The Rochester Sentinel 1970 - Fulton County Public Library

Final rites will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Foster & Good funeral home with the Rev.
Laurence I. SMITH officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery, Crawfordsville. Friends
may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday.
Ernest Branning
Ernest BRANNING, 77, Akron, died at 9:30 a.m. today in Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital.
Rites are pending at the Haupert funeral home in Akron.
Monday, February 9, 1970
Roy Miller
Roy MILLER, Gilead, died at 9:30 a.m. today in the Canterbury Manor nursing home.
Final rites are pending at the Haupert funeral home in Akron.
Bert C. Fletcher
Bert C. FLETCHER, 87, died today at 6:30 a.m. in Woodlawn hospital.
Born April 23, 1882, in Fulton county, he was the son of Martin and Ann WYNN
FLETCHER. His marriage was June 10, 1905, to Clara May ALEXANDER, who died Nov. 16,
1953. A retired farmer and former Richland township assessor, he was a member of the
Whippoorwill community church and the Richland Center I.O.O.F. Lodge.
Surviving are one son, Clarence B. [FLETCHER], Rochester; one step-son, Marrs
ALEXANDER, South Bend, and four grandchildren, Richard L. FLETCHER, Fort Wayne; Robert
E. FLETCHER, Gary; William ALEXANDER, South Bend, and Teri [ALEXANDER],
Rochester.
Final rites will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Whippoorwill community church. Burial
will be in the Richland Center I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral
home after 2 p.m. Tuesday and one hour before services.
Ernest H. Branning
Final rites were today at 11 a.m. in the Akron United Methodist church for Ernest H.
BRANNING, who died Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne.
The Rev. Harold LEININGER and the Rev. Dan BENGSTON officiated. Burial was in
the Akron cemetery.
Born May 5, 1892, in Fort Wayne, he was the son of Henry and Emma BODY
BRANNING. His marriage was in 1914 to Ruth RITTENHOUSE, who died in 1951. He had
lived in Akron 15 years, moving from Piqua, O., and was a retired executive vice-president of the
Wood, Shovel, and Tool company, Piqua. He was also a member of the Akron Chamber of
Commerce and the Akron United Methodist church.
Surviving are two sons, E. Robert BRANNING, Cleveland; and Eugene R. BRANNING,
New York; three grandchildren; one brother, Henry BRANNING, Fort Wayne; and five sisters,
Miss Martha BRANNING, Mrs. Herbert (Emma) BUEHLER, Mrs. John (Luella) SAUER, Mrs.
William (Bertha) LEGGET, and Mrs. T. (Alma) WOLF, all of Fort Wayne. Preceding him in
death are three brothers and two sisters.