The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

farm home in Richland township for the past 53 years. He was married in 1894 to Wilnettie
McCLURE of Rochester. Mr. Alderfer was a member of the Walnut Gospel church.
Surviving are the wife, at home; five sons, Leo [ALDERFER], Argos; Carl
[ALDERFER], Tippecanoe; Vern [ALDERFER], Mishawaka, and Ralph and Lester
[ALDERFER], both of Rochester; five daughters, Mrs. Earl HARTMAN, Mrs. Harry MORRIS,
Mrs. Dean ARMEY and Mrs. Luetta MARTENS, all of South Bend, and Mrs. Walter
CLEVENGER, Rochester; thirty-two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Anna NEWCOMB, R.R.
3, Argos.
Two daughters, a brother and a sister preceded him in death.
Oscar D. Clayburn
Last rites were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for
Oscar Daniel “Otto” CLAYBURN, 1328 Monroe street, who died Friday at 2:30 p.m. in
Woodlawn hospital. He was 86 years old. Mr. Clayburn had been a hospital patient since
suffering a stroke last Tuesday and had been ill two months.
The Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD officiated at the funeral and burial was in the I.O.O.F.
cemetery here.
Born Feb. 12, 1873, at North Manchester, Mr. Clayburn was the son of William W. and
Elizabeth STAVER CLAYBURN. He had lived in this community since 1928, having farmed six
miles west of Rochester.
Surviving are two brothers, Fred [CLAYBURN], at home, and Edward [CLAYBURN],
Rochester, and several nieces and nephews.
Candice Kay Crawford
Candice Kay CRAWFORD, 18-month-old granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Devon
EATON, R.R. 2, Rochester, died Saturday evening in South Bend Memorial hospital. The infant
was born in the same hospital on Nov. 20, 1957.
Candice was the daughter of K. E. and Carol EATON CRAWFORD and the
granddaughter of Mrs. Robert CRAWFORD.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Weltheimer funeral home at South Bend, with
burial in South Bend also.
Tuesday, June 2, 1959
W. Harold Kindig
Funeral services have been set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral
home for W. Harold Kindig, 56, Macy carpenter, who was found dead in his home at 1 p.m.
Monday. The Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the
Deedsville I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today.
Mr. Kindig resided near Speck’s Corner, seven miles south of Rochester on U.S. 31. His
body was discovered by the nephew, Michael HATCH of Rochester. The Miami county coroner,
Dr. O. B. JOHNSON, said that death was the result of a self-inflicted wound in the heart from a
22-calibre rifle. Dr. Johnson estimated that death occurred about 10 a.m. Monday.
Employed by Kindig and Sons of Deedsville, Mr. Kindig had been in ill health for
several months and was unable to work. He lived alone.
Born Jan. 8, 1903, at Deedsville, he was the son of Philip and Lottie FENIMORE