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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1968
Page
2
Temperatures are expected to average near normal with highs from 34 to 44 and lows from 20 to 28. Warmer on Tuesday, then little change through Saturday. Precipitation forecast totals around one inch of water equivalent in snow or rain, mainly Wednesday and possibly Thursday.
Deaths include Roy D Hall 72 of AR 52 in Union Hospital with services at Thomas Funeral Home and burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. Floyd B Patterson 79 of RR 23 to be buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery after a DeBaun Funeral Home service and St Josephs Church requiem mass. Lenora McMahan 42 of RR 23 dies from two vehicle crash with funeral at DeBaun and Durham burial. Memorial services by American Legion Post 104 and WWI Barracks 912 for Hall.
New York AP reports Chanu kah begins at sunset with eight day observance. Across the region, families light a candle each night to recall the Maccabees victory. Obituaries note several local deaths with funeral plans set at area homes and churches. Surviving relatives include children and siblings, with services scheduled in Indianapolis and Terre Haute areas.
A string of death notices and funeral details from Paris Sullivan Dugger Montezuma and Clinton list survivors ages and addresses. Services are scheduled at various local funeral homes with interments in Edgar or Oakland cemeteries. Various survivors include spouses children and siblings with attending ministers named where provided.
Ed ward E. Smith 36 went on trial in Clay Circuit Court on charges of first degree arson and arson of chattels. Indicted by a county grand jury, the Lena resident is accused of setting fire to his home on the Clay Parke county line after his wife had left.
A Farmington housewife found a purse she had lost in her mailbox after a Lincoln Dairy delivery man, Parker Kendell, turned it in at the dairy office. The note explained the purse was found with milk and that the owner was a customer.
A man filed for divorce after an arrest in Fairfield Illinois on charges that led to extradition on a governor's warrant. He was returned to Clay County in October to await trial and has been held on a $3,000 bond. An 18-year-old Parke County youth, Larry Lane, serving time in the Indiana State Reformatory, will be brought back to testify as a state witness in the arson case near Smith.
Mrs. Josephine Sartor Lovell formerly of Terre Haute died in Pensacola Florida from injuries after an auto crash near Madisonville Kentucky in early September. Surviving are her husband J O Loveall a son J R Lovell three daughters and six grandchildren. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Died December 3.
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