The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Arthur Lange
Nov. 28, 1923 - March 11, 1996
Arthur LANGE, 72, 3319 Blynshire Ct., North Vernon, died at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the
Veterans Administration Hospital, Indianapolis.
He was born in Iowa to John Henry and Martha LANGE. On Nov.10, 1944, he married
Betty RUEDE, who survives. He had resided in North Vernon for eight years and was formerly
employed as a Local 172 pipefitter, South Bend. He was a World War II Army veteran and a
member of the Lord of Life Lutheran Church and American Legion Post No. 199 in Country
Square Lakes, both of North Vernon.
Surviving with his wife are one son, Richard LANGE, Hoffman Estates, Ill.; one
daughter, Sandra HOPKINS, Brownsburg; his mother, Martha LANGE, Rochester; one brother,
Donald LANGE, Phoenix, Ariz.; two sisters, Elverne WILKES, Rochester; and Elaine ADAMS,
Indianapolis; one granddaughter, Andrea HOPKINS, Brownburg; and two grandsons, Jason and
Bryan LANGE, both of Hoffman Estates, Ill. Preceding in death were his father and one brother,
Wilbur LANGE.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Lord of Life Lutheran Church, North
Vernon, with the Rev. Richard TREMAIN officiating. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery,
Vernon. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral
Home, North Vernon; and after 9 a.m. Thursday at the church. Memorials may be made in care of
the funeral home to Lord of Life Lutheran Church.
Wednesday, March 13, 1996
Margaret B. Ashton
Sept. 25, 1911 - March 10, 1996
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Grace United Methodist Church for Margaret
B. ASHTON, 84, Life Care Center of Rochester.
The Rev. Jeff TAYLOR will officiate. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m today at the
Foster & Good Funeral Home, Rochester, and one hour prior to the service on Thursday at the
church.
Graveside serives and interment will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Reading Township
Cemetery, Farnhamville, Iowa, with the Rev. David KRUSE officiatng. The Palmer Funeral
Home, Gowrie, Iowa, will be in charge of the graveside services.
Mrs. Ashton died at 5:15 p.m. Sunday at Woodlawn Hospital. She was born in
Galveston, Texas, to John Arthur and Gertrude RAMAKERS BEUG. On Sept. 9, 1930, in St
Louis, Mo., she married the Rev. Cyril ASHTON, who died on Oct. 23, 1965. She was a resident
of Rochester for the past 13 years, having come from Denton, Texas. Prior to her residence at Life
Care Center, she lived at 300 E. Fourth St. She had also been a former resident of Farnhamville,
Iowa, where her husband pastored the United Methodist Church.
She was a homemaker, a housemother for many years at Westmar College, La Mars,
Iowa, and a hostess at a Methodist Retirement Home in Sioux City, Iowa. She was a hostess at a
retirement home in Denton, Texas, prior to moving to Rochester. She was a member of Grace
United Methodist Church and active in RSVP, both of Rochester.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Burton (Margaret) YOUNGSTROM, Rochester; and
Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) LAMBERT, Oklahoma City, Okla.; one son, John and wife JoAnn
ASHTON, Sioux Falls, S.D.; ten grandchildren, Tim YOUNGSTROM, Knoxville, Tenn.; Teri
FURNIVALL and Stuart YOUNGSTROM, both of Rochester; Scott YOUNGSTROM, Ocala,
Fla.; Lory CHAPLIN, Bloomfield, Iowa; Heidi JAHN, Pleasant Hill, Ill.; Dan ASHTON, Des