Obituaries
Last Names starting with B
Mrs Jennie Bascom,
widow of the late Rev. Naaman Bascom, passed away at her home in
Vandalia Sunday Evening. She will be remembered by the older people of
Kinmundy. Her husband havinng been pastor of the Methodist Church
there at one time, and in later years a guet often times in the home of
Mr/Mrs F. O. Grissom, Mrs. Grissom being her neice. Mrs Bascom
would have been 89 yrs. old on wk from the time of her death. (no
date)
A telegram to the Boggs Funeral Home from Jacksonville, FL. this
morning announced the death of Mrs. Omar Burge which
occurred there on Mon. Evening. The remains will arrive in
Centralia at 1 AM Fri. and will be taken to the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held at the Romine Presbyterian Church Fri.
afternoon with Dr. R.W. McChesney of cedarvill, Ohio officiating.
Mrs. Burge was, before her marriage, Miss Elma McLaughlin, daughter
of Mr./Mrs Joseph McLaughlin of Raccoon Township. She was born
March 7, 1894 and was educated as a teacher, 4 years of her teaching
beig in the schools of Centralia........ (no date)
Arthur F.
Brubaker 61, died Monday morning at 1 AM at the Salem Community
Hospital where he had been a patient for the last month. The body
was taken to the McMackin & Son Funeral Home where it remained
until Tuesday when services were conducted from the Summit Prairie
Baptist Church in Stevenson Township. Rev. joh Hamerson, past of
the New Bethel Presbyterian Church officiated at the servicies and
interment was made in the cemetery near the church. Mr Brubaker
was born in Stevenson Township were he lived until moving to
Salem 15 yrs ago. He was a son of Noah and Catherine Hite
Brubaker.......(Nov. 27,1933)