The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

her childhood she united with the Christian church at Forest and later transferred her membership to the
Methodist church at White Chapel near Carmel in Hamilton county.
Survivors are the husband; two daughters, Mrs. Bessie KIRK, Carmel, and Mrs. Martha BRYANT,
South Bend; two sons Talfred RICHARDSON, Athens and Clinton RICHARDSON at home; two brothers,
C. B. TRANBARGER, Dayton, Ohio and D. W. TRANBARGER, Rochester; two half-brothers, F. G.
TRANBARGER, Washington, D.C., and Dale TRANBARGER, Seattle, Washington and eleven
grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held from the Saints Church or White Church at Athens at 1 p.m. Sunday
with Rev. Daniel SLAYBAUGH of Akron in charge. Interment will be made in the cemetery at Athens.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Catherine BRACKETT, who died at Winter Haven, Florida, will be held at
the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock with burial in the mausoleum. Rev. T. L.
STOVALL will officiate. The body will lie in state at the Val Zimmerman funeral home, 611 Main street
between the hours of 10 and 1 o’clock on Saturday, where all friends may view the remains.
Saturday, March 13, 1937
Leander D. GEIGER, 85, life long resident of Marshall county, succumbed Friday afternoon at his
home near Tippecanoe, Ind. Death resulted from complications inherent with advanced years following an
illness of several months.
Mr. Geiger was born at Curve Lake, Ind., on July 23rd, 1851. On March 13th, 1885 he was united in
marriage to Ellen MATHENY. Mrs. Geiger passed away on July 27th, 1927. The survivors are a daughter,
Mrs. Florence ECKHART, of Elkhart; three sons, Elmer [GEIGER], of Richmond; Lester [GEIGER] of
Elkhart, and Paul [GEIGER] at home, and a sister, Mrs. F. M. MATHENY, of Wauchula, Fla.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Tippecanoe Methodist Protestant
church, with Rev. BURGESS, officiating. Interment will be made in Maple Grove cemetery at Argos.
Funeral services for Lewis Clay SHEETS, aged 65, Rochester chief of police and former county sheriff
and United States marshal from the northern district, were held from the First Baptist church at 2 p.m.
Friday.
Rev. Benjamin FIELD, pastor of the church officiated assisted by Rev. T. L. STOVALL, pastor of the
Grace Methodist church. The graveside service in the Mt. Zion cemetery was in charge of the Odd Fellows
lodge.
The auditorium of the church was filled to its capacity with relatives and friends of the deceased. Many
beautiful floral tributes had been sent. The offices in the City Hall were closed and the city’s official family
attended in a body. Offices in the Court House were closed during the hour of the funeral.
Delegations of officers from surrounding cities attended the service as did a number of state excise
policemen and a detail of state police. Mr. Sheets died Monday night following a yeart attack.
Mrs. Mary Emma [QUICK] McCARTER, aged 76 years, passed away at her home west of Macy,
Friday afternoon, two o’clock. Death was attributed to complications. Although Mrs. McCarter had been in
ill health for the past several years her condition had not been