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PAGE 20 SATIRDAY, DECEMBER lo. 1945 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR Henr F. iermann Dual Rites Set Rolleigh Neel Dies Mrs. Charles A. Bradley I 1 a Braillal' U'rlA wno Henry Carlisle Recluse, Burned In Bed Fire, Injuries Fatal To B.

I Benedict Mm Re -ah J. Bradley, tor Wrerk ictims In etl'ielcl Home had operated a used clothing Dies On ay To Hospital Word has been received here of the death Dec 6 of Henry F. Niermann, 82 years old, former Indianapolis resident, in his home storeJ5 years, died Tuesday in North Senate her home. 1140 Double funeral services and Rotleigh Neel, 59 years old. for- nerly stationed for 20 year, at Tungate, 27 ears old, 1014 South vnrfnii, Fort Bei.jam:n Harrison, died Artist, Dies Teacher-Author a Manual Graduate An 86-year-old invalid, William H.

Smith, died en route to St. Avenue. at Manitou Springs, Col. Funeral Funeral services for Bayard F. Benedict, R.

3, Box 163-W, Drexel Gardens, who died Thursday in City Hopital of injuries of a resident years, was had lived, with her for seven years and had been confined to his room for five years because of Illness. A native of England. Mr. Smith came to the Inited States when esterday in his home at West- I services were held Dec. 8 at Manitou Springs.

Mrs. Margaret Mrs. Bradley. Indianapolis 29 member of Metropolitan a p-tist Church, the Old Settlers' Francis Hospital yesterday after he had suffered critical burns when the ashes of his pipe set fire to a bed to which he was confined in the home of a niece, Mrs. Blanche Howard, 3720 West suffered Monday when he uas struck by an automobile, will be Mr.

Niermann, a native of Ger field. Mr. Neel. a native of Davis County, Kentucky, served in the many, came to Indianapolis 60 years ago and lived here until held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in the West Side Gospel Tab who were killed Thursday when an automobile in which they we.e riding was struck by a train near Pendleton. Services will be at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Farley Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery'. Army 30 years until his discharge Club. Federa- in Ifttfi H. mmm mem Iter of tion of Colored 1911, when he went to Spiing. During his he was 2 years old.

He had lived in Indianapolis the last 10 years and formerly was employed in steel mills in Terre Haute and St. Louis, Mo. Funeral services will be held! at 10 o'clock Monday morning in 3oth Street. The blaze wa discovered by George W. Howard, husband of the niece, who extinguished the Manitou rnai- ''he Rev.

Thomas Paino. e-id-n'e fu'r. officiate. Burial will "loral Park Cemetery. I Mr.

Benedict, an employe of the Women's Clubs Lodge No. 919 F. A A. at Fort Kno. Kentucky.

Funeral services will be held at Phyllis Wheat-ley Branch of Y. W. C. A. Word of the death In New York City of Henry W.

Carlisle, 62 year old, a native and former resident of Indianapolis, has been received here from the Associated Press. Mr. Carlisle was a graduate of Emmerich Manual Training High School, where he worked on the old Mirror, Manual newspaper. After leaving Indianapolis In the early 1900s he became a high school physics teacher and later i the Conkle Funeral Home. Bur ial will be in Terre Haute.

10 o'clock Monday morning in the and Independ- here he operated a grocery store in the 1000 block of North Illinois Street and was a member of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church and later the First Baptist Church. Survivor! include a daughter, Mrs. Karl J. Thompson of Mani rv store rmi. Royster A- Askin Mortuary, 1902 ent Orfffr of St Indianapolis Bleaching Company, was on his way to work Monday when he was struck at Blake and Washington streets and hurled into the path of a streetcar.

A native of New York state, he had lived in Indianapolis 25 years. S'. Mark No. 1. Funeral ser- James Crag In in flames and summoned aid.

Dr. Bernard W. Cohen, deputy coroner, said he will conduct an investigation to determine whether the victim died of burns or suffered a stroke before the fire. Mrs. Howard said Mr.

Smith Claude O. Harding Claude O. Harding, 71 years old, a retired interior decorator, died yesterday in his home, 2624 tou SoiinKs: four nephews, Ed Survivors are four daughters. ward W. Niermann, William North Meridian Street, and burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery-Survivors are the widow, Mrs.

Valda Neel; the mother, Mrs Betty Neel of Louisville, a brother. Everett Neel, and sister, Miss Edna Neel. both of Louisville, and step-daughter, Mrs. Arthur Vincel of Indianapolis. Mrs.

Ruth Netlrour, Mrs. Esther James Croghan, 70 years old, 4337 English Avenue, formerly a yard engineer 45 years for the Mrs. Lillian McCee Mrs. Lillian A. McCee.

73 years old, who had lived here more than 50 years, died yesterday in her home, 517 East 19th Street. Mrs. McGee formerly lived taT Hendricks County, was a men, be? of the Baptist Church and was the widow of Craig McGee. Funeral and burial arrangements have not been completed. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.

Geraldine Curran of Indianapolis; two sons, Hobart G. McGee of Niermann, William F. Niermann Ices will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Metropolitan Baptist Church, 408 West 13th Street, and burial will be In Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors are the husband, Charles A. Bradley; th mother, Mrs.

Caroline Johnson; two sis- and Henry Schroeder, all of Indi- Coker, Miss Mary Benedict and Miss Naomi Benedict, all of Indianapolis; three sons, Sgt. Her Pennsylvania Railroad, died yes- anapolis a niece, Mrs. i.nrist wrote special articles and drew magazine illustrations. He worked pn the New York Sun before he joined the Guaranty Trust Company o' New York In 1917. He -as manager of the publicity and advertising department of the Guaranty Trust for many years.

Ouebe of Indianapolis; a brother bert Benedict, stationed at San Fireman 1c How- and two sisters in uermany aria Francisco, Cal. terday in Methodist Hospital. Mr. Croghan, who retired In 1942, was a watchman a year for Mrs. Ella iters, Mrs.

Hattie Lyman of Indi- East 18th Street. two grandchildren. ard Benedict, serving on Guam, dianapolis: a sister. Tinder of rani-ill- Mr. Harding, a native of Boone, (h schwitzer-Cummins Company a brother, anapons ana iune ri, I and Delbert Benedict of Indian Otis Harris ot Inrtikniinnlis mil Seattle.

and a brother, Dr. California and Clay McGee of In- 1 three grandchildren. William Cantrell of Chicago. a watchman for Public School No. apolls, and two brothers.

William Mrs. SojthrntlKI I. Offer Benedict and Clint Benedict, both Mrs. Sophronia Coffer, 69 years ot old, 1126 Cornell Avenue, a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, died Thursday. A native of Columbus, she was a mom- Mrs.

Hedtcig Mieth Mrs. Hedwig Mieih, f2 years bid, died Wednesday in the home her daughter, Mrs. Alva Buen-ftig. 5145 Guilford Avenue. Funeral services will be held Bt 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in 4fie Jordan Funeral Home with jhe Rev.

F. R. Daries officiating lived here more than 65 years and had been a member of Hill-si de Christian Church 30 yeai.s until he transferred to Centenary hrit-tian Church. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 :30 Mrs. Uiy Mrs.

Daisy Mae Clay, 56 years old, 1347 South Sheffield Avenue, died yesterday in City Hospital. Mrs. Clay was born in Hendricks 82. He was born at Bradford, Dec. 8, 1875, and came to Indianapolis in 1888.

Funeral servires will be held at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning in Grinsteiner's Funeral Home and at 9 o'clock in Holy Cross Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Lillian Croghan; a son, James Croghan of Springfield, and a sister, Mrs. Mary O'Donnell of Indianapolis.

ber of the Tabernacle Society of St. Rita's V. .1 atholic Church! i of her life. Saving Club Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o'clock Monday morning in the Farley Funeral mnd burial will be in Washington I'm Cemetery. Mrs.

Mieth was born in Germany and came here In 1904. She at one time was employed by the Merchants National Bank. Survivors besides Mrs. Buening mre three sons, Max Mieth, Au o'clock Monday afternoon In Shirley Brothers' Irving Hill Chapel by the Rev. Herbert J.

Wilson, pastor of Hillside Church. Burial will be in Prayer will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in King King Funeral Home' and mass will be read at 9 o'clock Monday morn- Home by the Rev. A. B. Clark, pastor of West Morris Street Christian Church.

Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Survivors are the husband. Clarence Clay; two sons, Albert Clay and Forrest Clay; a sister, Mrs. Minda Jaynes, and two brothers, Joseph Lockhart and Eddie Lockhart, all of ing In St. Rita's Catholic Church.

B'irlal will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. i gust Mieth and Robert Mieth, all of Indianapolis; two other daughters, Mrs. George Christian and Mrs. Martha Vaughn, both of Indianapolis; a brother, Robert Koeper of Tipton, and four sisters, Mrs. Mm-tha Schaucr and Sirs.

Marie Franzmann, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Henry Jandseadel and Mrs. Helen House both of Tipton. Mernorial Park Cemetery. jilrvivors are the widow, Mrs.

I.ona R. Harding; three daughters, Mrs. Margery DeShong and Miss Martha Harding, both of Indinnnpolis, and Mrs. Bernlre Winkler of Cleveland, a brother, William Harding of 111., and sister, Mrs. Anna Fulwider of Rockville, and four grandchildin.

Mrs. Settle S. It agnner Mrs. Nettie S. Wagoner, 79 years old, died yesterday in the home of her da'j'hter, Mrs.

Vergil L. Jones, 4619 Broadway, after an illness of two years. Mrs. Wagoner was born In Sidney, came here In 1901 and was a member of living! on Presbyterian Church and women' organizations of church. Her husband, Charles E.

Wagoner, 1 I VHsjftF'" aw Lsssm asm bsB ssssssssLflK Mp ssssssssssssflssssssflsssU Survivors are a son, Sylvester Coffer; two daughters, Mrs. Florence Grigsby and Mrs. Frances Thompson; a brother, Alex Farmer; a sister, Mrs. Rosa Johnson, hII of Indianapolis; 12 grandchildren and two Mother's Liffle Helper Noons- 1 0:30 to 2.15 Evninrji 1:30 to 7:30 Coied Sundayt died eight yenrs ago. Kune' al arrangements have not been completed.

Survivors besides Mrs. Jones are three sons, Fred E. Wagoner and Clifford Wagoner, both of Indianapolis, and Edward S. Wagoner of Norfolk, and another daughter, Mrs. Joe W.

York of Indianapolis. Wo; Ordtrt Carmtully A REAL CARPET SWEEPER For Kiddies Oliver J. ri Jr. Funeral services for Oliver J. North 45 years old, a former resident of Indianapolis, were held here recently In Moore Mortuaries Peace Chapel.

He died Dec. 6 at Ixiuisville, where he worked four years for an accounting firm. Hetty jane llrisette Funeral services for Betty Jnne Briscoe, 14 years old, 2460 Ethel Street, who died Wednesday in City Hospital, will be conducted ot 10 o'clock this morning in 25th Street Baptist Church by the Rev. J. B.

Carter, pastor. Hurial will be in New Crown Cemetery. Betty Jnne was a member of the 25lh Stteet Church and an active member of the Junior Ushers, Children's Band, Flower Circle and Baptist Youth Cnion of the church. She attended School No. 87.

Survivors are the patents, Mr. nnd Mrs Chrystal Briscoe, four sisters and three brothers, all of Indinnapnlis. Another Saturday and a Buty One The stores will be crowded and so will the downtown restaurants. Whether at gift -shopping or looking for a place to rat you'll surely not have It all to yourself. In the unusual "rush" which prevails everywhere this holiday season let's nil be patient and considerate of others.

ALL METAL WITH REVOLVING BRUSH Mrs. Matlie SuUtm Mrs. Mattie Sutton of Greenwood, 79 years old, widow of Cornelius E. Sutton, died Thursday In her home. A lifelong resident of Johnson County, Mrs.

Sutton was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church. Survivors are two sons, I. H. Sutton and William Sutton, both of Greenwood; two daughters, Mrs.

Charles Royse of Edinhurg and Mrs. Livy Plummer of Greenwood; a brother, two half-sisters and nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. M.25 Mr. North, a native of Indianapolis, attended Emmerich Manual Training High School and scved overseas 19 months in World War Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dale North of Louisville; two daughters, Mrs.

Mary Harris and Miss Anna North, both of Louisville; his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. George Con-beer, 214 North Jefferson Avenue; a sister, Mrs. Harry G. Wolf of Indianapolis; the father, Oliver J.

North Sr. of Los Angeles, a niece and two nephews. PRESCRIPTIONS Otar tin.ll ornptelrlr atlirknl lf rrlptlun lrari turnt HAAS'S ALL-NIGHT DRUG STORE Unit and Meridian His. Shown On Our fomom 4th Floor CHARLES MAYER CO. 29 W.

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l. lnkn ,1... 1 Vtr Church, who in turn presented it to Charles H. Carr. scoutmaster.

Presentations took pli day night during a dinner celebration in the church. THREE VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II. who will accompany John Stelle. national commander of the American Legion, to Washington Monday as advisers when he testifies at a congressional hearing on universal military consci iption are 'left to right) Martin Buckner of Flms, John Moran of Providence, R.I.; Mr. Stelle and Edward Bums of Fargo, N.D.

The veterans, each of whom accompanied a member of the executive committee of the Legion as consultants in Its meeting here this week, were elected by their own group to accompany Mr. Stelle. SIIA'ER STAR AM) BRONZE STAR Medals posthumously awarded to her husband, Sgt. John W. Early, are pinned on Mrs.

Joan Early by Col. Edward L. Strohbehn (top. post commander at Fort Benjamin Harrison, yesterday at the fort. Mrs.

Early resides at 1710 East Ohio Street. A paratrooper. Sgt. Early was killed at Dasburg, Germany, last February. Bottom The Bronze Star Medal posthumously awarded to Lt.

James W. Wells was given to Mrs. Camilla F. Wells, his widow, 4816 Broadw ay. by Capt.

W. A. McKinzie ot Fort Benjamin Harrison. Lt. Wells was a tank commander with the Fourth Armored Division.

Third Army. He was killed in South Germany. Taaa. aVsSSsI Kk9bsVbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI MONKEY BUUsW at work. "Sally," a small pet monkey belonging to Pvt.

William Holmes. 1450 Hiatt Street, was back home yesterday after being A.W.O.L. and object of police search. She era found under eve of roof at home of Ernest Walton. 515 South Harding Street.

Here she is about to peck oert a complete report on adveolura. OT HONOR was presented ORDER OF THE CHEVALIER OF FRENCH LE4WON national commanders of the American Legion, in recognition to four past America in two World wars, at a meeting of the committee of the Lrnn national headquarters here. Jean-Joseph Viala (right) Stan al of France at BOYS' CIA BS OF AMERICA NATIONAL LEAD ESS and directors of individual clubs In Indiana and Ohio convened in the Hotel Severin yesterday for a wo-day conference) to discuss the organ. -smtion'a 1946 program. Shoara checking the conference agenda are left to right: David W.

Arm-strong of New York, national director of the organizatint Frank M. Cox president of the Boys Q6 Association of Indjanapoijs, and Harry G. Gorman, abactor of Indianapolis Boys Clua. terday im caro. Pre-of Toes, tocktoa.

Milo J. V. sented the medal to (left to right) Warren At he rt on of Ly U. Starr. ba-gh of Fargo, NJ2, aod Roan Wafroi ot iirfiipi.ii, i ens..

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