Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 2, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 November 1940 — STEPHEN COLEMAN OF WHEATFIELD ANSWERS CALL FRIDAY P. M. [ARTICLE]

STEPHEN COLEMAN OF WHEATFIELD ANSWERS CALL FRIDAY P. M.

Stephe n Schuyler Coleman, fiftyyear resident of Wheatfield who died from complications following a stroke of paralysis, was buried Monday afternoon in the Wheatfield cemetery. Mr. Coleman’s death at 4:15 p. m. on Friday followed an illness of aproximately two years. He was born in Porter county near Valparaiso, on the fifth of January in 1869. Mr. Coleman was 71 years, 10 months and 17 days,old at the time of his death. A farmer by occupation, Mr. Coleman moved to Wheatfield fifty years ago from Valparaiso. He married his wife, Gustie Julia Fritz in Rensselaer on Dec. 13th, 1897. He was a member of the Pentacostal Church of Wheatfield from which place the funeral was conducted by the Todd Funeral Home with the Rev. Jones officiating. Surviving are Mrs. Nancy Milton of Rensselaer; Mrs. Etta Coles, Chicago; Mrs. Francis Campbell of Lake Village : Russel and Otto Coleman o F Wheatfield; Mrs. May Johnson of Naperville 111., and Mrs. Emma Nussel of Chicago. Also surviving are thirteen grandchidren, one half brother, Orlando Draper of Dowagiac, a sister, Mrs, of Wheatfield; Mrs. Josephine Been of Saint Joseph, Miss., and Russel Coleman of Valparaiso. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Coleman.