Lyman Leighty, 96, of Macomb, a retired farmer, died at 7:05 p.m. Saturday [6 Nov. 1967] at the Westfall Nursing Home in Prairie City. He had been in ill health several years and seriously ill the past eight weeks. Mr. Leighty entered the nursing home Jan. 27, 1961.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Clugston Chapel. The Rev. Cecil Swindle will officiate, and burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens.

Mr. Leighty was born June 11, 1871 near Adair to Isaac and Samantha Snowden Leighty. He moved with his family to Nebraska in early childhood. When he was seven, his father died and he returned to McDonough County where he continued to reside except for one year in Clear Lake, Minn. He moved to Macomb in 1911. He was a member of the Adair Methodist church and former member of Tri-State and Modern Woodman lodges.