STONEBRAKER, Ida Sands Hansbrough
Source: The obituary is from a collection of newspaper (paper names not recorded) obituaries saved, by Fauniel Hershberger, during the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana. The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.
from newspaper dated Tuesday, May 26, 1970
Services for Mrs. Ida M. Stonebraker, 68, of 101 Tyler, who died Tuesday morning at her home, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Barrick & Son Funeral Home, the Rev. Harold Dubre officiating. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Catlin. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. She attended the Vermilion Heights Methodist Church. She was a member of Eagles Lodge and past president. Mrs. Stonebraker was awarded Mother of the Year title in 1966. Born Sept. 3, 1901 in Fairmount, she was the daughter of Hughie and Lydia B. Thomas Sands. She was a retired grocery store clerk. Survivors include her husband, Ora of Danville; two sons, Clyde Hansbrough of Danville and James Hansbrough of Portland, Ore.; three daughters, Myrtle Billings of Westville, Dorothy Ritter of Wilmington and Doris Kochell of Danville; a stepson, Harry Stonebraker of Indianapolis; four step-daughters, Margaret Bentley, Doris Bunnell, Doreen Stonebraker and Frances Ward, all of Veedersburg, Ind.; two brothers, Sam Sands of Catlin and Herschel Sands of Catlin; seven sisters, Elizabeth Thomas of Catlin, Mary Medea of Chicago, Alice Hunt, Anna Hardesty, Lucy Cox, Marie Butcher and Melba Campbell, all of Danville; 24 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren and eight step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Fred Hansbrough, three daughters, two brothers and a sister. -- typed by Walt W