The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Friday, September 13, 1996
Vactor O. Connell, M.D.
April 9, 1913 - Sept. 12, 1996
Vactor O. CONNELL, M.D., 83, 705 N. Harris St., Bourbon, died at 3:12 a.m. Thursday
at St. Joseph Hospital of Marshall County, Plymouth, after an illness.
Born in Odon to Orlando S. and Mary Elizabeth SENIFF CONNELL he married
Margaret MEYER on July 18, 1939; she survives.
He graduated from Odon High School in 1931 and attended Indiana University from
1933-1938. Upon graduation from I.U. Medical School in 1942 he entred the Medical Service of
the U.S. Navy as an assistant surgeon. He served in the Pacific during WWII aboard the USS
Cavalier. The ship was torpedoed near the Philippine Islands and towed back to Hawaii. After the
war he joined his family in Fulton, where he began his medical practice. After a year he moved to
Bourbon, where he practiced family medicine and surgery for 49 years. He was on the staff of the
Plymouth Hospital and attended the First United Methodist Church of Bourbon. He served on the
board of directors of then, Norcen, now Indiana Federal Bank of Culver for eight years. He was a
member of both state and national organizations of the American Medical Associations. A 32nd
degree Mason, he belonged to the Bourbon Msonic Lodge, and was a member of the Bourbon
American Legion Post No.424 for 50 years. In 1977 then-Governor of Indiana, Otis Bowen,
named him a Sagamore of the Wabash.
He was a world traveler; he hunted big game in Alaska, Africa, India, Central America
and Canada. He contributed hunting trophies to the Dehm Museum in Fort Wayne.
Surviving with his wife are two daughters, Mary C. BENNETT, M.A., Kokomo, Cynthia
C. DAVIS, PhD., Cranston, R.I.; five grandchildren, Juliet E. DAVIS, St. Petersvburg, Fla., Hedi
M. DAVIS, Cranston, R.I.; J.C. UTTER, Burbon, Lacey BENNETT, Fishers, and Neal E.
BENNETT, Kokomo. He is also survived by three sisters, Hazel HOLT, Bloomington; Treva
KUHN, Oshkosh, Wis., and Betty DEMARY, Akron, Ohio, secveral nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church of Bourbon
with the Rev. Mark G. COTTRILL and Pastor Bonnie LIEBER officiating. Burial will be at
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bourbon. Visitation is from 2-9 p.m. on Saturday and on Sunday at
Rainstone Place (7900 E. 8th Road, Plymouth) and one hour prior to services at the church on
Monday. Bourbon Masonic Lodge will conduct a Masonic service at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
Graveside military services will be conducted by the Bourbon American Legion. Deaton Funeral
Home, Bourbon, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church.
Courtney L. Floyd
Dec. 22, 1975 - Sept. 13, 1996
Courtney L. FLOYD, 20, P.O. Box 166, Macy (Nyona Lake), died at 7:40 a.m. today in
an auto accident at the intersection of Old U.S. 31 and U.S. 31. Funeral arrangements are pending
at Foster & Good Funeral Home, Rochester.