The Independent-News, Volume 98, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 September 1971 — Page 2

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TIDFI INDEPENDENT-NEWS — SEPTEMBER 30, 1971

IF YOU CATCH MY SONS, PLEASE BE BRUTAL!

Here is a letter wruten by a mother to hv< p »l.ee ch.ef in Topeka, Kan. is she sets forth her \ cus on "f jhce brutality.” We have just one lomnunt to make: ‘What a mother:” We have just one question io ask: “Why is her tube so small?” To begin, I sh aid first tell you thu 1 hive two teenage sms, and being a mother, 1 cannot help but vv u.t the very be.-t of everything for ihem. 1 am not a “typ eal mother" in tint I s c tn.ngs inat many m ithers never hear of, much less become involved in, because my husband is a mlnist i and we s e the very best and the sordid worgt. 1 would like t>i you to be brutal with my sons. Is th it a sui prise, If you f.nd them speeding in i ear. please be brutal. I In. - s.T at a hospital holding a grieving mother s hand been ise of someone’s m stake. That was brutal. 1 have gone w.ih my husband to tell a wife he. husband was killed. That was brutal. 1 have played organ music at funeral services i>r babies, tern agers and adults, because someone drove too fast. I hat was brutal. If y>u catch my underage sons vvAh liquor in- their possission, phase be brutal. I have sat all night by my husband’s sate trying to piece together two underage young men’s lives, both broken by drinking. That was brutal. I have listened to the horrors experienced by another man while he was drunk and heard him recall the many jails he ha.' served time in for this. That was brutal. I have tried to console a mother whose dai ghter was killed after being struck by a drunken driver. That was brutal. If you should find my sons with drugs in their possession, pk.se be brutal. I have tried to rehabilitate a woman just out of prison forshooting her husband while she wa drugged. This was brutal. I have seen a handsome young man turn into an ugly one because of drugs. That wis brutal. I have seen a young mother who was addicted to a drug sen am and rave □ D JB.III A K 1 h b O o Fred L. DeUoudres Fred L. DeCouiires, 37, of 201 S. Jefferson St.. North Liberty, was dead >n arrival at Memorial Hospital at 4:50 p.m. Wednesd y, September 22, after falling 22 feet to a concrete sidewalk while repairing the roof of his tv> story home. Mr. DeCoudtes' physician reported the vict.:a had had a poor heart eottdr.ion, but ‘the St. Joseph Courcv Coroner, Dr. Stanley M. Kosccdski, said Mr. DeCoudres died 1 a crushed chest and neck a jui vs. and not as a resule of his i eart condition. H was bjin September 30, 1883 in Ninth Liberty and lived in Ninth Liberty all of his life. On, J ne 25, 1955. in Mishawaka, he mu tied Vest i Yeager, who survives, along with three nt phew- nd a niece. He retired from the Wabash Ki.lt id in 1958 after- 35 years a th- Noith Liberty agent of the i droid. He wis secretarytn i er- and a memo- r of the boua of direct n of the North L.bv / (Vm.;u \ As >ci ition. S v ; c s were held at 2:00 p t Saturn tv in the North LibCl tv ('mted Methodist Cnurch, of v. meh he was a member and tor.i.' trutcr. Rev. Robert WHlb nks, pastor of the church, offui. cd ass stud by Dr. Harold N< F irt Wayne, Bur d was i E tkiwn C\ met ay, North Libialy. Marc A. ClaAitigh Ma । A. Club nigh. 20, of route 1, Walk rton, died Ft.day in

for a lick of a "fix.” That was brutal. it you f.nd my sons comm.’.an^ any kind of immoiul act or carrying any pornographic ateriais, please be brutal’ 1 have listened to the sad cry ala young girl who was pregnant but not married. That was brutal. I have been present when a boy and gnl broke the news to their parents that tney had to marry. That was brutal. I have tried to comfort a mother whose beautiful daughter was criminally raped. That was bi utal. I nave seem a promising young man with a brill.ant future have to give it up. too young to assume the nspnns.b.tties of a wife and baby. That was brutal. If you ever s.e my sons taking something that isn’t theirs or wilfully destroy property please be brutal! 1 have walk d in a hushed sacred church th.it has stripped of everything that comb be sold. That was brutal. 1 have seen a lovely, expensive h .me rjad ya rd completely torn up by vandals. Inat was brutal. 1 have wiped a Lttle bay’s teais and help, d him hunt for his stolen b.cycle. That was brutal. If you should ever satch my sons doing anything illegal, please be brutal! I have come to realize that your kind of "brutality” cannot in anyway compare with the brutality that comes from breaking the laws. My husband and I have tried to teach our sorus that their rights end where someone elses begin. We believe that they have learned this lesson. But in case they forget, we look Yo you and ohters who influence their lives — teachers, coaches, etc. to see that they remember. Arid if you mugc be brutal to remind them — then please be brutal! I do not want my two sms to grow into grown-up boys. I want them to becme men, able to assume their places in this world and make g x)d contributions to it. I sincerely hope they won’t need your help: but if they do, and if you must, then be brutal! Children’s Memorial Hospital, Cnicago, following an extended illness. Mr. Clabaugh was an apprentice tool and die maker at Walkerton Tool & Die Co. He was born May 21, 1951, in South Bend. He hived in Walkerton all his hfe. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Russell Clabaugh of Walkerton; two brothers, Matthew and Robeit; and a sister, Rebecca, all at home; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clabaugh, of E t 'n»a Green, and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sophia Scftoii, of Plymouth. Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the NusbaumElk.n Funeral Home, Walkers ton, officiated by the Rev. Harry Shearer, pastor of the Bourbon Apostolic Church. Burial was in Woodland Cemetery, Walkedton. Mrs. Marvin E. Kane Mrs. Betty J. Kane, 50, of 673C0 Redwood Road, North Liberty,died at 12:20 a.m. Monday in Memori 4 H ,spital after an extended illness. Sh • was born May 20, 1921 in North Liberty and hid lived in North Liberty all her life. On April 18, 1941, in North Liberty, she married to Marv n E Kane, win survives, along with her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Ruff, of Tyner, Indiana; tw; sons, Larry, of Ro ville, Ind.ar: i. and Kerry, of Not th LiLerty; a daughter, Miss M iri’vn Kane, of N >rlh Liberty; and a brother, R chard Ruff, jf Tyner. Al.-.o -urviving arc two sis-

ters, Mrs. Mary Alyce Pentbw, or r'lymoutn; ana Mrs. J jec Rouen, of Roche.iter. i riva’.e s i vices were held at 2,u0 p.m, Tuesday in the A. M. Mamul I'uncivil Home. Rev. itay M..ls, pa-i >r of the United Method si Cnurch, Fiankloit, ofßciitmg. Burial was in th Wes’iiann Cemetery, North Lib erty. Mrs. Kane wai t member oi the Noith Liberty Un.u d Methodist Church, the WSCS of the church, and The North LibeJy iluim maker’s Club. Memunal contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. George I. Mi-En.y.irh-r George iru McEndarter, 98, of Prescoil, Ar.zona, Rum iiy of Noith L.berty, died at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, September 23, in Prescott ai\er a year’s iimess. H was a retired farmer. He had lived in Aiizoria lor fouryears, mov.ng there from Noun Lioeriy. He was born D.cemLer 6, 1872, in North Liberty. His wife, Olive, died in 1961. Surviving aie two siU. Myron of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Hubert Oi North L.berty; two uiiigmer.s, M.ss Lucy MeEndarfer of SiUch Bend, and Mary Retty oi I'i scott; fi>e granaciuluren; e.g^t gieat g.anach.ldren and tn re gr at-grcat giandchildren. S ivies wt.e held at 2:00 p.m. Monday .n die Tabor Um<.ed -vledbxi.st Cnuich w.m Kev. Larly Corr 1. ou.c.atir..,. Bui nil was in Fair Ccmevciy. Mrs. Lilly B. Hietn n Mis. Luiy B. Hietanen, 68, of Koontz Lake, Walkerton, died at 4:00 a.m. Saturday in her home aAer an extended illness. She was born on May 14, 1903, in Chicago and had lived at Koontz Lake for the last year and a half, coming fi -m Rochester. On September 15, 1951, in South Bend, she was married to Arnold A. Heitanen, who survives. Also surviving are two sorjs, Emil Oberg, of Macy, Indiana, and David Oberg Jr., of Denbigh, Va.; a daughter, Mrs. Helga Trego, of Koontz Lake; eight grandchildren; two great grandchildren; three brothers, Nester Walskog, of Culver, Gi irge Walskog, of French Lick, and Arvid Walskog, of Califor-

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n a and two siskers, Mrs. Selma G. .oaugn, oi iviiux, anu mu. Rudi Dipert, f Chicago. Services were hela at 2:00 p.m. luesday i.i Rie Immanuel Lutneian enuren, Daß.uusun, Rev. James ACGee, pastor, oiticiatang. Burial was in the Immaimal CeimYery. Sue was a member of the church. Roy Knowlton Roy Knowlton, 50, of route 2, Walkert >n, diiu at 6:10 pm. Saturday in Walters Hospital, Michigan CAy, after an illness of six months. He was a farmer. Born on May 11, 1921, in Walkerton., he had lived in the aria all .f his life. On June 27, 1942, at LaPorte, he marr ed Laverne Stroule who survives. Also surviving are a son, Larry, of Michigan City; a grandson; a brother, Donald, of Gland K.tp ids, Mi< h gan; and four s.st is, Mrs. Virginia Skinner, of Stevensville, Mich gan, Mn. Betty Arrick, of Niles, Mrs. Violet Hcck, of route 2, Walkerton, and Mrs. Marilyn Slat r, of South Bend. Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Nusbaum Elk n Funeial Home, w.kh Rev. E. H. Eckstein, pa-tor of the Mill Creea Baptist Church, oftici itiig. Buri il was in Westlawn Cemetery, North L b.Tiy. 4-H Achievement Night Set For Tuesday, Oct. 5 Lincoln Townhip 4-H clubs at Walkerton will stage their annual Achievement N’gh’c Banquet on Tuesday night, October 5. at the Walkerton Elementary School according to Mrs. Ed Lazarek. Advisory Board chairman. A cooperative supper will be served at 6.30 p.m. sharp with

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