Can anyone tell me who this is or which Frank Strickler lost his wife? Funny how they
never mentioned her name in this obit.
From Van Wert Times Bulletin
Monday, May 25, 1953
MRS. STRICKLER DIES; FUNERAL AT WILLSHIRE
Willshire - Mrs. Frank Strickler, 79, of Pleasant Mills, Ind., died Sunday night in
Adams County Memorial Hospital at Decatur, Ind., following at 18 months illness.
Mrs. Strickler was a native of Willshire, and a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Simms. She lived for a number of years at Monroe, IN before moving to Pleasant Mills
about two years ago.
Surviving with her husband are a daughter, Mrs. Walter Oliver of Monroe; a sister, Mrs.
Kate Detter of Willshire, three grandsons and four grandaughters. A son, Lynn Stettler,
died about two years ago. She was a sister - in - law of Mrs. Clifford Swartz of Boyd
Avenue, Van Wert.
Rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Willshire Methodist Church and burial
will be in Willshire cmetery. Friends may call at the Logenstein Funeral Home in
Monroe.
Margie Roop Pearce
Ponchatoula, LA