Here are two obits that might be of interest to someone. the 2nd one is not complete, as
part of the newspaper is gone.
Marion Chronicle, Feb. 16, 1959
BLANCHE THOMPSON
Fairmount, Mrs. Blanche Thompson, 81, died at 9 a.m. Sunday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Willett Clement, 821 S. Walnut st., where she had resided for the past five
years. Her condition had been serious for the past nine months.
She was the wife of the Rev. Walter Thompson, a Wesleyan Methodist minister who died
in 1946. Funeral rites will be held at the College Wesleyan Methodist Church in Marion at
2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Garl Beaver will officiate and burial will be in Park Cem.,
Fairmount.
Survivors include two other daughters, Mrs. John Moyer, Laketon, Ind., and Mrs.
Gilbert Tollor, Seattle, Wash.: one son, Dr. F. Murray Thompson, Marion; one grandchild
and three great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. Willett, Falconer,N.Y., and
Mrs. Harold Linquist, Kennedy, N.Y.
Friends may call at 415 S. Main st., after 4 p.m. today. The body will be taken to
the church for services at noon, Tuesday.
WILLIAM MITCHENER
Fairmount, William Mitchener, 61, died at 4:20 a.m. on Sunday at his residence,
302 W. Eighth St. He had been ill since last July and his condition had been serious for
five days prior to his death.
A native of Fairmount where he had resided until 1913 when he moved to Jennings
County, he formed the Mitchener Electric Co. with his son, Mearl in 1946. He returned to
Fairmount in 1927.
He was a member of Post 773, Veterans of Foreigh Wars and served for many years as
chairman of the "buddy poppy" committee for the fifth district, and held various
VFW offices. A veteran of WW I, he also was a member of the American Legion Post 313 in
Fairmount, and had served in France. He was affiliated with the friends Church.
Survivors include the widow, Eula; his father, George; four sons, Mearl and Earl,
Fairmount _ _ hn, at home, and James Lee, Marion; one daughter Mrs. Jack _______ ( the
rest of the paper is gone)