The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Francis V. Heater Jr.
Oct. 2, 1949 - July 25, 1996
Francis V. “Butch” HEATER Jr., 46, Kewanna, died at 12:51 p.m. Thursday at Pulaski
Memorial Hospital.
Born in Logansport to Francis V. Sr., and Ellen Jane MINTHORN HEATER, he married
Sandra HARNESS on Feb. 14, 1972 in Monticello. She survives. He was a 1970 graduate of
Winamac High School and the owner of Sandy’s Firewood Service Inc., Kewanna. He was also
an experimental flower grower and a member of the National Rifle Association.
Preceding him in death were one son, one daughrter, and his father.
Surviving with his wife are his mother, Ellen Jane HEATER, Lakeville; one step-son,
Franklin GROSS, Kewanna; one son, Raymond HEATER, Kewanna; one daughter, Tanya
HEATER, Culver; two brothers, James HEATER, Logansport; John HEATER, Lakeville; three
sisters, Cathy LOOKER, Logansport, Mary DOTY, Monterey, and Bonnie ROWLANDS,
Monticello; and two step-grandchildren.
No services are planned. Friends may call from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at the Harrison-Metzger
Funeral Home, Kewanna.
Memorials may be made to the Lutheran Hospital Research Department, Fort Wayne.
Saturday, July 27, 1996
Ersa M. Sommers
June 11, 1903 - July 26, 1996
Ersa M. SOMMERS, 93, Miller’s Merry Manor Nursing Home, Logansport, died at 5:25
a.m. Friday. She was formerly of Rt. 2, Kewanna.
She was born in Kewanna to Alvah and Melissa FULLER CRABB. On Aug. 12, 1928 at
the Kewanna Baptist church she married Herold I. SOMMERS who died Feb. 6, 1981. She
graduated from Kewanna High School and was a member of the Grass Creek United Methodist
Church and the missionary society of the church. She was a homemaker and 50-year member of
the Wayne Frendly Extension Homemakers. She liked to knit, crochet, do craft and work in her
garden.
Surviving are one daughter, Charlotte SCHNAPF, Royal Center; one grandson, Gary
SCHNAPF, Royal Center, and one half-brother, Al CRABB, Washington, D.C. Preceding in
death were one brother and two sisters.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Harrison-Metzger Funeral Home, Kewanna
Chapel, with the Rev. Don REED officiating. Burial will be in the Grass Creek Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4-9 p.m. Sunday and after 9 a.m. Monday. Memorials may be made to the
Grass Creek United Methodist Church and the missionary society.