Deaths and funeral notices sweep across Indiana towns
A long obituary list from multiple towns reports deaths and funeral plans. Glen Emory aged 73 of Union Hospital area with WWI veteran status is to receive 3:30 p.m. services at Bedino Chapel with VFW rites at Woodlawn Cemetery. Additional notices cover Estella Duffy, William J. Adams, Joseph Lemont, Elena Dragan, Jess N. Walters, James E Conto, Helen Boyd Cline, Nellie Greenlee, Charles Edward Miller, Bertha Lowdermilk, Lester Todd, John White, Ortha Griffin, Roy L. Thomas, and others with service details and burial locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Emory
Buckeye St
Union Hospital
Reince Custer
Terre Haute
Meda Cline
Lawton Byrum
VFW
Bedino Peace Chapel
Albert Lucchi
Renewal Plan for University Land Purchase Citywide
The university aims to buy land for a campus quickly via urban renewal cutting costs. Partners include the Chamber of Commerce HELP Indiana State University officials and Vigo County Labor Council. Local businessmen oppose the plan citing relocation of their businesses and a 40-signature petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tin
Chamber of Commerce
Housewives Effort For Local Progress
HELP
Indiana State University
Vigo County Labor Council
Memorial rites for Mercer McManimie Monroe and Storm
Services are scheduled for William A. Mercer 97 in Paris Illinois at 1 30 p m Tuesday Sutton and Son Funeral Home burial at Grandview Catlin Indiana memorials for Harry E. McManimie 77 at Butler Funeral Home Rockville burial Memory Garden Cemetery with American Legion grave services Dr Farrell Monroe 72 in Dana Illinois service 2 p m Tuesday Ridge Farm Methodist Church burial Sunset Memorial Park Danville Beech Cemetery for Miss Fannie Pearl Storm 87 burial Beech Cemetery services Schoppenhorst Funeral Home details callers may visit beforehand.
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Rockville
Ind
Helen Boyd Cline
Butler Funeral Home
Phillip Frew
Memory Garden Cemetery
Paris
Ill
William A. Mercer
Sutton and Son Funeral
John Arnold
Grandview Cemetery
DANA
Farrell Monroe
Ridge Farm Methodist Church
Sunset Memorial Park
Danville
Kersey-Overpeck
Clay City
Fannie Pearl Storm
Schoppenhorst Funeral Home
George Jewell
Beech Cemetery
Pierson Township Old District Schools Reunion
The 27th annual Pierson Township District Schools reunion will be held Sunday July 3 at the Blackhawk Firehouse with a basket dinner starting at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackhawke
Ind
Pierson Township
Blackhawk
Civil Defense Leaders Meet to Discuss Emergency Broadcast System
Indiana Civil Defense Director Gilbert J. Leonard presided a Terre Haute meeting of the Civil Defense Directors Association at the Terre Haute House. Attendees from Vigo County included John K. Lamb of the Chamber of Commerce. The Vigo County Center serves 14 counties as an input station for a nationwide network receiving messages from federal and state officials during emergencies and runs a 200 bed emergency hospital and shelter with radiological control.
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Indiana Civil Defense Director’s Association
Terre Haute House
Vigo County
Gilbert J. Leonard
Civil Defense
Defense Directors’ Association
John K. Lamb
The
Chamber of Commerce
Leonard
PLAN WESTRUP RITES TUESDAY
Services are planned Tuesday for Charles W. Westrup retired vice president of the Quaker Maid division of the Great A&P Tea Co. He died Saturday morning. The funeral is at Callahan Funeral Home at 1 30 p.m. Tuesday with burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. The Rev Louis Gherardt will officiate. Friends may call at Callahan Chapel after 4 p.m. Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Ind
Jess N. Walters
U.S. Army
University of Illinois
Carlisle American Legion Post
Sarah
Robert
Thomas Bates
Reno
Nev
Edward
Indianapolis
Maude McCammon
RR 2
Schulze
Theron Castleman
Charles Walls
IOOF
American Legion
Thomas
Grace Retz
Angela Riggs
Odean Banning
Louise Black
Chelsea
Kokomo
Elva
Kittle Worthington
Schoppenhorst Funeral Home
Frank Dinford
Sink Cemetery
Clay City
Rosedale
John White
Carbon
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Fred
Cottrell
Elmo Rose
The
Cross Cemetery
Charles W. Westrup
Quaker Maid
Great A&p Tea Co
Callahan Funeral Home
Roselawn Memorial Park
Louis B. Gerhardt
Callahan Chapel
Giant Hoedown At Meadows Sees Giant Gathering And Pageant
About 1,000 local residents attended an interdenominational service at Meadows with a 250 voice choir led by ISU assistant professor Robert Houndell. The event featured the Sisters of Providence and clergy from several faiths, as Vigo County Day planned a skydiving exhibition and a large pageant casting over 1,000 actors for the Vigo County founding story. Miss Terre Haute Sesquicentennial was crowned and local finalists introduced.
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Robert Houndell
ISU
Don Foltz
Vigo County
Terre Haute
Alice Compton
Nora Jane Birely
Lynne Thomas
Rosalie Baker
Columbia Records
Jack Hale
Columbia
Joe Badger
Columbia Record
Badger
Funeral planned for Vigo deputy Fred Carpenter
Funeral rites set for Tuesday at Bedino Chapel for Fred Carpenter 66 of West Terre Haute a deputy with 18 years service who died after investigating an East Poplar Street crash. Burial at Roselawn Memorial Park with Sheriff Beasley and other deputies as pallbearers. He is survived by his wife a son stepchildren and grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Carpenter
RR 3
West Terre Haute
Bedino Chapel of the Valley
Roselawn Memo
Jesse Graham Jr
Seelyville
Carpenter
Myrtle
Floyd
Marcella Pound
Carol Scamshorn
Farmersburg
Elaine Stanbaugh
Sullivan
Dale Owen
Pimento
Herbert Beasley
James Elliott
Vigo County
Injuries Fatal to Brazil Man
Ralph W. Stewart, 79, of RR 1, Brazil, died Saturday from injuries in a two-truck crash at the U.S. 59 and Rio Grande Road intersection suffered May 31. Services set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Miller and Sons Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Memorial Park. Masonic services by Knightsville Lodge at 8 p.m. Monday.
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Brazil
Ind
Lester Todd
N. Meridian Sr
Clay County
First Christian Church
Mary Rice
Audrey Long
Terre Haute
Mildred McCluskey
Rapids City
S. D
William Fleming
Gospel Island
Fla
Ralph
Tom Fleming
New Goshen
Moore Funeral Home
Robert Stewart
Summitt Lawn Cemetery
Ralph W. Stewart
RR 1
U. S. 59
Rio Grande Road
Miller and Sons Funeral Home
Miller Chapel
Congress May See Busiest Week of Year
Congress moves into a busy week with debates on a $17.8 billion defense procurement bill and a two year $6.6 billion Food for Freedom measure. Senate and House committees advance foreign aid authorizations and antipoverty programs while continuing bail reform and defense laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Agriculture Committee
House
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Johnson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Estella Duffy
Southport Mitchell
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Brotherhood of Railroad
William J. Adams
Dreiser Square
DeBaun Funeral Home
Frank Binford
New Harmony Cemetery
Joseph Lemont
Thomas Funeral Home
Prairie Ave
Amelia
Elena Dragan
RR 6
Michael
Nicholas
Emile Dragan
Mary Fell
Mila Whitter
Louis Monta
Terre
James E. Conto
Clinton, Ind
Clinton Road
North
Nellie Greenlee
Edgar
Charles E. Miller
Charles Edward Miller
Eads Ave
Paris Order of Eastern Star
Royal Neighbor
Grace
Charles
Minnie Foreman
Blume-Stewart Funeral Home
Edgar Cemetery
Bertha Lowdermilk
Lynhurst
Mrs. Lester Todd
Mrs. Ortha Griffin
Clinton
Ortha Griffin
Kansas
David
Carter Morrison
J. J. Saalwaechter
Roy L. Thomas
Jasonville
Elsie Hubble
Iva Haberle
Edith Richert
Cecil
Quince
McClanahan Funeral Home
Merrill-Merrill
E. W. Walsh
Twenty-Fifth
Wabash Ave
Allen & Steen
No. Mo
Rothmane
Allen
8Th & Ohio Sts
Indiana Civil Defense Directors
Robert S. Bates
Indiana Department of Civil Defense
Gil Leonard
Paul D. Smith
Wayne County
Harry Brentlinger
Father Stieman
St. Mary-of-the-Woods College
Chuck Strausburg
Harry E. McManimie
Miss Fannie Pearl Storm
Sisters of Providence Choir
Marie Brendan
Cecelia Clare
Herbert F. Winterhalter
Noel E. Hord
Second Baptist Church
C. Denver Shipley
First Free Methodist Church
Bernard M. Cohen
United Hebrew Congregation
Samuel P. Jones
Terre Haute Area
Paul van Leer
John Swope
Cloverdale
Memorial Stadium
Vigo Fairgrounds
Sheriff’s Department
Rickard
John Schwartz
S. 25Th St
Harold Buckner
Oak St
St. Anthony Hospital
R. R. Richmond
Kor-X
Charlie Myers
Myers Cleaners
Fabian J. Frisz
East
Wabash Plaza
Dick Cross
Cross
Tuunel Jome
N. 13Th St
Mars
Kruger Buick
Dr. McKnight
Chiropractic
Betty (James) Brown
Cave
Dave M’knight
S. 7Th St
Terre Haute, Ind
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