The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

SILVERBURG, clothiers, and by the late William BRINKMAN in his tailoring shop..
The deceased was the last charter member of the St. John’s Lutheran Church which was founded in
this city in 1872. The charter roll was signed by twenty. She was devout member of the Lutheran Church.
Survivors are the brother Charles SCHOLDER, the sister Mrs. KAYSER, two nieces and a nephew.
The funeral services will be held from the St. John’s Lutheran Church in West Fourth Street at 2 p.m.
Friday with Rev. William SCHROER officiating. Burial will be made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
All those who wish to contribute toward a memorial wreath for Miss Scholder are requested to call
Rev. Schroer at 483-R.ß
Funeral services for George W. BRUGH will be held Thursday afternoon two o’clock at the residence,
nine miles northwest of this city. Rev. ROUCH will be in charge of the services.
Dr. Albertus T. BRIGGS, 75, former pastor of the First Methodist church here, died at the Methodist
hospital at Indianapolis Monday. He had been in ill health for several years.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Gobin Memorial church,
Greencastle. For two years Dr. Briggs was acting pastor of the Gobin church. He had made his home in
Greencastle since leaving LaPorte in 1925.
Dr. Briggs was a graduate of DePauw university with the class of 1890, having won Phi Beta Kappa
honors. He was superintendent of the Hammond district of the Methodist church from 1908 to 1914 and of
the Greencastle district from 1925 to 1931, when he retired.
He also held pastorates at various times in Rochester, Kentland, Monticello, Attica, West Lafayette,
Terre Haute, Carpentersville and Knightsville.
Dr. Briggs was president of the Preachers’ Aid society for more than 10 years and helped found the
Maple Methodist church at Terre Haute.
He is survived by his widow, the former Lenore ALLMAN; five daughters, Mrs. Max GARDNER,
Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. Paul RICE, New York City; Miss Mildred BRIGGS, Amherst, Mass.; Mrs. John
COPPES, Nappanee, Ind., and Mrs. William BLANCHARD, Pomona, Calif.
Thursday, September 16, 1937
Raleigh POLEN, 58, former Kewanna resident, died Wednesday in an Indiana Harbor hospital where
he had been a patient several weeks. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge and the Baptist church at
Indiana Harbor.
Survivors are the widow; four brothers, Amos [POLEN], George [POLEN], Vause [POLEN] and
William [POLEN]; and three sisters, Mrs. Millie DeVAULT of Kewanna and Mrs. Nannie VanBRELE of
Bedford.
The body was returned to the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna today where funeral rites will be held
at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, and burial will be made in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery.