BELCHER, Nettie Brooks Minnick - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

STONE BLUFF – Nettie Belcher, 69, of Stone Bluff, a former employe of Radio Material Co. at Attica, died in Community Hospital at Williamsport at 8:45 a.m. today. She had been a patient there a week and had been in ill health a year. Mrs. Belcher had resided in Woodland Manor Nursing Home at Attica since April. She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Stone Bluff, the Ladies Aid Society of the church and a Home Economics Club. She was born at Salina, Kan., Oct. 7, 1902, a daughter of Charles and Cora Whiting Brooks. She was first married Rutherford Minnick in 1925. He died in 1941. She married Jesse Belcher in 1947. He died in 1958. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Karen) Van Hyfte of Attica; three step-daughters, Mrs. Zola Bailey, Mrs. Helen Stucker and Mrs. Beulah Reichenbaugh, all of Tulsa, Okla.; four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Hillyer of Stone Bluff, Mrs. Golda Watson of Bainbridge, Mrs. Eva Lively and Mrs. Eulah Stockwell, both of Waveland; two brothers, Clyde and James L. Brooks, both of Waveland, and two grandchildren. Services will be held in Stone Bluff United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. August Huber officiating. Burial will be in Osborne Prairie Cemetery near here. Friends may call at Dale Maus Funeral Home at Attica after 5 p.m. Tuesday. The body will lie in state in the church one hour prior to services.