LIGHTY, Essie Elizabeth Keller

Source: Taken from a collection of obituaries originally collected and

owned by Fauniel Hershberger of Fountain County, Indiana, now housed by

the Crawfordsville District Public Library.

Mrs. Essie Leighty, 89, of Veedersburg Route 3, died at 9:45 a.m. Friday

( April 14, 1972) at Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville, where she had be

en a patient three days. Born Dec. 4, 1882, in Parke County, she was

the daughter of William S. and Mahalia Dowden Keller. She was married

in 1 898 to Sherman Simms, she died in 1935. She was then married to

Orville Russell Leighty who died in 1937. She had resided two miles

north of Hillsboro since 1936. She was a member of Hillsboro Nazarene

Church. Survivors include two sons, Raymond Simms of Logansport; three

daughters, Mrs. Mamie Coleman of Hillsboro, Mrs. Marie Fugate of Attica

and Mrs. Evelyn Roland of Garden City, Colo.; a brother, Howard Keller

in Kansas. 25 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and eight

great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Melvin,

in June of 1971, and two g eat-grandsons. Services were Monday at the

Servies-Thomas Funeral Home in Waynetown, with the Rev. Michael Smythers

officiating. Burial was in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. --Typed by Debby Masterson.