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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Poga 16 Saturday, November 23, 1957; Rev. J. R. Ham Rites Tomorrow President of Ellis Truck Firm Dies British Play Writer Dies ly Aluclot.4 Prttt Services for the Rev. J.

Robert Ham, 82, former Meth DEATHS AND FUNERALS Lester Thomas, 62 Was Market Owner Lester M. Thomas, 62, former owner of the Thomas fruit market and grocery, 241 6ErNew York, died yesterday in his home, 3558 Central. oaist minister in this area, will be at 2:30 p.n tomorrow in the Main Street Methodist Services for William Stanton Ellis, president and part owner ANGMERING, England- ill 'Mi Vernon Sylvaine, 60, British of the Ellis Trucking will Church atNew Albany, with playwright whose specialty be at 10:30 a.m. Monday In Flanner Buchanan Broad burial in Fairview Cemetery there. He died there at his Ripple Mortu home Thursday, Services will be Monday at before buying the market on 1 ary.

Burial will New York. He also had been was farces, is dead here. Among his best known plays were "As Long as They're Happy" and "Aren't Men Beasts." 2:30 p.m. in the Harry W. The Rev.

Mr. Ham was at 1 be In Crown Hill a supervisor for Krogers, Moore Peace Chapel, with one time pastor of Calvary i Cemetery. Methodist Church at Moores ville. Mr. Ellis, 84, manager of A and Standard stores, and was the first operator in Indianapolis for Sylvaine formerly was an actor and once toured the Born In Kentucky, the Rev.

the Piggly Wiggly stores. died yesterday in a nursing home at Clarks Hill In Tippeca He was a member of the Mr. Ham started his ministry In 1920. He retired in 1943. United States.

Also dead: Broadway Baptist Church. burial in Wash-i Park Cemetery. Born at Ross-ville, 111., Mr. Thomas had lived in Indianapolis 57 years. A grocer for 40 years, he retired in 1955.

He operated Other places vhere the Rev, noe County. Survivors include the Mr. Ham has been pastor in A Daviess CHICAGO William Shaw, 72, head of his own public relations firm and former Mid widow, Mary; a daughter, Dorothy Markle, Monticello; a clude Rome, Troy, New Al County native, bany, West Baden, Eckerty, he was a teacher there before Son, Harry, Indianapolis; a Leavenworth, Pekin, camp- moving to Indianapolis in 1906, brother, G. A. Thomas, Union City; four grandchildren bellsburg, Brooksbure and He worked in the circulation French Lick.

department of The News be a store at 25th and Talbot and five great-grandchildren. Survivors are the widow, fore forming the trucking company. Ida Goldsborough eight children, 16 grandchild ren and 13 great-grandchil Surviving are two sons, Fay Rites Monday west newspaperman. MIAMI, Fla. Keith Kig-gins, 61, vice-president of the Storer Broadcasting Co.

He was a former vice-president of the National Broadcasting Co. and American Broadcasting Co. MOSCOW Vladimir Shish-marev, 84, Soviet philologist, winner of the Lenin prize and member of the Academy of Sciences. NEW ORLEANS Walter J. and Don, both of Indianapolis; two sisters, Ella Akers, Indian dren.

Three of the children live in Indianapolis. They are Services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. in Shirley Brothers i 1 I apolis, and Lottie Weddle, Colfax, and three grandchildren. Laura Brooks Gil Hodges' Father Is Dead al Petersburg Ipttlol to Tht Niwi PETERSBURG, Ind. Charles Hodges, 57-year-old father of Los Angeles Services for Laura Brooks i will be at 1 1.

a.m. Monday in Robert Elmer H. and J. Marrell Ham. i Fred Graves Services for Fred Graves, who died yesterday in his home at Carmel, will be tomorrow at 1:30 p.m'.

In the Smith Funeral Home there. Burial will be in Carmel Cemetery. Mr. Graves, 78, had lived Central Chapel for Ida M. Goldsborough, 83, 428 S.

Keystone. She died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Mrs. Goldsborough wa born at Wirt and lived here 60 years.

Coquille, 71, the happy mayor the Bethel AME Church, where she was the oldest active member. Burial will be KM of "Bayou Pom-Pom" in the Cajun world of make believe. in Floral Park Cemetery. He was an author, speaker and humorist. Bavou Pom- Mrs.

Brooks, 89, lived at 2328 Martindale. She died Pom existed only in Coquille's Survivors are a daughter. Dodger First Basemaa-ii- imagination, but through the Thursday in General Hospital. most of his life in the Carmel area. Surviving are the husband, years many regarded it as a Utopia where only happy per Surviving are the widow, Herman Hoglebogle.

The boys, Dean House (left) and Patrolman Billy Lee, won Herman's monthly award for their work in traffic safety. The News Photo Dean John Brooks; a daughter, Myrle McNary, Detroit; a sons lived. Good Show, Fellows Two members of the safety patrol at School 45, 2301 Park, receive congratulations from Sgt. Ceorge Thompson -of the police safety division and Rose; two sons, Jack and Rob Mrs. James V.

Hanna, and two sons, George and Harold, Indianapolis; a sister, Mabel Tarkington, Nebraska, and two brothers, Vera and Gene Golay, Nebraska; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Hodges, died in his Petersburg home last night. A miner, Mr. Hodges was Injured October 1 In a rock fall at the coal mine In which he was working. A member of the family said Mr.

Hodges WHITCHURCH, England- ert, Carmel; a brother, Ralph, Massillon, four grandchil brother, Nathaniel Tustle, Terre Haute; three grandchildren and nine Sir Kenneth Crossley, 80, one dren and three great-grand of Britain's pioneers in the children. automobile industry. 'j did not die of injuries suf fered in the accident. Born at Princeton, he had lived at Petersburg many years. Hodges' son, Gil, has been a member of the Dodgers 10 years.

Other survivors include the widow, Irene; another son, Robert of Evansville, a former semipro baseball pitcher, and a daughter, Marjorie Maysent, Philadelphia, Pa. it i t- And -f 1 Arrangements are being made at Hams Funeral Home here. me FLORA Carl Cowing, 71. i I Survivors include a sister, Dor othy Moore, of Indianapolis. FRANCESVILLE Gertrude Myers, 90, former resident, is dead at Lakeland, Fla.

Rites 10 a.m. Monday in St. Francis Catholic Church. Survivors in clude a sister, Adeline Judkins, of Indianapolis. Henry C.

Woodard Services for Henry C. Woodard, 72, will bj Monday at 2 p.m. in the North Indi anapolis First Baptist Church, with burial in New Crown Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow afternoon at the Patton Fu neral Home. Mr.

Woodard died yester day in his home, 861 Edge-mont. He worked at the Link- Belt Co. until he retired in 1954. Surviving are the widow, Anna; three sons, Andrew, James and Earl, Indianapolis, and two stepsons, John Law rence, Indianapolis, and Gen- bral Lawrence, Detroit. Antonine Liebling IMMEDIATELY.

a News' Photographer wason-the-spot to fecord MrsrlncitanaV operation "face lift" 284 feet above the street. With a staff of 13 regular News' photographers snapping pictures every day, you naturally get more coverage of local events as they happen. When you read The News you read complete coverage of national news-stories too. Only The News brings you evening reports from all three wire services, UP, AP, INS plus AP Wirephoto. Antonine Liebling, 84, a re tired French teacher, will be buried tomorrow in the Indianapolis Hebrew Cemetery auer services at wav a.m.

in the Aaron-Ruben 7uneral Home. x- I il Z4i-4 I 1 4t I i A II 1 li "-'-1 I I x- -i II 5 I M' it. tS i Iff She died yesterday in her home, 3516 Central, after a long illness. Miss Liebling came to the United States from Belgium in 1905. She taught in Cincinnati before moving to Indianapolis In 1949.

Max Gamp Services for Max Gamp, 76, 318 Bicking, will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Speaks and Finn Funeral Home. Cremation will follow. Mr. Gamp, a native of Baden Baden, Germany, died yesterday in Veterans Admin It's no wonder thousands of families know The BIG is a BIG paper every evening.

istration Hospital on West 10th. He was a house detective at the Washington Hotel until his retirement five years ago. The widow, Mary, survives. Nettie Rude Services for Nettie A. Rude, 61, will be at 10 a.m.

Monday in the Dorsey Funeral Home, with burial in New Crown Cemetery. She lived at 4253 Sunset Ave. She died Thursday in General Hospital. She was a member of the Queen Esther Chapter of Eastern Star. I' ll 'F' THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS I IS tHi i m4 Distillery Head Dies CINCINNATI (AP) Robert H.

Nanz, 72, of Lawrenceburg, former vice-president and general manager of the Schen-ley Distillery there, died here early today in Good Samaritan Hospital. He had been a pa-tient in the hospital two weeks. r.i JJ TS a. i-1- i Ti -i "i Ti tn.e.