The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Raymond D. Middaugh
July 15, 1917 - June 13, 1996
Raymond Devoe MIDDAUGH, 78, Argos, died at 8:12 a.m. Thursday at Pilgrim Manor
Nursing Home, Plymouth.
Born near Nappanee to Henry and Iola RINEHART MIDDAUGH, he married Alberta
Caroline SNYDER in 1940. She survives. He is a retired farmer and had been employed by Mid-
West Spring and Niff-Coor, both of Mentone, Gerring Industries and Monitor Trailer, both of Etna
Green, and R. J. Reynolds, Plymouth. He was a member of the Walnut Church of the Brethren,
Marshall County Farm Bureau, and Farm Bureau Co-op.
Preceding him in death were one son, David MIDDAUGH; one sister, Helen BRIGGS;
and one brother, Robert MIDDAUGH.
Surviving with his wife are two daughtrs Jean WALLACE, Warsaw, and Carolyn Sue
MANNS, Akron; three sons, Charles MIDDAUGH and his wife Rita, and Steven MIDDAUGH
and his wife Sharon, both of Argos, and Carl MIDDAUGH and his wife Jill, Bourbon; fourteen
grandchildren; two great-granddaughters; two sisters, Pauline SHOEMAKER, Burket, and Mary
Louise WAGONER, Argos.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Walnut Church of the Brethren, southeast of
Argos, with the Revs. Tony SCHNEIDERS and Robert RICE officiating. Burial will be at the
Argos Maple Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. at the Grossman Funeral Home
and for one hour prior to services at the church.
Memorials can be made to Argos Dollars for Scholars or the Walnut Church of the
Brethren.
Everett Solomon
Mar. 25, 1926 - June 11, 1996
Everett “Bud” SOLOMON, 70, Argos, died at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Hospital
of Marshall County.
Born in Hebron to Charles Conklin ad Harriet Jane LEE SOLOMON, he married Bonnie
L. FISHBURN in 1946. She survives. He was retired from farming and Bendix Corp., South
Bend. He was a member of the Jordan Baptist Church, Argos, and the U.A.W., Local 9, South
Bend. During World War II, he served in the Atlantic Fleet as a signalman in the first crew on the
U.S. Taconic.
Preceding him in death were six sisters, Bertha Ages SOLOMON, Mabel Lenora REED,
Mary SOLOMON, Sarah Esther SOLOMON, Clara Rosemary HATCHER, Frances Ruth
IRELAN; and five brothers, Lloyd Lee, Adam Earl, William Fred, Charles Henry and Harry
SOLOMON.
Surviving with his wife are two daughters, Sheila BEERS, Argos, and Lou Ann
NORMAN, Terrell, Texas; two sons, Jerry SOLOMON, Argos, and David SOLOMON and his
wife Jennifer, Argos; nine grandchildren, Ashley, Amber, and Austin SOLOMON, and Shaindel,
Adria, Aaron, and Avram BEERS, all of Argos, and Kathleen and Maria NORMAN, Terrell,
Texas; one sister, Edna Mae ELLIS, Hebron; and one brother, Smith Scott SOLOMON,
Woodbury, Tenn.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Grossman Funeral Home, Argos, with Rev.
Roy FISHBURN officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth. The Argos
American Legion Post No. 68 will conduct military graveside services. Visitation will be from 2-
8 p.m. Thursday and after 9 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials can be made to the Jordan Baptist Church, Argos.