Deaths And Funerals for Meeks Tornado Victim in Eaton
James Meeks 76 died from head injuries after the April 25 tornado and will be buried at Bethel Cemetery near Phillipsburg. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Girton Schmidt Funeral Home. call after 2 p.m. today. He lived on W Main Street and was injured when pinned under a garage wreckage on Somers Street. He died at Reid Memorial Hospital Richmond Indiana after four days as a patient. Survivors include two sisters Mrs Allie Jackson and Mrs Mary Mikesell both of Dayton and a brother Will W Glasgow of Oxford.
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EATON
James’ Meeks
Girton - Schmidt
Bethel Cemetery
Phillipsburg
Meeks
Reid Memorial Hospital
Richmond
Ind
St. Clair
W. Main Street
Somers Street
Allie Jack
Gough Lambs Promises Style-Set Fix For Cotton Dresses
Advertiser touts professional cleaning for summer cottons highlighting stains difficulty from home washing and ironing. Claims Style-Set finishing at Gough Lambs makes dresses crisp, smart, and like new with exclusive process. Encourages readers to mail or send frocks for expert care and ends with a personal pledge against ironing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secret Service
Gough Lambs
Services for Sterling Banks Held in Kentucky
Services for Sterling E. Banks of Dayton occurred in Huntington Kentucky with burial at Campton. He died at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton after a two car crash near Morrow. He was survived by four daughters four sons a sister and four other brothers plus brothers Monroe and William Banks.
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Sterling FE. Banks
Dayton
Monroe
William Banks
Middletown
Huntington
Campton
Banks
Miami Valley Hospital
Morrow
Death of Carol Craft in Orient Ohio
Carol D Craft 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Craft 2200 Carolina Sr died at 255 pm yesterday at Orient Ohio Hospital Surviving parents a sister Connie maternal grandmother Mrs Sarah Mason of Cannes City Ky paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs N H Craft of Mayking Graveside services 1030 am Thursday Craft Cemetery Whitesburg Ky Friends may call Craft Funeral Home Whitesburg tomorrow 2 5 and 7 9 pm Local arrangements by Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home
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Carol Dean Craft
Robert Craft
Carolina Sr
Orient
Ohio
Connie
Sarah
Craft Funeral Home
Whitesburg
Joseph R. Baker & Sons Funeral Home
Death notice for Gary Patterson in Dayton hospital
Eight-year-old Gary Patterson son of Mr and Mrs Robert A Patterson Camden Rt 3 died at 5 p m yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital Dayton after a several week illness. He attended West Elkton School and was born in Middletown. Surviving: parents two brothers grandparents and other relatives. Services Friday at 2 p m at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial in Mt Pleasant Cemetery Peastown. Viewing home Thursday 2-5 and 7-9 p m.
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Gary Patterson
Robert A. Patterson
Camden Rt. 3
Good Samaritan Hospital
Dayton
West Elkton
Middletown
Robert Allen
John LeRoy
Thelma Thompson
S. G. Patterson
Franklin
McCoy - Leffler
Clifford Hutchinson
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Peasttown
Margaret Wright Services Set for Mrs Wright
Margaret Wright 44 of 1615 Schirm Drive dies of heart attack at home. Funeral services 11 a.m. tomorrow at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev Russell Galloway. Burial 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Green Lawn Cemetery Columbus. Viewing today 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at home.
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Margaret Ann Wright
Schirm Drive
McCoy - Leffler
Russell Galloway
Greenlawn Cemetery
Columbus
Mrs Grace Brandon services held in Oxford
Mrs Grace Glasgow Brandon 75 widow of Dr E E Brandon died Saturday at her home 315 E Church St. Services were at Memorial Presbyterian Church at 2 p m with burial in Oxford Cemetery. She taught in the French department at Miami University and later served as head registrar. She was a native of Adams County.
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Oxford
Grace Glasgow Brandon
E. E. Brandon
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Oxford Cemetery
Brandon
E. Church St
Miami University
Adams County
Funeral services for Walter A. Roberts in Ohio and Ohio
Walter A. Roberts 65 died yesterday at the Dayton VA Hospital. Services set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Stubbs Funeral Home Waynesville with graveside military rites at Miami Cemetery Corwin. Survived by wife Isadora four daughters Opal Houser Virginia Purvis Doris Howard Margaret Roberts and sons Kenneth Donald Frank all of Dayton area two brothers Harry of Cuba and Frank of Dayton and ten grandchildren.
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Oregonia
Walter A. Roberts
Stubbs
Waynesville
Miami Cemetery
Corwin
Roberts
Dayton VA
Isadora
Opal Houser
Virginia Purvis
Dayton
Doris Howard
Margaret Roberts
Kenneth
Donald
Ft. Knox
Franket Dayton
Harry Jof Cuba
Ohio
Frank
Emma West Mason Obituary Notice
Mrs Emma West Mason dies at 51 at home 354 Hopkins St Survived by husband Earl four daughters Martha Slick Cincinnati Lena Brewington Springfield Doris Beesner Greenville Katherine Whittacre Indian City Ind two sons Robert Portland Ore Donald in Germany father William Hernley Lynn Ind two brothers two sisters and 14 grandchildren. Services Thursday Vale Fumera Home burial Miami Valley Memorial Gardens Rt 48 after 3 pm.
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Vale Fuimera
Miami Valley Memorial Gardens
Butler County Deaths Notice
Obituary notice for several Hamilton area residents including Mrs. Clarence Shafer 54 Mrs. Josephine Rowley 82 and others with funeral services scheduled at St Veronica St Joseph New Baltimore Methodist and Second Baptist churches on upcoming days.
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Clarence Shafer
Vanderveer
Hamilton
St. Veronica
Josephine H. Rowley
S. Second St
St. Joseph Church
Freda Ogg Fagaly
New Baltimore
New Baltimore Methodist Church
Royal Crawford
Belle Ave
Notable deaths include Briskin Bissell and Toerngren
Sam Briskin 71 philanthropist founder of Revere Camera Co died Monday of cancer in Chicago. Irving J. Bissell 73 vice chairman of Bissell Inc died Sunday of a heart attack in Grand Rapids. Finnish foreign minister Ralf Toerngren died Monday night in Turku at 62 after years with high blood pressure.
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Chicago
Sam_ Briskin
The
Revere Camera Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
Irving J. Bissell
Bissell, Inc
Helsinki
Finland
Ralf Toerngren
Turku
Bethel AME Pastor Gaar M. Davis to Speak at First Church
The Rev. Gaar M. Davis,pastor of Bethel AME Church, will be guest speaker at First Church of God at 11th Avenue and Lincoln Street Friday at 7 30 p m. Davis and his choir attend from Bethel. Proceeds benefit the church building fund.
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Gaar M. Davis
Bethel Ame Church
First Church
of God
11Th Avenue
Lincoln Street
Armco honors fourth 60 year veteran John Draut
John Draut Sr. of 1718 Yankee Road received Armco’s 60 year pin after a career starting in 1901 as a millwright and progressing to a leveler operator in the stainless steel department. His family, including four children and three grandsons, attended the ceremony at Don S. Holstein’s office as other 60 year men Orley Moles Hugh Evers and George Krebs were noted.
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John Draut Sr
Yankee Road
Curtis Street
Old East Works
Don S. Holstein
Draut
Holstein
Marie Draut
Lillig Draut Fogelman
Bill Draut
Man Suffers Fractures and Cuts From Workplace Falls
A man sustained a compound fracture of his right hand after slipping at Continental Can Co. in Middletown. Others treated at Middletown Hospital include a 64 year old woman with a fractured wrist, a 22 year old man with a fractured foot, a 35 year old man with cuts to his left hand, a 3 year old girl with facial stitches from a dog bite, and a 6 year old girl with forehead cuts from a fall at home.
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Middletown Hospital
Edgar W. Loy
Germantown
Rt. 1
Continental Can Co
Prudie Baker
Garfield St
Clarence Turner
S. Main St
Franklin
Hoover
Frank Hall
Fairmount St
Roxane Rose
Shockey Rose
Winton St
Rita Miracle
Sol Miracle
Lebanon Rt. 2
Man Released In Area Thefts
Harlan South twenty one of 19 Clark Street was arrested over the weekend in connection with coin box and vending machine break ins and was released last night without charge by city police. Detectives said South was released from custody due to insufficient evidence.
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Harlan South
Clark St
South
Anthracite Lights Early American Blast Furnaces
Anthracite became the initial mineral fuel used in U S blast furnaces marking a pivotal shift in American industry as coal replaced charcoal in steel production and other heavy processes.
Former Oxford Officer Bound Over in Break-in Case
Oxford police officer Logan Corbin, 40, was bound to the grand jury under a $2,000 bond after pleading guilty to breaking and entering in an arraignment before Judge Clem F. Imfeld Jr. Corbin, who served with the local force from 1952 to 1950, was arrested last Saturday for allegedly forcing in the rear door of Boss Book Store. Pa Mahatha fired a shot at him and Dale Baird halted him at the store rear. Chief Wassenich said Corbin had $15.31 allegedly taken from the store’s cash register.
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Oxford
Logan Corbin
Clem F. Imfeld Jr
Corbin
Boss Book
al Mahatha
Dale Baird
C .F. Wassenich
Istore
Freedom Riders ride ends in New Orleans after violent reception
An integrated CORE group of 17 arrived at New Orleans Municipal Airport after an 11 day bus and plane trek to test desegregation in the South. They reported a violent reception in Birmingham and weak police protection in Alabama, with plans for later freedom rides.
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New Orleans
South
Labamba
Birmingham
Congress of Racial Equality
Municipal
Walter Bergman
Michigan State
Deep South
Faith Leader Urges Federal Aid to End Racial Agitation
Rev. B. Elton Cox of High Point North Carolina calls for federal help to stop racial agitation in America. He warns that Tel Aviv and Moscow will notice disdain in the U S as freedom riders prepare to return home after a May 17 anniversary meeting at New Zion Baptist Church. Reports say Kennedy may advise bypassing Mississippi, while Jackson officials dispute this. Alabama Governor Patterson urges CORE to leave the state with escort to the line.
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B. Elton Cox
High Point
N.C
Cox
Tel Aviv
Moscow
America
Mississippi
Alabama
John Patterson
Youth Charged In Theft Of $250 Ring In Trenton
A Middletown resident pleaded guilty at a village court preliminary hearing to grand larceny for stealing a diamond ring valued at $250 from his mother Mrs. Mary Edith Combs of 107 N. Miami St. David English, 22, of 48 N. Broad St., Middletown, originally pled not guilty but changed after evidence. The ring was allegedly sold to Frank Back of Howard Avenue, Middletown. Bond set at $500. he awaits grand jury hearing at Butler County jail. Traffic cases followed with fines and costs for defective brakes improper brakes improper plates and speeding for several defendants.
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Trenton
Middletown
Mary Edith Combs
Miami St
David English
N. Broad St
English
Carl Ennig
David Carroll
Trenton Police
Frank Back
Howard Avenue
Back
Harry Stretcher
Butler County
Grand Jury
James Lanier
Goldman Ave
Wilson Browning
West Middletown
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Mary Mikesell
Miami
Phi Beta Kappa
Will W. Glasgow
Sais
Sterling FE
Carol D. Craft
Margaret Wright
Mrs
Grace Brandon
Iad
Mary Carter
Mary Carter Paint Store
Central Ave
Malcolm F. Brennen
Emma West
John Draut
Armco
Woodlawn Ave
Freedom Riders
Marty Miller
Paul Deger
Insurance Agency
Castell
Homer C. Leffler
Mortons
Nmany
McCoy-Leffler
Phone Garden
Sellors
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