The Rochester Sentinel 1996 - Fulton County Public Library

Goldie F. Smithson
Feb. 3, 1899 - April 25, 1996
Goldie Fay SMITHSON, 97, Regency Place Nursing Home, Lafayette, died there at 2:20
a.m. Thursday following an extended illness.
She was born in Fulton County to Frank and Hattie ALEXANDER RITTER. On April
11, 1934 she married Earl F. SMITHSON who died May 24, 1966. She was a homemaker.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. John (Shirley) HIlEMAN, Lafayette; six grandchildren;
great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren and one brother, Ralph W. RITTER, Lafayette.
Preceding in death were three sons, one daughter, one foster-son, two sisters and two brothers.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Flowers-Leedy Funeral Home, 105 West Third St.,
Peru, with the Rev. James LUND officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Peru.
Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Saturday.
Saturday, April 27, 1996
Anna M. Kinsel
Sept. 19, 1931 - April 26, 1996
Anna May KINSEL, 64, 4849 South Wabash Road, died at 6 p.m. Friday at her
residence. She had been ill for one year.
She was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Wilbur J. and Helen WARNER NORRIS. On Aug.
17, 1952 in Chicago, Ill, she married Don M. KINSEL, who survives. She was a Rochester
resident for 28 years, coming here from South Whitley. She was a retired school teacher who
taught at Rochester Middle School. She retired in 1989. She grduated from Manchester College,
North Manchester, and was a member of the Classroom Teachers Assocition, the Indiana State
Teachers Association and Psi Iota Xi Sorority. She was a member o the First Baptist Church and
president of the Fellowship Guild of the church. For the past five years she was the nutritionist for
the WICKS program.
Surviving with her husband are one daughter, Mrs. David (Cindy) GUDEMAN,
Rochester; two sons, Mark and Al and Cindy [KINSEL], both of Rochester; five grandchildren,
Sarah and Alexander GUDEMAN, Aaron BORDER, and Jenna and Brady KINSEL, all of
Rochester; and one sister, Mrs. Jim (Jane) GEBERT, Pierceton.
Services will be at 1 p.m Tueday at Foster & Good Funeral Home, Rochester, with Dr.
Mark SPENCER and the Rev. Junior BOSE officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Monday and after noon Tuesday.