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dent of Decatur, where he worked at the Central Soya Company for 43 years. After having ill health for a year, he died 25 December 1985 in Decatur hospital, Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, and was buried on 28 December 1985 in the Decatur Cemetery, Adams County, Indiana.31

   In 1947, Violet retired from the Decatur General Electric Company after six years of services. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Decatur.32

   Frank was a lifetime Decatur resident who retired from Central Soya Company after 43 years of service. He had been in ill health for a year. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Decatur.

164 v. Doris Francetta6 Everett (Lester5, Sarah4, Levi3 George2 John1) was bom in Wren, Van Wert County, Ohio on 23 November 1917. She died of natural causes on 22 January 1990 at home in Geneva, Adams County, Indiana33 and is buried in the Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Adams County, Indiana.

   Dora married Paul B. Gould, son of J.H. Gould and Sarah Burkhead, on 6 January 1944.34 Paul was bom on 12 November 1901 in Marion, Indiana.  He died on 3 March 1973 in Parkview Memorial Hospital, Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana after being hospitalized ten days following a brief illness.35 He was buried on 9 March 1973 in the Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Adams County, Indiana.

   Francetta and Paul operated the Kozy Korner restaurant in Geneva, Indiana, for about 22 years. She retired in 1984 from the CTS plant in Berne, was a former volunteer for Care and Share of Geneva, and a member of the Geneva Church of the Nazarene since 1946.

  Paul was the past street and water commissioner in Geneva. He had been a conservation officer in Huntington County for five years prior to moving to Geneva.

    Paul attended the Geneva Nazarene church and was a member of the Moose Lodge in Decatur and the Geneva Lions club for 20 years.

    168. ix. Betty Rose6 Everett (Lester5, Sarah4, Levi3 George2 John1)was bom 21 April          1924 and died 18 January 2003 in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California.36 37 She            married Richard C. Holloway, who died before 2003. Betty worked as a hostess on a            cruise ship between


Notes:

31 Death Records, Health Department, Adams County, Indiana, vol. 52, p. 279, No. 187.

32 Obituary, for Violet Sauder, Decatur, Daily Democrat, Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, July 1996.

33 Death Records, Health Department, Adams County, Indiana, vol. 53, p. 38, No. 18.

34 Obituary for Paul Gould, Decatur Daily Democrat, ob sit, January 1990.

35 Adams County, Indiana, death Index, vol II, p.687.

36 Carolyn Everett <snook@locl.net>, email to Donald L. Kear, Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:05pm.

37 Ibid, Monday, January 20, 2003, 2:04pm.


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