Fulton-Cass-Miami County IN Archives Obituaries.....Bookwalter, Merton January 15, 1931 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Laurie Lewis lewishouse@rtcol.com November 10, 2011, 12:53 pm The News-Sentinel Thursday, January 15, 1931 Merton BOOKWALTER, aged 50, who lives on a farm a mile and half northeast of Athens and who was a traveling salesman for the Ritemore Company, a proprietary medicine house, was found dead in his car in front of the Albert FRIDAY home six miles southwest of this city in the Antioch neighborhood at 3:40 p.m. today. The body was found by Mr. Friday after his dogs continually barked which barking aroused his suspicions. Going to the car the engine of which was still running, Friday found that Bookwalter was dead. Death it is thought had occurred 10 minutes before Friday found the body which was still warm. It is believed a heart attack was the cause of the death. Coroner A. E. STINSON was called. Tim KEIM, a farmer living near the Friday home, stated that he was forced to pull around the Bookwalter automobile which was standig in the middle of the road with a load of corn just a few minutes before Friday found the body. Bookwalter is survived by his widow. He had lived in the Athens neighborhood but short time. Friday, January 16, 1931 Coroner A. E. STINSON today rendered his verdict in the death of Merton BOOKWALTER, aged 53, of near Athens, who was found dead in his car Thursday afternoon by Albert FRIDAY, a farmer who lives six miles southwest of this cirty in the Burton neighborhood. The Bookwalter car at the time of Bookwalter’s death, was standing in front of the Friday home with the engine running. Friday made an investigation of the Bookwalgter car after his dogs had aroused his suspicions by their barking. Coroner Stinson in his verdict stated that Bookwalter had died of a heart attack due to a badly dilated heart and organic heart trouble. Bookwalter had been a patient of Coroner Stinson who had warned him not to overexert himself as his heart would not permit of such exercise. Coroner Stinson believes that Bookwalter had been forced to crank his car which exertion proved too greaat for him and caused his death. The deceased was born in Cass county near Twelve Mile on Dec. 24, 1878, the son of William and Rachel EURITT BOOKWALTER. He lived for many years in Macy, also at Peru and South Bend. For the last 18 months he has resided on what is known as the Tom BRYANT farm a mile and a half northeast of Athens. At the time of his death Mr. Bookwalter was employed as a salesman for the R. E. Ritemore Drug Company in this territory and it was while he was at his work that death came upon him. Mr. Bookwalter had been subject to heart trouble for the past eight years following an attack of influenza. Surviving him are a wife, Jenneatte, his parents, one daughter, Miss Marjorie BOOKWALTER, of California; three sisters, Mrs. Verne ENYEART, Macy; Mrs. Edith WOLFE, of South Bend; Mrs. Ida COMBS, northern Michigan and one brother John [BOOKWALTER] of Macy. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock in Macy at the M.E. church with Rev. E. P. WHITE in charge. Interment will be in the Plainview cemetery in Macy. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fulton/obits/b/bookwalt803gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb