Death: Mrs. Bessie Blanche Funkhouser Everett, age 58, passed away at her home in Fayette Saturday, November 27, 1948, following a week illness. She was born March 10, 1890 the daughter of Reed and Rachel Frances Turpin Funkhouser. She was a native of Hendricks county but lived in Fayette for 55 years. She married William Sanford Everett, on June 9, 1907 in Fayette. She belonged to the Mount Tabor Baptist Church and the Perry Township Homemaker Club. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Mount Tabor chruch and burial made in the church cemetery. Surviving with her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Helen Bymaster, Mrs. Fern Armstrong, and Mrs. Doris Hopkins all of Lebanon rural route; a sister, Bernice Tackett, Lebanon and two brothers, Paul and Gideon Funkhouser, both of Brownsburg; one grandson, William E. Armstrong, and two granddaughters, Nina S. and Rebecca L. Armstrong, several nieces and nephews, as well as a host of other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and a brother. To her memory, compiled by a son-in-law entitled:
A WONDERFUL MOTHER
Oh! Mother your're gone; Yes gone away,
And left us with naught, but memories today;
A dear one has passed to her heavenly goal,
We shall n'er forget; Dear mother of thee,
Kind and gentle, with a heart full of gen-er-osity,
Even in illness, till life ebbed slow,
You suffered within so no one could know.
We are sure our Lord had called thee to rest.
And today thour'rt happy, with the Heavenly blest.
In that glorious land and city of gold
Safe with the Shepherd, and within his fold.
So let not a tear be shed this day,
As we struggle on in our earthly way,
For thou are safe in that haven of rest,
Thy heavenly heart hoping; We to pas the test.
Death: One of the larges congregations ever assembled at Mt. Tabor Church, gathered for the funeral services. Services were conducted by Elders Arthur Harmon of Lafayette, Indiana and W.E. Essex
Death: Copied from the Regular Baptist Messenger, dated January 1949
Source Rebecca L. Armstrong Merritt
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Reed Funkhouser Obituary
Death: The Lebanon Reporter
February 4, 1939
Reed Funkhouser Dies Last Night
Rites Monday at Home of Son near Fayette
Reed Funkhouser. age 72 years a lifelong resident and well known farmer of Boone county, passed away Friday night at ten o'clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. Bernice Tackett in Perry township. His death was caused by heart trouble and followed an illness and six weeks duration.
Mr. Funkhouser was born in Perry township, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Funkhouser pioneer residents of that community. He was married November 9, 1887 to Rachel Turpin who died several years ago. Survivors are four children, Paul Funkhouser, south of Lebanon, Gideon Funkhouser and Mrs. Bernice Tackett of Perry township and Mrs. Bessie Everett of Fayette; four sisters Mrs. Mary Dickerson, Mrs. Jennie Dickson, Mrs. Cleo Layton, and Mrs. Josephine Mitchell and eight grandchildren. Two daughters, Zella Funkhouser and Mrs. Gertrude Claus, a son Kenneth, and a sister Mrs. India Walker, are deceased. Funeral service will be held Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home of a son, Gideon Funkhouser, east of Fayette with the Rev F.A. Williams officiating. Burial will be in Howard cemetery east of Fayette.
Document was provided by Rebecca Armstrong Merritt
February 4, 1939
Reed Funkhouser Dies Last Night
Rites Monday at Home of Son near Fayette
Reed Funkhouser. age 72 years a lifelong resident and well known farmer of Boone county, passed away Friday night at ten o'clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. Bernice Tackett in Perry township. His death was caused by heart trouble and followed an illness and six weeks duration.
Mr. Funkhouser was born in Perry township, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Funkhouser pioneer residents of that community. He was married November 9, 1887 to Rachel Turpin who died several years ago. Survivors are four children, Paul Funkhouser, south of Lebanon, Gideon Funkhouser and Mrs. Bernice Tackett of Perry township and Mrs. Bessie Everett of Fayette; four sisters Mrs. Mary Dickerson, Mrs. Jennie Dickson, Mrs. Cleo Layton, and Mrs. Josephine Mitchell and eight grandchildren. Two daughters, Zella Funkhouser and Mrs. Gertrude Claus, a son Kenneth, and a sister Mrs. India Walker, are deceased. Funeral service will be held Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home of a son, Gideon Funkhouser, east of Fayette with the Rev F.A. Williams officiating. Burial will be in Howard cemetery east of Fayette.
Document was provided by Rebecca Armstrong Merritt
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Viola Turpin
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| Viola was the wife of John Francis Everett and the mother of Geoffrey and William Everett Photo supplied by Rebecca L. Armstrong Merritt |
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