Shelby County Indiana
Obituaries
Leffler
Obituaries
Leffler
The Shelbyville News
Aug. 31, 2002
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Retta Leffler, 84, of Indianapolis, a former Shelbyville resident, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002,Indianapolis.Aug. 31, 2002
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Born Mar. 7, 1918, in Indianapolis, d/o Derk and Mary (Jackson) Van Dermullen. Married Edgar E. Leffler, who preceded her in death on Sept. 11, 1992.
Survivors include 4 sons, Edgar L. "Sonny" Leffler of Cave City, NC; David W. Leffler of Columbus; Donald L. Leffler of Indianapolis; William E. Leffler San Diego, Calif.; six daughters, Mrs. Donald (Phyllis) Hall of Milroy, Mrs. Jack (Anna) Schuck of Shelbyville, Mrs. Wayne (Clarabelle) Warren of Montreal, Mo., Mrs. Gerald (Patricia) Carman of Hope, Mrs. Paul (Sharon) Hathaway of Atlanta, Ga., Katherine Sheppard of Columbus.
Homemaker.
Union Chapel Cemetery in St. Paul.
Murphy-Parks Funeral Service, 703 S. Harrison St.
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville News
Monday, May 3, 1999
Aaron Gaston Leffler
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Aaron Gaston Leffler, 77, St. Paul, died Saturday.Monday, May 3, 1999
Aaron Gaston Leffler
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Born Aug. 22, 1921, in Decatur County to Earl A. and Floe (Hungerford) Leffler. M arried Edith M. (Zinser) Leffler on Aug 22, 1942, and she survives.
Farmer for 50 years.
Served inthe U.S. Army during World War II.
Graduated from St. Paul High School in 1940. Member of St. Mary Catholic Church, Greensburg.
Other survivors include daughter, Mrs. Phil (Roseaaron) Buening, St. Paul; a son, Rick Leffler, Brownsburg; a sister, Yuma Byard, Greensburg; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
St. Mary Catholic Church, Greensburg, with the Rev. Steve Schaftlein officiating. Burial St. Mary Cemetery, Greensburg.
Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, Greensburg.
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville News
Saturday, November 21, 1981
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Charles E. Leffler, 77, Kennedy Hotel, found dead in his car yesterday,
hotel parking lot, E. Washington St.Saturday, November 21, 1981
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Born March 21, 1904, in St. Paul, s/o Lewis and Myrtle Woodard Leffler.
Married Helen Bruce October 2, 1926; she died June 11, 1977.
Retired truck driver/operator for TeePee Restaurant.
Member of the Faith Baptist Church.
Surviving: five sons, Charles "Sonny" Leffler, Jerry Leffler, Billie Rex Leffler and Gary Leffler, all of Shelbyville, and Jack Leffler, Whiteland; three daughters, Beverly Caudill (Jack), Sherry Israel (Gary), both of Shelbyville, Phyllis O'Brian (Jack), Fayetteville, N. C.; 32 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; three brothers, Woodrow Leffler, Wabash, Edward Leffler, Indianapolis, and Roy Leffler, Shelbyville; two sisters, Floy Basey (Herman), Shelbyville, and Helen Moffard (Joseph), Marion.
Three sons and four brothers preceded in death.
Murphy Mortuary with Rev. Charles Caplinger officiating.
Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery.
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville News
Thursday, December 11, 1980
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LEFFLER
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Mrs. Bernice E. Leffler, 88, 126 N. Vine St., died
Wednesday afternoon at the Heritage House Convalescent Center, where she had been a patient three months.Thursday, December 11, 1980
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LEFFLER
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Born in Shelby County March 12, 1892 to Christopher and Mildred (Hendrickson) Spellman. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Roscoe (Ruth Alice) Clapp of Lexington, Ky., three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. One brother and three sisters preceded in death.
Murphy Mortuary, with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Submitted by Barb Huff
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville News
Wednesday, January 28, 1953
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GEORGE LEFFLER
DIES AT HOME
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Lifetime Resident Of St. Paul: Rites Friday
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George L. Leffler Sr., 84, died at his home in St. Paul at 8:10 last night. He had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill for one year. Death was due to complications.Wednesday, January 28, 1953
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GEORGE LEFFLER
DIES AT HOME
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Lifetime Resident Of St. Paul: Rites Friday
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Mr. Leffler was a lifetime resident of St. Paul and for many years was a tool dresser in the St. Paul quarries. He was one of the oldest members of the St. Paul Christian Church, and was also a member of Waldron Lodge No. 17, F.& A. M., which will participate in the funeral services. The son of Michael and Sarah (Phillips) Leffler, he was born in St. Paul July 22, 1868. He was married September 15, 1892, to the former Maggie Davis, who survives with three children. They are Walter of St. Paul and Mrs. Cecil Matterm and Thelma Leffler of Indianapolis. Also surviving is a sister Mrs. Sadie Davis of Oblong, Illinois, eight grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Two sons, Elton and Michael, and two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Carmony Funeral Home in St. Paul with Rev. Robert Walker officiating. Burial will be in Paul Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10:00 a.m. Thursday.
Submitted by John W. Wilson
The Shelbyville News
Monday, June 9, 1952
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FORMER COUNTY
RESIDENT DIES
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Elton F. Leffler Dies In
Indianapolis; Rites Tuesday
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Elton F. Leffler, 52, Indianapolis attorney and native of Shelby county, ded Sunday at his home, 227 E. Fall Creek Parkway, Indianapolis, He had been in failing health for the past year but his death, caused by a liver ailment, was sudden.Monday, June 9, 1952
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FORMER COUNTY
RESIDENT DIES
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Elton F. Leffler Dies In
Indianapolis; Rites Tuesday
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THE SON OF George and Maggie (Davis) Leffler, Sr., he was born near St. Paul November 19, 1899. He moved from the St. Paul community in 1918 and practiced law in Indianapolis after being admitted to the bar in 1924. He was a member of the St. Paul Christian Church, the Columbia Club in Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Bar Association.
In November, 1945, he married Ann Louise Harmon who survives with the parents, who reside at St. Paul; one brother, Walter Leffler, St. Paul, and two sisters, Mrs. Cecil Mattern and Miss Thelma Leffler of Indianapolis.
FUNERAL SERVICES will be held at the Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary in Indianapolis Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and last rites will be held at the new location of the Carmony Funeral Home in St. Paul Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in Paul Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in St. Paul after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville Republican
Monday, January 25, 1943
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DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESS
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James Lewis Leffler, 82, former St. Paul
blacksmith, died at his home in St. Paul at 11:25 a.m. Sunday following a long illness. Born May 29, 1860 near
St. Paul, he was the son of Michael and Sarah Philipp Leffler. He was married to Mary A. Reed on
August 30, 1883. Mr. Leffler was the oldest member of the St. Paul Christian Church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Mary Leffler, four children, Lewis, Earl D. and George L. Leffler., Jr., and Mrs. Maude Garrison
and five grandchildren. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Jefferey and Mrs. Sadie Davis,
both of Oblong, Ill., and one brother, George L. Leffler, Sr., of St. Paul. Funeral services will be conducted
at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home, with the Rev. C.H. Grace, pastor of the St. Paul U.B. church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Paul Hill cemetery in St. Paul, in charge of D.E. Carmony. Monday, January 25, 1943
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DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESS
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Submitted by Barb Huff
The Shelbyville Republican
Monday, January 25, 1943
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M. J. LEFFLER'S FUNERAL TODAY
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Michael John Leffler, age 49, a former resident of St. Paul. died at 9:30 p.m. Friday at the city hospital in Indianapolis. Death was caused by lobar pneumonia. He had been ill for two weeks. He was born in St. Paul on April 28, 1893, the son of George L. and Maggie Davis Leffler. He was married to Erma Wasson on May 11, 1911, and to this union three children were born. He had spent most of his life in and around St. Paul, but moved to Indianapolis several years ago where he was residing at the time of his death. He was a member of the St. Paul Christian church. Survivors are the three sons, Max and Fay, of Indianapolis, and Gene, of Camp Siebert, Ala., the parents, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Leffler, Sr.; two brothers, Cecil Pierce, of Indianapolis, and Walter, of Lafayette; two sisters, Thelma and Elton, of Indianapolis, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the home of the parents in St. Paul at 2:00 p.m. today with Rev. C.H. Grace, pastor of the St. Paul U.B. church, officiating. Burial will be in Paul Hill cemetery in St. Paul in charge of D. E. Carmony, St. Paul funeral director. Friends may call at the home of the parents at any time.Monday, January 25, 1943
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M. J. LEFFLER'S FUNERAL TODAY
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Submitted by Barb Huff
The Shelbyville Republican
Saturday June 23, 1928
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MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DIES:
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Indiana Loses Last Veteran of Mexican Conflict
In Death of Samuel Leffler
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VETERAN CIVIL WAR ALSO
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Had Spent Most of His Life
In The Vicinity of Saint Paul
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In the death of Samuel Leffler, 99, which occurred at his home in St. Paul at 9:30 o'clock Friday night, the state of Indiana lost its last Mexican War veteran. Only three veterans of that war now remain in the entire United States. Mr. Leffler had been seriously ill for the past eleven weeks. Mr. Leffler was born in Butler county, Ohio, on June 14, 1829, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Leffler. He came to Shelby county when he was a child but most of his life was spent in Decatur county. He served in the Mexican war, taking part in most of the important engagements. Later he saw service in the Civil war. Mr. Leffler and his father were carpenter contractors in and around St. Paul all of their lives and many of the farm buildings, of which they made a specialty, are still standing in that vicinity.Saturday June 23, 1928
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MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DIES:
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Indiana Loses Last Veteran of Mexican Conflict
In Death of Samuel Leffler
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VETERAN CIVIL WAR ALSO
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Had Spent Most of His Life
In The Vicinity of Saint Paul
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;The old veteran had a fund of interesting reminiscences and war stories of the early days of Indiana history. His death is a subject of state wide interest. Mr. Leffler's first wife, formerly Miss Nancy Collier, died in 1862. In 1867 he married Miss Martha Sumpas, who survives him. The two children of his first marriage who are now living, are Allen, of St. Paul, and Mrs. Alice Meyers, of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Leffler leaves also several children of his second marriage, Mrs. Emma Garrison, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Eliza Reed, Mrs. Myrtle Price and Mrs. Ollie Sink all of St. Paul; Mrs. Nora Price, of Shelbyville; Eugene, of St. Paul, and Ira of Washington, Ind; thirty-three grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren. Mr. Leffler was a member of the United Brethern church of St. Paul, and was affiliated with the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Greensburg. Funeral services will be held in the United Brethern church at St. Paul at two o'clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. Shaw officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery in charge of Morris Sleeth.
Submitted by Barb Huff
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday February 25, 1915
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Word has been received at St. Paul of the death of Douglas Leffler at
Newton, Illinois. He was a former resident of St. Paul, but had been living in
Illinois for several years. His death was caused by tuberculosis, from which he
has been suffering for many months. For a number of years he was sheriff of
Jasper county, Illinois. He was related to the Wright and
Ridlin
families, and Charles and George Wright went to Newton to attend the
funeral services, which were held Friday afternoon. The deceased is survived by
a widow and four children—two sons and two daughters. The sons are both rural
carriers out of Newton.Thursday February 25, 1915
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Contributed by Barb Huff
The Shelbyville Democrat
Tuesday June 15, 1909
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Mrs. Mary [Kanouse]
Leffler, widow of the late Solomon Leffler, died at the
home of her son, Jacob Leffler, one and a half mile south of St. Paul, at about
eleven o’clock last night. She was eighty-one years of age. Her death was due
to paralysis. She was the mother of nine children, four of whom are now living.
Those surviving are Thomas Leffler, of St. Paul; Jacob
Leffler, of near St.
Paul; Mrs. John [Susan] Reiger, of Noble township, and Mrs. William A.
[Elizabeth] Mitchell, of Noble township. The deceased was a member of the United
Brethren church. The funeral services will be held at the home Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock.Tuesday June 15, 1909
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[Buried Union Chapel Cemetery, St. Paul, Decatur County, Indiana]
Contributed by Barb Huff
The Standard
Greensburg, Indiana
March 1, 1907
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STRICKEN WITH
HEART FAILURE
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Summons comes Suddenly to Aged
St. Paul Man.
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Michael A. Leffler, an aged resident of St. Paul, died suddenly while engaged in a conversation with his step-son, Jerry Black, and Will Lawson at the switch tower in the Big Four freight yards at nine o'clock this morning.Greensburg, Indiana
March 1, 1907
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STRICKEN WITH
HEART FAILURE
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Summons comes Suddenly to Aged
St. Paul Man.
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While the three men were talking Mr. Leffler's two companions noticed that his jaw dropped and saliva ran from his mouth. When they went to his assistance he asked them to open the window. A few seconds later he sank from his chair to the floor and when Mr. Black picken him up he was dying. A physician was summoned by telephone but before his arrival life was completely extinct.
Mr. Leffler was 75 years of age and had lived nearly all his life in or near St. Paul. He was a blacksmith by trade and had been engaged in that business since 1850.
Only yesterday Mr. Leffler and his wife, who is aged and feeble, came to Greensburg to make their home with Mrs. Leffler's son, Jerry Black, and wife, at the corner of Washington and Carver streets. Mr. Black is an operator at the switch tower and this morning Mr. Leffler walked down to see him at work.
His death was due to heart failure.
The body was taken to White's undertaking parlors and his children were notified of his death.
He leaves a widow, three sons and four daughters.
Contributed by John Addison Ballard
A Shelbyville Newspaper
Thursday, January 19, 1905
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Henry Leffler died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Townsend, near St. Paul, at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, of senility. Mr. Leffler was eighty-one years old. The funeral will be held on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in Union Chapel. Interment at the Chapel cemetery. The cortege will leave the house at 10:30 a.m. Deceased left three grown children. D. B. Williams & son in charge.Thursday, January 19, 1905
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Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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