McCORKLE, Charles Howard - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

WAYNE'TOWN --- Funeral services for Charles Howard McCorkle, age 66, of Wingate, brother of Mrs. Alice Finney of Attica, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, at the Servies Funeral Home here. The Rev. Rob R. James officiated and burial was in MeHarry Cemetery. Masonic rites were conducted at the funeral home on Friday night. Mr. McCorrkle died at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette. He had been ill the past several years and seriously ill since Monday. He was born April 27, 1897, in Jackson Township, the son of John and Terrie DeVore McCorkle. He was married Aug. 7, 1937, at Rockport, to Irene McCoy, who survives. He was associated with the Farmers State Bank at Wingate for 35 years and later operated a farm north of Wingate. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge, Medinah Temple Scottish Rite at Chicago, American Legion Post, and Coal Creek Township Farm Bureau. He was a former director of the Tipmont REMC. He graduated from Northwestern University and was as member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He served in the Navy during World War I. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are: two sons, John H., at home and Charles A., a senior at Purdue University; and two sisters, Mrs. Finney of Attica and Mrs. Mildred Risk of Wingate.  --typed by Walt W