Obituary:  Trimble County: Perkinson: 1943

Submitted by:   Joy Mack   Email:  cmuck@seidata.com 

(1)
Newspaper clipping of an obit for Cleveland handed down from George Howell 
and Frances Enola Culver Beckley.  Newspaper source unknown.

DIES IN INDIANAPOLIS

Services for Former Trimble County, Ky., Man Held Wednesday.

Cleveland Perkinson, age 50, passed away Monday afternoon at his home in 
Indianapolis after serveral years of ill health.
He was born and reared in Trimble county, Ky., but later took training in a 
mechanical school in Cincinnati and moved to Indianapolis where he continued 
his work until his death, which came while at his work.

He is survived by his wife; three sons, Clifford and Frank of Indianapolis, 
and James, serving with the army in England; a brother, Lester, of Madison; 
a sister, Mrs. Roy Culver, route four; three half sisters, Mrs. A. G. 
Browning, Madison; Mrs. Stella Ball, Hanover, and Mrs. Anna Huff, Bedford, 
Ky., and a half brother Villie Perkinson, Indianapolis.  Also several nieces 
and nephews and a host of friends both in Indianapolis and Trimble county.

Services were held Wednesday afternoon at Colen's funeral home and burial 
was in Washington Park.  Those serving as pallbearers were: Loyd Browning, 
Bill Stephen, Roy Culver, Lester Perkinson, Frank Bates and Morris Garrett.

(2)
Newspaper clipping of an obit for Cleveland Perkinson hand-down from George 
Howell and Frances Enola Culver Beckley.  Newspaper clipping source unknown, 
but probably from a newspaper from the Indianapolis area. (hand-written at 
the top of the clipping "Oct 4 1943", and at the bottom  "Monday")

CLEVELAND PERKINSON

Services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Tolin funeral home 
followed by the burial in Washington Park cemetery for Cleveland Perkinson, 
age fifty, who died Monday of a heart attack.  Employed about ten years by 
the Madden-Copple Company, Inc., as a mechanic, he had been in impaired 
health four years.

A native of Bedford, Ky., Mr. Perkinson came to Indianapolis from 
Cincinnati, where he had received his trade training.  He was a member of 
the Eagles Lodge.

Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Goldie Perkinson; three sons, Clifford L. 
Perkinson, Lawrence; Francis H. Perkinson, Indianapolis, and Corporal James 
E. Perkinson, who is stationed in England; one sister, Mrs. Roy Culver, near 
Madison; a half brother, Villy Perkinson, and a brother, Lester Perkinson, 
near Madison.

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