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Author: MargieRoopPearce
Surnames: Bebout, Fisher, Tumbleson, Douglas, Niblick, Bitzell, McMillen, Rehm
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Saturday, February 2, 1957
John Edward Bebout Dies This Morning
Funeral Services Monday Afternoon
John Edward Bebout, 78, retired farmer and lifelong resident of Adams County, died at
5:30 o'clock this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Thurman Douglas, 443
Winchester Street. He had been ill for two years and critical for the past 10 days.
Born in Jefferson Township January 27, 1879. He was a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth
Fisher-Bebout. His wife, the former Victoria Arvelle Tumbleson, proceeded him in death in
1936.
Mr. Bebout had resided on Monroe route one since 1947. He was a member of the Moose
Lodge in Decatur.
Surviving in addition to three (the) daughter in this city are five other daughters,
Miss Faye Bebout, Decatur, Mrs. Vernon Niblick, Decatur route one, Mrs. Alvah Bitzell?,
Fort Wayne, Mrs. John McMillen, Decatur route six, and Mrs. Philip Rehm, Pleasant Mills;
three sons, Thurman Bebout, Decatur route three, Gayle and Robert Bebout, Monroe route
one; 16 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. One son and one daughter preceded him
in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Mt. Hope Church of the
Nazarene, the Rev. Kenneth S_____ officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the Zwick Funeral Home after 7 o'clock this evening until 12 noon
Monday, when the body will be removed to the church to lie in state until time of
services.
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