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Author: MargieRoopPearce
Surnames: Kreigh, Lepper, Merriman, Warthman
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Monday, 18 February 1957
Claude D. Kreigh Dies This Morning
Lifelong Resident of Tocsin Is Dead
Claude D. Kreigh, 55, lifelong resident of Tocsin, died at his home in that town at
1:45 o'clock this morning after an illness of 20 weeks of a heart ailment.
He was born at Tocsin Feb. 22, 1901, a son of Henry Wilson and Kathryn Lepper-Kreigh,
and was married to Olive Merriman Aug. 13, 1925.
Mr. Kreigh had been employed for the past two years at the Commercial Print Shop in
Decatur, owned by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Warthman.
Mr. Kreigh was a member of the Masonic lodge in Ossian, the Scottish Rite and Shrine in
Fort Wayne, the Knights of Pythias grand lodge at Indianapolis, the Pythian Sisters at
Tocsin, and the Order of Eastern Star at Ossian.
Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Lou Warthman of Decatur. One
brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Elzey & Sons funeral home
in Ossian, with burial in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Friends may call at the funeral
home after 7 o'clock Tuesday evening until time of the services.
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