The Daily Courier, Thursday, June 27, 1940 Mrs. Catharine Fankhouser, 69 years old, widow of Clement Fankhouser, died at 1:10 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jane Carrick, at Palmer, after a lingering illness. A former resident of Mill Run, she had been at Palmer about 6 months. Surviving are three stepchildren: Eugene Fankhouser of Mill Run, Jacob Whitaker of Bridgeport and J. A. Whitaker of Greensboro and one daughter Mrs. Carrick. Interment was in Mill Run Baptist Cemetery. The obituary says that the Whitakers were step children. In a 50th wedding anniversary announcement for Jacob Whitaker of Bridgeport, it said he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James B. Whitaker. They also made it to their 65th wedding anniversary!