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Surnames: OVERMIER, FRAUHIGER, NEUENSCHWANDER, BALLER, AESCHLIMAN, WHALEY, MINNIEAR,
HEYERLY, FIECHTER, REINHARD, ISCH, GERBER, EBNIT
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Evening News-Banner, Friday, October 24, 1941
Mrs. Overmier is Stricken Fatally
Paralysis Causes Death of Mrs. Overmier Thursday Evening
Mrs. Emma Overmier, 64, wife of Charles Overmier, died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wells
county hospital from a stroke of paralysis. She had not been in good health, but had been
able to be about her home and look after her household duties as usual and the fatal
seizure came unexpectedly.
She suffered the seizure about 5 p.m. as she was crossing the street in front of her home
at 303 East Central avenue. Friends helped her to her home and she was taken about 6
o'clock to the hospital.
The decedent was born in Adams county to Ulrich and Elizabeth Frauhiger Neuenschwander.
Her first marriage in February,1894, was to John Baller, who is deceased. Her marriage to
Mr. Overmier took place Feb. 13, 1912. Practically her entire life was spent in Wells
county.
Surviving are the mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Aeschliman, east of Bluffton;
the husband; two sons and a daughter, by the first marriage, Charles Baller, Dayton, O.,
Simon Baller and Mrs. Pearl Whaley, both of this city, and 10 grandchildren.
Surviving also are five stepchildren, Raymond, Glide, and George Overmier, all of Hammond,
La., and Mrs. Verne Minniear and Miss Guenivere Overmier, both of Wells county.
Half-brothers and half-sisters surviving are William Aeschliman, of Decatur; Noah
Aeschliman, near Bluffton; Mrs. Albert Heyerly, near Decatur; Mrs. Raymond Overmier, of
Louisiana; Mrs. Fred Fiechter, near Craigville; Mrs. Ezra Reinhard, Mrs. Joe Isch, and
Mrs. Reuben Gerber, all near Bluffton. Two stepbrothers and stepsisters are Joseph
Aeschliman, near Decatur, Dan Aeschliman, near Bluffton, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ebnit, of Vera
Cruz. A sister and two half-brothers are deceased.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist church, of which Mrs.
Overmier was a member, in charge of Rev. Morris Coers, of Adrian, Mich., former pastor of
the church. Burial will be in the Six Mile Cemetery.