The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 36, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 October 1969 — Page 3

OBITUARIES

% ... w ... . ' XV ' BURL SILVER Burl Silver, North Webster Realtor, Dies Last rites were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the North Webster funeral home for Burl D. Silver, 59, of North Webster. Rev. John Weeks, pastor of the North Webster United Methodist church, officiated. Interment was in the North Webster cemetery, Mock addition. Mr. Silver died at 5:25 pm. Friday, in the Whitley County hospital of an apparent heart attack which’seized him at shortly before 3 p.m. the same day. He had not been ill until this time. He was born in Boone county November 6, 1909, to Paul Todd and Elsie (Padgett) Silver, both deceased. He had resided in this county since 1957, moving here from Indianapolis. He was united in marriage December 25, 1936, at Indianapolis to Catherine Thurston, who survives. The deceased had been in the real estate business since 1935. He was a graduate of the Indianapolis Abraham Lincoln

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law school; the Benjamin Harrison law school (Indianapolis); and of the Frankfort high school. Mr. Silver was a member of the Square - and Compass Lodge No. 747, F. & A. M.; member of the National Real Estate board; past president of the Indiana Real Estate association.; North Webster Masonic lodge; Murat Shrine; Kiwanis club; Warsaw Area Realtors; the Kosciusko Historical Society; director at large of the county chapter of the American Red Cross; the Bar Association; Golf Course Superintendents of America; the former owner of the Indian Hills Golf course; and a veteran of World War II with the US army. He was a member of the North Webster United Methodist church. He is survived in addition to his. widow, Catherine, by one daughter, Mrs. Dennis (Sue) Huffman of North Webster and one grandchild. He was preceded in death by one brother. Masonic rites were held Sunday night in the funeral home. Mrs. Donald Nine Mrs. Erma Ellen Nine, 59, r 3 Syracuse, died in her home October 5 at 9 a.m. She had been in failing health for some time but death was unexpected. Mrs. Nine was born at Elgin, 111., February 21, 1910, the daughter of Warren E. and Mary Alice (Smith) Bowman. She had been coming to Lake Wawasee since 1942. As Mrs, Erma Ellen Gawthrop, she married Donald Nine in December, 1942, at Winoijaf She operated a pie shop near the Fish hatchery at Lake Wawasee. Surviving with the husband are three sons, Russell Gawthrop, Henderson, Ky., Phillip Nine, Indianapolis, Dwane Nine at home; five daughters, Mrs. Max Becknell, Lambertville, Mich., Mrs. John Boyer, Elkhart, Mrs. Peter Morgano, Madison Heights, Mich., Mrs. Robert

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Ebert, Fort Wayne, Mrs. Lewis Snyder, Warsaw; 20 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Hugh Moog, West Unity, Ohio, Mrs. Chester Gould and Mrs. Hubert Yagel, Kunkle, Ohio, Mrs. Lawrence Maynard, Traverse City, Mich.; two brothers, Robert of Tucson, Ariz., and John Bowman of Hillsdale, Mich. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Syracuse. Rev. Howard Krieder officiated and burial was in the North Webster cemetery. Mrs. Mary Whitcomb Mrs. Mary Whitcomb, 76, 319 W. Henry street, Syracuse, died at 5 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in the Goshen hospital of complications. She.had been ill four months. Mrs. Whitcomb was born May 22, 1893, at Chambersburg, Pa., the daughter of John and Mary (Dine) Ditslear. She had lived at Syracuse for the past 24 years, moving from Tiffin, Ohio. On November 26, 1914, she married Chester Whitcomb, and he died in 1946. She was a member of the Calvary United Methodist church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Willard (Helen) Nusbaum and Mrs. Theo (Dorothy) Thomas, both of Syracuse; one son, Clarence of Interlochen, Mich.; nine grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren. Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Syracuse church. Rev. Kennard Robinson officiated. Graveside services were held at 3 p.m. in the Fairmount cemetery at Tiffin and burial was in the Fairmount cemetery. Mrs. Della Neuhauser Mrs. Della Neuhauser, 87, Swiss Village Retirement Home, Berne, mother of Newell Neuhauser of r 4 Syracuse, died at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in the Adams County Memorial hospital. A member of the First Mennonite church in Berne, Mrs. Neuhauser is survived by another son, Kenneth Neuhauser of Golden, Colo.; one daughter, Mrs. Richard Van der Smissen of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one sister and three brothers. Her husband preceded her in death. Services were conducted at 2 p. m. Monday in the funeral home at Berne. Rev. Stucky officiated and interment was in the MRE cemetery at Berne. William Brandt William Brandt, 79, r 2 Syracuse, died October 2 at 8 p.m. in his home of complications. He had been in ill health for ten years. Mr. Brandt was born at Fort Wayne, July 9, 1890. His parents were Herman and Doris (Busse) Brandt. He married Angeline

Manuel on December 30, 1911. He was retired from the Wayne Pump Company, after 44 years as vice president. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran church and a life time member of the Elks club at Fort Wayne. Survivors include his wife; four sons, G., Robert, both of Fort Wayne, Paul, New Paris, Richard, Albion; eight grandchildren; two great-grand-children; two sisters, Mrs. Dora Burton, Mrs. Jay (Helen) Schmidt, both of Fort Wayne. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday at Fort Wayne. Rev. Loren Shiley officiated and burial was in the Catholic cemetery, Fort Wayne. Noel Brindle Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday) in Eaton for Noel Brindle of 401 E. Harrison street, Eaton, formerly of Milford. Mr. Brindle died Monday in Ball Memorial hospital at Muncie. Survivors include the widow, Ruth; one son, Boyd Brindle of Eaton; one daughter, Mrs. George (Ruth Ann) Schiller of Ohio; and several grandchildren. Mrs. Lulu Snellenberger Mrs. Lulu Snellenberger, 89, of Warsaw, died at 5 a.m. Sunday in the Murphy Medical Center. Death was due to complications and she had been in failing health for the past two years. She was the oldest living member of the First Brethren church. She was born March 16, 1880, at Pierceton to John P. and Lucretia (Rolston) Hill. In 1898, she was married at Pierceton to Clarence Snellenberger who preceded her in death in 1916. A member of the First Brethren church, where she taught a Sunday school class for many years, she was a member of the Women’s Missionary Society of the church, the Purdue Homemakers Extension club, the Salome Rebekah lodge and Pythian Sisters lodge. Survivors include one son, Glenn Snellenberger, r 2 Syracuse; a daughter, Miss Grace Snellenberger, at home; one sister, Mrs. Nellie Stinger, Warsaw; eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Warsaw Tuesday. Rev. George Pontius and Rev. Paul Tinkel officiated and burial was iij Oakwood cemetery. Mabel E. Dutterer of r 2 Syracuse has gone to Holiday, Fla., to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Treadway and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilbert and daughters of Syracuse spent the week end in Brown county.

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Frank McHale, Colorful, Durable Hoosier Politician

TODAY’S COLUMN is about a colorful figure of Hoosier history, Frank M. McHale, a prom- ■ inent attorney. Likewise, it is about his most unusual hobby. These notes for background. McHale is a Logansport native, was a University of Michigan football star, a soldier, State commander and National Executive Committeeman of The American Legion, a former Democratic National Committeeman, and former chairman of the board of directors of The Nickle Plate Railroad. McHale parlayed Paul V. Me Nutt to become first Indiana national commander of the Legion, governor and came within an ace of getting McNutt in the White House. He was the “idea man” of the McNutt administration and was responsible for the Indiana Gross Income tax that saved the state from bankruptcy and paid long overdue teacher salaries. McHale wrote the Indiana liquor law when prohibition was repealed during the McNutt administration. A personal note — after election as State Commander of the Legion, McHale in mid-Atlantic hired me to be department publication editor. I stood with him as press contact in the bruising fight at San Antonio, Tex., when through sheer tenacity he was most responsible for McNutt becoming Legion national commander. McHale never lied to me in reporting the tricky subject of Hoosier politics. I admired him for apparent fearlessness and blunt appraisal of situations. It was one of McHale’s codes that led to his hobby, that he calls his best investment. Me Hale is a Roman Catholic but does not wear his religion on his sleeve. He told me when he goes to confession, he wants the man hearing the confession to be a better Christian than he is himself. Only his personal friends know that his hobby is paying entire cost of five boys pursuing the long and costly road to becoming Catholic Priests. Only, one of the five has distant kinship to McHale. He went to Saint Joseph college near Rensselaer, Saint Meinrad and elsewhere to select youths from colleges who graduated in the upper five per cent of their class scholastically. They are youths from families too poor to pay for further college education. McHale explained the challenge of being a lawyer or in business to one youth, and he replied you will be surprised, but I want to be a priest. McHale said “Okay, but if when it comes to your final vows, you wish to change your mind I will say nothing.” . McHale believes those he sponsors should be citizens of the world. Before me is a fascinating letter from one of these youths studying at Louvain, Belgium, recounting his trip through 15 countries. I wish there was space to tell of his hitchhiking in the Austrian Alps, through Bavaria, and his comment on the American hippie tourists 20 to 21 years of age who overrun Amsterdam and other parts of the continent. I turn to his account of living with a Spanish family that had five children 7 to 12 years of age. The youth wrote: “I am afraid the church has capitulated to popular piety widespread

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in the Middle Ages in Europe.” This student found it difficult to adjust to living with the boisterous teenagers — setting up family chore schedules — camping and swimming with them. I extract from his letter his views on a hot issue that is world-wide. Namely, it is the Pope’s decision regarding priests marrying. This youthful candidate for ordination as a priest wrote: “I learned first hand the responsibilities parenthood entails. The drain and the delight of it all . . . takes it seriously ... I am also more aware of what it will mean for me to give up the joys and sorrows of married life. “If only I will be able to recall from my experience in the family the joys and sorrows of married life and fatherhood, and demands made on truly generous parents, I am well paid. “There is positive reason for celibate clergy, and it seems to be that I can ill-afford to embrace the priestly life viewing celibacy merely as an absurd negation of denial. “I feel it is meant to set me free of one set of grinding, demanding responsibilities in order to embrace more fully another set of responsibilities. “Regarding my own deep need for human love and affection ... I have first of all a firm trust in the Lord’s care.” The other McHale sponsored youths in priestly training keep up a running correspondence with him. F~ BIRTHS & SHUMAKER, Leanne Kay Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Shumaker, Syracuse, are the parents of a daughter, Leanne Kay, born September 29 in Whitley County hospital. HOSTETLER son Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hostetler, r 1 Syracuse, became the parents of a son on September 30 in the Goshen hospital. JOHNSON son Mr. and Mrs. Lehman O. Johnson of Milford are parents of a son born Thursday in the Goshen hospital. BLACK, Donald Edward Mr. and Mrs. Ben Black of r 2 Leesburg became the parents of a nine pound son, Donald Edward, born at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in the Goshen hospital. The baby measured 20 inches in length. Donald Edward has four brothers and sisters, Yolanda, 6, Ronda, 5, Ben David, Jr., 4, and Bobbi Jo, 2%. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Phend of Columbia City and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Black of Leesburg. LA PORTE, IND., HERALDARGUS: “Take it from a veteran reporter who believes a long, hard struggle is ahead in the student revolt. He contends the two sides have not listened to each other, the two sides being the students and the American public. If they have learned nothing and settled nothing, there is not much chance of an immediate realistic understanding. That indeed, is a pessimistic outlook on a social revolution that is not apt to fade quietly away.”

Wed., Oct. 8, 1969 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

THE EQITOR

Differs On 'Ghost Town*

Dear Editor: I couldn’t allow the comments in last week’s ‘Along Main Street’ column to go without comment. It was stated that we need to extend city limit boundries to stop Syracuse from becoming a “ghost town”. I beg to differ. People who are already in the areas need not be annexed to prevent this from happening. The town must offer something to attract people to the jtoivn to live, work and trade. Several businesses have been turned away in the past few years — why? Some have quit, some are moving to outer areas, one is really moving away from Syracuse. The town should improve what it has, before it tries to offer us its benefits. For the second time this year, the street on south Main has been torn up — sewer problems. If I’m not mistaken, the street in front of the shoe store has been torn up twice this year, besides other areas. What has been done about the smelly, sticky situation just south of the railroad? Ask those people in that area about their benefits. Some are saying no use to say anything, the town board will do as it pleases anyCARDS ©& THANKS Up CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their beautiful cards and many acts of kindness shown us recently. Your thoughtfulness is very much appreciated. Mrs. Hugh C. Snyder and family CARD OF THANKS I -would like to thank all my friends for their cards, flowers 1 and prayers during my recent illness. Special thanks to the Waubee Grange, Win-A-Couple class, Christian church and Rev. Carl Shearer. Your friendship will always be remembered. A special thanks, too, to my wonderful family for all the nice things they did. Lilly Auer CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the people of the Syracuse area for buying Camp Fire Girl candy. We appreciate all the help you have given us. Thank you! Syracuse Camp Fire Girls’ Ass’n. CARD OF THANKS Many thanks to all our friends and neighbors who made our 50th wedding anniversary a very happy day. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Sawyer CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends, relatives, neighbors and ladies of the Turkey Creek Church of the Brethren for their cards, foods, flowers, prayers, and acts of kindness during the illness and passing of our loved one. The family of Luciel Sinn

way. Is this the American Way? Don’t we have rights? Are we to let the things we’ve been struggling to own, be taken from us or to be told by others how we are to live on the land we own? Some are also thinking: let them run the sewer and water lines where they want, it won’t affect me. But it will. If the city runs the sewer line past your property, you will pay the monthly rate whether you tie in or not. The cost of hooking on will be yours, too. The town is in debt now. Should it go deeper in debt? Do you want that debt as part of your budget? What about the ever increasing inflation? What happens when we get the full blast? We aren’t very secure these days. The only thing we can be secure about is the rising costs, debts and TAXES. Improve what you have, attract people to our town, bring in more business, make this the best town to live and work in — these are some of the things that will keep the “ghost” away — not annexation. We’re already here —for the present — give us some reasons to stay and participate. Mrs. Kenneth SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS INSTALLED Sunday school officers and teachers for the coming year, October, 1969 through September 1970, at Wawasee Heights Baptist church, Syracuse, were installed by pastor Robert A. Mundy at the morning service on October 5. Serving as superintendent is Rodney McCreary. Leo Schrock is the assistant superintendent. The secretary is Mrs. Leo Schrock. Teachers include the following: Mrs. Clifford Miller and Mrs. Virgil Richards, cradle roll Mrs. Adrian Hawn, nursery Mrs. Rich Timmons, beginners Brad Quick, first grade Mrs. Virginia Marsh, second grade Mrs. Kenneth Johnson, third grade Mrs. Rodney McCreary, fourth grade Francis Denton, fifth grade Loren Neibert, junior high boys Mrs. Loren Neibert, junior high girls Tom Dorrity, senior high boys Mrs. Jim Storey, senior high girls Jim Storey, adult I Pastor Robert Mundy, auditorium Bible class. Mrs. Donald Neer is the children’s superintendent and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jones are directing the youth fellowship. The Wednesday evening children’s Bible hour is being conducted by Mrs. Tom Jones and Mrs. Virginia Marsh. In addition to the installation of officers and teachers, a rally day i program was held during the Sunday school hour at which time the children sang and gave readings. Cotton is washable.

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