The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

Friday, May 7, 1937
Jay N. NYE, aged 58, veteran attorney of Winamac and prosecutor of Pulaski county, died in the
Woodlawn Hospital at 2:45 o’clock Friday morning following an operation performed on April 26 for gall
gladder trouble.
Mr. Nye’s condition was grave when he was brought to the hospital for the major surgery. He was
given two blood transfusions. Blood for the transfusions was donated by Sheriff H. J. WACKNITZ of
Winamac and Henry KOPKEY, also of Winamac.
The deceased was born in Winamac and lived in that city all of his life except for three years when he
was an attorney for the Chicago Title and Trust Company with headquarters in Hammond. His parents were
John and Louisa NYE. His father for many years was the judge of the Pulaski county circuit court.
Mr. Nye graduated from the Winamac public schools and received his legal training at Earlham
College. For many years he was in a law office in Winamac with his father. He also was an extensive real
estate operator. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Pulaski county on the Republican ticket in 1934 and
again in 1936.
In a ceremony which was performed in Richmond, Ind., in 1901 he was married to Miss Grace
WEEKS. Mr. Nye was a member of the Methodist Church and the Knights of Pythias lodge at Winamac
and the Indiana and Pulaski county bar associations.
Survivors are the widow; three daughters, Mrs. Edward KRECH and Miss Harriett NYE, South Bend
and Mrs. Virgil ZELLERS, Winamac; sister and one grandchild.
The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Church in
Winamac with the Rev. J. J. JORDAN, pastor of the church officiating. Burial will be made in the cemetery
at Winamac. Attorneys from many bar associations in Northern Indiana including Fulton will attend.
Dr. J. W. NEWELL, 79, a practicing physician at Denver for 52 years died suddenly of heart disease at
his home there Wednesday night.
Funeral services were tentatively arranged for Sunday afternoon at Denver Methodist church. The Rev.
Wayne PAULEN, pastor of the church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. W. F. JOHNSON, of Berne, Ind.
Survivors include the widow, Alice [GREGG] NEWELL, whom the deceased married in 1879; and
four children, Mrs. Vera OLDS, of Chicago; Mrs. Blair FRICKE, of Lafayette; Mrs. Clinton
EIKENBERRY, of Denver, and Clifford NEWELL, of Oklahoma City. Surviving also are nine
grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Dr. Newell was the last of a family of four brothers and sisters.
Born in Canton, Pa., in 1858, the deceased graduated from Louisville College of Medicine with the
class of 1879. He practiced his profession in Rockfield, Ind., for five years before going to Denver.
The deceased was a member of the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and Maccabee lodges.
Saturday, May 8, 1937
Rev. Simeon KROFT, aged 70, a retired minister of the Evangelical Church, died at the home of his
son Emmanuel KROFT, who resides on a farm south of Akron at 1:30 o’clock Saturday morning. Death
was due to a stroke of paralysis which he suffered three years ago.
The deceased was born on a farm north of Akron in Kosciusko county on February 20, 1867. His
parents were Aaron and Mary KROFT. In a ceremony which was performed at