The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Saturday, July 13, 1996
Donald Garvison
Feb. 22, 1927 - July 12, 1996
Services for Donald T. GARVISON, 68, 1505 Sunset Drive, will be at 10:30 am.
Monday at Foster & Good Funeral Home.
The Rev. Robert STORY will officiate. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F.
Cemetery where military graveside rites will be conducted by the American Legion and VFW.
Friends may call from 2-6 p.m. Sunday and after 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Mr. Garvison died at 7:45 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Medical Center, South Bend, where
he had been a patient for three weeks. He had been in failing health for the last two years.
He was born in Winamac to John and Nellie TABLER GARVISON. He moved to
Rochester in 1954. On July 19, 1954 at Crown Point he married Marilyn J. KOONS, who
survives.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II in the Pacific Theater. He
was a former bus driver to the Rochester Community School Corporation. He retired from the
Riddle Elementary School custodial staff in 1990. He attended the First Christian Church. he was
a Cub Scoutmaster and member of the LeRoy Shelton America Legion Post, the Richland Center
I.O.O.F. Lodge and the Richland Township Fish and Game Club.
Survivng with his wife are two sons, Russell and Sherry ROGERS, and Douglas and
Susie GARVISON, both of Rochester, and three sisters, Violet BUNNELL, Logansport; Bessie
MULARSKI, Ora., and Mrs. Ben (Daisy) RAKOWSKI, Spencer. Preceding in death were two
brothers, Noah and Noble WALTHER.
Memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation.
Monday, July 15, 1996
James E. Lease
March 16, 1937 - July 13, 1996
James E. LEASE, 59, Rochester, died Saturday morning at his residence.
Born in Litchfield, Ill., to Herrold J. and Alida BABCOCK LEASE, he owned and
operated Jim Lease Office Machines, Rochester. He was a member of the Rochester First Baptist
Church, the Fulton Masonic Lodge and vice president of the Wabash chapter of Parents Without
Partners.
Surviving are one daughter, Marcia Susan LEASE BUCK and her husband, Carl,
Charlottesvile, Va.; one son, David M. LEASE and his wife Trinity, Rochester; three
grandchildren, Amanda M. and Alexandra LEASE and Jeffrey D. BUCK; and one brother,
Howard J. LEASE, Rochester.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Family Funeral Home,
Rocheter, with Rev. Junior BOSE officiating. Burial will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery
and visitation will be from 4-8 p.m Tuesday and after 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. The
Fulton Masonic Lodge will conduct ervices at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army or the Fulton County Historicl Society.