Deaths and Obituaries in Terre Haute Area
Multiple obituaries and death notices from Terre Haute and surrounding towns record the deaths of Carl Hulka 42 of Terre Haute widow Mildred two daughters Sharon and Joyce two sisters Mary Gabor and Betty Saryady a brother and other relatives. Also Margaret G Schneider formerly of Terre Haute died in Cleveland and services set in Cleveland. Ray Hoopingarner 82 of Rockville died at home with funeral set at Butler Rockville. Carl Hoole 9 of Terre Haute died at Union Hospital and services planned. Mary Rollins 83 of Vigo County died, services at Bedino Peace Chapel. Lillie Thomas 79 West Terre Haute died at relative's home. Westfield and Hutsonville notices list several deaths with services and burial details. Chief Gunner's Mate Martin K Wells 38 died, services in Birds Illinois with burial Jones Cemetery. Roy F Spain 66 of Farmersburg died in St Anthony Hospital. Margaret B Clark 69 of Rosedale died at a daughter's home. Rev J D Doolen 57 of Marshall, service at Trinity EUB Church.
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Carl Hulka
RR 5
Terre Haute
Otis Elevator
Union Hospital
Betty Sarvady
Canton
Ohio
Cleveland
Callahan Funneral Home
Margaret G. Schneider
Vigo County Courts
Patricia Motsinger
Mary Hays
Vigo Superior Court
Thomas Gallagher
Patrick J. Ryan
Ray Hoopingarner
Harrison Rd
Rockville
Judson
Ind
Baptist Church
Judson Lodge
F & AM
Scottish Rite
Valley of Terre Haute
Tena
Vernon
Joe
Richard
Bill
Port Huron
Mich
Butler Funeral Home
B. F. Nickless
Bethany Cemetery
Marshall, Ind
Mary Rollins
8Th St
Vigo County Humane Society
Christian Church At
Alma
Willis Lucas Jr
Willis E. Lucas
Lucinda Bell
Los Angeles
Calif
Sarah E. Neil
Paris
Bedino Peace Chapel
Willis F. Lucas
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Friends
Lillie Thomas
West Terre Haute
Raymond Frye
Eastern Star
Bedine Chapel of the Valley
Alvin Rickless
Bethesda
Hutsonville
Martin K. Wells
Crawford County
EUB
Birds, Ill
Gale McElwain
Jones Cemetery
Indiana Naval Reserve Unit
Pulliam
Whitlow services set for Sunday in Bowling Green
James Oakley Whitlow 63 died Wednesday. Services at 1 30 p m Sunday at Schoppenhorst Funeral Home with Rev Fred Bolinger and Rev Keith Hamilton officiating. Burial in South Park Cemetery Martinsville. Friends may call after 4 p m Saturday.
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Bowling Green
Ind
James Oakley Whitlow
Schoppenhorst
Fred Bolinger
Keith Hamilton
South Park Cemetery
Martinsville
RUTH L. GARLAND RITES SET FOR TUESDAY
Ruth Lucille Garland 60 wife of J N Hickman mortician Donovan E Garland of Wabash Ave Marion died at 2 30 am Saturday Survivors include husband daughter Janet Stone Evansville two sons John Garland Greenfield James Garland Wilkinson father Charles A Bahr Marion brother Carl Bahr Marion six granddaughters four grandsons burial in Highland Lawn Cemetery services 10 30 am Tuesday at Hickman Chapel with viewing after 7 pm Sunday She was a member of Montrose Otterbein UM Church Marengo Chapter CES past noble grand Colfax Rebekah Lodge Evansville native of Marion
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Ruth Lucille Garland
J. N. Hickman
Donovan E. Garland
Wabash Ave
Edward L
Janet) Stone
Evansville
John A. Garland
Greenfield
James A. Garland
Wilkinson
Charles A. Bahr
Carl A. Bahr
Four Children Die in Newark Tenement Fire
In Newark New Jersey four children died in a late night tenement blaze. The mother Lucille Bush 27 was in a tavern on the first floor when the fire started. Fire Captain John Dugan was injured and in critical condition after entering the third floor bedroom where the bodies were found. The children identified were Ulysses Jr 6 Arnold 5 Cora Mae 4 and Lana Pearl 1.
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Newark
N.J
Lucille Bush
John Dugan
Ulysses Jr
Arnold
Cora Mae
Lana Pearl
Entertainer Elmer W. Hinkle Dies at 74
Elmer W. Hinkle aged 74 and half of the 1920s radio duo Hink and Dink died Friday in Oxford Ohio. He and George N. Ross made WLW Cincinnati famous as Hink and Dink for many years, with Hinkle retiring from WLW in 1962.
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Oxford, Ohio
Elmer W. Hinkle
Hink and Dink
Hinkle
George N. Ross
WLW
Cincinnati
Hink
Dink
Cab firm offers New Year Eve home delivery service
Ogden Utah cab firm introduces dual home delivery for New Year Eve rides. For one fare a driver will pick up the celebrant and another driver will take the partygoer’s car home to ensure safe return. Ray Ross, the company manager, explains the plan.
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Ogden, Utah
Ray Ross
New Year’s Eve Liquor Rules Vary Across States
Washington state lifts liquor sales on New Year’s Eve to extend hours from 2 p m to 10 p m on Sundays and 2 p m to 3 a m when the holiday falls on a Sunday. Iowa remains dry with enforcement of a 1 a m to 7 a m Sunday to Monday ban. Delaware Ohio Maine Alabama and Arkansas also prohibit liquor sales on New Year’s Eve. Albuquerque club owners plan a 24 hour early celebration while Miami shifts its Orange Bowl parade to Saturday night due to Sunday curbs.
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Washington
State Liquor Control Board
Iowa
Delaware
Ohio
Maine
Alabama
Arkansas
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Miami
Terre Haute Police records chief Murphy retires after 21 years
Lieutenant James F. Murphy retires effective January 1 after 21 years in the Terre Haute Police Department. He led the records bureau for eight years and previously served in uniform and identification. Murphy, who has sent FBI data for 18 years, resigns to make way for Lt. Ralph Brill.
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Terre Haute Police Department
James F. Murphy
Records Bureau
Uniform
Police Department
Murphy
John Osborn
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mary
Ralph Brill
Belvidere Man Killed in Crash Near Westmoreland
Tom C. Reeves 23 of Belvidere Tennessee was killed in a two car crash on U S 231 half a mile south of Westmoreland Police said his car skidded on ice into the path of an oncoming vehicle A passenger Daniel Selinger 22 of Danville Illinois was injured and listed in fair condition at a local hospital
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Westmoreland, Tenn
Tom C. Reeves
Belvidere, Jr
U.S. 231
Westmoreland
Eddie Graves
Reeves
Daniel Selinger
Danville
Ill
Woman killed near Effingham in two car collision
Madonna Cain age 22 of Toledo died Friday night east of Effingham after a collision of two cars. Passenger in a car driven by Goldie Gaines 46 of rural Toledo Gaines hospitalized with serious injuries. Robert Warren 44 of Effingham, driver of the other car, also injured. New York accepted women as policewomen in 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Effingham, Ill
Madonna Cain
Toledo
Effingham
Goldie Gaines
Robert Warren
Long Holiday Traffic Toll Climbs Slowly
The report compares a Christmas weekend toll of 685 with a nonholiday three day count of 484 and notes Christmas weekends are deadlier. It recalls a 1965 three day Christmas toll of 720 and cites a prior year forecast for a similar New Year weekend ending Monday.
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Associated Press
Rural Clinton Man Succumbs To Gun Wound
The rural Clinton man, a World War II veteran identified as Smith, died from a gun wound. He is survived by his widow Beverly, son Jerry, four daughters, and extensive Indiana and outside state kin. Officials include Vermillion County Sheriff’s Deputy Collett Wallace and state police detectives and troopers. The body will be brought to the First Funeral Home.
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Vermillion County
Collett Wallace
Lloyd Heck
Richard Finney
Ronald Rudisel
Warren Stevenson
Larry Funas
Smith
Beverly
Jerry
Joy Sturm
Lafayette
Brenda Cathy
Michele
Sam Smith
Indianapolis
Walter Smith
California
Optimists Meet as Christmas Clothe-A-Child Goal Is Met
The Noon Optimist Club of Terre Haute reports a $10,000 goal for the Christmas Clothe-A-Child project was reached with member contributions. The club will help present a 55 by 20 by 17 foot float in the Tournament of Roses Parade depicting youth service under the title Wonderful World of Adventure. The meeting at Terre Haute House will feature total membership participation in an idea exchange.
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Terre Haute House
Club
National
Ralston Enlists in the U S Army for Three Years
Patrick Ralston son of Mr and Mrs George A Ralston residing at 2301 1st Ave has enlisted in the U S Army for three years. He will depart January 3 for Fort Campbell Kentucky for basic training and then attend Intelligence Analyst School at Fort Holabird Maryland.
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Patrick Ralston
George A. Ralston
1St Ave
U. S. Army
Ft. Campbell
Ft. Holabird
Yugoslav Consul and Wife Die in Auto Collision
Stjepan Sucurica the Yugoslav consul to Munich and his wife were killed Friday when their car collided with a bus 60 miles west of Belgrade. The crash occurred as they traveled through Srem district en route to Belgrade, authorities said.
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Belgrade
UPI
Stjepan
Sucurica
Yugoslavia
Munich
Germany
Here
Three Drug Firms Guilty In Conspiracy
A U S district court found American Cyanimid, Bristol Myers, and Charles Pfizer guilty of antitrust violations in producing and distributing antibiotics worth 1.7 billion dollars. Verdicts cited restraint of trade conspiracy to monopolize and actual monopoly with maximum fines of 150000 per defendant.
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New York
American Cyanimid Co
Bristol Myers Co
Charles Pfizer and Co
U.S
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Clifford D. Siverd
American Cyanimid
Pfizer
Cyanimid
Humphrey Arrives on Ivory Coast Amid Cold War Ties
President Felix Houphouet-Boigny welcomes Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Abidjan after a 12 hour discussion. The Ivory Coast, with a large dollar surplus, imports mainly from France, sells coffee to the United States, and exchanges dollars for gold, raising U.S. treasury concerns.
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Russia
China
United States
Nigeria
Morocco
Israel
Libya
Humphrey
Ivory Coast
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Africa
Philippe ‘Yace
National Assembly
African Development Bank
Houphouet-Boigny
U.S. Treasury Department
France
America
Two Inmates Escape From Indiana State Farm
Two inmates at the Indiana State Farm in Putnamville escaped Friday night. Police named the fugitives as James Woody Garland, 25, sentenced for burglary, and David L. Tarpey, 30, serving a term for theft, both from Columbus, being sought in western and southern Indiana.
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Putnamville, Ind
Indiana State Farm
Columbus
Indiana
James
Woody) Garland
David L. Tarpey
Seven Kluxers Sentenced In Civil Rights Case
Seven men including Mary Klux Klan leader were sentenced on conspiracy to violate civil rights in the Mississippi killings case. Sentences ranged from three to ten years with no fines. appeals planned. Bodies of Schwerner Goodman Chaney found after 44 days.
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Alton Wayne Roberts
Smiles
Jackson
Neshoba County
Cecil Price
U.S
Harold Cox
Cecil R. Price
Neshoba
Billy Wayne Posey
Philadelphia
Horace Doyle Barnette
Shreveport
Jimmy Arledge
Meridian Steel Firm
Jimmie Snowden
Meridian
Justice Department
Bowers and Roberts
Posey
Price
Cox
Federal
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
New York
James Chaney
A Meridian
Lawrence Rainey
Edgar Ray Killen
Ethel Glen
Hop” Barnett
Jerry McGrew
Bitter fighting and truce extension in Vietnam clash
The air war over North Vietnam faced heavy weather hampering strikes while a Phantom jet was shot down near Haiphong. The US counted 771 jets lost in North Vietnam as ground fire endangered pilots and forced emergency landings. The cease fire was extended to 6 am Tuesday prompting urgent talks between Thieu and Ambassador Bunker.
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Thien
Quang Nam
Hue
da Nang
North Vietnam
Haiphong
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Ellsworth Bunker
Thieu
U S Pursuing Parley with Cambodia Over Infiltrators
U S officials push for talks with Cambodia amid reports of Communist troops entering Cambodian territory. Prince Sihanouk rejects large scale sanctuaries on Cambodia soil while praising Johnson privately. He blames the USSR and Poland for ICC failures. ICC cochairs are the USSR and Britain with Indian Canadian Polish members.
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Sihanouk
Johnson
Soviet Union
Poland
ICC
Britain
Indo-China
Washington
President chats on heart transplant pioneer Dr Barnard
The article notes President Johnson in a yearend stay, meeting with Dr. Barnard who performed the first human heart transplant. It covers Johnson’s three weeks of possible days left, with aides reporting busy sessions over the budget programs and bill signings.
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Johnson
Two Bands for Party at Newton
Wayne Newton Post No 346 invites all members to a New Year's Eve party at post headquarters 1346 Wabash Ave. from 9 30 p m to 1 30 a m. Two bands play: Danny and the Walkers upstairs and the Bob Francis Combo downstairs.
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Wayne Newton Post No. 346
Post
Wabash Ave
Danny
Walkers
Bob Francis
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Mark
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Hale Hoole
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Roselawn Memorial Park
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Stella Reed
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Charles Reed
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Lindsey-Bryfield
Maple Hill Cemetery
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St. Anthony Hospital
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Martha Miller
Aileen Curry
Edna Gil
Helen Webster
Lawson Funeral Home
Edward Lathrop
Wesley Chapel
Margaret B. Clark
Rosedale
Anna Mae Lawson
RR 1
Carbon
Billie Lou Havens
Gays, Il
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Salem
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J. D. Doolen
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