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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1959
Page
13
Funeral services for Mrs Verna Brewer 63 of 22 North Street Trenton who died yesterday at her home will be held at 9 30 a m Saturday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home Burial will be in Memorial Park Dayton Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p m tomorrow
Funeral notices list Mrs. Mame Doughman Spaton 68 to be buried Fellowship Cemetery after services at a fot Home in Lebanon. She died Tuesday in Nashville and is survived by two sons Arthur and Clayton of South Lebanon. Also noted are services for Mrs. Verna Barker 64 at Griesmer Grim Funeral Home Friday and for Harold Pickerington 47 in West Palm Beach with services Saturday at Webb Funeral Home. Other items include incomplete details for Helena P. Fitton and funeral arrangements for John D. Williams 62 at Zettler Funeral Home.
New York AP reports James Fitzpatrick Milner 44 national statistical editor of the Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form died of cancer on Wednesday. Aguilar 70 former El Salvador treasury secretary and coffee trader died Wednesday. he served nearly 20 years as commercial attaché in Havana? embassy. Jack Doyle 88 former major league player and manager died Wednesday night after a career with National and American leagues. later a Cubs scout.
In Quilcene Washington a one story frame house burned explosively on Wednesday night killing three Smith children Jacqueline seven Gordon five and Billie four. Father Jack Smith a logger suffered first degree burns while attempting to rescue them. Bennie ten escaped after being awakened by the blaze as his parents Ella and Jack were away visiting neighbors. The blaze occurred in the unincorporated community about thirty miles northwest of Seattle.
W. Jackson, 71, former Michigan state assistant attorney general, died at a Lansing hospital Wednesday after a lingering heart ailment.
A three story building in Rochester's north side burned early today killing six people including a family of four. Five others escaped, two families on the third floor were trapped. The dead include Joyce Mc Donald and her infant son Steven and their visitors Ralph Benedict Mary Benedict and children Rosemary and Annette. James McDonald wife of Joyce escaped and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Fire officials suspect the blaze started on the third floor though the exact cause was not yet determined.
In Shoals Indiana an auto and a Greyhound bus collided head on on U S 50 Loogootee Wednesday night. Two occupants of the car died Eugene W Freedman 23 decapitated and Charles E Lehr 18 neck broken both from Dubois. James L Freedman 22 of Dubois is in serious condition at Daviess County Hospital Washington Indiana. Bus driver William A Cheddok 4 Cincinnati sustained scalp lacerations and other injuries and was treated at the hospital. All bus passengers were discharged after treatment.
Fort Worth Texas AP Dr John B Cummins aged 109 the nations oldest practicing physician died Wednesday night He kept regular office hours and made house calls until a fall last Sunday that fractured a hip and ribs Death was attributed to the fall and old age He began practice in 1897 in Indian Territory now Oklahoma and had practiced in Fort Worth for 55 years He was named general practitioner of the year by the state Tarant County Medical Society in 1950
Joyce Rob erts, nine, of Kings Mountain Kentucky, visiting relatives, was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street in Cincinnati on Wednesday afternoon. She lived with her grandmother Mrs. Freda Snow and was staying with her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Roberts.
Two bills for 500 and 100 were found with a note signed sorry apologizing for WWII quarters and dependents allowances. Enclosed money will be placed in the government's conscience fund after being postmarked in San Francisco.
The Rosebud Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Lucille Lidge at 1324 Sycamore Street tomorrow at 8 30 p m.
Wildwood School in Dallas faces another delay as the building’s occupancy shifts to September after grading grounds and blacktopping. The classroom wing could open in two to three weeks, but current transfer plans risk confusion for students reassigned from Wildwood to Lincoln Sherman and Jefferson. A series of unforeseen delays from rain to labor and material shortages has pushed the project back.
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