Bittle - Vera Buston
VERA BUXTON BITTLE
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 27 Apr 1959 p 10 typed by Walt W
Waynetown—Vera W. Bittle, 78, died at 5 p.m. Saturday in her home here after an illness since last September. Death was attributed to a heart ailment. She was born Oct. 17, 1880, in St. Mary's, Ohio, to Millard and Alice Rush Buxton, and married J. Luther Bittle at Wingate in 1900. He survives. Mrs. Bittle was a member of the First Methodist Church at West Lafayette and the OES of Wingate, of which order she had been a Worthy Matron. She and Mr. Bittle came to Waynetown in 1952. Surviving besides the husband are a daughter, Mrs. Jacob Caskey, and son, Carl Bittle, both of Indianapolis; three grandchildren, and a sister, Mabel G. Buxton of Lebanon. Funeral rites are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Servies Funeral Home in Waynetown, where friends may call after 4 p. m. Monday. Rev. Homer M. Cole will officiate and interment will be in the Wheeler Cemetery four miles north of Wingate.
WAYNETOWN -- Funeral services for Mrs. Vera W. Bittle were conducted at the Servies Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Homer M. Cole, pastor of the local Christian Church, officiated. Selected hymns were played by Mrs. Nellie Snyder, organist. Pallbearers, also in charge of the flowers, were Harold Oxley, Carl Peveler, Robert Amstutz, Charles McCorkle, Donald McCorkle, Alvin Weaver, Warren VanHook and William VanHook. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery, north of Wingate.