BITTLE, Jeremiah Luther - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Jeremiah Luther Bittle, 85-year-old retired farmer of Waynetown, died at 5:55 p.m. Wednesday in Culver Hospital of injuries suffered about 6:30 p.m. March 28 in a one-car accident northwest of here. He became Montgomery County's second traffic fatality of 1963. Paul Jo Pollock, 21, Crawfordsville, was fatally injured Jan. 21 in a one-car crash on Ind. 47 east of Waveland. The elderly Waynetown driver was headed west on a gravel road about a mile and a half west of Elmdale, when his car struck a cement culvert and knocked it into a ditch. Mr. Bittle told sheriff's officers he had been blinded by the sun so that the car slipped off the traveled portion of the road. He suffered a fracture of the right knee, a severe cut on the right side of the neck and cuts of the upper lip and mouth. Mr. Bittle was born Sept. 1, 1877 in Fountain County near Attica, the son of Silas and Frances Devore Bittle. He was married Oct. 24, 1900 to Vera Buxton. They were married at Wingate. Mr. Bittle retired from farming in 1949 and had lived in Waynetown since 1952. He farmed in the Shawnee Mound and Wingate area before his retirement. He was a member of the First Methodist Church at Lafayette, Scottish Rite and Shrine of Indianapolis and was a past master of the Masonic Lodge. He attended school at Shawnee. He also attended Valparaiso University and was graduated from Purdue University in 1898. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Jacob Caskey of Indianapolis; a son, Carl W. Bittle of Indianapolis; two grandsons and a granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1959. The body was taken to Servies Funeral Home at Waynetown where funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Rev. Homer Cole of LaFontaine will officiate. Interment will be in the Wheeler Cemetery near Wingate. Friends may pay their respects at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Thursday.