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.
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