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of DECEMBER 5, 1952 OBITUARIES Pic. Mendenhall Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Pfc. Robert E. Mendenhall, 20 years old, former Indianapolis resident killed Sept. 27 in Korea, will be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday in Hall Funeral Home, Plainfield. Burial will be at Stilesville. A medic in the he was killed' by mortar fire while on patrol duty. entered the Army 9, 1951, and went to Korea Jan. 1, 1952.

He was born at Plainfield, attended Clayton High School and was employed by Lane Bryant Inc. Survivors are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mendenhall, Stilesville; a brother, Donnie Lee Mendenhall, Stilesville; a sister, Mrs. Delores Scott; Clayton; the grandfather, James Swisher, Stilesville, and grandmother, Louie C.

Bakemeier Louie C. Bakemeier, 71 years old, 33 South Arlington Avenue, died yesterday A morning in his home. He was man in the Commerce maintenance, Building 12 years before retiring six months ago. Born at Cumberland, and an Indianapolis resident 60 years, Mr. Bakemeier was a member of Fourth Church of Christ Scientist, Center Masonic Lodge and Scottish Rite.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Shirley Brothers Irvington Chapel. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. May Hubbard Bakemeier; three sisters, Mrs.

Esther Kleine, Mrs. Carrie Hartman and Mrs. Ida Bade; three brothers, Dr. Otto and William Bakemeier, all of Indianapolis, and Henry Bakemeier, Cincinnati. Mrs.

Mary E. Akers Mrs. Mary Emma Akers, 85- year -old widow of James Akers, died yesterday in her home, 2226 South Delaware Street, after a five-month illness. A native of Greencastle and an Indianapolis resident 25 years, she was a member of Olive Christian Church. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.

tomorrow in the church. Burial will be in Crawfordsville. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lena Ruark, Indianapolis, grandson and a great-granddaughter. Charles Samuel Lewis Funeral services for Charles Samuel Lewis, 78 years old, who died Wednesday in his home, 2244 Martindale Avenue, will be held at 2 p.m.

tomorrow in Jacobs Brothers' East Side Chapel. Burial will be in New Crown Cemetery. A lifelong Indianapolis resident, formerly her was employed by the Indiana State Gross Income Tax Division. He was a member of Scott Methodist Church. Survivors are the widow, Mrs.

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While her three children clung to her, Mrs. Mildred Ervin, 36 years old, clasped her hands and said: "I loved that man with all my heart and soul until he first threatened to kill me. The spark of love faded when he hurt "THAT MAN" was her husband of 14 years, James Russell Ervin, 36, whom the ing mother shot and killed, authorities said, as he tried in a drunken stupor to beat her. The shooting occurred in the trailer camp home of Mrs. Ervin, 4903 West Washington Street, after the petite, 115-pound woman said Ervin ripped her clothes, pushed her toward a couch and John G.

Fike Funeral services for John G. Fike, 85 years old, who died Tuesday in his home, 2150 Ringgold Avenue, will be held at 2 p.m. today Cecil R. Hurt Funeral Home. Burial will be in New Crown Cemetery.

A native of Fike was a resident of Indianapolis 40 years. He was a farmer most of his life. Survivors are a daughter, Miss Nellie M. Fike, Boston; a sister, Mrs. Mary A.

Carney, Brownsburg, and a brother, George William Fike, Indianapolis. Charles E. Woelz Charles E. Woelz, 67-year-old lifelong Indianapolis resident and former newspaper vendor, died here. Crippled yesterday.

and in ill health since suffering a stroke when he was 21, Mr. Woelz was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Cemetery.

There are no immediate survivors. Indiana Deaths Anderson Jesse McCorkhill, 48; Mrs. Anna Mae Gantz, 63: William E. Carson, 83; Mrs. Mildred Davis, 46.

Frankfort-Clifton E. Vaughn, 75. Greensburg Mrs. Elsie May Roach, 53; Sanford S. Belt, 94.

Huntingburg-Adam Schmett, 81. Kokomo Mrs. June Alice Mooney, 70.. Mifflin-John Lone, 80. Noblesville-Horace G.

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The increase has resulted from several factors over which state budget makers have little or no control, including medical and technological advances, or shifts in population, fluctuating economic conditions, and pressure from special interests, he said. Freehafer added that some lobbies may be considered good. smoking and all the time his finger was on the trigger of his 5 gun. "All I could do was to talk and talk some more while I poured coffee down him. When he sobered up he'd always apologize and I always believed him." BUT, THIS faith through the years faded, never to return, in March, Mrs.

Ervin said, when her husband pounded on the door, brandished his gun, and said he was going kill the children. It was then that this mother, who had been forced to work since the birth of her second child, closed the door of her trailer and ordered the father of her children never to return. He did return -but that story's already been told. Last night, as the rain beat a steady patter on the window. a widow and her devoted offspring clasped hands and said a prayer.

Then they closed the door and prepared for bed. It probably was the first night in years they hadn't flicked out the light without fear in their hearts. If there was any fear in that woman's heart, it vanished in a moment as a trio of children's voices whispered: "Good night, mommy, we love you and know you had to do it." Mrs. Watkins To Mark 90th Year Today MRS. ORA L.

WATKINS Marion, Ind. (Spl.) -Mrs. Ora L. Watkins will spend her 90th TIME THE WEEKLY This week's TIME cover is out of this world -Read about Space Pioneers in -out today birthday today reading a stack, Merlin O. Brenneman Funeral services for Merlin O.

Brenneman, 54-year-old auto mechanic, 5822 East Washington be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. Burial will be in Washington Park Cemetery. In ill health since being injured in Oklahoma an last automobile June died' Wednesday in his home.

A native of Elida, and an Indianapolis resident nearly 30 years, Mr. Brenneman was employed by Indianapolis Packard Company Inc. for 18 years. He was a member of Englewood Masonic Lodge and Sahara Grotto. Surviving are the widow, Mrs.

Mary E. Brenneman; three daughters, Mrs. Mary L. James, Mrs. Thelma I.

Beeler and Mrs. Leona I. Aldrich, all of Indianapolis; two step-daughters, Mrs. Mary Jean Berg, Whittier, and Mrs. Jo Anna McDonald.

Knightstown; a stepson, Ronald Gordon, Indianapolis; three sisters, Mrs. Clara Stemen, Allentown, Mrs. Hulda Hughes, Lima, and Mrs. Pearl Hacker, Indianapolis; two brothers, Abe Henry Brenneman, both of Delphos, and 11 grandchil- Samuel Mitchell Samuel Mitchell, 2114 Pleasant Street, 79-year-old retired janitor, died yesterday in Marion County Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Sunnyside, after a sevenmonth illness. Before retiring in 1929, he was employed by the old Thomas Madden Company 20 years.

A native of Flat Woods, and an Indianapolis resident 45 years, Mr. Mitchell was a member of St. Mark's AME Zion Church. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in Jacobs Brothers West Side Chapel.

Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Georgia Mitchell; two sisters, Lula Kennedy, Chicago, and Mrs. Mollie Harvell, Flat Woods; and two brothers, Joseph, Nashville, and Frank Mitchell, Linden, Tenn. Max Finklestein Funeral services for Max Finklestein, former Indianapolis resident 40 years, will be held today in Los Angeles followed by burial there.

Mr. Finklestein died Wednesday in Los Angeles, where he had lived the last 10 years. Previously he had engaged in the tire business here with a brother, Sam Finklestein, Indianapolis. He was a member of Monument Masonic Lodge. Survivors, the brother, are the widow, Ida Finklebesides.

stein; three sons, Irwin Finklestein, newspaperman who went Europe Nov. 15; Norman Finklestein, with the Central Hardware and Millwork Company here, and Fred Finklestein, stationed at Fort Ord, California. friends and well wishers. letters and telegrams from Outside of sorting through the messages from a dozen from friends at birthplace, New Castle, and other Indiana cities, will be just another day for Mrs. Watkins.

The daily routine in her Marion home includes reading, whistling familiar songs and waiting until about midnight to retire. MRS. WATKINS, mother of Mrs. Adonis Watkins Carey, and Everett C. Watkins, Indiana newspaperman, enjoys good health.

Just now she is finding an especial interest in her first great-grandson, the child of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Carey. Among those who sent greetings were Comedian Ole Olsen, Edward L.

Roddan, United States ambassador to Uruguay, and Claude G. Bowers, United States ambassador to Chile. Recently Mrs. Watkins received a visit from Olsen, a Hoosier, and his mother, Mrs. Catherine Olsen, Fort Wayne, who will be 91 Jan.

30. started to "beat me with a jack." Later in Beech Grove Magistrate Court, she was released on $500 bond provided her attorney, John L. McNelis." A murder charge against her was bound over to the Marion County Grand Jury. The mother of three school-age children told sheriff's deputies that the fracas took place after her husband, who she said was "very drunk," forced his way into her home and demanded food. When she told him she had nothing to serve him, he lunged for her, she said.

"I didn't want to hurt him," she said, telling how she begged him to go away, even after pulling the she bought "for protection" out from beneath a pillow. THE COUPLE'S children, Charles, 11 years old; Jimmy, 12, and 1 Carol, 13, substantiated their mother's version of the shooting. Life with Ervin had been little more than a seemingly neverending "lost week end," Mrs. Ervin said. Then she heaved a sigh and added, in hushed tones: "I guess I ended that." As her daughter and two sons gave her reassuring hugs, this wisp a woman continued the tale of her life with the storybook character for whose death with murder.

shevis, charged, stuck by this husband who had caused her so much grief? "I LOVED HIM and believed him when he said he would quit drinking. I must have forgiven him hundreds of times after wild drinking sprees. "For a while he did stop drinking. He was good to the children and brought home enough money to support them. "Then the old habit began again.

It grew worse and worse. He was like a wild man when he was drunk. It was impossible to reason with him. "Time after time he'd threaten to kill me-and he'd shove a gun in my ribs to prove he meant what he said. "You can't imagine what those minutes were.

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