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O'Dell, Omer Amasa Succumbs After 2-Year Illness - Notable Success Achieved By Dint of Persevering Efforts As Planning Mill Operator, Builder, and Dealer In Local Real Estate
Omer A. O'Dell, who had been an important factor in the upbuilding of Gallipolis the last four decades, died at 12:25 this morning at his home on Vine Street. For two years he had been an invalid. During that period there had been improvements and backsets in his condition, but since the advent of cold weather he had slowly grown worse. His illness began with a lung infection. As the operator of a planing mill, as a builder of homes, and a buyer and seller of Gallipolis real estate, he attained a large measure of success and was well-known throughout the county and beyond all its borders.

Green Twp. Native Omer Amasa O'Dell had just entered his 67th year, having been born on Jan. 8, 1878, in Green Twp. He was a son of J. I. And Christine Jacox O'Dell and is survived by his father, now 94 and quite active and vigorous.
About the time he emerged from his teens Mr. O'Dell taught school at Hawk and Northup in his native township. He located in Gallipolis about the turn of the century and laid the foundation for a successful mill business. About that time, too, he married Maude Kerns, a daughter of the late Thomas Kerns. She died in 1913 and they are survived by these children: Mrs. Tennis Thompson, Columbus; Mrs Hazel Simpkin, Hartford, CT; Kerns O'Dell, Cincinnati; John, now in the Seabees at Pearl Harbor; Merrill, a partner of his father in the operation of the planing mill, and Mrs. Christine Fife, teacher in the Gallipolis schools.
Some years after the death of his first wife Mr. O'Dell married Elma Tinkham of Ewington, a devoted companion during his extended invalidism, who bore him eight children, these five of whom survive; Mrs. Margaret Wilson, Wayne, Eva Mildred and Robert Earl, all of Gallipolis, and June of the Children's Hospital, Columbus.
Also surviving are these sisters and brothers: Mrs. Mary Russell, White Cross Hospital, Columbus; Mrs. Fred Northup, Gallipolis (atop the Engel Hill); Mrs. Claude Tope, living between Rodney and Rio Grande; Frank O' Dell, Cleveland; William Parkersburg; Oscar, Nitro; Carl, some where in Tennessee when last heard from and John O'Dell, who lives at the old family homestead.
Mr. O'Dell was a member of the Methodist Church and a Woodman. Until stricken with illness Omar O'Dell was a man of striking appearance---tall, square-shouldered, muscular. He gave his home and business the full measure of his concern and energy and found contentment in the companionship of loved ones and in seeing his business enterprise grow and flourish.
Funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Centenary, with Rev. W. S. Westerman in charge. Burial at Mound Hill by Elias Wetherholt. This evening the body will be taken home, where friends may call.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
April 1, 1944