3/4/1890 - 1/25/1961
Handwritten-Wed. Jan. 25, 1961
Jerome Dilts Taken By
Death Late Monday
Former Berne Coach Dies; Funeral On Thursday
Jerome J. Dilts, 70, R. R. 1, Bryant, died Monday evening at 5 p.m.
in the Robert Long Hospital, Indianapolis following a two-week-illness. He
had been confined to the hospital for the past 12 days.
He was
graduated from Bryant High School with the class of 1910. He attended Old
Muncie Normal School and Marion College, and taught in Bearcreek Twp.
Schools in Jay County for 12 years. He also taught in Berne, Laketon,
Pennville and Monroe High Schools. He was once principal of Washington Twp.
grade school in Allen County. He also taught in Bakersfield, Calif.,
Pemberton, and Ft. Recovery, Ohio. He was superintendent of Ft. Recovery
schools prior to his retirement. He spent more than 45 years teaching in
public schools.
Mr. Dilts taught and coached in Berne during the mid
1920’s and his 1925-26 Berne team had an undefeated season, won the
sectional and then lost to Fort Wayne Central in the finals.
He had a
B.S. in education from Manchester College and did graduate work at Indiana
University. He was an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church and
had churches at Laketon, Silver Lake, Warsaw and Edgerton, Ind. He was
author of several short stories and one full length novel, “Twins of the
Loblolly”.
A native of Jay County, he was born March 4, 1890, in
Bearcreek Twp., the son of John and Martha Northern Dilts. He was married in
1913 to Lulu G. Bair, who survives, along with a daughter, Mrs. Donald
Deaton, Decatur, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Orr and Mrs. Catherine Mumby,
both of Bryant. A brother, Charles, of Ft. Wayne died two months ago.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Wesleyan Methodist
Church. Rev. Charles Cecil will officiate, assisted by Rev. Carl Brookshire.
Burial will be in Gravel Hill Cemetery [Jay County, Indiana]. Friends may
call at the Baird Funeral Home until Thursday noon when the body will be
removed to the church.
Adams County (IN) Historical
Museum
1951 Jan-Aug1962 Scrapbook, image 19
Transcribed by Janice
Vasilovski
Provided by Margie Roop Pearce
Buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery