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Dunbar - Arthur L.

Source: Indianapolis News 14 June 1944 p 12

Crawfordsville, June 14 – Rites will be held here Thursday afternoon for Arthur L. Dunbar, 66, retired farmer and former trustee of Sugar Creek Township who died Tuesday at Culver Hospital here. Mr. Dunbar was a member of a pioneer Montgomery County family.  He was trustee of Sugar Creek Township when the school building at Bowers Station was built. Twice married, Mr. Dunbar is survived by a stepdaughter and a foster daughter. He also leaves two sisters and a brother. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Colfax. Burial will be in the Odd Fellow cemetery at Darlington. - kbz


Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 7 June 1944 p 6

Services in memory of Arthur Lewis Dunbar were held at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at Proffitt & Sons Funeral Home.  Mr. Dunbar died at Culver Hospital here Tuesday morning after a brief illness. He had been a prominent Sugar Creek Township farmer and was a former township trustee there before retiring from active farm duties a few years ago.  Services were in charge of the Rev. Paul E. Miller, pastor of the First Christian Church in Crawfordsville with burial at the IOOF Cemetery at Darlington.  Pall bearers were Wallace Stucky, Warner Stuckey, Donald Bennett, Wallace Miller, John Rogers and Byron Evans.  During the services Mrs. Ernest Breaks sang Does Jesus Care, Jesus Savior Pilot Me and Church in the Wildwood. Iva Reynolds was at the organ.  Thanks to Mary Jo B



Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 13 June 1944 p 6

Arthur Lewis Dunbar, age 65, for many years prominent as a farmer in Sugar Creek Township, near Bowers Station and a former trustee of the township, died at Culver Hospital at 3:45 o’clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Dunbar had been ill for the past two weeks with a heart ailment. Born near Bowers Station, Oct 11, 1877, Mr. Dunbar was the son of Silas and Nora Dunbar, influential citizens of that neighborhood.  His grandfather Dunbar was one of Montgomery County’s earliest settlers. Mr. Dunbar was twice married, first to Fannie Brown and later following her death, to Belle Blaise. Mr. Dunbar’s second wife also preceded him in death. Mr. Dunbar was the trustee of Sugar Creek Township at the time of the building of the Bowers School House, just a half mile west of Bowers Station. Since his retirement, a few years ago, from active farm work, he had resided in Crawfordsville. For a while he was employed with the Service Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishment here in south Washington Street.  Mr. Dunbar was a member of the Masonic Lodge.  One brother, ___ of Kirkpatrick and Mrs. John A Evans of Frankfort survive together with a foster daughters, Mrs. Donald Bennett of Linde and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Warner Stuckey of Lebanon.  The body was taken from the hospital to Proffit & Sons Funeral Home where services in memory of Mr. Dunbar will be held at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon.  The Rev. Paul E. Million will have charge.  Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery at Darlington. (this was saved from a pdf file and not all came out so perfectly but it’s close).  – thanks to Mary Jo B

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