The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Saturday, December 28, 1996
Anna Tisco
July 30, 1911 - Dec. 27, 1996
Anna TISCO, 85, formerly of 13150 Pearl St., Southgate, Mich., died at 4:45 p.m. Friday
at the Life Care Center Nursing Home, Rochester.
She was born to William and Jennie CHOMASHION MACK in Tononto, Canada. She
was a head waitress for the Holiday Inn, Dearborn, Mich., for 25 years. She had been at the Life
Care Center Nursing Home, Rochester, since 1994.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Richard (Marjorie) LUDWIG, Rochester; two sons,
William A. TISCO, Mecosta, Mich., Raymond P. TISCO, Dearborn, Mich., seven grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren.
Preceding in death with her parents is a brother, Peter MACK.
Private family services are scheduled for 5 p.m. today at the Foster & Good Funeral
Home, Rochester. Burial will be at the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rochester.
Monday December 30, 1996
Barbara I. Matthewson
Sept. 7, 1920 - Dec. 26, 1996
Barbara I. MATTHEWSON, 76, Monterey, died at 9:55 p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph
Hospital, Plymouth.
Born in Cross Village, Mich., she married August OLSEN in Chicago, Ill.; he died in
1968. She then married Sam MATTHEWSON in 1973; he died in 1986. She had been a resident
of the Monterey area for 20 years, having come from Chicago. She was a member of the Lutheran
Church, Chicago.
She is survived by a son, Dennis G OLSEN, Oak Forest, Ill.; a grandson, Christopher
OLSEN, Oak Forest, Ill.; and two sisters in Seattle, Wash.
Services will be at the Chapel Hill Cemetery Chapel, Worth, Ill. at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Cemetery, Worth. There will be no visitation. Bonine Funeral
Home, Culver, is in charge of arrangements.
Donnis C. Fisher
Dec. 28, 19804 - Dec. 27, 1996
Donnis C. FISHER, 91, formerly of Mentone, died at 6:10 p.m. Friday at Miller’s Merry
Manor Nursing Home, Plymouth.
Born in Mentone to Alpheus and Myrtle BROWN SMITH, she married Charles M.
FISHER on May 15, 1925 in Warsaw. He died May 9, 1988. She was a homemaker who had
lived most of her life in the Mentone and Tippecanoe area.
She is survived by three daughters, Marjorie BUSWELL, Walkerton, Lena COPLEN,
Tippecanoe, and Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) TOWN, Bluffton, Ohio; eleven grandchildren thirteen
great-gradchildren; one sister Delta SMELSER, Mentone; five brothers, George SMITH, Fish
Lake, Estel, Marion, Frank and Leonard SMITH, al of Mentone. She was preceded in death by
one grandson Douglas COPLEN, two sisters and three brothers.
Services were at 1 p.m. Today at the Grossman Funeral Home, Argos with the Rev. Jerry
KISSINGER officiating., Burial was in Tippecanoe Cemetery, Tippecanoe. Grossman Funeral
Home, Argos, was in charge of arrangements.