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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1972
Page
2
Obituaries list Mrs Maude Dunn 74 of Campton Ky with extended family including Jim Dunn of Middletown and six daughters. Funeral at Childer's Chapel Campton with burial at Woodside Cemetery and American Legion rites. Also notes a Middletown resident Miss Pennington and family service details pending.
Services for Thomas Massie 52 of 602 15th Ave will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Second Baptist Church where he was deacon board chairman and a member and past president of the male organization.
Graveside services for Janice K. McKinley 34 of Dayton will be at Lewis Cemetery Hyden Ky. Hoyne Funeral Home Dayton will host viewing Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. She died Thursday at home after 13 years as an Ohio Bell operator. Surviving family includes husband Robert and mother and father Homer and Mrs Smith of Lynch Ky. Also sister Mary Bowling and brother Carl Smith of Middletown and Betty Dupree of Dayton plus Army Sgt William Smith in Germany and Bobby Smith of Lynch Ky.
Mary Anna King 62 of 1830 Ohio Rt 725 Spring Valley died today at Kettering Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient since March 11. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star chapter 439 in Miamisburg. Survived by husband Harry two brothers and two sisters. Services at 2 p.m. Monday Anglesby Funeral Home burial in Springboro Cemetery. Funeral home Sunday from 2.
Ray Osborne 60 of Waynesville Route 3 died Thursday at Grandview Hospital Dayton after a week as a patient. Surviving are two daughters Louise Spence Waynesville and Eunice Abney Kentucky a step daughter Bernice Viox Red Lion two sisters Sarah Cash Mason and Carrie Goens Norwood and three brothers Adrian Middletown Dwight Brodhead Ky and A S Osborne Lancaster Ohio. Services will be held Sunday at Howard Funeral Home Crab Orchard Ky. Stubbs Connor Funeral Home today from 3 to 5 and 7 to
Services were held for James S. Templeton, 76, of 401 in Lebanon. Interment followed at a local cemetery with family in attendance. He was a longtime resident and member of the community, remembered for his work and steady presence.
A holiday train derailed at a bridge near Potgietersrus en route to Messina killing 32 passengers and wounding 135. The locomotive and first nine cars plunged off the rails with the bodies of 32 nonwhite passengers found in the wreckage.
Russell Wayne Lacey 19 of 508 Baltimore St Middletown dies from injuries in a two car crash at Baltimore Street and Jacoby Avenue. Visitation today 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Swart Funeral Home West Carrollton. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Lacey native of Insko Kentucky and student at the Middletown branch of Miami University. Survived by parents Russell and his wife and four brothers Herschell Henry Robert James all in Middletown and two step brothers Charles Carter Dayton and Everett Carter Middletown.
Two Germantown women were treated at Middletown Hospital yesterday morning after a two car crash at Ohio 4 and Trenton Franklin Road in Poasttown. Frances Fowler 60 and Eunice Brewer 40 were released after treatment. Elmer Barter 55 of Franklin Pike was charged with failure to yield in an intersection.
Ernest Streifthau, 77, of 3011 Hampton Place, was reported in serious condition this morning at Middletown Hospital after a fire department emergency squad responded to a blaze at his home at 8 17 p m yesterday and he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Mr. Templeton died Thursday at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Oswald Lebanon Cemetery. Surviving are Dessie his wife, James D. of Morehead Ky, a daughter Mrs Ralph Ramsey of St Louis, two sisters Ada Romans and Talitha Hager of Lebanon, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral home services are Friday from 6 p.m. to p.m.
Eugene Bippus, 68, of Laurel Avenue, services scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Colligan. Mrs Sidney Corey, 75, of 3016 Griesmer Ave., services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Webb.
Michigan lawmakers replace the hard narcotic label with a misdemeanor for possession, capping penalties at one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The new 50 page statute outlines all drug violations as drafts. Governor Milliken criticized the court ruling as premature while Chief Justice Kavanagh noted prosecutions would halt until April 1.
Miami University Middletown campus offers Know Your Ohio Trees as part of spring continuing education. The five week outdoor course starts May 2, meets Tuesdays 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 4200 E University Blvd, teaching amateur naturalists with John L. Vankat as instructor and a $15 fee.
A 27-year-old Middletown man, Charles Franklin McGuire, was placed on five years probation by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer after being found guilty of receiving and concealing stolen property. He was tied to possession of a .38 caliber revolver stolen from Ted's Hardware in Middletown and connected to a gun sale scheme testified by Keith Larsson, an inmate at Mansfield Reformatory.
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