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Author: KarinKing45
Surnames: McCartney, Rowland, Burkhart
Classification: obituary
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Decatur Daily Democrat
Adams County, Indiana
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1974
DECATUR LADY'S FATHER DIES
John Lionel McCartney, 71, of South Venice, Fla., father of Mrs. W. L. (Jane) Burkhart,
route 5, Decatur, died Saturday afternoon at Unadilla, Ga. Mr. McCartney, a resident of
Peru for 45 years until living in South Venice the past seven years, had been in failing
health.
Born in Converse, Ind., he was a retired auto mechanic and former township assessor at
Peru. Mr. McCartney was a member of the Baptist Church in South Venice, and was also a
member of the Masonic Lodge, Moose and Eagles.
Survivors include his wife, Dortha Rowland-McCartney, to whom he was married in 1923.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Flowers-Leedy Funeral Home in Peru, and
burial will be in the Metzger Cemetery, Miami county. Friends may call at the funeral
home.
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