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Surnames: COMBS, KELLER, QUIMBY, SPARKS, SULLIVAN
Classification: Obituary
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, March 7, 1935,Volume
LIX, Number 19, Page 7, Column 2, “OBITUARY—Mrs. May Combs Died Wednesday.” [Transcribed
September 1, 2003 from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Mrs. May Emiline COMBS, wife of William COMBS, of Center Township, died Wednesday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, and funeral services were conducted from the Little Cincinnati
Christian Church, with the Rev. Frank SMITH, pastor of the Clear Creek Church,
officiating. Interment was in the Carmichael Cemetery.
Mrs. COMBS died of a cerebral hemorrhage after a two weeks’ illness. She was sixty years
of age and had spent her entire life in Greene County. Her father was Eli SPARKS and her
mother was Rebecca (KELLAR) SPARKS.
Surviving besides the husband are the following children: Claude COMBS, of Center
Township; Oral COMBS, of Monroe County; Mrs. Lottie SULLIVAN, of Center Township, and Mrs.
Orthie QUIMBY, of Center Township.
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NOTES—RLJ: CEMTERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Center Township,
Carmichael Cemetery, Page 65, Column 2: COMBS, May E. 19 Aug 1874—27 Feb 1935; COMBS,
William T. 17 Aug 1866—27 Feb 1935.