Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, September 6, 1938, p. 1. The item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis. RALPH COSLER DIES SUDDENLY A brief illness of two weeks that developed pneumonia, claimed the life of Ralph Lawson Cosler, one of Bloomington's most outstanding businessmen, at 10:15 PM Monday evening at the W. H. Adams home, 431 South College Avenue. He was owner and manager of the R. W. Cosler novelties firm on South Walnut Street across from the Bloomington High School. Mr. Cosler, 49 years of age, was widely known in Indiana as well as in Bloomington where he has been active in numerous civic enterprises. He is survived by the wife, Alice Adams Cosler; two brothers, Arthur Cosler of Springfield, Ohio, and John Cosler of Kokomo; and by one sister, Mrs. Oscar Tharp of this city. Mr. Cosler was born in Indianapolis, but his early life was spent in the City of Kokomo where he received his grade school and high school education. In 1910 he entered the Indiana University Law School. While in the university, he held membership in the Sigma Chi social fraternity and in the Gamma Eta Gamma law fraternity. On December 20, 1917, he was married to Alice Hampton Adams, and they at once made their home in this city. Since that time Mr. Cosler has become increasingly active in the community. Since boyhood, Mr. Cosler has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, first in Kokomo and later in the First Methodist Church of this city. He served a term as president of the Chamber of Commerce and also as president of the Bloomington Kiwanis club. He was an interested promotor of the Boy Scouts and a member of the Salvation Army Board. In free Masonry he had reached the thirty-second degree and was a Scottish Rite and a member of the Shrine. In politics he was an ardent Republican. He belonged to the Columbia Club at Indianapolis. He was known as a man of strong convictions and with the courage to stand by them. He was a director of the Bloomington National Bank and a directory of the Adams' Memorial Foundation of the First Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held at the Adams home, 431 South College Avenue, at three o'clock Wednesday afternoon followed by interment in the Rose Hill Cemetery.