Joseph Wingate, 72, retired farmer, died at 7:45 a.m. Friday at his home in Jackson-tp, where he was born and spent his entire life. Death followed a long illness. He is survived by a son, Carl, at home; two daughters, Mrs. M. E. Cotner of Lima and Mrs. Walter Arnold of near Lima; and five grandchildren. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge at Beaverdam. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the West Point church, near his home, with the Rev. John Horst of Lafayette officiating.

Funeral services for Milo Basinger, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Basinger, who died at the Bluffton hospital Wednesday night of appendicitis, will be held at the home Saturday at 12:30 p.m., and at the Ebenezer church at 1 p.m.. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Basinger was a freshman in Bluffton high school.

The body of Donald W. Baker, 29, of Lakewood-av, who was killed when the automobile in which he was riding left the Dixie-hy and crashed into a telephone pole three miles north of Wapakoneta Friday night, will remain at the Davis, Miller and Son chapel, it was announced Saturday night. Baker died of a broken neck and internal injuries. Funeral services will be conducted from the chapel. The Rev. Thomas Roberts will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery.

Benjamin D. Myers, lifelong resident of Allen-co, died at his home east of here on his 73rd birthday, from old age infirmities. His wife died three months ago. He leaves two sons, Jesse S and Charles E, both of Marion-tp. Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Morris Chapel church. Rev. E. C. Walley, of Elida, officiated. Interment was made in Walnut Grove cemetery.

Word has been received by relatives of the death in Indianapolis of Edmund Evans, former Gomer resident. The body was to be removed Wednesday to the home of his sister, Mrs. Ellen J. Humphreys, where funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m., conducted by Rev. C. C.A. Ryan. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Humphreys, of Columbus Grove. Burial will be in Carmen cemetery.

Funeral service for Mrs. Clara M. Roberts, who died in St. Vincent's hospital, Toledo, at 1 a.m. Tuesday, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Huffer funeral home here. A Christian Science reading will be held. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. The body will arrive at the Huffer funeral home from Toledo at 12 noon Wednesday. Mrs. Roberts who was well known in Lima as a dressmaker and tailor, had lived here all her life until three years ago, when she moved to Toledo to live with her daughter, Miss Esther Roberts. She was the widow of Will H. Roberts, a former Lima grocer. Three daughters are surviving.

 The Lima News
Mar. 13, 1931

Funeral services for Lucille May Maxine Kline, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawnee Kline, Perry-tp, who died Thursday afternoon at the home from diphtheria, were to be held at 2 p.m., Friday at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mechling, Perry-tp. The Rev. G. C. Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Fletcher cemetery. She is survived by her parents and two brothers, Lawnee Jr., and Belno, both at home.

Funeral arrangements were being made Saturday for Earl Daniel Etling, 38, world war veteran and Lima furniture merchant, who died early Friday night at his home, 567 W. Elm-st. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. He had been ill only one day, and his condition was not believed serious. He is survived by his father, D. H. Etling, and a sister, Miss Julis Etling. He was manager of the D. h. Etling furniture store. Etling enlisted in Company C, of the second Infantry regiment, Ohio National Guard, before the World war. When the national guard companies were federalized for World war service, he enlisted in Company M, of the 145th regiment, 37th Ohio Division. Later, he served overseas in Company B, of the 41st Engineers. His service in Europe extended from Feb. 25, 1918 to July 4, 1919. He was a member of William Paul Gallagher American Legion Post and the Forty and Eight society of the Legion. In 1928, he Accompanied the American Legion to its annual convention held in Paris.

William Davis, 66, farmer, ended his life late Thursday by hanging himself in a shed on his brother's farm one mile south of Spencerville. The body was discovered by his brother Charles after a search had been started when the deceased failed to come to his home, adjoining his brother's farm, for dinner. The body was found at 5 p.m. Davis had been ill for more than a year. Surviving are his widow, three sons, Paul of Okeman, Okla., Carl of Akron, and Clyde of Borger, Tex, and a daughter Julia at home. A sister and brother also survive. Funeral services have not been made.

Mrs. George (Mary) Reddersen, 33, of 1004 N. West-st, died of complications in Memorial hospital at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday following an illness of 12 days. She had been admitted in the hospital at 2 p.m. Tuesday. She was born in Allen-co and had lived all her life in the Lima district. Surviving besides her husband are one daughter, Marilyn at home, and four brothers, Riley and George Thompson, of Mt. Gilead, O., Roy Thompson of Toledo, and Tollie Thompson of Spencerville. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Davis-Miller and Son Cathedral chapel, with Rev. John Berger in charge. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. The body will remain at the mortuary.

A two-day illness ended in death early Thursday for Mrs. Margaret Alice Zimmerman, 79, widow of Henry Zimmerman, a former Lima restaurant proprietor who died 39 years ago. Mrs. Zimmerman resided with her daughter, Mrs. Carl Means, at 855 W. Marker-st and passed away at 2 p.m. Thursday. A heart attack was given as the immediate cause of death. She was born at Dayton and is survived besides Mrs. Means, by a sister, Mrs. Hattie Lenhard, Baton Rouge, La., and several nieces and nephews. She was a sister of Harry Thomas, recently deceased Lima grocer and Elmer Thomas, a member of the former Thomas and Evans Hardware firm. Rites will be from the residence of her daughter at 2 p.m. Saturday in charge of Rev. Rueben Schroer, pastor of the First Evangelical Reformed church of which she was a lifelong member. Burial in Woodlawn cemetery.