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 Newspaper:  The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
HEADLINE:  ODBER MILES HARTT IS DEAD  1851-1918
Overexertion from shoveling snow fatal to aged man.
    The former shoe factory superintendent of the Wayne Boot and Shoe Company, later a well-known Fort Wayne insurance man and recently in service of the government in the quartermaster’s department at St. Louis, Missouri as a shoe inspector, expired very suddenly at 9 o’clock, Monday at his home 8201 South Fairfield Avenue.  Death was due to arterio sclerosis caused by overexertion.  Soon after a snowstorm yesterday morning, he busied himself clearing snow from the deeply drifted walks in front of his home.  His wife called him to breakfast shortly before 9o’clock.  Shortly after coming into the house he was stricken and expired in less than five minutes.  He came to Fort Wayne ten years ago to become superintendent of Wayne Boot and Shoe resigning a similar position with a Huntington shoe factory.  Prior to his coming to his city he was instrumental in establishing several shoe factories throughout the eastern part of the country.  After the local shoe manufacturing company went out of business, he became engaged in the insurance business.  He was also a candidate for county recorder on the Republican ticket several years ago.
    Widely known expert in every phase of the shoe manufacturing industry, he was an inspector at the large shoe distribution depot in St. Louise.  He came home for a short time in order to visit with his son, Student Officer, Raymond Hartt of the US Aviation Corps who left here less than a week ago for Berkeley, California after a brief furlough. Odber was a member of the Fort Wayne Baptist church: born September 4, 1851; survived by his wife, Effie, sons: Wilbur M. Hartt of Pittsburgh, Odber Raymond Hartt, Harry D. Hartt of Huntington, Indiana, daughters: Mrs. Maud Loudoun, Misses Hazel and Mabel in Fort Wayne.
    Odber was one of the most influential members of the local Progressive Party and was one of the organizers of the party in this county.  He has already told a number of the Progressives of his return to Republican ranks and it is possible that others will follow his announcement.  He was a candidate for commissioner on the Progressive ticket at the November election.

More History:.
Odber was born September. 4,1852 in New Brunswick, Canada  to George & Martha Jane Hartt. He died March 5, 1918 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York with three of his infant children and his mother.  As there is no record of the family on the 1861 NB Census, it is presumed that the whole family moved to the USA before he was 9. At the age of 13 he was an apprentice shoemaker in North Adams, Massachusetts.  He would have been about 19 years old when his father died.
In the 1871 Census for the Parish of Wakefield, NB Odber was listed in the household of James Boyer a Boot and Leather Manufacturer. It appears he returned from North Adams, Mass. and was in this area when his father died.
Odber married Matilda Loretta Kilburn, of Kingsclear, N.B. on Dec. 16, 1878, in New York City. She was born on Jan. 16, 1855 and died Sept. 8, 1902.  Loretta is buried in the Kingsclear-Kilburn Cemetery with one infant.  She was originally buried on the Kilburn farm, but when the Mactaquac Dam was constructed, many homes disappeared under the new head pond and cemeteries had to be relocated to higher ground.  When Odber Miles and Loretta returned to live in Fredericton about 1897, they lived on York Street where the Hartt Boot and Shoe Factory Co. Ltd was constructed in 1899.  Two years after Loretta died, he sold his share of the factory, and moved back to the USA in 1904. They were Free Christian Baptist people.  He married again a woman who had been also previously married; so then he acquired a second family of two stepdaughters; Pam and Gwen Roberts.  Over the years he worked in shoe factories in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York at Gardiner and Estes, Michigan and Indiana.  The last factory Odber Miles managed was in Huntington, Indiana. It was sold at public auction in October 1941.
Odber Miles taught boxing in New York City, Fort Wayne Indiana and Boston.  He used the attic of his house in Indiana, as a gym. In an exhibition match, he knocked out John L. Sullivan with a lucky punch.  Loretta lost her prize parakeet in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Odber heard there was one in a house two blocks behind their house.  He knocked on the neighbor’s door and his reputation as a boxer, scared the man into giving up the pet bird.
The Silver Company, shoemakers in Tarrytown, New York, awarded him a gold cane as he had been plant superintendent there from 1887 to 1897, before moving back to Fredericton to build the Hartt Boot and Shoe Co. Ltd.  While he was working there, he leased an estate overlooking the Hudson River next to the estate of J. D. Rockefeller.
Children of Odber Miles & Loretta (Kilburn) Hartt
Harry Dell 1891-1965, Benjamin Franklin 1882-1882, Wilbur Miles 1879-1966, Jennie 1883-1885, Margaret Maud 1883-1966, Frank K. 1886-1887, Mabel Idella 1899-1994, Hazel Loretta 1895-? , Frederick 1892-1892, Etta May 1889-1891, Odber Ray 1893-1970
(Contributed by Diana Cowland www.myhartt.com)
Journal Gazette, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - August 21, 2001
M. Kathryn Acker, 100, died Sunday at the United Methodist Memorial Home, Warren.
Born in Schuyler County, Illinois, she worked at Ball Stores in Muncie for 20 years. Her husband, Edward R., died in 1963.
Surviving are a nephew, Dr. J. Dean Twining of Muncie; and four nieces, Jean Clark of Lafayette, Calif., Joan Morton of Rockford, Ill., Janet McCaughey of Cuba, Ill., and Mary K. Stoufer of Washington, D.C.
Memorial service at a later date. No calling. Arrangements by Glancy Funeral Home Butler Chapel, Warren. Burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie. Memorials to the Dr. Dewey C. and Julia E. Souder Memorial Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 326, Warren, IN 46792.
(Contributed by Sara Hemp)
Fort Wayne Gazette, Sunday January 13, 1884
Hon. Pliny Hoagland

Pliny Hoagland, the fifth son of Moses and Elizabeth Hoagland, was born near New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 31, 1810.  His father was a farmer, and when Pliny was fourteen years of age the family moved to a farm in Holmes county, near Millersburg, Ohio.  He studied and commenced civil engineering and was stationed on the Sandy & Beaver canal, now mostly occupied by railroads, passing through Columbiana, Carrol and Stark counties, Ohio.  From thence he was transferred, in 1838, to the Wabash & Erie Canal, a state improvement of Ohio, and stationed at Toledo and Maumee City.  He was married to Merica, second daughter of Dr. John and Elizabeth Taylor Evans, at Fort Wayne, September 9, 1844.  Mrs. Hoagland died in 1861.  He remained in the service of the State of Ohio as an engineer until he fall of 1845, when he moved to Fort Wayne and started in the mercantile business with his brother-in-law, S. Cary Evans.  Quitting this he engaged in produce trade with E. Nichols, and afterwards milling with J. L. Williams, and C. Tresselt to present date, Mr. Williams retiring from the firm in ___.
In 1851 Mr. Hoagland, Judge Samuel Hanna, and others, organized the Ohio & Indiana railroad company to build from Crestline to Fort Wayne, connecting with the Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad at Crestline.  In the fall of 1853 the company were short of funds, and Mr. Hoagland and Judge Hanna effected a private loan – on their own responsibility – with which they continued the work that winter.  Mr. Hoagland often spoke of it as the hardest struggle he ever experienced.  The first passenger coach ran into Fort Wayne, November 1, 1854.  The road from Fort Wayne to Chicago was continued and completed in 1859.
In 1856 the charter of the Indiana State Bank expired and was rechartered under the name of Bank of the State, a branch organized here by Mr. Hoagland, Mr. Hugh McCulloch; and others, with Mr. McCulloch as president and Mr. Hoagland as one o the directors.  This bank was converted into the Fort Wayne national bank in 1865 with the late C. D. Bond as vice-president, which office he held at the time of his death.  During the fall of 1856 Mr. Hoagland was elected by the Democrats to the legislature; afterwards in the fall of 1862 to the senate for four years, but after serving one session resigned.
In 1859 he was elected cemetery trustee, holding the office at the time of his death.
In 1866 he was elected director of the G. R. & I. railroad company, the road being completed from Grand Rapids to Fort Wayne in 187_.
In 1871 he became director of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne road, which was completed in 1873.
In 1868 Mr. Hoagland was appointed school trustee, which office he held with O. P. Morgan, Dr. John Irwin and A. P. Edgerton, Dr. Irwin’s successor till 1880.
He had been confined to his apartments since Saturday, and Thursday about 2 p.m., while still in bed, after partaking of refreshments, he called his daughter hastily to him, and in a short time passed away, surrounded by his two daughters and intimate friends.
(Contributed by Marji Turner)
The Fort Wayne News Fort Wayne, Indiana March 4, 1898
MANY PERSONS CALLED
James Evans Hoagland Dies in Philadelphia After a Day’s Illness
Relatives in this city have received the news of the death of James Evans Hoagland, a former resident of this city, at his home in Philadelphia, the immediate cause of his death being congestion of the brain.  Mr. Hoagland held a responsible position with the Pennsylvania company and was highly esteemed by his associates.  Mr. Hoagland’s death was very sudden.
James Hoagland was the oldest son of Pliny and Merica Hoagland.  He was born in Fort Wayne, Dec. 1, 1845.  He lived her until 1882, when he went to Philadelphia.  In 1885 he was married to Mrs. Honora T. Baird, of that city.
The surviving relatives are his wife, a brother, Mr. John R. Hoagland of Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. S. R. Backus, of Toledo, Mrs. w. H. Fleming, and Miss Merica Hoagland, of this city.
The funeral will be held Monday at Philadelphia.
(Contributed by Marji Turner)
Newspaper clipping [name of Fort Wayne newspaper and date unknown her date of death was
Mrs. S. R. Backus, of Toledo, who was a daughter of the late Hon. Pliny Hoagland, of this city, died early Friday morning in New York, where she, with her daughter, Miss Emma, had gone to spend the winter.  News of her death came in a telegram to her sister, Mrs. Emma U. Fleming, of West Berry street.  Mrs. Fleming was not aware of her sister’s illness, and news of her demise was a most painful and sudden shock.
Mrs. Backus was Miss Elizabeth Hoagland, and prior to her marriage to Mr. Backus, whose death occurred some years ago, she lived in Fort Wayne.  Sine her marriage, Mrs. Backus has resided in Toledo, where her husband died, and where the remains of the wife will be laid to rest.  She leaves one daughter.  Mrs. Emma U. Fleming, of this city, and Miss Merica Hoagland, of Indianapolis, are sisters.
(Contributed by Marji Turner)
OBITS
Fort Wayne News. 4/04/1918

John Ross. 
Scottish Rite Cathedreal, 2:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Arthur J. Folsom will officiate. The body will be sent by Undertaker W.H. W. Peitier to West Lebanon, IN. where interment will take place. The following 3rd degree Masons will serve as pall-bearers, Charles A. Wilding, Edward b. Miller, F. E. Strouder, Willie Hattersley, David E. Smith, Alfred Reinsenbach.

Mrs. Minnie E. Wilkinson.  
Brief services at home, 1212 Harmar (? Smeared)  Street, 2:30  p.m. Friday. The Rev. J.P, Porter. At 4:30 o’clock the body will be shipped to Ray, where general funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Interment at California Cemetery, Branch County.

Mrs. Elenora Prange.  
Klaehn & Melching Chapel, 2 p.m. Saturday, The Rev. Wm. Moll Concordia cemetery

Mrs. Georgiana Crissey.  
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgiana Crissey were held at the home at 3 o’clock this afternoon, the Rev. Arthur J Folsom officiating. The body was at 4:30 o’clock shipped to Jackson Mich. Were internment will take place.

Jesse Landis
Jesse J. Landis.  The body of Jesse J. Landis arrived in the city this morning from St. Cloud, Fla., and was removed to the Scheumann undertaking parlors. Tomorrow afternoon the body will be taken to the home 1700 South Harrison Street, where funeral services will be conducted at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon, followed by services at the First Baptist Church at 1:15 o’clock. The Rev. John R. Gunn will officiate. The woman’s Relief corps and Veterans of the G.A.R. will hold services at the church. Following the services here the funeral will proceed to Huntington, where funeral services will be conducted at the Zion Baptist Church. Huntington friends will be permitted to view the remains at the church. Internment will take place in the church cemetery. The deacons of the First Baptist Church will serve as pallbearers.

Jesse J. Landis age 76 years a resident of Fort Wayne for twenty one years, and who operated a a saw repair shop on Highland Street for many years, is dead at St. cloud Fla., according to word received her by local friends. Mr. and Mrs. Landis had been residing in the south since a year ago last October because of his failing health.
Born in Montgomery County, Ohio on december 25, 1841. Mr. Landis opened a saw repair establishment at Huntington in 1883, and came to Fort Wayne in 1897. The desendant was a devoted member and ordained deacon of the First Baptist church.
Surviving besided the  widow are two sons, Oscar and M.W. Landis both of fort Wayne; one daughter, Mrs. J.G. Sweeney, also of this city, and one sister Mrs. Charles Keefer of Huntington; and two brothers, Amen Landis, Fort Wayne, and Ephraim Landis, Huntington.
The body will be brought to Fort Wayne for burial and upon arrival here will be taken in charge by Undertaker, F.H. Scheumann.
The decendent was a member of Lawton-Wayne post No. 271, G.A.R.

V----- Funeral.
The funeral services will be conducted at the home at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. At 2:30 Saturday afternoon, the body will be shipped over the Nickel Plate to Oakwood, Ohio, where internment will take place
NOTE(can’t make out his name)

Frieburger Funeral
The funeral service will be conducted Saturday morning @ 8:30 o’clock at the home of the brother Joseph Frieburger, 1814 Clinton Street, and at 9 o’clock at St. Peters Catholic Church, followed by internment in the Catholic cemetery.

The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
1918/04/01

NEW HAVEN PIONEER IS DEAD
Henry Hawkins Succumbs to Infirmities Of  Age
Aged Civil War Veteran Had Resided In Allen County Nearly Three Quarters Of A Century
Henry G. Dawkins(this is what was written notice heading says Hawkins), aged 80 years, a native of England, though a resident of Allen Countty for nearly three quarters of a century, and a veteran of the Civil War, died at 7 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bert Doyle, at New Haven, death being due to other infirmities of age,
Born in East Kent, England, March 10, 1838, Mr. Dawkins came to America when a mere child and after residing one winter in New jersey, the family came to Allen County where the descendant had resided continuously ever since. He was married to Mrs. Katie Moss, Feb. 15, 1868 (could be 1858) pne son, William H. Dawkins, of Indianapolis, being born to this union.
The wife died Oct. 15, 1877, and Mr. Dawkins again married two years later to Mrs. Sarah A. Furthmiller. One child Mrs. Bert Doyle, with whom the descendant had been making his home, was born to this union, The wife died sixteen years ago.
Mr. Dawkins enlisted in company R. Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in 1861, and was honorable discharged two years later because of ill health. The descendant was the last of a large family, which was distinctive because of its longevity. He was a Scottish Rite Mason and was also affiliated with the Off Fellows Lodge.
The funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Haven. The Masons and Good Fellows will have charge of the services. Interment will take place in the I.O.O.F. Cemtery at New Haven.

Martin
William Martin, an inmate of the Indiana School for the Feeble-Minded Youth, died at that institution yesterday at the age of 20 years. The body wass sent by Undertaker W.M. W. Peltier to Elkhart, where funeral services and interment will take place.

Rhinehart
Elizabeth May Rhinehart aged ?? years, died Saturday at the Indiana School for the Feeble-Minded Youth, of which she was an inmate. Interment took place at the Institution's cemetery yesterday.
Reiff
Robert Richard Reiff, aged 6 months, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Worley M. Reiff, 1022 Rovkbill Street died at (:30 o'clock last night at the family home. The parents and two brothers, glenn and Gene Reiff, survive. The father is manager of the Wayne and Calhoun Street Store of the meyer Bros. Drug Company.
Sanders
Herbert Sanders, aged 39 years, colored, residing at 1402 Harris Street. died at 1 oclock yesterday morning at the home. the widow and two children survive.
The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
1918/04/05

Bultemeyer
William Bultemeyer, aged ?? (could be 39) years, an employee of the General Electric Company and former resident of Frienhelm, Ind. who had lived in Fort Wayne for the oast year, died at 11:30 o'clock this forenoon at the home, 1706 Koch Street. Death was due to pneumonia and followed an illness of but a few days.
Mr. Butlemeyer was married a year ago and shortly afterward moved to this city. He was a member of the Trinity German Lutheran Church. Surviving relatives include the widow, the parents, four brothers and four sister.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home and at 11:00 at the Trinity Lutheran church, the Rev. George W. doege officiating. Following the services the body will be removed to the home of the parents at Fiedheim, where services will be held at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, followed by services at the Friedhelm Lutheran church at 1:30 o'clock. burial will take place in the church cemetery
The young man will be buried on the first anniversary of his wedding as he was married April 8, 1917

Savio
Austin J. Savio, aged three years son of John J. Savio, a member of the Rainbow Division, now in France on the western fighting front, died at 3:15 o'clock this morning at the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Devine, 743 Knitters Avenus. Death  was due to diptheria and followed an illness of only two days. The mother died two years ago.
Funeral services were conducted at the home of the grand parents at 4 o'clock this afternoon, followed by interment in the Catholic Cemetery.

Knoll
Mr. Margaret Knoll, wife of Harry Knoll, of Los Angeles, Cal. and a former resident of fort Wayne, is dead at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Jerry Reithoner, according to word received here by the grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Mills, of Organ Avenus, this city.
Mrs. Knoll was formerly Miss Margaret Reithoner, and before her marriage had resided in Fort Wayne for many years. Surviving besides the husband and parents are two children Donald and Velma Knoll.

Ormsby
Henry Ormsby, aged 68 years, formerly of fort Wayne, but recently employed at the Henry Rodenback Farm, near Monmouth, died at the Adams County Infirmary after an extended illness. Death was due to heart trouble and a dropsical affection. The wife died nine months ago. Nine children, one of whom is Miss Carrie Ormsby, of this city, survive, funeral services were held at the county farm Thursday afternoon.

Eicher
Peter Eicher, a farmer residing near Rockford Ohio, died yesterday at the Lutheran Hosptial at the age of 65 years, death being due to embalism. The body was removed to the Peltier Morgue to be prepared for burial, and was last night shipped to Rockford, where funeral services and burial will take place.
Funeral Announcments The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel 1918-04-01
Miss Mary Freiburger
1314 South Clinton Street, 7:30 a.m. St. Peter's Catholic Church, 9 a.m. Saturday, Catholic Cemetery, Motor Funeral
Stocan Noteff
Schone & Ankenbruck Chapel 2 p.m. Saturday. Lindenwood Cemetery, Motor Funeral
Ollie J. Havert
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception 10 a.m. Saturday, Catholic Cemetery
Mrs. Delilah Krueger
2404 Lillie Street, 1 p.m. Saturday The Rev. Mr. Blair, Lakeview Cemetery, Kendallville, Motor Funeral
Mrs. Henrietta Trader
At the home of daughter, Mrs. George Addon, 231 Masterson Avenue, 1:15 p.m. St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1:45 p.m. Sunday. the Rev. J.W. Miller. Concordia Cemetery.
Elnore Prange
Klaehn & Melching Chapel 2 p.m. Saturday the Rev. William Moll Concord's Cemetery
Christian F. Zollinger
1020 St. Joe Blvd. 2 p.m. Sunday. the Rev. W.C. Beck,am I.O.O.F Cemetery at New Haven, Motor Funeral
Members of the Mail Carriers' Association and other Post Office Employees will attend in a body.
Jesse J. Landis
1803 South Harrison Street 1 p.m. first Baptist Church 1:15 p.m. Monday, the Rev. J.R. Gunn, S.W. Stirk circle. Ladies of the G.A.R. and veterans od the G.A.R. will hold services at the church. After the services here the Funeral party will proceed to Huntington, where services will be held at the Zion Baptist Church, followed by interment in the church cemetery.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - May 11, 1970
Deceased Name: W.W. Rogers, 83, Dies Founder Grocery Chain
Chairman of the board of Rogers Markers, W.W. Rogers, 83, of Townhouse Retirement Home, died at 3:55 p.m. Sunday in Lutheran Hospital. He had been a patient there one month. Founder of the grocery chain in 1944, he had previously worked for the Kroger Co., and Hoosier Stores here. He was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church, the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Chalfant-Perry-Klaehn Funeral Home, with Rev. Lawrence Fairchild officiating. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Surviving are three sons, Harry W., Charles E. and John A., and a sister, Mrs. Harriet White, all of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Honorary pallbearers will be Paul F. Yergens, Ermin P. Ruf, Willard Shambaugh and Frank S. Bowers. Active pallbearers will be Walter L. Scott, David M. Rhoades, Robert O. Lambert, C.J. Romary, William H. Rogers and John W. Rogers. Preferred memorials are to Plymouth Congregational Church.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - November 16, 1970
Deceased Name: Ralph Gladieux Dies Founder of Refinery
Ralph E. Gladieux, 4133 New Haven Ave., founder of the Gladieux Refinery Inc. and Service Station, died at 9:55 a.m. today in Parkview Memorial Hospital. Mr. Gladieux, a lifelong resident of Allen County, was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the American Petroleum Institute of Washington D.C., the National Petroleum Refiners Association, United Commercial Travelers and Automotive Maintenance association. He also was an associate member of the Frater Order of Police. Surviving are his wife, Dolores B.; a sone, James M., Mrs. Maxine Sordelet and Mrs. Jan Fletcher, Fort Wayne; six brothers, Justin, Louis and Ernest, Fort Wayne; Clyde, New Haven, and Virgil and Nelson, Toledo, O.; two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Parnin, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Harry Thorpe, Angola and 21 grandchildren. Arrangements will by by the D.O. McComb & Sons Funeral Home. Preferred memorials are gifts to the Allen County Heart Fund of the Visiting Nurses Service.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - June 22, 1982
Deceased Name: Zollner dies at age 81
Prominent Fort Wayne industrialist and sports team owner Fred Zollner, 81, died Monday afternoon in St. Francis Hospital, North Miami, Fla. He had lived for 30 years in nearby Golden Beach, Fla.
Zollner was board chairman and chief executive officer of Fort Wayne-based Zollner Corp., where his career spanned 56 years. The business, founded by his father, Theodore, was moved to Fort Wayne in 1931 and eventually became the supplier of 70 percent of the world's heavy duty aluminum pistons for internal combustion engines. Zollner maintained company offices in both Fort Wayne and Golden Beach.
Zollner also was the owner of the professional basketball Pistons during their years in Fort Wayne and after their 1957 move to Detroit. Those teams won three world championships while in Fort Wayne. He sold the team in 1974.
Zollner also sponsored an amateur softball team that won three consecutive world championships, and he supported other sports programs in the community.
A sister, Janet Zollner Fisher of Fort Wayne, survives. She is senior vice-president of Zollner Corp. A trust established by Zollner provides for continuing operations of the Fort Wayne firm under its present management.
Arrangements for services are pending at Klaehn's Chalfant-Perry Chapel.
The active, diverse career of Zollner included two terms as mayor of Golden Beach.
Zollner was honored in 1947 as Fort Wayne's ''Man of the Year'' for his role in ''bringing Fort Wayne to the attention of the nation.'' He was cited for his development of the Zollner Corp. and for his sponsorship of world champion sports teams.
The Zollner business was organized in 1912 in Duluth, Minn., and Zollner joined it as chief engineer and vice-president in 1926, just a year before receiving his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota.
When his father died in 1952, Zollner became president of the corporation. In 1967, Zollner became board chairman and chief executive officer of Zollner Corp. and of Zollner Canada Ltd., Leamington, Ontario.
Zollner told an interviewer in the mid-'50s the piston business ''isn't glamourous ... it's a complicated art.''
He invented and improved piston designs, structurally and metallurgically, in aluminum alloy for both gasoline and diesel engines. He pioneered and developed bi-metallic (aluminum alloy and ferrous material) pistons to control expansion and resist wear. And he also did extensive research on turbine engines for land and marine applications.
A board member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Zollner also was a 30-year director of Lincoln National Bank, a trustee of Tri-State College and was active in several other organizations.
Officers who will continue the Zollner Corp. operations include Marjorie E. Bowstrom, board vice-chairman; P.L. Bowser, president; Janet Zollner Fisher, senior vice-president; Blayne Osborne, executive vice-president; Ronald Burgette, vice president of engineering, and Paul O. Schirmeyer, treasurer.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - January 7, 1985
Deceased Name: Franklin National founder is dead
Tuesday services have been scheduled for Franklin National Life Insurance Co. founder Louie Palumbo, 60, who died at home Friday.
Allen County Coroner Phillip O'Shaughnessy said today Palumbo died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Palumbo founded Franklin in 1961. He resigned as president and chairman of the board in January 1983 after Franklin encountered severe financial problems. The company now is under liquidation by the Indiana Department of Insurance.
Franklin still owns real estate at 2100 Goshen Road, including the Olympia Athletic Club, said Mike FitzGibbons, chief examiner of the state insurance department. FitzGibbons said Franklin's policies recently were transferred to United Founders Life Insurance Co. of Oklahoma City in exchange for a portion of Franklin's assets.
The company had its best sales year in 1982, when sales totaled about $8.5 million. But those hefty sales caused difficulties because new policies are expensive to service.
Under Indiana law, companies must maintain a surplus - the amount by which assets exceed liabilities. But Franklin sold so many policies that its surplus was not large enough under Indiana law.
At the time, Palumbo said that the problems occurred because he thought real estate could be counted as an asset under Indiana law. But the state ruled that real estate could not be counted, which caused the surplus shortfall.
Franklin was placed in liquidation in September.
Palumbo was a veteran of World War II and a member of St. Vincent Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus Council No. 451 Father Brandon chapter, Anthony Wayne Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Fort Wayne Serra Club.
Surviving are his wife, Jean M.; four daughters, Linda Reynolds, Laura McArdle, Tamara Miller and Kim Palumbo, all of Fort Wayne; a son, Jerry L. of Fort Wayne; a brother, Vito D. of Leo; and two sisters, Grace Gardt of Fort Wayne and Rose Marie McKimson of Troy, Mich.
Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Vincent Catholic Church. Calling is from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in D.O. McComb & Sons Maplewood Park Funeral Home, 4017 Maplecrest Road, with a rosary recited there at 8 p.m. Burial will be in Catholic Cemetery, Auburn.
Preferred memorials are gifts to the church.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - October 24, 1985
Deceased Name: Charlie Bilskie: Beloved candy stand figure dies
People who approached the snack stand in the federal building Wednesday expected Charlie Bilskie's usual bright greeting. Instead, they found a message taped to the metal pull-down door:
"We regret to inform you, our friend Charlie Bilskie passed away."
The federal building's most familiar face will no longer smile from the lobby booth where Charlie sold candy, cigarettes and newspapers and gave away greetings and good conversation. The 74-year-old blind vendor died early Wednesday at his Clara Avenue home.
Only Tuesday, Charlie told a federal court employee that his 34th anniversary was coming up. He set up shop Nov. 15, 1951 when he got the job as part of the state's effort to find work for the blind.
When he started, business was brisk. But Charlie stayed even after the U.S. Postal Service moved to its new building on Clinton Street in 1980 and visitors to the Harrison Street building dwindled.
"I feel like this is my home. It should, after all these years," he said in 1981, as he celebrated his 30th anniversary at the building with a cake given by friends.
Charlie had a lot of friends. They remember his cheerful disposition and the way he knew a person just by the sound of his voice or click of her heels.
U.S. District Judge William Lee said he will remember Charlie for "his unfailing good humor. He always seemed to have a very good outlook."
"He was a beautiful person," said former federal judge Jesse Eschbach, who served in Fort Wayne for about 20 years before his appointment to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. "He always had a smile and a word. He made you feel a little bit better."
Marguerite Long, who visited Charlie's stand during the years she worked in the U.S. attorney's office, said Charlie "could tell how you felt by your voice. He could tell when you weren't feeling real good." Long now is retired.
Mary Meurer, who retired from Lincoln National Corp. in 1973, said, "I could walk into that federal building and say, 'Good morning Bilskie.' And he'd say are you, Mary?"'
Charlie loved music. He listened to classical music on the radio at work. He loved to attend concerts by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and he was proud of his 50 years with the St. Jude Catholic Church choir.
Ed Throm, former director of the St. Jude's choir and now a music minister for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, said Charlie almost never missed choir practice.
"He sang tenor. He was blind, but he would listen as the other people practiced their parts," Throm said. "In his later years, he had problems just getting his breath." But when he was younger, he was considered the premier soloist for weddings at St. Jude's.
"He had a beautiful voice," Meurer recalled.
Mary Quackenbush, a retired Lincoln employee, met Charlie more than 20 years ago. Her teen-age sons would spend time with him after school, sometimes helping to fill racks of candy, as they waited for her to finish work at Lincoln. "He sang at both my boys' weddings," Quackenbush said.
He loved flowers, inviting customers to take a closer look at tulips he brought to work.
He also loved to chat.
"He just loved to talk," Quackenbush said. "You'd tell him your problems and he'd help if he could. He'd tell you his stories and we'd tell him ours."
In 1966, Charlie told a reporter, "There's no better place to study psychology than that lobby."
Pat Krider, office manager for the U.S. attorney's office, said it is likely many federal building friends will attend a memorial service for Charlie at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Mungovan & Sons Memorial Chapel, 2114 S. Calhoun St. He is survived by two sisters.
"The general feeling is that a good friend is gone. He was a real friend to everybody," said Krider, who typed the note that was taped to Charlie's booth.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - March 11, 1986
Deceased Name: Perfection Biscuit leader dies
H. Leslie Popp, a longtime business and civic leader in Fort Wayne, died at his home Monday. He was 87.
Popp, who began his career with Perfection Biscuit Co. in 1927, rose to become the firm's chairman of the board. He also founded the city's first television station, WKJG-TV.
The University of Michigan graduate was on the board of directors of Rogers Markets, an honorary director of Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co. and was a director of the Methodist Hospital at Lewis and Calhoun streets, which later was rebuilt as Parkview Memorial Hospital on Randallia Drive.
He served on the building committee for the present facility.
He was past president of the Fort Wayne Rotary Club and belonged to its Paul Harris Fellow group. He was a member of the Quest Club, Home Lodge 342 F & AM, Scottish Rite and Mizpah Shrine. He also was past president of the American Biscuit and Cracker Association.
He was a member of Trinity English Lutheran Church and served on many of its boards.
He was a member of the church council for more than 20 years.
He also was a member of the Fort Wayne Country Club, Taxpayers Research and YMCA.
He is survived by his wife, Lucile Franke Popp; two sons, John F. Popp and H. Leslie Popp Jr., both of Fort Wayne; a brother, Ralph E. Popp of Fort Wayne; and three grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday in Trinity English Lutheran Church with private graveside services following in Lindenwood Cemetery. Calling is 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Klaehn's Wayne Street Chapel, 420 W. Wayne St.
Preferred memorials are gifts to Trinity English Lutheran Church.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - March 19, 1986
Deceased Name: Cecil Stradley, was Dana Corp. vice president
Cecil W. Stradley, 50, died Monday in Parkview Memorial Hospital.
The Decatur, Ill., native had lived in Fort Wayne the past three years. He was a member of Saint Joseph United Methodist Church.
Mr. Stradley graduated from the University of Illinois in 1959. He worked in sales and engineering positions with Dana until 1971 when he was appointed plant manager in Tipton, Ind. In 1977, he was appointed to the post of manufacturing director of the Dana facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
He returned to the United States in 1980 and was named director of corporate planning at the company's headquarters in Toledo, Ohio. In 1983, he became vice president and general manager of Dana Corp. Spicer Clutch Division in Auburn. He was elevated to the post of vice president and division general manager of the Toledo-based Spicer Universal Joint Division in 1986.
He was a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and American Management Association. He also was a 1985 graduate of Harvard University in advanced management studies. He previously studied management techniques at Hillsdale College in Michigan and Northwestern University.
Surviving are his wife, Carolyn C.; a son, Mark A. Stradley, at home; and a brother, the Rev. Floyd R. Stradley of Champaign, Ill.
Services are 1 p.m. Friday in Saint Joseph United Methodist Church, with burial in Highland Park Cemetery. Calling will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in D.O. McComb & Sons Maplewood Park Funeral Home, 4017 Maplecrest Road, and also from noon to 1 p.m. Friday in the church.
Preferred memorials are gifts to Saint Joseph United Methodist Church.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - April 9, 1986
Deceased Name: Samuel Leto, 22 years with city police
Samuel J. Leto, a former deputy chief in the Fort Wayne Police Department and candidate for Allen County sheriff, died Tuesday in Parkview Memorial Hospital.
Leto, 49, was a popular police officer during his 22-year career and was considered a "hardworking Democrat," by those who backed his unsuccessful challenge to Republican Sheriff Daniel Figel in 1982.
Like most other Democrats running for office in Allen County that year, Leto lost by a substantial margin.
"He was a hard, campaigner and a good party man," said Charles H. Belch, who is now Democratic chairman in the 4th Congressional District.
Leto was born in Fort Wayne and joined the Police Department in 1961 and retired in 1983.
He also served as Avilla town marshal from July 1983 to June 1984.
Leo subsequently opened a shop and restaurant on the Landing. His shop became a popular gathering spot for off-duty police officers.
Illness forced Leto to sell the shop a short time later.
He was formerly employed at International Harvester Co., the Pennsylvania Railroad, Montgomery Ward Co., Independent Newspaper in San Diego, Calif., and Ryan Aircraft Co. in San Diego.
He was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
He was selected to appear in the National Register of Outstanding Law Enforcement Officers in 1980, was president of the Fraternal Order of Police in 1969 and was on the Police Athletic League board of directors.
Surviving are a son, Samuel J. Leto III of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Maria L. Leto of Fort Wayne; his mother, Mary Leto of Fort Wayne; three brothers, Nick Leto of San Diego, and Domanic Leto and Frank Leto, both of Fort Wayne; and a sister, Katie Hesley of Fort Wayne.
Services are 10 a.m. Friday in Tom Mungovan Funeral Home, 2221 S. Calhoun St., and at 10:30 a.m. in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Calling is from, 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 6:45 p.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Catholic Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are gifts to the American Cancer Society.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - April 19, 1986
Deceased Name: McMillen ran Central Soya, sat on boards
Dale W. McMillen Jr., 72, died Friday in Lutheran Hospital.
He served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Central Soya Co. until 1975 and retired in 1979. Born in Van Wert, Ohio, he had lived most of his life in Fort Wayne. He had served as a director of Fort Wayne National Bank, Culver Education Foundation and Princeton Theological Seminary.
He was an elder of First Presbyterian Church, a 32nd degree Mason, a past president of the Fort Wayne Foundation and a member of Quest Club, Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce and Fort Wayne Country Club.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; a daughter, Athalie Long of Edwardsville, Ill.; two sons, Dale W. III of Fort Worth, Texas, and John F. of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mary Jane Crowe of Juno Beach, Fla.; and eight grandchildren.
Services are 1:30 p.m. Monday in First Presbyterian Church. Calling is 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday in Klaehn's Wayne Street Chapel, 420 W. Wayne St. Burial will be in Lindenwood Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are gifts to First Presbyterian Church or the donor's favorite charity.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - June 4, 1986
Deceased Name: Former Perfection Biscuit president, 57, dies
H. Leslie Popp Jr., 57, a business leader and native of Fort Wayne, died Tuesday. A former treasurer, vice president and president of Perfection Biscuit Co., he retired in 1980 after 27 years but remained on the company's board of directors.
Popp, an Air Force lieutenant in the Office of Strategic Services, was a Korean War veteran and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
A University of Michigan graduate, Popp was a member of the university's victorious football team in the 1950 Rose Bowl. He was a graduate of Culver Military Academy and a member of Trinity English Lutheran Church.
He was also a board member of the Allen-Wells Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Better Business Bureau of Fort Wayne and was a member of several other organizations.
He is survived by his wife, Carol; a daughter, Catherine L. Popp of Carlisle, Pa.; his mother, Lucile Franke Popp of Fort Wayne; and a brother John F. Popp, also of Fort Wayne.
Services will be 11 a.m. Friday in Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 E. Wayne St. Private graveside services will be in Lindenwood Cemetery. Calling is 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. in Klaehn's Wayne Street Chapel, 420 W. Wayne St. Preferred memorials are gifts to the Fort Wayne University of Michigan Almuni Club and Trinity English Lutheran Church.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - October 18, 1986
Deceased Name: Haywood M. Davis, auto dealer
Haywood M. Davis, owner of the former Davis Auto Co. for more than 50 years, died Friday in Parkview Memorial Hospital.
Davis, 84, was the only owner of Davis Pontiac, 312 E. Main St., until he sold the business to Jim Bostwick June 3, 1985.
Davis said when he sold the dealership, "We've had a lot of good fortune, and whatever success I've enjoyed has been because we've tried to treat people the way we wanted to be treated."
When Davis opened the showroom in 1934, it was in the middle of the Great Depression. "Sure, it was risky," Davis said. "But you've got to be willing to take a chance.
About the only time Davis sold fewer cars than during the Great Depression was during World War II, when new car production stopped so automakers could produce tanks instead of sedans.
Davis took another chance in 1981, when he paid $25,000 for a franchise to sell DeLorean sports cars. But the DeLorean company went bankrupt in 1983, after Davis had sold just 10 of the stainless steel cars.
Born in Warrenton, Ind., he had served as an Army captain in World War II. He was a director of Summit Bank and Parkview Memorial Hospital and a past president of Auto Dealers Association of Indiana, Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Fort Wayne, Quest Club, Junto Club, Fort Wayne Country Club, Fort Wayne Auto Dealers Association and Fort Wayne Foundation. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and Elks Lodge. He had received several business and community service awards. His wife, Ruth, died in 1982.
Surviving is a son, James E. of Fort Wayne and Fort Lauderdale, Fla
Services are 10 a.m. Monday in Trinity Episcopal Church. Calling is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday in Klaehn's Chalfant-Perry Chapel, 2423 Fairfield Ave., and one hour before servides in the church. Burial will be in Lindenwood Cemetery.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - March 26, 1987
Deceased Name: Helene Foellinger: Former publisher Foellinger dies
Helene Foellinger, former publisher of The News-Sentinel and president of Fort Wayne Newspapers Inc. and one of Fort Wayne's leading patrons of arts, entertainment and education, died of cancer at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday at Lutheran Hospital. She was 76.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Trinity English Lutheran Church, with burial in Lindenwood Cemetery. There are no calling hours. Arrangements are by Klaehn's Wayne Street Chapel.
Preferred memorials are gifts to a charity of the donor's choice.
In her 45-year newspaper career, Foellinger increased circulation of The News-Sentinel by more than 30 percent, forged a joint operating agreement that ensured the survival of the rival Journal-Gazette and built a new headquarters for both newspapers.
Foellinger was expecting a gradual apprenticeship in newspaper management when her publisher father, Oscar, died Oct. 8, 1936, and she was appointed to succeed him.
At 25, she was the youngest publisher in the nation and one of the few women to lead a newspaper.
A large chunk of the multimillion-dollar fortune she amassed in newspaper publishing was channeled into dozens of civic and charitable projects through the Foellinger Foundation.
Her legacy includes the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., the Foellinger Outdoor Theater at Franke Park and major gifts to most of the city's arts organizations and the journalism programs at Indiana and Ball State universities.
The Foellinger Foundation will continue to provide money to Fort Wayne and Allen County organizations, Walter Helmke, a member of the board, said today.
The foundation provided money to any organization Foellinger thought would benefit the community, Helmke said.
"There will be no changes in the way the foundation operates," Helmke said. "She has set goals for us, and we hope to do the same things and continue to follow her path for many years."
Foellinger received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Tri-State University, Angola, in 1964 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Indiana University in 1977.
Foellinger was born Dec. 12, 1910, the first of two daughters of Oscar G. and Esther Anna (Deuter) Foelligner.
Oscar Foellinger was a bookkeeper at the Journal-Gazette before World War I. In 1920, two years after The News merged with The Sentinel, he became president and general manager of that combined operation.
Young Helene grew up playing in the old News-Sentinel building at Barr and Washington streets (the present home of the United Way) and expected to work in the business. She attended South Wayne School, Miner Junior High and South Side High School.
Oscar Foellinger ruled out fashionable Eastern women's colleges for his daughter, fearing she would be corrupted by drinking and cigarette smoking.
As a result, Helene Foellinger attended the University of Illinois where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a math degree in 1932.
Of her father's worries, Foellinger, in a September 1985 interview, puckishly remarked that she never smoked but heartily approved of cocktails before dinner.
Spirited, occasionally tart-tongued commentary as well as a fondness for Cadillac convertibles were colorful exceptions to an otherwise reserved public persona.
In business, Foellinger operated with an iron fist in a velvet glove. Always friendly, particularly to employees, she was notoriously hard-nosed in financial matters.
"Yes," she once told a reporter, "I was interested in the bottom line. I had to be, because if I hadn't been, we wouldn't have been in business."
Foellinger's premature promotion to publisher demonstrated to her just how fragile life, let alone finances, could be. Foellinger who had just launched the newspaper's women's pages and was counting on further grooming, said youthful cockiness and good help allowed her to succeed.
"Looking back on it, people, I guess, thought I was out of my mind. As I look back now," she said in 1985, "maybe I was. You know, when you're young, you sometimes think you can do anything if you have the right people working for you. I was very, very fortunate to have an extremely loyal group of people."
Late in life, Foellinger spoke with satisfaction of earning the respect of older male colleagues in the publishing fraternity and the local business community.
Although a trailblazer for her gender, Foellinger did not identify with the women's liberation movement. "I happen not to be a feminist " she said, "and I get a little upset with some of these feminists - where there's too much push. I think you have to earn your spurs and be accepted."
But she admitted that "it's still pretty much true that it's a man's world."
During her first five years as Publisher, News-Sentinel circulation increased from 56,700 to 67,800.
In 1950, Foellinger reached a joint operating agreement with the then-ailing Journal-Gazette.
She formed Fort Wayne Newspapers Inc. to provide advertising and printing services to both newspapers.
Eight years later, she built the newspapers' present quarters at 600 W. Main St.
Foellinger, or Miss F., as she was sometimes called, devoted herself mainly to The News-Sentinel's business operations, choosing to wield little day-to-day influence in editorial matters.
She prided herself on fostering a warm work environment for her employees.
"We were sort of like a family," she said.
It was her only family; Foellinger never married and leaves no immediate survivors.
Her younger sister and only sibling, Loretta Teeple, was killed in a plane crash in 1950.
Her mother died in 1969.
In 1985, Foellinger explained, "I married my job. I was perfectly willing to sacrifice a great deal, which I'm sure I did."
Foellinger quickly steered the 1985 interview toward the accomplishments that had given her pleasure: running a profitable newspaper, philanthropic activity, and, on a more personal level, horseback riding.
But she wistfully noted that the absence of heirs prompted the sale of The News-Sentinel and her controlling interest in Fort Wayne Newspapers Inc. to Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. in 1980 for about $37 million.
"If I had just had a child who would be interested in the business ...," she said. "I did the very best thing I could at the time. I sold it to the group I thought was the very best group."
Foellinger remained with The News-Sentinel as a consultant through October 1981, capping 45 years in the newspaper business."
In retirement, she continued as the doyenne of local arts but chafed at loss of control of her newspaper.
She did not hesitate to criticize changes of which she disapproved in The News-Sentinel.
For the past six years, Foellinger spent the bulk of her time at her tree-shaded Old Mill Road home, venturing out mainly for meetings of Civic groups and the Foellinger Foundation.
Established in 1958, the foundation has assets of $16 million and has disbursed at least $10 million.
The retired publisher's support for the arts was recognized with the Governor's Arts Patron Award, bestowed in a Statehouse ceremony Feb. 10 in Indianapolis.
It was her last major public appearance.
Foellinger said she enjoyed philanthropy because it provided "the opportunity to see what your money is doing rather than waiting until after you're dead and you can't see what it's done. Think of the fun you've missed.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - April 20, 1987
Deceased Name: Businessman Centlivre dies
Herman G. Centfivre, 84, died Saturday in St. Joseph Medical Center.
The Fort Wayne native was former secretary-treasurer and advertising director for Centlivre Brewing Corp. He Centlivre was the grandson of Charles L. Centlivre, who founded the brewery at Spy Run Avenue and North Clinton Street in 1962.
He also was president and director of Centlivre Realty Corp. and a director of O'Dowd Realty Corp.
He was a graduate of Central Catholic High School and a 1925 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He joined the family business in 1933 after serving in the national advertising department of Campbell-Ewald Co. in New York; Buffalo, N.Y.; Pittsburgh, and Detroit.
He was a charter member of the Fort Wayne SERRA Club, an organization of Catholic men. He served on the Fort Wayne Tennis Commission for four years and was a member of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce and the Fort Wayne Advertising Club.
Centlivre's wife, May O'Dowd Centlivre, died in 1963.
Surviving are three daughters, Suzanne C. Farmer of St. Joseph, Mich., Catherine C. Hitchcock of Sterling Heights, Mich., and Julie Kundert of Evanston, M; a son, Charles F., of Grosse Ile, Mich.; a sister, Bernice C. Popp of Fort Wayne; and 23 grandchildren.
Services are 9:30 am. Tuesday in Mungovan & Sons Memorial Chapel, 2114 S. Calhoun St., and at 10 a.m. in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, with burial in Catholic Cemetery. Calling is 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m.
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - December 22, 1987
Deceased Name: Ex-reporter Floyd Logan dies
Floyd ''Slats'' Logan, 83, of Indianapolis, died yesterday in Community Hospital East.
The Cass County native worked as a reporter, book critic and theater critic at The News-Sentinel for 25 years. After he left Fort Wayne, he was in the public relations department of Kingan Meat Corp., which later became HyGrade Meats.
Logan was a correspondent for papers in Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati during his newspaper career.
During World War II, he served in the Air Force in the Pacific Theater, and later on special assignment as a bomb disposal expert.
He was honored in Fort Wayne as a driving force in the development of the Fine Arts Foundation. Later, in Indianapolis, he was president of the Press Club, was honored in 1973 as Civic Man of the Year by the Downtown Indianapolis Kiwanis and was a director of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, which raises funds for Riley Children's Hospital.
Surviving are his wife, Betty, and two sisters, Margaret Amos of Logansport and Susie Schwarzkops of Fort Wayne.
Graveside services are at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne, IN. Oct.31, 1898.
Dr. J.H. Kappel, coroner of Allen County, died this morning after a lingering illness, the result of sunstroke 2 years ago. He was 29 years old and leaves a wife, to whom he was married  only 1 year.
Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 15 -
W. H. Dills - one of the leading Democratic politicans of Northern Indiana, died at his home at Auburn, Ind., of heart disease this morning.
(The St. Louis Republic, January 16, 1891, page 2)
Van Wert Times Nov 4, 1972
Marie Wallace, 57, of Cleveland, a former resident of Middle St., died Thursday in Metropolitan General Hospital following a two-day illness. Born Aug. 20, 1915, in Van Wert, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mullen. Survivors include a sister, Velma Mullen of Middle St., and two brothers, John Mullen of Defiance and Art Mullen of Ft. Wayne. The body will be removed to the Klaehn Funeral Home, W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne today, where funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday by the Rev. Tom Steinsman. Burial in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.
( contributed by Linda Dietz)
Name of Deceased: Edna "Becky" Zent
County Name: Allen  State: IN
Newspaper: The Journal Gazette
Obit: Edna "Becky" Zent, 107, died Sunday (13 Feb 2000) at Kingston Care Center. She was born in Fort Wayne. Surviving are three grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, C. C. Miller, in 1925; her second husband, Emerson Zent, in 1980; and a son, David C. Miller, in 1996. Services at 11 a.m. Thursday at D. O. McComb & Sons Foster Park Funeral Home, 6301 Fairfiled Ave. Calling from 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Memorials to Heartland Home Health Care & Hospice.
(Submitters Name: Ida Maack Recu )
Name of Deceased: Maxine D Blake Zent
County Name: Allen State: IN
Newspaper: The News-Sentinel
Obit: MAXINE D. ZENT, 78, of Fort Wayne, died Monday, March 12, 2007, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne. Born Aug. 2, 1928, in Fort Wayne, she was a member of St. Michael Lutheran Church. She worked as a wirer at Royal Lace for over 15 years and was a homemaker. Surviving are her sons, Steve Zent and Bill Zent, both of Fort Wayne, and Gary Zent of Auburn; daughters, Don Deena Bowersock of Fort Wayne, Sue Swartz of Kimmell and Peggy Doherty of Austin, Texas; brother, Doyle Blake of Fort Wayne; sister, Charlotte Wiselman of Fort Wayne; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Eldon Zent, in 2002. Funeral service is 12:30 p.m. Friday at Elzey-Patterson-Rodak Home For Funerals, 6810 old Trail Road, Fort Wayne. Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne. Memorials to Alzheimer's Association.
( Submitters Name: Ida Maack Recu )
Obit: ANNETTE C. REINCKE, 86, died Friday, May 5, 2006, at Lutheran Home. Born April 20, 1920, in Des Plaines, Ill.; she was the eldest daughter of Paul F. and Alwina Amling. She graduated from Valparaiso University and moved to Fort Wayne in 1949. She married Richard F. Reincke on Feb. 16, 1946 and he preceded her in death in 1978. She was employed as a bookkeeper for Interim Investment Inc., until her death. She was their trusted and respected employee for over 40 years.
She was a member and active volunteer at Concordia Lutheran Church. She regularly volunteered for the Lutheran Home Auxiliary. She had been a member of the Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary for many years and active earlier in life in the League of Women Voters. Survived by her sons, Tom (Mary Ann) and Terry (Sarah); five grandchildren, Thom (Angela) Reincke of Apex, N.C., Brian (Tracy) Reincke of Fort Wayne, Scott (Brandy) Reincke of Warsaw, Ind., Joe Reincke and Emma Reincke, both of Fort Wayne; and six great-grandchildren.
Service is 10 a.m. Monday at Concordia Lutheran Church, 4245 Lake Avenue, with calling from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Lutheran Home, Concord Village Chapel, 6701 S. Anthony Blvd. Burial in Concordia Cemetery Gardens. Memorials to Lutheran Home, 6701 S. Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne, Ind., 46816 or Concordia Lutheran Church, 4245 Lake Avenue, Fort Wayne, Ind., 46815. Arrangements by D.O. McComb & Sons Maplewood Park Funeral Home, 4017 Maplecrest Road.
Newspaper: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
Submitters Name: Ida Maack Recu







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