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David Leroy Gunkle

Birth
Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Death
19 Jun 1932 (aged 76)
Burial
Buck Creek, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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David L. Gunkle Dies Tuesday; Aged Citizen III for Seven Months David LeRoy Gunkle, a resident of the Gunkle settlement community most of his life, died at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of a son, Frank D. Gunkle, 304 North Twenty-sixth street. He had been in failing health seven months and bedfast three 'weeks.

Born in Perry township, June 6, 1856, he was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Gunkle. In 1879 he was married to Lydia C: Waymire, deceased. For 11 years Mr. Gunkle had lived in Lafayette.
Surviving are two sons, Frank D. and James S. one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Skeeters, and a stepson, Otto Almannritter.
The body was removed ' to the Rogers and Smith funeral home, where friends may call from 2 to 4 o'clock and 7 to 9 on Wednesday. Funeral services will be held on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the Buck Creek U. B." church, with the Rev. J. D. Lindsey, pastor of the First. Free Methodist church in charge; interment in Hollywood. cemetery, Buck Creek.
Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana, 19 Jan 1932, Tue • Page 13
David L. Gunkle Dies Tuesday; Aged Citizen III for Seven Months David LeRoy Gunkle, a resident of the Gunkle settlement community most of his life, died at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of a son, Frank D. Gunkle, 304 North Twenty-sixth street. He had been in failing health seven months and bedfast three 'weeks.

Born in Perry township, June 6, 1856, he was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Gunkle. In 1879 he was married to Lydia C: Waymire, deceased. For 11 years Mr. Gunkle had lived in Lafayette.
Surviving are two sons, Frank D. and James S. one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Skeeters, and a stepson, Otto Almannritter.
The body was removed ' to the Rogers and Smith funeral home, where friends may call from 2 to 4 o'clock and 7 to 9 on Wednesday. Funeral services will be held on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the Buck Creek U. B." church, with the Rev. J. D. Lindsey, pastor of the First. Free Methodist church in charge; interment in Hollywood. cemetery, Buck Creek.
Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana, 19 Jan 1932, Tue • Page 13


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