Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 5

OBITUARIES Cecil Conklin; retired farmer Cecil Conklin, 75, of Hook Xenia 2, died Sunday morning at Naples Community Hospital, Naples, Fla, A well- farmer here, he had lived at 54 Mango Naples, sin.ce November. Mr. was born near Nesv Jasper March 1, 1898, the son of Clyde and Grace Ireland Conklin, and spent most of his life here. He was a. charter member of the Greene County Planning Commission, serving from 1951 until, illness forced his resignation last year.

He was a member of Greene County Farm Bureau, Greene County Farm CECIL CONKLIN Forum, Jasper i Methodist Church, Xenia Lodge 49, FAM, Xenia Chapter RAM; Wright Council 96, KSM; Nathaniel Greene Com- mandery No. 81, Knights Templar; Aldora Chapler 262, Order of Eastern Star and was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Scottish Rite of Dayton. 'He is survived by his widow, the former Elsie Stingley whom he married in September, 1918; a son, Roger Conklin of Cincinnati and two grandsons, Brian and i Conklin of Cincinnati. Services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at Neeld Funeral Home, 106 W.

Market where visitation will be 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. Masonic services will be conducted at 8:45 p.m. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery. James Zornes After a year's illness, James Rupert Zornes, 54, of 1004 Omard died shortly before 1 a.m.

Sunday in Greene Memorial Hospital, where he had been the last four weeks. Mr. Zornes, son of Americus and Minnie Coburn Zornes, was bora Jan. 30, 1919, at Portsmouth, but came to Xenia from Dayton in 19S6. A punch press operator at Delco Products Division.of the a Corp.

2 6 years, and a member of Delco's 25-Year Club, he was an Air Corps veteran of World War il, when he served in Brazil. include his widow, the former Mary Lucill Greenhill, whom he married May 27, 1949, in Portsmouth; his mother, now a Dayton resident; Mrs. David (Carol) Fleming of Xenia; four sons, Sgl. Randall tomes of the Marine Corps stationed at Camp LeJeune, N. and Richard, Larry and Jeffrey, at home; a half-sister, Mrs.

Marie Eaton of Wheelersburg, and two grandchildren. Visitation will be 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday and funeral services at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at McColaugh Funeral Home, N. Detroit St.

Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wright Patterson AF Base 24 years, he was a veteran of World War II and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Xenia. Survivors include his widow, June; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Conway of Fairborh and Mrs. Carrie Tinch of Sunbright, two sons, William E.

Spencer Jr. of Santa Paula, and Bryon, at home; a stepdaughter, Mrs. a a Beech of California; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Bittner of Yellow i one brother, Spencer of Xenia; five grandchildren and three stepgrand- children. Service arrangements, in charge of Morris Sons Funeral! Home, Fairborn, are incomplete.

Mrs. Blanche Hedges of Indianapolis and Mrs. Ralph Wright of Richmond, and six grandchildren. The Rev. B.

C. Palmer of Cedarville will conduct services at 2 p.m. Thursday in McColaugh Funeral Home, 826 N. Detroit where visitation is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday.

Burial will be in Willow View Cemetery, Dayton. Mrs. Ora Clanss Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Tobias Funeral Home, 648 Watervliet Dayton, for Ora Grace 85, of 205 Colony Port Richey, who died Friday. Mrs.

Clauss, a former Day- ten resident, was the stepmother of Mrs. Dorothy Jones of Xenia. the funeral home was to be 3-S and 7-9 p.m. today. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

William Beets Jr. William Beels Jr. died Saturday at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was the son of former Xe- nian Mrs.

Ruth McClelland Beets of Ft. Lauderdale a William Beets Sr. of Hillsboro, Survivors include his widow; his parents; two sons; a sister, Julie; Mrs. Edna grandmothers, McClelland of Xenia and Mrs. Elva Greenfield of Hillsbwo, and -two aunts.

Services will be conducted Tuesday in Jordan a Home, S110 N. Federal Ft. Lauderdale. at the Universal Rubyville. Cemetery, David Hopkins David Eugene Hopkins, 11- year-old son of Mr.

a Oscar Hopkins 924 Omard died Sunday at 7 a.m. at Children's Medical Center, Dayton. He had bscn a patient there two months. A fifth grade student at Cox Elementary School, David was born at Circleville Nov. 21, 1961 to Oscar and Mary Parsons Hopkins.

He was a member of the" Knollwood Church of God. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Michael Hopkins, at home; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Parsons of Circleville; paternal grandparents, Mr. a Mrs. Oscar Hopkins of Fairborn and Mr.

and Mrs. a Nixon of Kingston, 0., and paternal great grandmother, Mrs, Rosa Howard of Portsmouth. The Rev. L. E.

Painter will officiate at services Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Knollwood Church of'God. Interment will be in Valley View Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 7-9 tonight at McColaugh Funeral Home, 826 N. Detroit St.

Memorial contributions may be made (6 Children's Medical Center. Mary Zimpfer Services for Mrs. Mary Zimpfer, 59, of 1589 Burstock Columbus, were conducted i at Graum- Jich and Son Funeral Columbus. Mrs. Zimpfer, widow of Thomas Zimpfer, was born in Xenia, the daughter of Roy C.

and Hattie Cpnklm Hayward, father being a former city auditor and later a Xenia businessman. She was a graduate nurse of the Old White Cross Hospital, member of the Ohio State Nursing Association, life member of the Ohio Civil Ser- i Employes' Association and past president of Pilot Club International. Survivors include two sisters, Line of Coluni; George (Jane) Mrs. Dora N. bus and Mrs.

Powell of Park Ridge, 111., three nieces and three nephews. G.A. Ron tiedge George A. Routledge, 81, of 625 Murray Hill died Sunday afternoon in Oreene Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient three days. He had been a ill two years.

Born Aug. 8, 1891, in Dunkirk, he was the son of William and Miranda Matlen Routledge. A former resident of Dayton, Mr. Routledge retired in 194S from Frigidaire Division of General Motors Corp, He later operated a gasoline station on US 68S for 13 years. He served with the Army in France during World War I.

Survivors include his widow, the former Ora Helton whom he married in 1950; a daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Mary) Hall of Xenia; a stepson, Earl Donahue of Lexington, two sisters, Benjamin Adams Services for Benjamin H. Adams, 81, of Five Points, 0., father of Roy G. Adams of Xenia, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Porter Funeral Home.

Mt. Sterling. Mr. Adams died Saturday. Visitation will be at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.

Bertha Grant Mrs. Bertha 'Grant, 82, formerly of Dayton, died at 8 this morning in the Christel Manor Nursing Home, Armstrong Fairborn where she had been the last three weeks. She was a sister of Mrs. Jessie Jacks of, Xenia and Kathrine Arman of Quantico, and the mother of Gerald (Charlyn) Campbell of Fairborn. Retired in 1959 from Wright- Patterson AF a Mrs.

Grant was born March 2, 1891, in Indiana. Survivors include two brothers, William a Thomas Thornton of Dayton, four grandchildren and great grandchildren. Visitation 2-4 and 7-8 p.m. Tuesday and 1 p.m. services Wednesday will be at Irvin J.

Hetrick Funeral Home, Wampler Dayton. Buri will be in Woodland Cemeterj a Funeral arrang ments were made by Burchar Funeral Home, Fairborn. on whal was to havs been a seven week stay ia the Texas city. He had been employed in aircraft maintenance at Wright- Patterson AF Base 15 years. -Born Jan.

25, 1920, in York City to Henry H. a Kathleen Clayton, he was a member of the Enon United Methodist Church and of Fairborn Lodge 764, F4AM. Survivors Include his widow, Gladys; his father, now of Englewood, N. a daughter, Carol, and a son, Paul, at home, and a brother, Eugene, in Englewood. Lodge services will be held at 7 during 6-9 visitation tonight at Burcham a Home, 119 E.

Main Fairborn. The Rev. Thomas Tale will conduct 1 p.m. services there- Tuesday. Burial will be in Enon Cemetery.

William Broivn William W. Brown, 49, of 211 High Fairborn, an 18-year resident of the city, died Saturday morning in Miami Valley Hospital He had been a patient two weeks. An Army veteran, Mr. Brown was a machinist at the Dayton Forging Heat Treating Co. He was born Dec.

5, 1923, in Pike County, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown. His moth er is now deceased. Survivors include his widow, Thelma; three daughters, Mrs.

Brenda Kay Hicks and Bonna Fay Abh'tig of Fairborn and Miss Linda May Brown, at 'lome; his father and his stepmother, Mrs. Virgie Brown, who live at Madison, W. a sister, Mrs. Jewell Allen Pittsburgh, two brothers, Charles Brown of Dayton and Brown of Madison, md three grandchildren. Visitation will be at Mr.

Brown's home this afternoon and evening and until 11 a.m. Tuesday, and at the Church of Tabernacle, FairSwn, noon 1 p.m. Tuesday. The Revs. Randall Hutchinson a John Wilson will officiate at 1 p.m.

services tomorrow. Burial will be in Enon Cemetery. Burcham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Dayton deaths BREENE, Raymond of Ormond a merly of Dayton, yesterday; private graveside services today (Carrigan). HUDSON, French II, son of Mr.

Mrs. French Hudson, of 42 George Saturday; services 1:30 p.m. Wednesday (Hoyne, Third). JOHNSTON, William, 71, of 101 West Monroe, Friday; services 10:30 a.m. today (Schlienlz-Moore).

JONES, Angela lu-Month- old daughter of Loretta Jones, of Oxford Thursday (Bowman). JONES, Wayward, 74, of 915 Leland Saturday (Bowman). LAMB, John 41, of 340 S. Main Saturday; services 2 p.m. tomorrow (Stubbs Conner, Waynesville).

MATZ, Mrs. Bessie Mae, 82, of Palmetto, formerly of Dayton, i a (Schlienlz Moore). MORRIS, infant daughter of Douglas and Bonita Morris, -of 436 McGuerin Friday; services 11 a.m. today at a Memorial Gardens (Morris Sons). PETERS, Nancy 86, formerly of Dayton, Friday; services 2.

p.m. tomorrow (Frings Bayli'fE, Tipp-City). SAYLOK, Mrs. ft), 4617 Dartford Friday; services 1:30 p.m. tomorrow (Martin, Northridge), SMITH, s.

Clara, 77, of 1033 a yesterday (Morris Sons). STEPHENS, Samuel, 50, ol 5 W. Grind Thursday; Services 10 a.m. tomorrow st Greencasile. Cemetery (House ol Wheat).

of 436 Believes 100 POWs killed WASHINGTON CAP) A sunvivor of Norlh Vietnamese captivity says he believes more than 100 U.S. airmen were killed by angry militiamen and civilians after their planes were shot down. 'Well over 100 men were seen on 'he ground a i never reached the prison system," Air Force Col. James H. Kasler said in an interview.

"We know that in the bombed areas an awful lot cf men were killed by the mililia. The North Vietnamese civilians were pretty irate." Kasler, 46, of Indianapolis credited regular Vietnamese troops with res cuing some U.S. troops fron lynching. THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE Monday, April 2, im Dies after shooting John D. Lamb, 41, of 340 S.

Main Dayton, died at Miami Valley Hospital Saturday afternoon, about three hours after suffering a bullet wound in a Main St. apartment. Dayton police said they are holding a suspect in the shooting. Funeral services for Mr. PROTECTION STOCKHOLM A With the withdrawal of American combat troops from Vietnam, the Swedish government says it will no longer automatically grant asylum to U.S.

military deserters, But it will continue to protect those already in the! country. I Larnb will be conducted by the Rev. Bruce Powell at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Stubbs Conner Funeral Home, Waynesville, where visitation was to be 3 and 7 9 p.m. today.

Burijl will be in Springboro Cemetery. Mr. Lamb is survived by his parents, Air. and Mrs. i Lamb of Oregonia; a daughter, Miss Charlotte Lamb of Lebanon; two sisters, Mrs.

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Cedarview Springfield. A sister of Mrs. Helen Ford, Xenia, and Raymond Cook, Jamesfoiwi, shfe died Friday In Springfield Community Hospital. William Spencer E. Spencer, 52, died at 3 a.m.

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