This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ELDRIDGE, SHOUP, RAHN, THOMAS, YODER, COMINATOR Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JIB.2ACI/12656 Message Board Post: ELDRIDGE, Henry O., Dec. 12, 1967 ELDRIDGE, SHOUP, RAHN, THOMAS, YODER, COMINATOR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Carole Lynn (MOHNEY) CARR, Volunteer Transcriber Transcribed from an original newspaper clipping from the “Sturgis Daily Journal, “ which serves the St. Joseph County, Michigan area. Copy provided by the Sturgis Library, Sturgis, Michigan. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/spl.html Listed on this site are volunteers to do look-ups, check it out to see if they have what you are looking for. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/stjolookups.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Henry O. ELDRIDGE, 95, who had owned the former Sturgis Times Democrat paper in Sturgis, died at 11:50 a.m. Tuesday in the Froh Brothers Homestead, where he had been admitted on Nov. 21, when his condition became critical. Mr. ELDRIDGE had a history of long public service that began as a school teacher, and , while he was still a young man, he launched a newspaper career that started with his news edition known as known as the Middlebury (Ind.) Independent. Later he came to Sturgis when he brought the Times-Democrat from the late Judge John S. Flanders. This paper was later to be merged with what is now the Sturgis Daily Journal after its purchase from Ralph Boyden by Mark P. Haines. Mr. ELDRIDGE’S last newspaper interest was in LaGrange, where he published the paper there for a number of years. He had also been the LaGrange postmaster for eight years. Before returning to Sturgis 10 years ago, Mr. ELDRIDGE had lived at Manty-Glo, Pa., for 30 years. He was born at Middlebury, Ind., July 2, 1872, a son of Walter W. and Maria (SHOUP) ELDRIDGE. He was a member of the First Methodist Church and was affiliated fraternally with the Oddfellows as a life member of Phoenix Lodge No. 171, Knights of Pythias. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Victoria) COMINATOR of near Sturgis and Mrs. Constance RAHN of Elkhart, Ind.; his brother, Fred, Middlebury; two sisters, Mrs. Annie THOMAS, also of Middlebury, and Mrs. Fred O. (Mable) YODER of Goshen, Ind.; two grandsons, Verne RAHN of Elkhart and Clyde COMINATOR of Three Rivers; nine great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Foglesong Funeral Home, where the service is to be observed at 1:30 p.m. Friday with the Rev. Charles Hahn, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will take place in Forest Grove Cemetery at Middlebury, Ind. Members of the Knights of Pythias Lodge will confer funeral honors in the funeral home at 7 p.m. Thursday. END