The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

a heart affliction.
The coroner’s deduction that Sebring’s death had occurred Monday night is given further credence by
the fact that when the aged man’s body was found, in one hand he was clutching a dipper which had
contained cracked corn and in the other an egg.
The deceased had lived near Akron for a number of years, moving to Silver Lake four years ago. He
was born on a farm near Akron on December 5, 1856 and was the son of Warren and Margaret SEBRING.
His wife who was Sarah M. FUNK, preceded him in death fourteen years ago. Mr. Sebring was a member
of the Log Bethel Church of God.
Survivors are a son, James SEBRING, Akron; five daughters, Mrs. Ella LLEWELLYN, Aberdeen,
Wash.; Mrs. Rosa GREEN, Liberty Mills; Mrs. Emma STRONG, Akron; Mrs. Willodene WOLPERT and
Mrs. Flossie FULTZ, North Manchester; 22 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held from the Summe Funeral Home in Silver Lake at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Burial will be made in the Franklin cemetery, northeast of Akron.
Thursday, April 1, 1937
Mrs. Hannah M. MENTZER, aged 79, succumbed at her home in Mentone on Tuesday morning
following a four days illness due to apoplexy.
The deceased was born in Indiana and she spent practically all her lifetime in and around Mentone. She
was married sixty-two years ago to Samuel S. Mentzer, Mentone groceryman. She was a member of the
Mentone Baptist church.
Surviving are the husband, Samuel S. MENTZER; two children, Mahlon MENTZER, of Mentone, and
Mrs. Ersie COLE, of Mentone; six grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Ben BLUE, and Mrs. Lizzie
MORGAN, both of Mentone, and Mrs. HAWK, of South Bend, and one brother, Morgan SHATTO, who
resides in the west.
The funeral services were held at the Mentone Baptist church at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Rev.
YEAGER, pastor of the church officiated. Interment was made in the Mentone cemetery.
Marion F. MARRIOTT, aged 35, of 118 West Thirteenth street, filling station operator, died in the
Woodlawn hospital at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday from a heart attack. He was a patient in the hospital, where he
was recovering from an appendectomy performed six days ago when he was stricken.
The deceased had lived in this vicinity since 1914, coming here from Monon. He had been employed
by the Standard Oil Company for seventeen years, ten years as manager of the company’s filling station at
the junction of state roads 14, 25 and 31 at the south edge of Rochester. He was also employed in South
Bend by the company.
Mr. Marriott was born in Rockwell City, Iowa on December 13, 1901. His parents were Frank L. and
Minnie (COVERT) MARRIOTT. In a ceremony which was performed in February, 1921 at Coldwater,
Mich., he was married to Rosa SAYLES.
Survivors are the widow; three daughters, Winifred [MARRIOTT], Margaret [MARRIOTT] and Doris
[MARRIOTT], all at home; the parents, who reside on a farm northwest of the city; three brothers, Virgil
MARRIOTT, South Bend; Archie [MARRIOTT] and Loren MARRIOTT, Gary and two sisters, Mrs.
Bessie NAFE, South Bend and Mrs. Orpha BLACKETOR, Fulton.
The funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday from the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
with the Rev. T. L. STOVALL officiating. Burial will be made in the