Deaths fill Terre Haute area with multiple obituaries
Obituaries and funeral notices from Terre Haute and surrounding towns list Mrs Florence Fasig Dengler 73 of 2200 Garfield Ave burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. Burdette Coburn 87 burial Vermilion Il. Ruth J Martin 66 formerly of Terre Haute burial Rosedale Cemetery Indianapolis. Eveart A Drone 59 burial Grandview Cemetery. Annie A Day Stevenson 83 burial Highland Lawn Dayton. Rosella Fay Cook 72 Hammond cremation and Mt Olivet. Ada Hemminghouse 88 burial Casey Washington Cemetery. Cecil Culp 57 Warrington Pa funeral at Pulliam. Mary Evestone 92 burial Casey Washington. H Vern Crow 82 burial Westlawn. Martin Franklin Rodocker 84 burial Switz City. Ida Anderson 76 River Forest Illinois. Johan J Mikolaitis 87 Brazil Catholic Church burial Restlawn.
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Florence Dengler
Florence Fasig Dengler
Garfield Ave
Union Hospital
Callahan Funeral
John Chironna Jr
Roselawn Memorial Park
Indiana State University
Edna McCosh
Centerpoint
Ind
Johan J. Mikolaitis
Terre Haute
Annunciation Catholic Church
Brazil
Restlawn Cemetery
Rentschler Funeral Home
South Vigo School Board Action on Transportation and Programs
The board reviewed recommendations for adding counselors home visitors nurses and attendance clerks and referred action to old business. Transportation costs for kindergarten would rise to about 143 840 yearly with two way trips costing 180 per student and were not approved. A human relations plan for South Vigo High School was approved and a mural request was sent to old business. The calendar for 1975 76 was adopted and facility use and remodeling funding was approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenden Campbell
Baldwin
Campbell
South Vigo High School
Hamrick
Southside School
Old Business
Sarah Scott
South Vigo
South
Benning
Wayne Crockett
Willa Mae Amphries
R. Brad Lawson
John Valle
Charlotte Caldwell
Iverson Bell
UCSC
Lafayette Ave
Burglaries Reported At Rea Park Clubhouse And Local Properties
Burglars entered the Rea Park clubhouse at 3500 S 7th St stealing $100 in shirts $30 in change and 30 cartons of cigarettes and damaged seven windows. Frank Kaperak Jr reported the break in occurred between 8 p m Monday and 7 30 a m Tuesday. Also stolen were a $63 calculator and two boxes of ball point pens from Terre Haute Oil Co at 1125 N 11th St and a $90 mower from William Daugherty's garage after a break in overnight Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rea Park
S. 7Th St
Frank Kaperak Jr
Terre Haute Oil Company
11Th St
Jerry Russell
William Daugherty
Second Ave
Daugherty
Bowen appoints Boyd Schepper to state advisory board
Governor Otis Bowen names Terre Haute North teacher Boyd Schepper to the Muscatatuck State Hospital Training Center Advisory Board. Harold T. Boswell of Greensburg is named to the Silvercrest Disability and Chronic Disease Facility Advisory Committee. The note recalls the 1942 Battle of Midway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd Schepper
Terre Haute North
Muscatatuck State Hospital
Harold T. Boswell
Greencastle
Silvercrest
Otis R. Bowen
Purdue economists predict wheat at 2.50 to 3 a bushel
Purdue University economists forecast Indiana wheat at 2.50 to 3 dollars per bushel amid a likely record crop. They cite strong livestock feed demand and tight feed grain stocks as support, while corn and soybeans depend on weather with a possible fall drop if a six billion bushel 1975 crop materializes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Lafayette
Ind
Purdue’ University
Indiana
Purdue
Special Levee Assessment Approved by Vigo County
Vigo County commissioners authorize a 1975 Special Levee Assessment for West Vigo Levee Association. About $10,000 in the ditches and fence fund will back a $5,029.21 levy to West Terre Haute and Sugar Creek taxpayers, covering repairs and improvements. The levy equals five percent of the levee cost with about 2,000 property owners affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigo County Commissioners
West Vigo Levee Association, Inc
Frank G. Walker
George Schoffstall
Walker
West Vigo
West Terre Haute
Sugar Creek
Levee Association
William Chagares Rites Thursday Parish merchant dies at 87
William Chagares 87 a Terre Haute merchant for 48 years died Monday in Union Hospital. He owned Olympian Confectionary from 1928 to 1956 and lived at 106 S 11th St. Funeral services set for St George Orthodox Church with burial in Richmond. Survived by three sons a daughter nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Chagares
Terre Haute
Union Hospital
Chagares
S. 11Th St
Olympian
Wabash Ave
St. George Orthodox Church
Bedino Peace Chapel
George M. Rados
Richmond
Ind
George
Theofol
Beverly Hills
Calif
Gus
Skokie
Ill
Harry Wible Rites Pending
Harry Wible age 78 of 1420 S 18th St died at 8 35 am Tuesday in St Anthony Hospital He was a retired locomotive engineer for the Milwaukee Railroad and a member of Hulman Street Wesleyan Church Surviving Esther his widow Dr Darrell E Wible Muncie Ind a daughter Mrs Mary Lou Scamihorn Rockford Ill a sister Mrs Zilpah Crume Kokomo three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews Arrangements are pending at Callahan Funeral Home
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Linton
Ind
Martin Franklin Rodocker
Greene County General Hospital
Welch and Cornett Funeral
Hurschel Williams
Switz City
UMWA
Linton American Legion
Edness
Harry Wible
S. 18Th St
St. Anthony Hospital
Milwaukee Railroad
Hulman Street Wesleyan Church
Esther
Darrell E
Muncie
Mary Lou Scamihorn
Rockford
Ill
Zilpah Crume
Kokomo
Three in Aurora Family Die in I 70 Crash West of St Louis
An Aurora family of five traveling to Mountain Grove Missouri died when their pickup left Interstate 70 near East St Louis Illinois. A tire blowout caused the vehicle to skid roll and burst into flames trapping Roy C Eichelberger 68 his wife Marjorie about 40 and their daughter Judy 16 in the cab. Three children were thrown from the back but with no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East ST. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Roy C. Eichelberger
Marjorie
Judy
Mountain Grove
Injured Girl and Driver From Oncoming Collision
A two year old girl, Rose Rogers of 2600 Jefferson Street, was listed in serious condition with head injuries after a car struck her in front of her home Monday night. She was transferred from St. Anthony Hospital to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. At 10:40 p.m., John Cunningham, 36, of 1321 S Seventh Street, was treated and released at St. Anthony's after his pickup hit a house at Thompson and Voorhees Streets. Terre Haute Fire Department ambulances transported both accident victims.
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St. Anthony Hospital
Riley Hospital
Indianapolis
Little Rose Rogers
Jefferson St
John Cunningham
S. 7Th St
Southside Hospital
Thompson and Voorhees
Terre Haute
St. Anthony’s
Edwards Nominated by Indiana American Independent Party
Former Marion mayor M Jack Edwards, a Democrat, was named the Indiana American Independent party governor nominee at a Saturday officers meeting. The party must gather signatures totaling half of 1 percent of the last Secretary of State vote to qualify for the 1976 ballot.
Terre Haute overpass funding shifts with growth plans
The new overpass project cost rose from 2.1 million to 2.7 million as work expanded. EDA aided by city and West Central Indiana Economic Development District planning, contingent on Terre Haute covering half the costs and on future Tampane property receipt. Local funding includes 70 000 from Vigo County bridge funds. The four lane Fort Harrison project is expected to boost north end industry and residential growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EDA
West Central
Indiana
Terre Haute
Brighton
Vigo County
Penn Central
Fort Harrison
Paris Declared Open City During World War II
Mayor Brighton commented on diversifying the entire community and creating another growth area. The text notes that in 1940 Paris was declared an open city in World War II.
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Brighton
Paris
Man suffocated as sewer trench cave-in saves youth
Joseph F Whitworth a 54 year old part owner of Camp Jo Mo Co trailer park near Honey Bend Litchfield died after a trench collapsed burying him for more than an hour. Tim Hendrickson 17 survived with minor injuries kept under observation. Tim’s parents run a tavern at Jo Mo Co.
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Honey Bend
Montgomery County
Joseph F Whitworth
James Warden
Tim Hendrickson
Litchfield
Warden
Whitworth
Camp Jo Mo Co
Tim
Roy J. Hendrickson
Jo Mo Co
Civil rights protests banned in Bogalusa after clashes
Ten years ago Civil rights demonstrations in Bogalusa Louisiana were banned following two days of street fighting between protesters and police. Local officials invoked emergency powers to quell unrest and restore order.
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Bogalusa
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Burdette Coburn
Washington Ave
Bedino Chapel of the Valley
Alvin Ricklefs
Vermilion, Il
Ruth J. Martin
Rosedale
A. L. Tull
Patrick J. Ryan
Eveart A. Drone
Russell Funeral Home
Morris Blade
Grandview Cemetery
Fred Owen
Margaret Richard
Pittsburgh
Waynesburg
William Best
Scottsboro
Ala
Annie A. Stevenson
Highland Lawn
Annie A
Stevenson
Oak
Dayton
Ohio
The
Cash Register Co
Morris Sons Funeral Home
Christian Women's Fellowship
Paris Women’s Club
Paris Home Bureau
James Fuffey
River Forest
Grace Delap
Pontiac
Sutton and Son Funeral Home
Kansas
Fairview Cemetery
Miss Rosella Fay Cook
Ada Hemminghous
Casey, Ill
Cumberland Nursing Center
Greenup
Markwell Funeral Home
Casey Washington Street
Casey United Methodist Church
Alberta Partlow
Casey
Evelyn Boesiger
Marshall
Cecil Culp
Robinson
Warrington
Pulliam Funeral Home
Kirk Cemetery
Mrs. Mary Eyestone
Mary Evestone
Colorado St
Marshall Funeral Home
James Davis
Casey-Washington Street
United Methodist Church
Royal Neighbors Lodge
Threasa Brosman
Ruth Brosman
Martinsville, Ill
Dorothy Eyestone
H. Vern Crow
Shelburn
Sullivan Nursing Home
McHugh
Lester Sweeney
Westlawn
Shelburn United Methodist Church
Ruth Dickey
Battle Creek
Mich
Rosemary Siner
Sadie Wence
Mrs
Ida Anderson
Kansas, Ill
River Forest, Ill
Kansas Christian Church
Julian J. Mikolaitis
Schull & Greiner
Agency
Cowan & Payne Flower Shop
North 21St
Spruce
REA
Bowen
Zenith
Smallwood Hearing Aid Center
Robert Jensen
Sarasota
Fla
Callahan Funeral Home
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Elks Lodge
Budd van Cleave
Don Zenor
Tony Hulman
Woody Woods
Car 'Cutlitt
Don Henry
Clarks Pharmacy
S. 25Th Street
Beer & Wine
Cunningham Fine Foods
Bobby R. Wade
Liberty
Church OF Christ
Florida Avenue
George T. Woodason
Glidden
Sealy and
SERTA
Roofers Local 150
Wabash Valley
Laughrey Bros
Lough Bros
Paitson
Sealy
Aden
Wabash
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