Walt, one of my many super typists sent me this one - was about to put it on the GenWeb
page and realized I don't know her maiden name -- checked
papermortuary.com and none
given - obit doesn't give it or brothers to indicate and I don't see 'em in
the marriages - shucks - ANYONE KNOW ??
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 13 Nov 1964 p 12 typed by Walt W
NEWTOWN -- Mrs. Blanche Quirk, 67, wife of Gerald Quirk, a former Newtown resident, died
Thursday at Ottawa, Canada, fallowing a week's illness.
She had lived in Ottawa 25 years and was a member of the United Church of Canada.
The body will be brought to Newtown for burial. It will lie in state at the Presbyterian
Church in Newtown Sunday from noon until 3 p.m. at which time it will be taken to the
Newtown Cemetery for graveside services in charge of Rev. Peter Hemstra.
Source: obituary in a scrapbook from a collection of Fauniel
Hershberger's typed by Walt W
NEWTOWN --- Graveside funeral rites for Mrs. Blanche Quirk, age 67, wife of a former
Newtown resident and sister-in-law of H. Griffith Quirk, Fountain County Auditor, who died
Thursday, Nov. 12, in Ottawa, Canada, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Newtown Cemetery.
The Rev. Peter Hemstra officiated. The Crumley-Williams Funeral Home was in charge of the
arrangements.
Mrs. Quirk, who had been a resident of Canada the past 25 years had been ill only one
week. She was a member of the United Church of Canada.
She is survived by her husband, Gerald G. Quirk.
Funeral services were held at Ottawa on Friday after which the body was taken to the
Newtown Presbyterian Church where it remained until 3 p.m. Sunday.