Mon Jan 19, 1953 Page 1
Mrs Belle Fitch, 78, Found Dead In Bed
Final rites were held Sunday at 2 pm at the Cedar Chapel Methodist Church southeast of Garrett for Mrs BELLE FITCH, 78, who resided just south of the DeKalb-Allen county line on US Highway No 27. Rev Everett McLeland officiated and burial followed in the church cemetery.
The body was at the Zimmerman Funeral Home in Garrett until noon Sunday when it was removed to the church to lie in state until the services.
Mrs Fitch who lived alone had been in fair health. Thursday morning at 8 o'clock Cecil Myers, the tenant farmer who lives nearby, went to see if Mrs Fitch was all right. He was unable to gain entrance to the house or arouse anyone. He summoned a cousin, Miss Gladys Fitch, who lives nearby, and together with his wife and daughter, Marilyn, they returned to Mrs Fitch's home. They cut a hole in a screen and Marilyn crawled through and unlocked the door. They found Mrs Fitch dead in bed, a victim of a heart attack.
Mrs Fitch was born May 29, 1874 a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Hollopeter. She was a lifelong resident of Allen County and when a young lady taught in the DeKalb and Allen County schools. She and John Fitch were married March 17, 1898, and he died in February 1947.
Surviving are two sons Otis Fitch of southwest of Garrett and Maurice Fitch of Huntertown; one daughter Mrs Charles Caple of Cromwell; one sister Mrs Grace Rundles of Hudson; and seven grandchildren. Mrs Harry Wert and Mrs AG Houser of Garrett were cousins of the deceased woman.
Mrs Fitch was a member of the Cedar Chapel Methodist Church, Women's Society of Christian service, Ladies Aid and was a teacher for many years of the Adult Sunday School class.
~ Contributor: Scott Bowmar #49167477
Mon Jan 19, 1953 Page 1
Mrs Belle Fitch, 78, Found Dead In Bed
Final rites were held Sunday at 2 pm at the Cedar Chapel Methodist Church southeast of Garrett for Mrs BELLE FITCH, 78, who resided just south of the DeKalb-Allen county line on US Highway No 27. Rev Everett McLeland officiated and burial followed in the church cemetery.
The body was at the Zimmerman Funeral Home in Garrett until noon Sunday when it was removed to the church to lie in state until the services.
Mrs Fitch who lived alone had been in fair health. Thursday morning at 8 o'clock Cecil Myers, the tenant farmer who lives nearby, went to see if Mrs Fitch was all right. He was unable to gain entrance to the house or arouse anyone. He summoned a cousin, Miss Gladys Fitch, who lives nearby, and together with his wife and daughter, Marilyn, they returned to Mrs Fitch's home. They cut a hole in a screen and Marilyn crawled through and unlocked the door. They found Mrs Fitch dead in bed, a victim of a heart attack.
Mrs Fitch was born May 29, 1874 a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Hollopeter. She was a lifelong resident of Allen County and when a young lady taught in the DeKalb and Allen County schools. She and John Fitch were married March 17, 1898, and he died in February 1947.
Surviving are two sons Otis Fitch of southwest of Garrett and Maurice Fitch of Huntertown; one daughter Mrs Charles Caple of Cromwell; one sister Mrs Grace Rundles of Hudson; and seven grandchildren. Mrs Harry Wert and Mrs AG Houser of Garrett were cousins of the deceased woman.
Mrs Fitch was a member of the Cedar Chapel Methodist Church, Women's Society of Christian service, Ladies Aid and was a teacher for many years of the Adult Sunday School class.
~ Contributor: Scott Bowmar #49167477
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Milton R Hollopeter
1859–1874
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Rev Charles McPherson Hollopeter
1861–1950
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Ophelia May Hollopeter Carnahan
1866–1945
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Rev Walter March Moore Hollopeter
1868–1937
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Ellen Gertrude Hollopeter Carnahan
1872–1949
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Herbert Salon Hollopeter
1877–1932
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Lloyd Haven Hollopeter
1880–1923
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Edith Grace Hollopeter Rundles
1882–1967
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