The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

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Wednesday, February 17, 1937
The funeral services of Miss Fern POPEJOY, who passed away in this city Monday evening, will be
held at the Kewanna Baptist church at two o’clock Thursday afternoon. Rev. B. M. FRANKLIN will
officiate.
Lee Von COPLEN, aged 43, who resides on a farm four miles southeast of Akron, died at 8:30 o’clock
Tuesday evening in the Woodlawn hospital. He had been sick for two weeks prior to his being moved to
the hospital last Friday, where an operation was performed.
The deceased was born on a farm in Newcastle township on November 3, 1893 and was the son of
Charles and Eva COPLEN. He was married to Cora ZIMMERMAN on November 14, 1914. He had lived
near Akron for the past three years and had followed the occupation of farming thruout this lifetime.
Survivors are the widow, five sons, Wayne [COPLEN], Carl [COPLEN], Bobby [COPLEN], Ralph
[COPLEN] and Donald [COPLEN] and two daughters, Freda [COPLEN] and Zelma [COPLEN] all at
home; parents; two brothers, Gaston [COPLEN] and Richard [COPLEN] and five sisters, Mrs. Lucy
GOOD, Argos, Mrs. Jessie CLINKER, Akron, Mrs. Josephine IRELAND, Kokomo, Mrs. Hope WAIDE
and Mrs. Doris CRAIG of Indianapolis. A son, Charles [COPLEN], died last July and a brother Paige
COPLEN in 1936.
The funeral arrangements had not been completed at the time The News-Sentinel went to press.
Mrs. Emma [CASPER] SELLERS, aged 72, died at her home in Ora at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday night
after an illness of three months due to complications.
She was born in Muncie but moved from that city when a young girl. Her parents were Jacob and
Elizabeth (CARR) CASPER.
In a ceremony which was performed in Monterey on February 22, 1883, the deceased was married to
Joseph SELLERS, who died 27 years ago. Mrs. Sellers was a member of the Methodist church at Ober.
The following children survive, Mrs. Effie COOPER, Guy SELLERS, and Samuel SELLERS all of
Knox, Grover SELLERS and Mrs. Edna BEAUCHAMP, Culver, Mrs. Belle DOYLE, Mishawaka,
Meredith SELLERS and Mrs. Leona EARHART, South Bend, and Mrs. Olive PAGEL of this city.
The funeral services will be held from the church in Ora at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be
made in the North Bend cemetery between Ora and Bass Lake.
Thomas F. NEFF, well known citizen of Fulton county, passed away Tuesday afternoon at his home
southwest of Rochester, after an illness of several years duration.
Thomas F. Neff, son of David and Mary NEFF was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, on
September 2nd, 1859. Mr. Neff had lived in Fulton county since the age of 12 and at an early age in life
united with the Burton Evangelical church. On March 2nd, 1889 he was united in marriage to Alpharetta
BEERY. Four children came to bless this union, two daughters, Mrs. Zella BRUCE, Mrs. Hugh WILSON,
of Kewanna; two sons, Dean [NEFF] and Clyde NEFF, of Rochester.
Left with the immediate family to mourn the loss of a loved one are three sisters, Mrs. Emma
WILDERMOUTH, Mrs. Michael EASH and Mrs. Perry WALTERS. Three sisters