The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Tuesday, May 21, 1996
Ruth Long Metzger
Nov. 29, 1928 - May 19, 1996
Ruth LONG METZGER, 67, Wabash County, died at 9:15 a.m. Sunday at Community
Care Center, Wabash.
Born to Maurice and Jennie TROUT REED, she married Harold C. METZGER in 1994.
She was a 1946 graduate of Somerset High School and attended the Peoria United Methodist
Church. She was a homemaker and a lifetime Wabash County resident.
Surviving are her mother, Jennie REED, Wavbash; husband, Harold C. METZGER,
Wabash; two daughters, Linda S. HAMILTON, Jonesboro and Christina K. GROSSNICKLE,
Rochester; one son, Maurice H. LONG, Wabash; one step-son, Dan METZGER, Wabash; two
step-daughters, Susan METZGER, Wilmette, Ill., and Debra WEITZMAN, Singapore; two
brothers, John REED, Roanoke, Va., and Max REED, Wabash; four sisters, Mary Lou
KENDALL, Roann, Helen DAWES, Urbana, Dorothy ROUHARD, Springfield, Ohio, Nancy
MEYER, Wabash, and five grandchildren.
Preceding her in death was one step-son and two grandsons.
Services will be at the Mnchester Avenue Chapel GRandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Home, at
2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. Melissa RICE officiating. Burial will be in the Wallace
Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Memorials can be made to he Ricky Long Scholarship Fund c/o Frances Slocum Bank,
Wabash.
Wednesday, May 22, 1996
Rita M. Lee
Sept. 17, 1925 - May 20, 1996
Rita M. LEE, 70, Metea, died at 1:27 p.m. Monday at Saint Joseph Meical Center, Joliet,
Ill.
Born in Cass County to Hugh and Margaret McLAUGHLIN DORAN, she married John
Robert LEE in 1946. She was a seamstress for 33 years for Hart Schaffner and Marx in Rochester,
and retired in 1994.
Preceding her in death are her husband, John Robert Lee, three brothers and one sister.
Surviving are three sons and daughters-in-law, Jerry and Julia LEE, Brazil, John and
Bonita LEE, Rochester, Michael and Debbie LEE, Joliet, Ill.; one daughter and son-in-law, Kay
and Don CAMP, Lebanon; one brother, Robert DORAN, Logansport; four sisters, Ellen MILLER,
Royal Center, and Alvina HUNTER, Catherine DOTY, and Barbara RADERSTORF, all of
Logansport; eleven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Services will be 2 p.m Thursday at the Kroeger Funeral Home, Logansport with the Rev.
Bryan CLEMENS officiating. Burial will be at the Ever-Rest Memorial Park, Logansport with
visitation from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at Kroeger Funeral Home.
Memorials can be made to the American Heart Association.