English - Claude
CLAUDE ENGLISH
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, March 20, 1967
ROCKVILLE – Claude English, 75, died at 2:40 a.m. Sunday in Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Indianapolis where he had been a patient six weeks. Mr. English had managed the commissary at Turkey Run State Park 14 years. He had also managed the Jungle Park Restaurant and Motel five years and had owned and operated the English Cafe in Rockville seven years. He was a veteran of World War I. He was a member of the Fellenzer Post 48 American Legion at Rockville, the Masonic Lodge 648 at Marshall and the Marshall Federated Church. He had attended school at Annapolis and Bloomingdale. A native of Parke. County, he was born Feb. 9, 1892, a son of Rolland and Elizabeth Kennedy English. He was married to Etta Fox Jan. 2, 1918. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Anna Swaim of Rockville; two nieces and three nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1955 and two brothers. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Tudor Funeral Home in Rockville with Rev. Freddie Griffit of Danville, Ill., and Rev. Roger Rankin officiating. Burial will be in Poplar Groves Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today. – jlr