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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1955
Page
3
Services Wednesday at St Marys Church for 30 year old Mary Lucy Settich of 16 Glenmore Drive who died from injuries in a Saturday crash at Baltimore Street and Penfield Avenue. Burial in Woodside Cemetery. Also noted are services for Shandon with funeral details and familial survivors.
Mrs. Scioto Forkner 73 of 1801 Manchester Ave. died at Middletown Hospital after a three week stay. Native of New Hope Ohio, she lived in Middletown most her life and belonged to Miami Valley Council D of A Calvary Methodist Church Otterbein Class. Survived by husband Rhea two daughters two sons ten grandchildren four great grandchildren. Funeral at Calvary Methodist Church 2 p.m. Wednesday with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call McCoy Leffier Funeral Home 2-5 and 7-10 p.m. tomorrow and at the church 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Otterbein Class memorials 7 p.m. tomorrow and D of A 7:30 p.m.
Mrs Margaret Kirchner aged 9 died at her Miltonville home after a heart attack. She had been ill for a year and a half and in serious condition for four months. Surviving are two sons Paul of Trenton and Carl of Middletown a brother Jo Scherzinger of Hamilton and a sister Mrs Mary Roberts of Portsmouth. Services 2:30 pm Wednesday at Wilson Memorial Home with Maj Charles M Johnston Salvation Army officiating. Burial Miltonville Cemetery. Visitation 2 5 and 7 9 pm tomorrow.
Vance Walton 170 of 1300 Sycamore Street died Saturday night at Middletown Hospital. Services set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Bethlehem Temple with Elder Charles Holiday officiating. Visitation at Bailey Funeral Home 6 to 10 p.m. tomorrow and after 11 a.m. Wednesday until services. Walton, a Nashville native, retired from the Frigidaire Division of General Motors in Dayton three years ago. Survived by his wife Mary.
Warren Brown 74 of Verona died Saturday after a long farming career. Services were held at 2 p.m. today at his Verona residence and 2:30 p.m. at Phillipsburg Lutheran Church with burial in Arlington Cemetery. He was the father of Merlin Brown of Franklin.
The notice lists the deceased as survived by his wife and a large family including three daughters, four other sons, three sisters, four brothers, 25 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Robert Burton aged 60 died Friday at his Detroit home. Services are at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Stubbs Funeral Home with burial in Miami Cemetery Corwin. Survived by wife Bessie sister Lavonne Waterhouse of Waynesville and brothers Ed Elyria Thomas Waynesville. Friends may call tomorrow.
Warner Kelly Morrow a native of Morrow aged 52 died of a heart attack at his Chicago home where he was assistant general freight agent for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He belonged to the Morrow Masonic Lodge and is survived by an aunt in Morrow. Funeral services and burial are planned at Vale Funeral Home with Masonic rites to follow.
Obituary notices list James Holmes Sr 39 of 1100 Hayes Ave with services at 10 a.m. Wednesday and Martha Gadd 52 of 913 S Ninth St with services at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Also mentioned are David S. Crews 84 of 204 Fair, and a Pater Avenue Church of related services.
Fire chief Howard Maneval estimates 200000 damage after a six hour blaze gutting the Western Auto Store basement and VFW Hall and Odd Fellows Lodge in Bryan downtown. Defiance and Montpelier fire departments aided. three Bryan firefighters injured. Services noted for Lillian May Crow at Proeschel Funeral Home.
Mexican cabinet minister Carlos Lazo, designer of the University City project, died in a government plane crash Saturday along with one of his sons and five other men. Seven others, including another son, were seriously injured.
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