Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1942 — Page 5

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] 7 y ie 1 8 Olive Dobbins McCurdy 1st | To Practice in County; ||

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Studied Abroad.

+ * The first woman admitted tomed-

ical practice in Marion county, Dr.

Olive Dobbins McCurdy, 1750 W.| She| ;

- Washington st., died today. was 78. :

The funeral will be Wednesday at| | 1 p. m. in Shirley Brothers central] chapel, with burial in Bethel ceme- | tery. Friends may call at the chapel}

after 8 p. m. this evening.

Dr. McCurdy had been ill for more than a year. She was thei]

wife of Dr. Lawson A. McCurdy, who died in 1935, ; ' Together they studied at the Central Medicine college here and were graduated 53 years ago. They continued their studies in London and Berlin, returning here to open

. practices on the: West side.

DePauw Graduate

Mrs. McCurdy was born near Fortville in Hancock county. Before attending medicine college, she was graduated from DePauw university. Survivors include a son, Maj. Forman D. McCurdy, a former attorney here, now with the U. S. army in Australia; two sisters, Mrs. Albert Cohee and Mrs. Clara Leary, both of Indianapolis, and four brothers, Wilford, Andrew, Nelson and Ira Dobbins, all of St. Peters-

SERVICES ARE HELD FOR. MARY SIMPSON

Mrs. Mary Simpson, who died yvSaturday night at her home, 546 S. Illinois st., was buried yesterday at Knessis Israel cemetery following services conducted by Rabbi David Shapiro at the Aaron-Ruben funeral home. Ill several days, Mrs. Simpson was 70. She was native of Lithuania ahd was married to Harry Simpson .in Kansas City, Mo. in 1899. They had lived here since their ‘wedding. Mrs. Simpson was a member of the Knessis Israel auxiliary. ‘Surviving are her husband and two sisters, Mayme Wolpa and Sarah, both of Indianapolis.

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YOCUM FUNERAL DUE TOMORROW

Employee of City and Kingan’s . Worked as Miner 40 Years.

Funeral services for William Henry Yocum, 1149 W. 31st st., will be held at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Feeney & Feeney funeral home and at 9 o'clock at Holy Angels church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Yocum died Saturday night at his home after a brief illness. He was 80. : He was born’ Sept. 30, 1861, in Brazil, son of John and Ellen Yocum. He worked for about 40 years in the coal mines near Brazil, Terre Haute and Jasonville before coming to Indianapolis 25 years ago. ! 3 Worked for City He was employed by Kingan & Co. and the city street department. Mr. Yocum was a member of Holy Angels church and a charter member of the Red Men’s lodge in Jasonville. Survivors are his wife, Mary Ellen; three sons, Edward L. of Indianapolis, and Charles E. and James L. of Terre Haute: two daughters, Mrs, Florence Reckley and Mrs. Margaret Taylor, both of Indianapolis; 13 grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren,

EMMA FETTY. DIES; RESIDENT SINCE 77

A member of a pioneer Indianapolis family, Mrs. Emma Kersey Fetty died yesterday at her home, 2702/ W. Washington st. She was 83. She was born in. Boone county and came to Indianapolis in 1877 to live with her cousin, Benjamin Haugh, proprietor of the old Haugh Iron Works. 5 She was a member of the Central State hospital supervisory staff several years and opened a dressmaking shop in 1888. She retired in 1922. She was a member of the West Washington Street Methodist church. Mrs. Petty 1s survived by a sister, Mrs. Ada Byrne of Noblesville. Funeral services will be at the home at 2p. m. Tuesday with burial in

Crcwn Hill.

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Edward D. Farmer Served Board Since It Was Organized in 1910. |

RN Edward Dallas Farmer, examiner

{for the state board eof accounts for

32 years, died at his home, 1 E. 36th st., yesterday after three weeks ill-

ness. He was 67.

Mr. Farmer, who was a member

E |of the Indiana and national societies

of certified public accountants, joined the state board of accounts when it was first organized in 1910. ' For the last six years, Mr. Farmer has been a debuty state examiner in the statehouse office. Born in Monroe county, he attended Indiana university and later was a Monroe county official.

Moved Here in 1933 .

He moved to Indianapolis in 1933 and had been a deacon in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church for several years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Harriett Brewer Farmer; a daughter, Mrs. John E. Stempel of Bloomington; a son, Edward Dallas Farmer of Birmingham, Ala.; a stepdaughter, Mrs. William E. Cook; a stepson, Donald C. Brewer of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. George Wood of Bloomington. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Burial will be in Rose" Hill cemetery at Bloomington.

SCHEDULE RITES FOR MOTHER OF PRIEST

Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Theresa Rose Hoover, mother of the Rev. Fr. Harry F. Hoover, assistant pastor of St. Joan of Arc church, at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at Grinsteiner’s funeral home and at ‘10 a. m. at St. Philip Neri church. Mrs. Hoover died Saturday in St. Vincent’s hospital after a brief 1illness. She was 55. She lived at 3115 Moore st.Mrs. Hoover was born in Ireland and came to Indianapolis in 1903. She was a member of St. Philip Neri church, Survivors are her husband, Harry L,; two sons, Rey. Fr. Hoover and Robert J, of the U. 8S. army; a daughter, Mrs. David Dean, Indianapolis, and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Curran in Ireland, and Mrs. Julia Mulvilhill and Mrs. Nora Galema, both of Indianapolis.

HORACE A, HAMMOND SERVICES TOMORROW

Funeral services for Horace A. Hammond, father of Patrolman Harry Hammond of the Indianapolis police force, will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the Beanblossom mortuary, 1321 W. Ray st. Burial will ‘be in Washington: Park. Mr. Hammond, who lived on R. R. 2, Greenwood, died Friday \while visiting the son’s ‘home, 2050 N. Tacoma ave. He lived in Indianapolis most of his life and was associated with the old Nordyke & Marmon Co. 30 years. He was a member of the Pike county lodge 121, F. & A. M. Other survivors are his wife, Janie; two brothers, Courtney E. of Indianapolis and Omer T. of Marlowe, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. George Lockard of Tuskahomia, Okla. and four grandchildren.

Mary E. Seward

Burial Tomorrow

FUNERAL services for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Seward, formerly of Greenfield, Ind., will be held there at the Lyman funeral home at 2 p. m. tomorrow, with burial in the Greenfield Park cemetery. . Mrs. Seward, who was 86, died Saturday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daisy Greenwood, 526 Livingston ave, She was a native of Hancock county and was the widow of Perry Seward, landscaper, who died in 1929. For the last 15 years, she lived here. ‘Surviving, besides Mrs. Greenwood, are another daughter, Mrs. Ruth Taggart of Indianapolis; three sons, Milton of Indianapolis, Ira of Columbus, O., and Jessie of Greenfield, and six grand-

children.

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EXAMINER DEES

SERVICES FOR a member of a pioneer Indianapolis family will be held at 11 a. m. tomorrow ‘wheng Dr. Samuel Bates Grubbs is buried from Crown Hill chapel. Dr. Grubbs, who died Saturday at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was a former director of the U. S. public health service. He gained wide recogriition for his studies of yellow and typhus fevers and bubonic plague. He was 71. Interment will be in Crown Hill.

HEAD OF SHADE CLOTH CO. DIES

John W. Warren Came Here From Chicago . 20 Years Ago.

Jo died Baturday night in Methodist hospital after a brief illness. He was president of the Western Shade Cloth Co. of Indiana. Mr. Warren came to Indianapolis 20 years ago from Chicago as a representative of the company. He had also been assocaifed with the Mandel Brothers department store in- Chicago. He was a member of the Columbia club, Rotary club, Scottish Rite and the Central ave, Methodist church. His wife, the former Miss Walburga Karcher of .Chicago, died eight years ago. Survivors include’ a sister, Mrs. C. 8S Holden, Dundee, N. Y.; one niece, one nephew and a grandnephew, all of Dundee. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

GHRISTINA HOELZER, HERE 35 YEARS, DEAD

Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Christina: Hoelzer, 401 N. Tacoma ave, at 2 p. m. tomorrow at her home. Mrs. Hoelzer had been ill for two years before her death Saturday.

Born in Greenville, O.,, she had lived in Indianapolis for 35 years. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and the Willing Workers’ class of the church school. * Survivors include her husband, John W.; a son, Stanley, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Winn, Lockland, O., and Mrs. Katherine Grosshaus, Gueenville, O.; two brothers, Fred Grosshaus, Greenville, O.,, and George Grosshaus, Cleveland, and two granddaughters, Marlene Hoelzer and Linda Hoelzer, both of Indianapolis. The. Rev. F, R. Dadries, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Memorial park.

RITES TOMORROW FOR DORIS SCOTT COREY

Ill eight weeks, Mrs. Doris Scott Corey, who was 19, died Saturday morning at her home and the funeral will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the Moore & Kirk Irvington mortuary, 5342 E. Washington st. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Mrs. Corey lived in Warren township and was the wife of Richard Corey, whom she married March 27, 1940. She’ was born Feb. 24, 1923, in Indianapolis and attended Warren Central high school. Surviving are her husband; her mother, Mrs. Ina Scott, and, two sisters, Miss Ella Louise Scott and Mrs. Thelma Ent. All are of Warren township.

SERVICES ARE HELD. FOR ESSIE KAUFFMAN

Funeral services were held yesterda’y for Mrs. Essie Stein Kaufman at the Aaron-Ruben funeral

home, with Rabbi Israel Chodos and Cantor Myro Glass officiating. Burial was in Shara Tefila. Mrs. Kauffman, who was 43, died Friday in Rochester, Minn. A resident of 922 E. 46th st., she had been ill three months and was the wife of Meyer B. Kauffman, . Mrs. Kauffman was born in Detroit, Mich., and was a member of

Surviving dre her husband, her| mother, Mrs. Anna Stein of Detroit, Mich., and four sisters, Mrs. Minnie

Attends Rites *For Publisher

MRS. CHARLES Coudert Nast is in New York today to attend the funeral of her father-inlaw, Conde Nast, who died Saturday in his home there. Services for the noted magazine publisher will be tomorrow with burial on Long Mrs. Nast is the .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion E. Ensley, 5402 Washington blvd, and is making her home with them while her husband, Maj. Nast, is serving with the armed forces over-

the Jewish War Veterans’ auxiliary.|

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Schricker Among Speakers

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At 4-Day State Parley “In South Bend.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 31 (U.

P..—More than 1000. delegates are expected to attend the 58th annual convention of the Indiana Federa~tion ‘of Labor which opens here to-| G1 morrow for a four-day session tof

weight important wartime labor

Carl H. Mullen, Indianapolis,

state president, will preside. Speak-

ers are to include Governor Schricker, William C. O., member of the A. F. of L. executive board; Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indianapolis, state selective service director, and Commodore W. E. Longfellow, ‘ Washington Red

Cross official. Harry E. O'Reilly, Washington,

W. Warren, 4440 Marcy lane, | a, F, of L. tfeasury department rep-

resentative in the war bond drive, will address the Thursday morning session on thé payroll deduction plan. a One of the major pieces of business to be studied by the convention will be proposed unemployment lagv amendments, -° : Over the week-end the state councils of printing pressmen, building trades and construction, drivers and painters, rators and paperhangers held meetings preliminary to. the state parley.

Rites Held for Mary LeFeber

MRS. MARY O. LEFEBER, who died Friday at the home of her son, W. C. LeFeber, 3709 N. Emerson ave. was to be at New Crown cemetery today. Services were at the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes. Mrs. LeFeber was 88 years old and left 59 descendants in four generations. She had been ill for two weeks. Mrs. LeFeber, who lived at 1810 Cottage ave., came fo Indianapolis from Shelbyville, 60 years ago. She was born in Howard county and married Daniel LeFeber in 1875. Mr. LeFeber died in 1918. She had been a member of the Central Universalist church since 1895. Survivors besides the son are three ' other sons, Vernon and Oliver; both of Indianapolis, and Charles of Albuquerque, N. M.; a daughter, Mrs. Armitta Oliphant, Indianapolis; two brothers, Danfel Felton, Muncie, and Mahon Felton, Oklahoma; a ‘sister, Mrs. Minnie Payne, Oklahoma; 15 grandchildren, 27 great-grand-children and 12° great-great-grandchildren. :

Birthright, Cleveland, |

eaths in Indiana

, Anna Belle Smith, 77. : Sons, Theodore Smith; ard, a0 Mre. Orshs Parris: brothers, Wilsrd, an ; : Alex and James Sullivan. = } EVANSVILLE—Sister Angelina, 77. Survivors: Sister, Mrs. George Manion Sr.

Brother, Charles Reeves.

pAAZLETON-Charles A. Shawhan, 83. ; : Son, George Shawhan. MOUNT VERNON-—Mxs. Mary Dexheimer 5 vors: Daughter, Mrs. AlBlass 32. sister, Mrs. Katherine Wents,

180. over Willard 'G. and fy B Dieoimanas” daughter, Bod- | Dieckmann; sister, Mrs.

: 1. OAKLAND . | beth McCullough,

ShirMiss Hazel rgaret Stewart,

CITY—Mrs. Amanda Eliza- , 73. Survivors: Husband, Crawford; son, Harry McGregor. RUSHVILLE—Jake Butts Jr., 25. Survivors: Wife; son, Jimmie Allen Butts; parents; brothers, eddie, Reynand and Charles Butts; Sisters, . Walter Dickson, Mrs. Richard Smith and Mrs. Mathews. . Surviy Husband, Hi J : a 3 Harriett, Martin. oy. SHANNONDALE -— Mrs, Martha Lois Cleaver, 82. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Sheehan; sister, Miss Jegnie Clarkson.

‘VINCENNES—Mrs. Sarah E. Early, 78.

WABASH-—Mrs. Dorlan Harvey, 34. Survivors: Husband; mother, Mrs. Brewer; sons, Cecil, Richard and Mpyrval; daugh-

well

Estelle Clark Martin. daughter,

NEW ALBANY—Mrs. Ella I. Dieckmann,

ters, Martha and the baby daughter.

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ily

were required a few months ago for making Electric ranges are now being devoted to the manufacture of powerful, hard-hitting tanks ; and other implements of war. And we think you would have it so. Consequently, you will have to wait for your new Electric range « while a more important job is being done. Save today by buying . War bonds so you can save tomorrow with Electric cooking. :

15, You HAVE AN Electric RANGE TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT

. and it should outlast the war. It was built for hard, efficient service - and vitamized health cooking—two war-time essentials. See that it % is kept clean by washing when cool. Avoid letting spilled food harden

hi Keep wirin . stored heat

or dry on the range. Do not always turn switches in same direction. iring in good condition, and remember you’ can cook “with : after the Electricity is turned off.| “re

THERE'S. NO SHORTAGE OF

Electricity

FOR INDIANAPOLIS HOMES

At the present time it is anticipated that there will be plenty of Electricity for every Indianapolis home. Keep at work ‘the Electric appliances you have. They'll save you both time and strength for other jobs essential to victory." ;