The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 26

JANUARY 27, 1957 SECTION 1 26 THE COURIER -JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY MORNING. Former Aquatic Champion Here Is Dead Heart Attack In Florida Fatal To Alvin Hertle Alvin James Hertle, 55, a swimming and diving champion from 1916 to 1924, died of hereart attack at 9 a.m. yesterday in Hollywood, Fla. Hertle was a Navy swimming instructor at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, during World War II.

He was in charge of what was then the largest swimming pool in the world and also was assistant coach of the Great Lakes swimming team. Hertle won titles as Kentucky state swimming and diving champion, and during the war he taught sailors to survive in water under emergency conditions. Had Business In Chicago Hertle left Louisville in 1929 to go into business in Chicago. He volunteered for Navy duty 111 1943, and became athletic director of the Idlewild Country Club in the Chicago area after World War II. He spent the winters in Florida.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen D. Hertle, and a sister, Mrs. Claude Fischer. The body will arrive at PearFuneral Home, 1310 S.

Third, tomorrow. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Pearson's. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, WHAYNE S. WISNER Whayne S.

Wisner, 53, of 1318 Bardstown Road, died of peritonitis at 6:45 a.m. yesterday at Veterans Hospital. He was a native of Bluffton, but had lived here some 25 years. He was a clerk at Boulevard Liquor Dispensary and an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Eva Wisner; three sons, Marine Pvt. Robert C. Wisner, Camp Lejeune, N. Navy Fire Control Technician Third Class Fred L. Wisner, Bremerton, and Whayne T.

Wisner, and his mother, Mrs. Alethea B. Wisner. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Arch L.

Heady Funeral Home, 1201 E. Oak. Burial will be in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. MRS. REATHA SHERWOOD The funeral for Mrs.

Reatha D. Sherwood, who died late Friday at Norton Memorial Infirmary, will be at Lee E. Cralle Home, 1330 S. Third, at 3 p.m. today.

The body will then be taken to Scobee Funeral Home, Winchester, for burial at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Winchester Cemetery. Mrs. Sherwood, who at 115 W. Barbee, was the widow of Robert Owen Sherwood.

They U.S. NAVY Courier-Journal Photo ALVIN J. HERTLE From a 1943 photograph lived in Winchester and mouth, before coming to Louisville about 15 years ago. She was a member of Fourth Avenue Methodist Church and active in Methodist affairs. Mrs.

Sherwood is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Julia Walden, Winchester, and Mrs. Rosa B. Parrish. RICHARD GEORGE The funeral for tavern owner Richard George, 73, will be at 1 p.m.

tomorrow at Hardy Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens. George died at 11:30 p.m. Friday at his home, 3212 Street Road, For 20 veavente operated George's Tavern at the same address. He was a native of Hardin County, Survivors are his wife, Mrs.

Lydia George; a daughter, Mrs. Frances Gray: three brothers, Fred and William George, both of Elizabethtown, and Thomas two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Raeuchle, Springfield, Ohio, and Mrs. Lillie Gray, and a grandchild. HENRY BOWE The funeral for Henry Bowe, 72, of 1618 Richmond Drive, will be at 9 a.m.

Tuesday at Bosse Funeral Home, 1355 Ellison, and at 10 a.m. at St. John Catholic Church, Starlight, Ind. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Bowe, caretaker and gatekeeper for 12 years at Calvary Cemetery, died at 10:20 p.m.

Friday at St. Joseph Infirmary. WILLIAM F. SKEETERS William Floyd Skeeters, 43, Pleasure Ridge Park, died at 6:15 a.m. yesterday at SS.

Mary Elizabeth Hospital. Skeeters, a native of Vine Grove, had been ill since July. He was a truck driver 11 years for Louisville Cooperage Company. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary Gladys Skeeters; a daughter, Mrs.

Corrine, Russell; two stepsons, C. Paul F. Shircliff; three sisters, Mrs. Charlie Davis, Mrs. Claude Smith, and Mrs.

Earl a half sister, Mrs. Ed Skeeters, and two half brothers, Melton and Ernest Blankenship. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hardy Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway. MRS.

ANNA SHEPPARD The funeral for Mrs. Anna Bell Sheppard, 43, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Radcliffe Funeral Home, LaGrange. Burial will be in Valley of Rest Cemetery, LaGrange. Mrs.

Sheppard died at 5:45 p.m. Friday at her home in Middletown. She was a member of Middletown Baptist Church. Survivors are her husband, Roy Sheppard; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Watson and Mrs.

Edward Franklin, a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Lee Murray, Albuquerque, N. and two grandchildren. DEWEY V. TRIPLETT funeral for Dewey V.

Triplett, 58, of 1317 Vim Drive, will be at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway. Burial will be in St. Stephen's Cemetery. Triplett, who drove a truck for the University of Louisville 12 years, died p.m.

Friday in General Hospital. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lera Johnson Triplett; a son, Dewey V. Triplett, Clarksville; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Knopf; a brother, William Triplett, Jeffersonville, and a foster son, Fred Wells.

MRS. EMMA J. FRANK Mrs. Emma J. Frank.

71, of 1542 McKay, died at 6:25 p.m. yesterday at her home. She is survived by three sons, George Charles and Emil M. Frank; two daughters, Mrs. Anna Mae Stickler and Mrs.

Arthur Schwaniger: two sisters, Mrs. Emil Hoehler and Mrs. Henry Nissen; 11 grandchildren, and 10-grandchildren. The will be at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Bohlsen's Funeral Home, 825 Barret, and at 9 a.m.

at St. Vincent de Paul Church. Burial will be in St. Michael Cemetery. THOMAS M.

BRENNAN Thomas M. Brennan, 75, a native Louisvillian, died at 3:30 a.m. yesterday at his home in Cincinnati. Brennan retired 10 years ago after being employed 25 years by the Cincinnati Gas Electric Company. Survivors include a son, Fred J.

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at St. Anne's Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. MRS. ROSE MORRISON Mrs.

Rose Morrison, 65, of 112 S. Campbell, died at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at St. Anthony Hospital. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.

Armour McFarland; two sons, Joseph E. and John E. Morrison, and four grandchildren. The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Neurath Funeral Home.

725 E. Market. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park. MRS. FLORENCE BASSHAM Mrs.

Florence E. Bassham, 77, died of a heart attack at 12:15 p.m. yesterday at her home, 1330 Clara. A native of Louisville, she is survived by her husband. Willis L.

Bassham; four sisters, Mrs. H. W. Cook, West Milton, Ohio; Mrs. C.

A. Humm, Mrs. F. N. Duke, and Mrs.

Arthur Paul, and a brother, John Kipp. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Boulevard. BILL SNAWDER Bill Snawder, 59, of Robbs Lane near Old Shepherdsville Road, died at home at 2:50 p.m.

yesterday. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mattie Snawder: three brothers, Virgil, Raymond, and Oscar Snawder, and three sis. ters, Mrs. Clyde.

Roth, Mrs. Ruby Wheeler, and Mrs. Comodore Paulley. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at McAfee Funeral Home.

3928 Bardstown Road. Burial will be in Pennsylvania Run Cemetery. MISS MARY R. MATTINGLY The funeral for Miss Mary Rose Mattingly, 53, of 1202 Garland. will be at 9 a.m.

tomorrow at St. Augustine's Church, Jeffer- Mrs. Eliza Riordan Dies Special to The Courier -Journal Greensburg, Jan. 26. Mrs.

Eliza Bastin Riordan, 73, died at 4 p.m. yesterday at General Hospital, Louisville. Survivors include a son, Robert J. Bastin, Louisville, and a stepson, Goble Riordan, Hardyville. Funeral To Be Today Special to The Courier -Journal Elizabethtown, Jan.

The funeral for Mrs. Blanche Howard Hoskinson, wife of Cromer Hoskinson, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Lucinda B. Helm Methodist Church here. Burial will be in Elizabethtown City Cemetery.

sonville. Burial will be in St. Anthony Cemetery. A native of Jeffersonville, she died Friday night in Louisville General Hospital. She is survived by a brother, James Mattingly.

The body is at Coots' Funeral Home, Jeffersonville. Merchant At Loretto Dies at 63 Special to The Courier-Journal Lebanon, Jan. Herbert Lyon, 63, merchant and banker of Loretto, died at his home there at 11:30 a.m. today, shortly after suffering a paralytic stroke while at work at his store. Lyon, native of Loretto, owned the J.

H. Lyon Sons store there, a business founded many years ago by his father, W. H. Lyon. He had been president of the Bank of Loretto since its founding over 35 years ago, and was a member of the Holy Name Society of St.

Francis of Assisi Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mabel Cambron Lyon; six sons, Henry and Basil Lyon, Loretto merchants; the Rev. Joseph A. Lyon, pastor of St.

Mildred Church at Somerset; the Rev. George Lyon, of St. Ann Mission, Belcourt, N. brother Bryan Lyon, a missionary in India, and Raphael Lyon, Louisville; three daughters, Mrs. Grace Mattingly, St.

Mary; Mrs. Eunice Bowling, Loretto, and Mrs. Hazel Miles, Louisville; a brother, Earl Lyon, Bardstown: three sisters, Mrs. Georgia Patterson, Bardstown; Mrs. Mary Ferriell, Loretto, and Mrs.

Lila Mattingly, St. Mary. The funeral will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in St. Francis of Assisi Church, St.

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