8/14/1936 - 10/20/1955
Pennville IOOF Cem., Pennville, Jay County, Indiana
Handwritten-Thurs. Oct. 20, 1955
Youth, 19, Ill With Polio 3
Years, Dies
MONTPELIER—Stricken with polio over three years
ago, Ronald Drew Harter, 19, died in his parent’ home at Poneto at 6:50 a.m.
today. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harter.
He was stricken
with the disease on July 31, 1952 and had been confined in the Lutheran
Hospital at Fort Wayne for two years and five months. Later he received
treatment at the Warm Springs Hospital in Warm Springs, Ga. Harter was
returned to his home in March of this year.
He was six feet, five
inches tall and played basketball for the Petroleum High School until
becoming ill. He was a lifetime resident of Wells County.
Surviving
besides the parents and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Harter, Bluffton.
The body was taken to the ?? Chapel here where
friends may call??. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the
funeral home, the Rev. Fred Wright, Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be
in the Twin Hill Cemetery at Pennville.
Adams County,
Indiana Historical Museum"1955 Mar-April 1958" Scrapbook
Image 28
Transcribed by Janice Vasilovski
Buried in Twin Hill Cemetery