Shelby County Indiana
Obituaries
Fuqua
Obituaries
Fuqua
The Shelbyville News
Monday March 31, 1952
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DR. OMER F. FUQUA
DIES IN ILLINOIS
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Long Illness Is Fatal
to Former Local Optometrist
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Dr. Omer Francis Fuqua, 64, local optometrist for more than 20 years, died at his home, 315 St. Clare Street, Paris, Illinois, Sunday night at 9:25 o’clock following a serious illness of four months. Death was caused by carcinoma.Monday March 31, 1952
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DR. OMER F. FUQUA
DIES IN ILLINOIS
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Long Illness Is Fatal
to Former Local Optometrist
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Dr. Fuqua was born at Sandford [Vigo County], Indiana, January 6, 1887, but spent the greater part of his early life in Terre Haute. He was a graduate from the Needles School of Optometry in Kansas City, and came to Shelbyville in 1936. Following his retirement in August 1, 1947, he and Mrs. Fuqua moved to Paris [Edgar County].
He was a member of the Shelbyville Kiwanis Club and of the First Methodist Church where for many years he taught a boys’ Sunday school class.
He is survived by the widow, Garnett (Ringler) Fuqua, his mother-in-law, a half brother, Harry C. Fuqua of West Terre Haute, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Cook & Ward funeral Home on South Central Street in Paris. Rev. N. I. Schoolfield of the Shelbyville First Methodist Church will assist with the rites.
Contributed by Barb Huff
