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Surnames: DUNKER, FETCH, GERDUM, DEIHL
Classification: Obituary
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Last Rites Held For Mrs. Mary C. DUNKER, 84, died June 19, 1948, north of Shipshewana,
died at 5:30 Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Oliver FETCH, near
Shipshewana. She had been ill for sometime at the home of her daughter. She is survived
by the daughter and a foster son, Charles GERDUM of Valentine; a sister, Mrs. Abbott
DUNKER of Otsego, Mich.; a brother, Frank DEIHL of Kalamazoo, Mich.; 4 grandchildren and
one great-great-grandchild. The body was at the Caton-Frurip funeral home in LaGrange,
until Sunday afternoon, when it was taken to the FETCH home. Funeral services were
conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Methodist church at Scott, by the Rev. Ray Noland,
formerly of Howe and now pastor of the Liberty Center Methodist church. Burial was in the
Sidener cemetery, near Scott. source: undated newspaper (submitted by a volunteer, no
family connection)