BANTZ, Oliver J. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Oliver J. BANTZ, Covington Dies

March 22

Oliver J. BANTZ, 82, died at 3:30 a.m. Saturday at Culver Hospital, Crawfordsville, where he had been a patient 4 months. Mr. Bantz had been ill the past two years. He was born Jan 19, 1866, in Fountain County, the son of Jacob and Sara Bantz, July 18, 1888, he was married to Georgeanna Rhodes, Covington who died Sept 30, 1944. He spent most of his life in Covington and in the Salem neighborhood north of town where he farmed for many years. He was a member of the Salem Methodist Church. Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Belle Galloway; a sister, Mrs. Anna Porterfield, of Sidney, ill; a brother, John Bantz, of Richland, Wis; 3 grandchildren, Mrs. Gilbert Himebaught; Miss Georgianna Galloway and Paul Galloway and two great grandchilden. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Covington Methodist church with Rev. Kenneth Powell officiating and burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.