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Author: shadwa
Surnames: Shelton, Robling, Potts, Gillick, Tomey, Collins, Kirsch, Taylor, Evans
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OBIT: WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD, Washington, IN, Monday, 28 Dec 1970, p1, LOUIS SHELTON DIES
SUNDAY
Louis B. SHELTON, 81, 217 SE 11th Street, died at 3 a.m. Sunday at the Daviess County
Hospital after a long illness.
He had retired 16 years ago after working for the NEw York Central Railroad.
He was born in Dubois County July 26, 1889, son of Andrew and Malinda (ROBLING) SHELTON
and attended school in Reeve township. In 1915 he married Lettie Letha POTTS, who died in
1959.
He married Josephine GILLICK November 9, 1963, and she survives him. He leaves one
son, Wilbur E. SHELTON, and one daughter, Mrs. William (Virginia) TOMEY, both of this
city; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Carl (Hazel) COLLINS, Montgomery, and Mrs. William (Wilma)
KIRSCH, Glendale; six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and five stepgrandchildren.
Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Flora TAYLOR and Mrs. Edmond SHELTON, both of
Washington.
Three brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. Three children died in
infancy, and a daughter, Mrs. Pearl EVANS, and two sons, Richard and Herman, also preceded
him in death.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Gill Funeral Home, with the Rev. R.P.
Hawkins officiating and burial in Oak Grove cemetery in Reeve township. Friends may call
at the funeral home.
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