The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 17, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1969 — Page 3

OBITUARIES

Mis. Marie Smoker Mrs. Mark (Mary Alice) Smoker, 60, New Paris, mother of Mrs. Robert (Joan) Geiger, New Paris, former Milford resident, died Tuesday, May 20, at 4:30 p.m. in the Goshen hospital where she had been admitted on April 24. Death was caused by cancer. A native of Clinton county, Oklahoma, Mrs. Smoker was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Doud July 21, 1908. On November 2, 1929, she married Mr. Smoker, who survives. She was a member of the Fii-st Brethren church and had been employed in the New Paris Branch of the Salem Bank and Trust Company since 1958. Surviving with the husband and daughter are another daughter, Mrs. I<ester (Marietta) Hooley of New Paris; one son, David, r 2 Goshen; 11 grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Clayton Steinbarger of Rome City. Services were held Friday, May 23, in the First Brethren church in New Paris with Rev. Woodrow Imme, officiating and interment was in the New Paris cemetery. Robinson Twins Graveside services for Dionne Rene and Dawne Repe Robinson, Fort Wayne, twin greatgranddaughters of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tutwiler Syracuse, were held Friday afternoon in Covington Memorial Gardens, Fort Wayne. The infants died Thursday afternoon several hours after birth in Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne. Survivors include their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robinson, Frot Wayne; a brother, Paul, and other grandparents. John Beck John Beck. 86, r 1 Cromwell, died at 8:15 a.m. Monday in the Parkview hospital, Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for

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three days. Mr. Beck was born May 17, 1833 in Kosciusko county and had lived at Indian Village for 54 years moving from the Syracuse community. On September 23, 1906, he married Etta Wright at Elkhart. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Indian Village United Methodist church. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs George (Lois) Martin, Monroeville; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Charles and Calvin, Syracuse; one sister, Mrs. Milo Snyder, r 1 Cromwell. Funeral services were held today (Wednesday). Rev. Dwight Stoner officiated and burial was in the Oak Park cemetery. Floyd Droke Services for Floyd Droke, Goshen, killed in an accident Wednesday, were held at Goshen on Saturday. Rev. Ralph Wagoner of the Syracuse Church of the Brethren officiated and burial was in the Syracuse cemetery. Nathan E. Thompson Nathan E. Thompson, 82, of Indianapolis and former Syracuse resident, died in Saint Francis hospital in Indianapolis thia week. He was born at Ludlow Falls, Ohio, and had lived at Syracuse for 10 years and at Indianapolis 40 years. He retired in 1952 after 39 years with the US postal department. He was a member of the Capital City Masonic lodge and the Tuxedo Park Baptist church. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Florence) and Mrs. Kenneth Gasaway; a son Meredith E. of Savannah Ga,; five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Indianapolis. Burial was in Washington Park-east

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Dear Editor: “We bear our sorrow and our pain, we stoop beneath our heavy loads. We pray, and often grief is stilled and pain becomes a strange past thing; Our loads are lifted; many times even from our remembering.” I just came from the cemetery. Couldn’t help but compare cemetery, Indianapolis. Mrs. John K. Cripe Mrs. LaVeta M. Cripe, 65, of r 3 Goshen, wife of John K. Cripe, Goshen postal employe, died at 3:07 p.m. Sunday in Goshen hospital where she had been a patient since May 7. Death followed an ol three weeks. Mrs. Cripe was the former LaVeta Warstler, born near Syracuse September 1, 1903. She was a graduate of Syracuse high school. Surviving are her husband, to whom she was married January 14, 1935; two brothers, Patil Warstler, Syracuse, and Ralph Warstler, New Paris; three sis;ters, Mrs. Russell (Dorothy) Whitehead, New Paris, Mrs. Iva Neff, Milford, and Mrs. Prentice (Orpha) Kintigh, North Hollywood, Calif.; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held today (Wednesday) at Goshen. Rev. Bradley Weidenhamer, pastor of the First Brethren church, officiated and burial was in the Violett cemetery.

this evening with so many others that I’ve spent up there. It’s usually such a quiet beautiful place, with the flowers and the sunset. Tonight four boys were racing their bikes over all the roads. Innocent fun? Perhaps! The roads do make a nice racecourse. One widow told me of taking time and care in making a beautiful floral arrangement for her husband’s grave. Within a day or two it was stolen. Just a short time before this a mother had told me that someone had taken a slip from the plant, she had just planted yesterday, on her daughter’s grave. She said this happens to her every year. She showed me the plant. No child did this! The thief knew what she was doing. Knowing that this mother watched her child die a slow agonizing death, I wonder at the sickness of a woman that will commit such an act! I can’t believe a man would do such a thing. I can see the boys having fun as Jong as they stay on their bikes letting the flowers and grave stones alone, but I’m wondering how this woman, or women, will feel when they, too, have husbands or children buried there. Wouldn’t it be kinder to go to the dime store and buy your floral arrangements? Or to a florist for your plants? “And the mother gave in tears and pain, the flowers she most did love; she knew she would find them all again in the fields of light above.” Rebecca Kitson

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Kennedy Names Governor Honorary Chairman of Savings Bonds Committee

Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy today named Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb as honorary state chairman of the US Savings Bonds committee for Indiana. In state capitol acceptance ceremonies, the Governor received the Secretary’s official appointment certificate from Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc., who is state chairman of the volunteer Savings Bonds committee for Indiana. Governor Whitcomb responded by stating that “Today, more than ever before, the purchase of US Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares is vital to the financial well-being of our citizens and it is equally important in maintaining the economic stability of the nation. Systematic savings by the families of our state can only generate future purchasing power that is sure to benefit the welfare of our communities and counties and, ultimately. our country. I gladly accept Secretary Kennedy’s appointment, and I pledge him in return that we shall work diligently to advance the practice of regular thrift habits through Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares in our great State of Indiana.” Presenting the certificate at the request of Secretary Ken-

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Shellabarger To Direct United Fund Campaign

J. J. Shellabarger, vice president of Dalton Foundries and president of the industrial division of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, has been named to direct the 1969 United Fund Campaign this fall. Named to assist Shellabarger was J. Alan Morgan, executive vice president of Zimmer Manufacturing Company.

At Dedication Os Belgium Plant Forrest Ramser, Larry Myers and Howard Brembeck of the Chore-Time plant in Milford are in Maldegem, Belgium, attending the dedication of a new ChoreTime plant located there. The men left7 Sunday, May 25, attended the dedication which was Tuesday, May 27, and are expected to arrive horns on Saturday, May 31. The new plant is located in Maldegem, Belgium, which is 60 miles east of Brussles, and employs 15 personnel. William Kinsey of LaPorte called in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Felkner and family of Milford on Monday evening.

nedy, Mr. Pulliam expressed his appreciation of the Governor’s leadership of the Savings Bonds mission, adding that, “the Savings Bonds program in Indiana is certain to gain new momentum because of the Governor’s active support.” 1 Under Governor Whitcomb's leadership, a campaign "is presently under -way in the state government to give employees the opportunity to enroll in the Payroll Savings Plan for the purchase of United States Savings Bonds. STOLLER, Christopher Edward Mrs. Edwin (Cynthia) Stoller and the late Edwin Stoller of r 1 Milford are the parents of a son, Christopher Edward, born Wednesday, May 21, at 8:03 p.m. in the Goshen hospital. The little boy weighed in at six pounds, four ounces, arid was 19 inches in length. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Levi Beer of r 1 Milford, and the paternal grandmother is Mrs. Lenora Stoller, Fort Wayne. The maternal great-grandmother is Mrs. Louise Kufper schmid of Rankin, 111., and Mr. and Mrs. George Stieglitz of New Haven are the paternal great-grandpar-ents. Paternal great-grandmother is Mrs. Catherine Stoller of New Haven.

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Shellabarger headed the industrial division of the United Fund campaign last year and is a past president of the Kosciusko County YMCA. Morgan also participated in last year’s campaign as chairman of the small business division. The two men will be respon-

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Police Displaying American Flag Troopers of the Indiana State Police, in cooperation with the Department of Indiana American Legion, are displaying small American flags on the rear of their patrol cars. According to state police superintendent Robert K. Konkle, the project is a mutual effort on the part of police and Legion officials to help strengthen respect for the flag and to support the late General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plea for “renewed pride and faith in America.” “In a sense,” superintendent Konkle said, “policemen are soldiers whose duty it is to guard the freedoms of the people in his community. We are proud and honored to display the flag that symbolizes how vitally important that duty is.” In the photo, superintendent Konkle (left) and Ralph V. Cushman, Veedersburg, state commander of the American Legion, watch as trooper Austin D. Zachary, Indianapolis, places the flag en his patrol car. METCALF, Eric Sean Mr. and Mrs. William D. Metcalf of r 1 Leesburg are the parents of a son, Eric Sean, born Monday, May 19, at 9:28 a m. in the Goshen hospital. Young Eric weighed in at seven pounds, ten ounces. » The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ryan of r 1 Leesburg and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Metcalf, Leesburg.

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sible for organization of the six divisions. major firms, commerce and industry, small business. special gifts, service and retail and county business. Chairmen will be appointed for each of these divisions and announced in the near future. A goal for the campaign has not yet been set.

CARDS & THANKS Jgn CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend a special thank you to the members of the Bethel Church of the Brethren ahd to all who sent floral pieces, monetary gifts, and food. Thank you also to those who sent cards and other remembrances during the illness and death of our mother, Mrs. E. Roberta Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith and family CARD OF THANKS 1 would like to thank, each and everyone who remembered me with cards, flowers, plants, and prayers during my stay in the Goshen hospital. 1. especially want to thank the first aid, Charles Harris, and Rev. Wagoner for lis visits and prayers, Dr. Gorham and the nurses. I am sure my stay was shortened by the good care I received while there. May God bless you all. Laura Ritter CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my friends and neighbors for the many acts of kindness while 1 was in the hospital. * Mrs. Fhilip Lee CARD OF THANKS I shall never forget all the wonderful people of Syracuse, Milford and surrounding communities who have been so kind and thoughtful to me since I entered the hospital. Special thanks to pastor Carl Shearer and the church circles, Sunday sehccl classes and members of the Milford Christian church; also to all the other good people for their cards, prayers, visits, phone calls, flowers and gifts. Thanks also to the nurses and staff of the Goshen hospital • ycu are truly a wonderful group; and most especially to my dear neighbor who has been like a mother to me. I’m sure God will bkss each of you. Mrs. Robert E. McClintic Little Flower Catholic Chapel Opens June 1 With the departure of the Oblate Fathers from the Fort Wayne- South Bend Diocese, the Little Flower chapel, on the north side of Lake Wawasee, has been placed under the jurisdiction of St. Martin de Porres parish and will be administered by the pastor of St. Martins, Fr. Eugene Zimmerman who will be added by the Crossier Fathers during the summer months. The chapel schedule of Sunday masses from June Ist to the Sunday of Labor Day week end will be <9-9:30 and 11 a.m This chapel serves the overflow of Catholic |)eople who patronite the Lake Wawasee area during, the summer months. The Cblates have served them for the past 30 years. Divorce Granted Mrs. Gail Craig of r 3 Syracuse was granted a divorce from Louis E. Craig on May 19, 1969. She was also granted use of her maiden name, Gail Van Zant.

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