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Cincinnati Daily Gazette 1877-10-26
Smith- At Winamac Ind. October 24, 1877, Laura only child of Wm. H. and C.A. Smith died.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of I.E. Reese, No. 568 West Seventh Street, at 2 o'clock p.m. Friday, October 26th.

Idaho Falls Times 1897-02-04
Died at her Mother's Funeral
Mrs. Belle Elliott, of Winamac, Ind. died in a carriage which had just reached her home after bearing her to her mother's funeral.

Indianapolis Sentinel 1880-04-30
Death of a Prominent Man
Winamac Ind. April 29 Martin Seely, one of the commissioners of this county, died here this morning of erysipelas. Mr. Seely was a good citizen, a man of sound and mature judgment, and a very efficient member of the board, and by his death the people have lost a good and honest public servant.

Dallas Morning News 1974-08-30
Miss Mary Hanson
Funeral services for Miss Mary M. Hanson, 54, of 49830 W. Northwest Highway, owner and president of Bloklok, of Texas, Inc. will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Fry and Lang funeral Chapel, Winamac, Ind. burial will be in Winamac.
She died Tuesday in a Sarasota Florida Hospital.
Miss Hanson started Bloklok, 27 years ago in Chicago, and later established branch farms in Dallas and Toronto, Canada. The company manufactured masonry wall reinforcement materials. Survivors include two brothers and one sister.

Aberdeen Daily News 1903-11-30
Four persons die from eating canned fish
Winamac Ind. Nov 30 Frank Miller, his wife, his brother Joseph, and his father-in-law, John Johns, have been poisoned by eating sardines.
On last Friday the family ate sardines put up in mustard and vinegar. shortly afterward all became violently ill. Jacob and Frank died on Tuesday, while Mrs. Miller and her father died Friday.
As yet it is not known what caused the poisoning but it is said that the can showed evidence of having been opened before it reached the Miller house.

Dallas Morning News 1965-10-21
Dying Man Names His Slayer, But Neighbor Forgets
WINAMAC, Ind. (AP)-A man shot twice in his home managed to reach the telephone and tell a neighbor woman the name of the person who shot him. Then he collapsed and died.
The neighbor called police.
"And then," said Sheriff Wayne H. Koepkey Wednesday, "the neighbor couldn't remember the name of the killer. She's still trying."
The victim was Charles Jeffries, 53, described in his home town of Monterey near here as "a well liked handyman with no enemies." Ha was reputed to have carried considerable sums of money,
Jeffries was shot twice in the back Tuesday night.
The sheriff withheld the name of the neighbor who can't remember what Jeffries told, her, Monterey is about 50 miles southwest of South Bend, Ind.

Dallas Morning News 1967-10-12
Sheriff Killed During Escape
WINAMAC, Ind, (UPI) - A county jail prisoner jerked out a smuggled gun Wednesday, fatally shot a sheriff and fled after dragging the dying officer into a cell and locking it.
Sheriff Milo Lewis, 50, died in Memorial Hospital less than four hours after he was shot three times by Arthur Lewis, 29, Gary, Ind., an accused tavern bandit who had been put in the Pulaski County Jail because authorities thought it was strong enough to hold him.
Police who established roadblocks throughout a broad upstate area found the stolen getaway car abandoned at the junction of two main highways, U.S. 30 and U.S. 421, at Wanatah about 55 miles north of Winamac.
Police believed the fleeing prisoner was hidden in a nearby cornfield,

Indianapolis Sentinel 1882-02-16
A Winamac Horror
A young man of this city recently made a stay for a few days at Winamac, and tells the following horrible smallpox story. He says that several days before he came to the town a man having smallpox, arrived. The good citizens of that burg took him to the fair grounds, laid him on a pile of straw in a stall, where he received no attention, and finally died. A kind hearted citizen dug a shallow hole a few rods away and threw a running noose around the man's feet, dragged him into the hole and covered him with a few shovelfuls of dirt, not enough however for the hogs rooted him up and devoured him. This shameful act took place in Christian Indiana. it is too horrible to think of.
Indianapolis Star, October 25, 1955
Appointment of Owen A. Paul, 202 East 32d Street, as executive-secretary of Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission, was announced yesterday by Mayor Alex M. Clark. Several months ago, John W. Walls resigned as executive-secretary to accept a post with the State Tax Survey Commission. Paul, a native of Winamac, since July, 1951, has been manager of the planning department of Farm Bureau Insurance Companies. Prior to that he was employed in the business methods development section at Western Electric here. From March, 1942, until October 1945, he served with the Army. The new secretary was graduated from Butler University with a B. S. degree and earned his M. B. A. at Indiana University. He is a member of the Society for Advancement of Management, the Systems and Procedures Association, Reserve Officers' Association and the Presbyterian Church. Paul is married and has one child. He will assume his new duties Now..
 
Owen A. Paul, MBA '49, a faculty member at Indiana-Purdue at Indianapolis, died April 27. He taught industrial supervision and management and was also a consultant for the Indianapolis Airport Authority, Westinghouse Airbrake Co., Amos Plastics, and several other concerns. The Society for the Advancement of Management of which he was national and international president, named him an outstanding educator in 1972. An army captain in World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and a presidential citation by former President Eisenhower for his service in Europe. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge. A member of the Society for Training and Development, he also belonged to the Indianapolis Scientific and Engineering Foundation. (source: Indiana Alumni Magazine, V. 41, #10, July/August 1979, pg. 40)
 
Owen A. Paul, a faculty member of Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, died April 27, 1979, in Indianapolis. Mr. Paul was a supervisor and management consultant for the Indianapolis Airport Authority, Delta Faucet, Electra Company, Amos Plastics, Westinghouse Airbrake Company, and Midstate Communications. He was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management, of which he had been national and international president. During World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and a Presidential Citation. Mr. Paul was an honorary Kentucky Colonel and Sagamore of the Wabash. He is survived by his wife Mary, and a daughter, M. Annablle.
(source: Butler Alumni Magazine, V. 11 #1, June 1979, pg. 6) (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
 
Owen A. Paul 1920-1979
Services for Owen A. Paul, a faculty member of Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, will be Monday at 10 a.m. in Flanner & Buchanan Broad Kipple Mortuary. He was 58. Prof. Paul, who taught industrial supervision and management at IPI, died yesterday in his home. He was also a supervision and management consultant for the Indianapolis Airport Authority, Delta Faucet, Electra Co., Amos Plastics, Westinghouse Airbrake Co. and Midstate Communications. Paul was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management, of which he was national and international president. He was also a vice president of its Region II and served on its international board of directors. The society named him "Outstanding Educator of America" in 1972. He held a bachelor of science degree in education from Butler University and a master's degree in business administration from Indiana University. An Army captain in World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and a Presidential Citation from former President Eisenhower for his service in Europe. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Society for Training and Development and the Indianapolis Scientific and Engineering Foundation. He was an honorary Kentucky Colonel and Sagamore of the Wabash. Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart Fund.
Survivors - wife Mary, daughter Annabelle, sisters Esther Cummings, Evelyn Stangle, Nellie Jo Kerr, brothers Arthur, Lester.
Indianapolis News, pg. 51, 4 (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)

MRS. NANCY LUDEMAN
Mrs. Nancy Ludeman, 70, resident 6 miles northwest of Francesville. died of pneumonia Friday of last week at the Jasper County hospital, where she had been confined a week. She was born In Benson, Ill. and was married to Henry Ludeman. who died several years ago. She had lived in the community since 1918. Surviving are seven sons: Emil,  Secor, Ill.; John. Benson, III.: Henry, Jr., Gary; Harmon, Waldo, Randolph and Frank, all at home: a daughter. Mrs. Carl Rockwell, near Franvesville; and a brother; John Boers of Cacenovia, Ill. Services were held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. from the residence, burial in the Rose Lawn cemetery.
Monon, Indiana Friday November 14, 1941





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