FERGUSON, Ernest Clarence
ERNEST CLARENCE FERGUSON
Source: Obituary from a collection by Fauniel Hershberger, a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana, now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.
ATTICA, Ind. (CNS) -- Ernest Clarence Ferguson, 73, of 103 E. Jackson, died at 2:30 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 25, 1969) at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette. He had been in ill health five years. Born Oct. 4, 1896 in West Salem, Ill., he was the son of the Rev. U.F. and Dora Ogborn Ferguson. He married Grace Bethel in 1919, who survives. Following his graduation from Attica High in 1919, he was in the Army for two years. He was then associated with his father-in-law, Wilbur Bethel in the grocery business in Attica. He later attended the Askins College of Embalming in Indianapolis and was associated with the Royster and Askins Funeral Home in Indianapolis. In 1926, he began his own funeral home in Attica which he operated until ill health in 1961. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Attica and the Attica American Legion Post No. 52. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Anna Kingore of Indianapolis and Mrs. Claude Maxson of Frankfort; and two brothers, Newell Ferguson of Lafayette and the Rev. John Ferguson of Columbus. Services will be at 2 p.m. EST Sunday at the Roemer Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Harold Bachert officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 .m. Saturday. ==typed by Walt W
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Source: Lafayette Journal-Courier Friday 26 Dec 1969 p 6
Attica – Ernest “Ernie” Clarence Ferguson, 73 of 103 E. Jackson St, Attica, died at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette. He had been in failing health five years and seriously ill since October. Mr. Ferguson former owner of Ferguson Funeral Home in Attica was born in West Salem, Ill. He graduated from Attica HS in 1917 after which he spent two years in the armed forces. After his marriage in 1919 to Grace Bethel he joined his father-in-law, Wilbur Bethel in the grocery business in Attica. He later attended Askin College of Embalming in Indianapolis. He was associated with Royster & Askin Funeral Home in Indianapolis until opening the Ferguson Funeral Home here in 1926. Ill health forced his retirement in 1961. Mr. Ferguson was well known for his many sponsored bus trips to Chicago baseball games and the Lincoln Park Zoo for children of the community. He was a member of Attica American Legion Post 52. Surviving with the widow are two sisters, Mrs. Anna Kingore of Indianapolis and Mrs. Claude Mason of Frankfort and two brothers, Newell Ferguson of Lafayette and Rev. John Ferguson of Columbus, Ind. - kbz