DeLong - Harley
HARLEY "Doc" DeLONG
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, December 6, 1976
LAFAYETTE – Harley E. “Doc” DeLong, 81, a Lafayette businessman and stepfather of Mrs. Hal Barbee of Crawfordsville, died Saturday in Home Hospital at Lafayette. He had been in failing health for 2½ years. Mr. DeLong was a veteran of World War I and World War II. He was owner and operator of DeLong’s Saw Sharpening Service. He was a bus driver for the Indiana Soldiers Home and was employed for 15 years with Tippecanoe Highway Department, retiring in 1961. He was born near Frankfort Oct. 6, 1895, a son of Thomas and Ida DeLong. He was married to Helen Evans Smith on Dec. 31, 1954. Surviving are his wife; a stepson, Cecil Smith Jr. of Lafayette; another stepdaughter, Mrs. Charles (Dorothy Louise) Luttrel of Lafayette; a sister, Mrs. Edward (Leona) Anderson of Dayton; 15 stepgrandchildren; and 18 stepgreat-grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Hippensteel Funeral Home with the Revs. James Bettin and Harvey Harsch officiating. Burial will be in St. Luke Cemetery near Frankfort. Friends may call at the funeral home. – jlr