The Shelbyville Republican
Wednesday August 12, 1936
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JOHN DEGOLYER PASSES AWAY
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Funeral Services Will Be
Held at
Fix Mortuary 10 a.m. Friday
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John W. Degolyer,
71 years old,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elsie Steward, 250 East
Pennsylvania street, at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday following an illness of
ten months
He had been a patient at the Robert
Long Hospital in Indianapolis for the past three weeks, having been
brought to the daughter’s home, where death occurred, Tuesday
evening.
He was born in Osgood, Indiana January
29, 1865 and was the son of James and Hannah Degolyer. He was
the last of a family of ten children. His marriage to Miss
Elizabeth C. Pickett, who died November 2, 1919, took place
September 28, 1887. Mr. Degolyer had been a resident of this city
for the past eighteen years.
Besides the daughter, Mrs. Steward, he
leaves another daughter, Mrs. Ethel Spurlin, also of this
city. A son died in infancy. Survivors include five grandchildren,
Gertrude, Rupert, Catherine and John W. Spurlin, all of this
city and Mrs. Harold Calvert of Marion and several nieces and
nephews. He became a member of a Baptist church early in life.
Funeral services will be held at the
C. F. Fix & Son mortuary Friday morning at 10 o’clock with the
Rev. Paul Million, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at
the Steward home, 250 East Pennsylvania street, anytime afternoon
Thursday until 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Contributed by Barb Huff
The Shelbyville Republican
Monday November 10, 1919
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IN MEMORIAM
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In loving remembrance of Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine Degolyer, who
departed this life November 2, 1919, at the home of her daughter, after a short
illness of a complication of diseases. Deceased was born near Hopewell, Ripley
county, Indiana December 10, 1858. At the time of her death she was fifty-nine
years, ten months and twenty-three days old. She was married to Joseph Loyd,
of Holton, Indiana, December 25, 1878; to this union was born three sons and one
daughter. In September 28, 1887, she was again united in marriage to John
Degolyer, of Osgood, Indiana. To this union was born one son and two
daughters. Early in life she joined the M. E. church at Bethel, Indiana, and was
at all times a true Christian woman.
She was a loving and faithful wife, a kind mother and a friend to all who
knew her. Always trying to bring sunshine wherever her footsteps led, she was
loved by all her neighbors and possessed a countless number of friends
throughout the community in which she resided. Her death takes a woman highly
respected by all her associates.
Surviving besides the husband are two daughters,
Mrs. Ethel Spurlin, at whose home she died, and Mrs. Elsie Steward,
both of this county;
three grandchildren, Gertrude, Averial and Rupert Spurlin.
One sister, Mrs.
Annie Wainscott; one brother, Peter Pickett, both of this city, and a
host of other relatives and friends to mourn her loss.
Funeral services were held at Forest Hill chapel Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
conducted by the Rev. E. A. Dougherty, pastor of the West Street M. E. Church of
this city, after which the body was laid to rest in Forest Hill cemetery in
charge of Stewart & Fix, undertakers.
A precious one from us is gone
A voice we loved is still
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled
God in His wisdom hath recalled
The boon his love hath given;
Altho the body slumbers here
The soul is safe in heaven.
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