
Mrs. Reid ws a member of the Grace Methodist church here and the Order of Eastern
Star.
Surviving are a son, Paul [REID], Ferndale, Mich.; a daughter, Mrs. Carl (Marian)
BECK, Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. A. A. GAST, Akron; two granddaughters, and five greatgrandchildren.
A daughter preceded her in death.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Moyer-Haupert funeral home in Akron with the
Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. John H. Johnson
Mrs. John H. JOHNSON, former resident of Rochester, died Tuesday night at the
Newaygo County Convalescent hospital near Fremont, Mich. She resided at White Cloud, Mich.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Floyd THOMAS, Rochester, and Mrs. Robert
WAGONER, R.R. 6, Rochester; and two sons, Harry JOHNSON, Rochester, and Lewis
JOHNSON, R.R. 5, Rochester.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Thursday, May 14, 1959
Alice M. Imler
Mrs. Alice Maude IMLER, 69, died today at 5:50 a.m. at Woodlawn hospital, where she
had been a patient for the past 10 days. Mrs. Imler who resided five miles northeast of Rochester,
had been in ill health from a heart ailment the past 2 1/2 years.
Born May 11, 1890, in Tippecanoe county, she was the daughter of Anthony and Mary
WHITE CHAPMAN. She was married Dec. 24, 1914, at Colburn, Ind., to Caughey R. IMLER,
who survives. The Imlers resided northeast of here the past 13 years.
Mrs. Imler was a member of the Athens E.U.B. church.
Surviving, besides the husband, are seven daughters, Mrs. Floyd COL- - -, Frankfort;
Mrs. Basil ALLEN, Rochester; Mrs. Arthur WARD, Convoy, O.; Mrs. Kenneth PERKINS,
Anderson; Mrs. William D. BUSH, Brookston; Mrs. Max HOFHERR, Fort Wayne, and Mrs.
Leroy HERREN, Niles, Mich.; one son, William Jasper IMLER, Flora; twenty-eight
grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Anna BASINGER, Lafayette, and two brothers, Harry and Lewis
CHAPMAN, both of Lafayette.
Funeral rites will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Athens E.U.B. church with the Rev. Wayne
JOHNSON of Claypool officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery at Athens. Friends
may call after 1 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home.