MRS. JULIA STUDEBAKER DIES: Rites Thursday
Graveside service for Mrs. Julia Nelson Studebaker, 97, daughter of a pioneer Indianapolis Realtor, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery at Kokomo. She died Monday in her home at 781 West Drive, Woodruff Place. Mrs. Studebaker, widow of Frank L. Studebaker, was born in Hancock County near Fortville, the daughter of Thomas Hunter Nelson, an early developer of the Haughville area.
She recalled that her father built several properties in Haughville, including one for each of his three daughters on Bismarck Street, now Pershing Avenue
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As a girl, Mrs. Studebaker watched the torchlight parade welcoming Benjamin Harrison after his election to the presidency in 1888. She also watched the erection of a high board fence that was to become the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
Mrs. Studebaker was a charter member of the Indianapolis Senior Citizens Club and, until two years ago, was an energetic walker. Surviving is her daughter, Miss Mary E. Studebaker, with whom she has lived the last 25 years. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Ellis Mortuary of Kokomo."
SOURCE: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Wed. Dec. 11, 1974. Page 30.
Obituary transcribed / edited by Sandra A. Studebaker 7/11/20
Graveside service for Mrs. Julia Nelson Studebaker, 97, daughter of a pioneer Indianapolis Realtor, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery at Kokomo. She died Monday in her home at 781 West Drive, Woodruff Place. Mrs. Studebaker, widow of Frank L. Studebaker, was born in Hancock County near Fortville, the daughter of Thomas Hunter Nelson, an early developer of the Haughville area.
She recalled that her father built several properties in Haughville, including one for each of his three daughters on Bismarck Street, now Pershing Avenue
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As a girl, Mrs. Studebaker watched the torchlight parade welcoming Benjamin Harrison after his election to the presidency in 1888. She also watched the erection of a high board fence that was to become the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
Mrs. Studebaker was a charter member of the Indianapolis Senior Citizens Club and, until two years ago, was an energetic walker. Surviving is her daughter, Miss Mary E. Studebaker, with whom she has lived the last 25 years. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Ellis Mortuary of Kokomo."
SOURCE: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Wed. Dec. 11, 1974. Page 30.
Obituary transcribed / edited by Sandra A. Studebaker 7/11/20
MRS. JULIA STUDEBAKER DIES: Rites Thursday
Graveside service for Mrs. Julia Nelson Studebaker, 97, daughter of a pioneer Indianapolis Realtor, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery at Kokomo. She died Monday in her home at 781 West Drive, Woodruff Place. Mrs. Studebaker, widow of Frank L. Studebaker, was born in Hancock County near Fortville, the daughter of Thomas Hunter Nelson, an early developer of the Haughville area.
She recalled that her father built several properties in Haughville, including one for each of his three daughters on Bismarck Street, now Pershing Avenue
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As a girl, Mrs. Studebaker watched the torchlight parade welcoming Benjamin Harrison after his election to the presidency in 1888. She also watched the erection of a high board fence that was to become the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
Mrs. Studebaker was a charter member of the Indianapolis Senior Citizens Club and, until two years ago, was an energetic walker. Surviving is her daughter, Miss Mary E. Studebaker, with whom she has lived the last 25 years. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Ellis Mortuary of Kokomo."
SOURCE: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Wed. Dec. 11, 1974. Page 30.
Obituary transcribed / edited by Sandra A. Studebaker 7/11/20
Graveside service for Mrs. Julia Nelson Studebaker, 97, daughter of a pioneer Indianapolis Realtor, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery at Kokomo. She died Monday in her home at 781 West Drive, Woodruff Place. Mrs. Studebaker, widow of Frank L. Studebaker, was born in Hancock County near Fortville, the daughter of Thomas Hunter Nelson, an early developer of the Haughville area.
She recalled that her father built several properties in Haughville, including one for each of his three daughters on Bismarck Street, now Pershing Avenue
--------------------snip
As a girl, Mrs. Studebaker watched the torchlight parade welcoming Benjamin Harrison after his election to the presidency in 1888. She also watched the erection of a high board fence that was to become the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
Mrs. Studebaker was a charter member of the Indianapolis Senior Citizens Club and, until two years ago, was an energetic walker. Surviving is her daughter, Miss Mary E. Studebaker, with whom she has lived the last 25 years. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Ellis Mortuary of Kokomo."
SOURCE: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Wed. Dec. 11, 1974. Page 30.
Obituary transcribed / edited by Sandra A. Studebaker 7/11/20
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