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    1. [SELLERS] Obituary of Wilfred Sellers - 1925
    2. The Indianapolis News, August 17, 1925 WILFRED SELLERS DEAD Manufacturer, of Elwood, Victim of Typhoid Fever - Wife Ill. [Special to The Indianapolis News] ELWOOD, Ind., August 17. - Wilfred Sellers, age forty-three, manufacturer, died at his home here early Sunday of typhoid fever, contracted while he and his wife were on a motor trip in eastern states. Mrs. Sellers was left in a hospital at Portsmouth, Va., where she remains in a serious condition. Mr. Sellers returned to Elwood to look after business. He was stricken sooon after his arrival four weeks ago. Mr. Sellers was said to be one of the wealthiest men in Madison county. He was president of the Sellers Kitchen Cabinet Company and of the Citizens' State Bank. He owned a $75,000 home at Miami Beach, Florida, and recently work was started on a home to cost $125,000 on a farm he bought a mile south of this city. Sixty acres of this farm he leased to citizens for a country club and golf course which had just been completed. He was president of the Country Club. He is survived by the widow, two daughters, Rebecca and Florence, two sons, Joseph and Dick, in school at Culver, one brother, George Sellers, of this city, and three sisters, Mrs. Harry Strickler and Mrs. W. A. Risinger, of this city, and Mrs. Ida Hale, of Kokomo. Mrs. Risinger is at this time a patient at the Mayo Hospital at Rochester, Minn. Mr. Sellers was a thirty-second degree Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias and Moose.

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