ELLER, Gene - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

HILLSBORO - Gene Eller, 40, of Rt. 1, Hillsboro, died this morning in the West 10th Street Veterans Hospital at Indianapolis. He had been in failing health five months. Mr. Eller was a Navy veteran of the Korean War and a member of Hillsboro American Legion Post 188. He attended the Christian Church at Attica. He had lived here three years, moving here from Mellott. He attended schools at Pine Village and Attica. Mr. Eller was born on April 16, 1933, at Boswell, a son of Jess and Myrtle Pratt Eller. He was married to Helen Shoaf on Sept. 15, 1955. She survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Brenda Eller at home; two sisters, Mrs. Walter (Frankie) Seymour of Mellott and Mrs. Richard (Katie) Everett of Terre Haute; two brothers, Marvin and Lee Eller of Attica; five half-sisters, Mrs. Rudi (Sue) DuVerney of Zionsville, Mrs. Richard (Linda) Cheever of Kokomo, Mrs. Betty Cheesman and Miss Patty Eller of Cayuga and Miss Bonnie Eller of Otterbein, and two half-brothers, Larry Eller of Otterbein and Jack Eller of Florida. He was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crumley-Williams Funeral Home here. - jlr

HILLSBORO - Funeral services for Gene Eller, 40, of Rt. 1, Hillsboro, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Crumley-Williams Funeral Home here with the Rev. Ernest Hayden officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Attica. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. today. - jlr