The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

KELSEY, of Monterey, and a brother, John STIES, of Gary, Ind.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Christ the King Roman Catholic church in South
Bend. The Rev. Wendel CORCORAN, C.S.C., will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Grove cemetery at
South Bend.
The body may be viewed until the time of the funeral services Friday, in the home of the daughter,
Mrs. Butler, 1611 East LaSalle avenue, South Bend.
James RESER, aged 72, a resident of Fulton for many years where he was a laborer, died at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Lee SHIRLING near Lake Nyona at 12:30 o’clock Thursday morning. Death was due to
dropsy and followed an illness of several months.
The deceased was born in Cass County near Spring Creek on April 27, 1864 and was the son of Wyatt
and Hattie RESER. He had never married and had resided in Fulton until last May when he was moved to
the home of his sister, Mrs. Shirling.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. SHIRLING and Mrs. Della DuBOIS, both of whom live near Lake
Nyone and a brother, Charles RESER, who resides in South Bend.
The funeral services will be held from the Ditmire Funeral Home in Fulton at 2 o’clock Saturday
afternoon. Burial will be made in the cemetery at Macy.
Friday, January 15, 1937
Funeral services were held today at Lafayette for Rev. Michael J. FORD, aged 65, former pastor of the
St. Ann’s Catholic Church at Grass Creek, who died in a hospital in Lafayette, Wednesday, where he had
been a patient since September. Burial was made in Lafayette. A number of residents of Grass Creek and
Kewanna attended the services. Rev. Ford was born in Hartford City and had been in the priesthood for 40
years. He had served a number of churches in the Fort Wayne Diocese.
Julia Ann [HAGEN], infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence HAGEN, died at the home of her
parents at 405 Maple Avenue, Argos at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Death was due to pneumonia and
followed an illness of only five hours.
The deceased was 2 months and 22 days old and was born in Argos on October 21, 1936. Survivors are
the parents, three brothers, Richard [HAGEN], Max [HAGEN] and Jarrel [HAGEN], who was her twin,
and three sisters, Joyce [HAGEN], Caroline [HAGEN] and Beverly [HAGEN].
The body was moved to the Grossman Funeral Chapel where it will remain until Saturday morning
when it will be returned to the home. Funeral services will be held from the home at 2 p.m. Saturday in
charge of Rev. A. M. THOMAS, pastor of the Argos Christian Church.
Saturday, January 16, 1937
Mrs. Chas. KEIM has received word of the death of her brother-in-law, A. M. DELGADO of Ponce,
Puerto Rico. Mr. Delgado died of a heart attack the day before he was to be inaugurated mayor of Ponce.
Mrs. Delgado will be remembered as Ruth CAPLE, who went from Rochester many years ago to teach
school in Puerto Rico and met and married her husband there.
Mr. Delgado leaves, besides his wife, two brothers and two nephews, to mourn his loss.
The Caples for a long number of years resided on a farm west of the city tourist camp and Mr.
Delgado has a host of friends in this locality.