Obituaries of Carrie Long Pence Raypole from the Columbia City (Indiana) Commercial Mail in 1972

 Two obituaries for Carrie Long Pence Raypole of Churubusco and Whitley county, Indiana from 1972.

Citations

1. "Terri Pence Raypole of Churubusco dies; services Thursday", obituary of Carrie Long; 1972 January 18 (Tuesday evening), page 2, col. 5, Columbia City (Whitley, Indiana) Commercial Mail, microfilmed newspaper, Indiana State Library.

2. "Raypole rites", funeral report of Carrie Long; 1972 January 27 (Thursday evening), page 5, col. 3, Columbia City (Whitley, Indiana) Commercial Mail, microfilmed newspaper, Indiana State Library.

Transcript of January 18th obituary [formatting added]

Mrs. Terri [misspelling of Carrie] Pence Raypole, 83, of West Whitley street, Churubusco, died at 8:05 a.m. today [January 18] in Whitley County Hospital, where she had been a patient several weeks.

She was born April 29, 1888 in Whitley county to A. M. and Sadie Sleesman Long.

Her marriage to Heber J. Pence occurred April 11, 1908, Mr. Pence preceding her in death in 1929.

She married John Raypole in 1949 and he died in 1960.

Surviving are

• two daughters,
  • Mrs. Gerald (Mabel) Deutsch and
  • Mrs. William (Betty) Meyers, both of Columbia City;
• two sons,
  • John Pence of Antwerp [Paulding], Ohio, and
  • Robert Pence of Indianapolis;
• one step-son, Scott Raypole, Pierceton;
• two step-daughters,
  • Mrs. Lawrence (Lois) Miller, [Columbia?] City,
  • Mrs. Max (Doris) Leiter, Florida;
• seven grandchildren and
• two great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Krider-Lane Funeral Home in Churubusco from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday [January 20] where funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday [January 21] with the Rev. Floyd Blake officiating.

Interment will be in Blue River cemetery.

Transcript of January 27th funeral report [formatting added]

Funeral services were conducted in the Krider-Lane Funeral Home in Churubusco Thursday afternoon for Carrie Pence Raypole.

The Rev. Floyd Blake officiated.

Pallbearers were

• Paul Pence,
• Stan Myers,
• Paul Geiger,
• Robert Pence Jr.,
• John Pence Jr., and
• Clarence Raypole.

Burial was in Blue River cemetery.