The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

Graveside services were held here Friday afternoon for John PHOEBUS, aged 19, Elkhart, one of two
persons who were killed in an aeroplane accident near Goshen Wednesday night.
Services were held for Phoebus at his home on R. R. 2, Elkhart, with Rev. E. E. LAWSHE of
Wakarusa officiating, after which the courtege came to this city with interment being made in a local
cemetery.
The deceased was born in this city on December 26, 1917, and was the son of John and Nora FELTS
PHOEBUS. He had lived near Elkhart for five years moving there from Wabash five years ago.
John Phoebus had just completed his junior year in the Bristol high school where he was president of
the class and prominent in school activities.
Surviving are his parents, brother Glenn PHOEBUS and sister Phyllis [PHOEBUS] who was born four
years ago on his birthday and his grandfather John FELTS of Rochester.
Clifford H. McDONALD aged 24, Milford was piloting the plane in which Phoebus met his death.
McDonald also was killed. Funeral services for McDonald are to be held Saturday afternoon at his home.
Department of Commerce officials are conducting an investigation of the fatal plane accident. The
plane was one which the two youths had borrowed. Neither was a licensed pilot. The accident it is thought
was caused when McDonald attempted to bank the plane when the motor failed the ship going into a nose
dive and crashing to the ground.
Saturday, July 10, 1937
Edward WOOLDRIDGE, aged 76, died at his farm home seven miles southwest of Argos at 4 o’clock
Saturday evening. Death was due to complications incident to old age and followed an illness of six
months.
The deceased was born in Kentucky on August 20, 1860 and was the son of John and Elizabeth
WOOLDRIDGE. He had resided near Argos since he was a young man where he followed the occupation
of farming.
Survivors are the widow; three daughters, Mrs. Edna HICKSON, Plymouth, Mrs. Janet
ROCKSTOCK, Elkhart and Mrs. Earl ZEHNER, Argos; five sons, Ezra [WOOLDRIDGE], Plymouth;
Clifford [WOOLDRIDGE], Culver; Clyde [WOOLDRIDGE], Carthage, Ill.; and Robert [WOOLDRIDGE]
Argos; brother, John WOOLDRIDGE, and sister Mrs. Lena PLITCHARD both of Kokomo.
The funeral services will be held from the Poplar Grove Church six miles southwest of Argos at 10
o’clock Monday morning. Burial will be made at Kokomo.
The funeral services for Charles Isadore HOFFMAN will be held Sunday afternoon one o’clock at the
Akron Church of God. The time of the funeral was changed to an hour earlier than originally announced in
Friday’s issue of The News-Sentinel.
Joseph BYBEE, age 85 years, one of the most highly respected and oldest citizens of Newcastle
township, passed away at his country home, Friday, July 9th, 1937 after an illness of two years.
Mr. Bybee was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, January 19, 1852, a son of Nathan and Susan
(BLUE) BYBEE. He had been a resident of Fulton and Kosciusko counties all his life with the exception of
a few years residence near Greeley, Colorado, where the family moved temporarily for the health of his
son. Mr. Bybee was a member of the Yellow Creek Baptist Church near Mentone and the Mentone Baptist
Church for more than seventy years.