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The News-Sentinel 1959 The News-Sentinel 1959 Friday, January 2, 1959 Oliver H. Heckaman Oliver E. HECKAMAN, 73, R.R. 3, Argos, died at 1:40 p.m. Thursday at Parkview hospital, Plymouth, where he had been a patient since suffering a heart attack six days earlier. Mr. Heckaman, a farmer who had spent his entire life in Marshall county was born near Bremen, Oct. 3, 1885, the son of Samuel and Saraj BROCKER HECKAMAN. He had lived in Bremen, LaPaz and Argos. He was first married in 1904 to Chloe B. JONES, who died in 1944. In 1946 Mr. Heckaman was maried to Lois SWOVERLAND, who survives. Other survivors include three daughers, Mrs. Frank (Inez) THOMAS, LaPaz, and Mrs. Roger (Hope) WINTERS and Mrs. Glenn (Mary) STAFFORD, both of Portland, Ore.; four sons, William [HECKAMAN], Portland, Ore.; Herbert and David [HECKAMAN] of Lakeville and Oliver [HECKAMAN], Jr., Plymouth; fourteen grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three step-daughters, Mrs. Betty MAST, Nappanee, Mrs. Meril (Dorothy) OVERMYER, Plymouth, and Miss Margaret SWOVERLAND, at home; a stepson, Donald SWOVERLAND, at home; two step-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Ralph HUFF, Bremen, and two brothers, Monroe [HECKAMAN], Etna Green, and Charles [HECKAMAN], Beech, N.D. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday by the Rev. Lester CLEVELAND of the Santa Anna Methodist church at the Grossman funeral home, Argos, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. Burial will be in New Oak Hill cemetery, Plymouth. Martha V. Atkinson Fulton county’s 1959 traffic toll leaped to one killed and at least six injured Thursday, before the New Year was even a day old. Dead is Mrs. Martha Virginia ATKINSON, 40, Elkhart, whose life was snuffed out instantly in a car-truck accident on U.S. 31, six miles north of Rochester, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Injured in Thursday’s crashes include: Norman ATKINSON, seven-year-old son of Mrs. Martha Atkinson, who is listed in “critical” condition at Woodlawn hospital, with two broken legs, a broken arm, head injury and possible internal injuries. Ralph G. ATKINSON, 46, husband of the dead woman, lacerations of face and arms, treated at Wodlawn and not admitted. Mrs. Atkinson was riding in the right front seat of a 1957 Ford, driven by her husband, that attempted to pass another south-bound car about 300 feet north of the Richland Center road on U.S. 31. Fog apparently obscured from Atkinson’s view a tractor-trailer, located with scrap, that was approaching from the opposite direction. The Atkinson’s son was lying in the back seat of their car at the time. The truck pulled to the side in an effort to allow the Atkinson car clearance, but Atkinson said he braked his auto and thought he could get across the road. His car hit the right front fender of the semi, the entire right side of the 1957 Ford was ripped away. Mrs. Atkinson, who was thrown from the car, died of a skull fracture, said Dr. Howard ROWE, county coroner, and also had broken legs, broken arm and a crushed pelvis. The truck went through a fence on the Kenneth MYER farm, narrowly missing a tree. The tractor-trailer, owned by the Midwest Emery Trucking company, was driven by George O. EMMONS, 42, Holland, Mich., who was not hurt. The Atkinsons were enroute to visit relatives in Danville, Ind. State Trooper John HATCH and Sheriff Willard CLARK investigated. They estimated damage to the truck at $150 and termed the car a total loss. The car that Atkinson tried to pass stopped a few feet down the road from the accident site, then went on. Nearby residents called the sheriff’s office. Saturday, January 3, 1959 William H. Boose William Henry BOOSE, 84, 218 West 10th street, died this morning at 9:50 o’clock in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 22. He had been in failing health the past two years. Born Sept. 3, 1874, near Royal Center, he was the son of Valentine and Lucinda THOMPSON BOOSE. A resident of the Rochester community for the past 40 years, he came here from Logansport and had been engaged in farming and the real estate business. His marriage was on Oct. 23, 1937, at LaPorte, to Marie DAHL, who survives. Mr. Boose was a member of the Elks lodge of Logansport. Also surviving is one granddson, John William BOOSE, Frankfort. A son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Grace Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call atl the funeral home after noon Sunday. Ethel M. Hudson Ethel Marie HUDSON, 35, sister of Lonnie SHELTON of Rochester, died at 2:05, a.m. today in Peru’s Dukes hospital from shotgun wounds in the stomach which were inflicted by her husband, Lawrence Raymond HUDSON, 32, in the couple’s home at Peru late Friday night, Peru police reported today. The couple’s son, Lawrence Willard [HUDSON], 2, who was in his mother’s arms at the time the shooting took place, was hit by several pellets from the blast and is listed in fair condition at Dukes hospital. Mrs. Hudson’s son by a previous marriage, David McKINLEY, 11, also was wounded in the face by stray pellets. Hudson is being held by Peru police on an open charge pending the calling of a grand jury in the Miami county seat. According to Peru police, the events which led to the tragic slaying occurred in the following order. Hudson and David McKinley had attended the Peru-Rochester high school basketball game in Peru, and Hudson, after sending the boy home with friends, stopped at a tavern where he reportedly told police he had “four or five shots of vodka.” Arriving at home, Hudson found that Mrs. Hudson’s daughter, Carolyn Sue McKINLEY, 14, was entertaining three boys. Hudson and his wie became embroiled in an argument about the girl which raged for nearly two hours. At the climax of the quarrel, about 11:50 p.m., Hudson went to a closet, took out a 12- gauge shot gun, went to the back porch of the house and inserted a single shell into the gun. Coming back into the kitchen, he leveled the gun at his wife in the living room and fired it. David McKINLEY, who had looked from the living room into the kitchen at almost the exact instant the gun was discharged, was thought to have been hurt by part of the blast which richocheted off the kitchen table. His sister was in an upstairs bedroom at the time of the shooting. When police arrived, Hudson was seated on the couch beside his wife, who was sprawled still conscious on the living room floor. He was vague in his story to investigating officers and kept repeating that he “didn’t know how” the shooting occurred. Hudson is a welder for the Freeman Loader corporation, manufacturers of farm implements, and also a part-time bartender. Monday, January 5, 1959 Samuel D. Powell Samuel David POWELL, 72, a lifelong resident of the Rochester vicinity, died at 4:45 a.m. Sunday at the Miller nursing home here after a two-year illness. He had been seriously ill for the past week. A merchant, barber and in his later years a dealer in metal and paper salvage, Mr. Powell lived at the corner of Indiana avenue and East Fourth street. He was a member of the Grace Methodist church here and of the Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Powell was born July 17, 1886 in Macy, the son of John and Susan MITCHELL POWELL. In 1910 he was married here to Dora BIBLER, who died in 1922. Surviving are a son, Ronald [POWELL], Rochester, and two granddaughters, Judy [POWELL] of Rochester and Jaren [POWELL] of Annapolis, Md. Two sons, two daughters and a sister, Mrs. Perry JONES, preceded him in death. Services will be Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr. Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funerl home. Dr. Guy V. Pontius Dr. Guy Victor PONTIUS, 61, son of Mrs. Della PONTIUS, 130 West Eighth street, died suddenly of a heart attack at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in his home at Orland Park, Ill. Dr. Pontius was one of the country’s outstanding physicians and surgeons, was surgeon general of St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago at the time of his death. He had been on the staff of St. Luke’s since his internship days there, formerly being house physician and later chief of staff until suffering a heart attack three years ago. Since that time, Dr. Pontius had been both surgeon general and lecturer at the hospital. He was widely known as a lecturer at medical colleges throughout the nation. Born March 9, 1887, Dr. Pontius was a graduate of Rochester high school in 1915. During his undegraduate days, he was a star on the RHS basketball team coached by R. C. JOHNSON. He attended Earlham college three years, then entered the U.S. Army reserve medical corps until 1918. After his discharge, he enrolled in the University of Illinois medical school from which he was graduated. An outstanding musician in his younger days, Dr. Pontius played with the Citizens Band of Rochester at its regular concerts and performances in the city and environs.
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