Hancock - Mervin
MERVIN HANCOCK
Source: Crawfordsville Journal - Review 19 June 1963
Funeral services for Mervin L. Hancock, 48, who was fatally injured when pinned beneath a house trailer that slipped from a jack late Tuesday was announced for 2 p.m. Friday at the Bright Funeral Home with Rev. W. Goddard Sherman of the First Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. A native of Bloomfield, Mr. Hancock was born Dec 17, 1914, to John and Lillian Groomer Hancock. He was wed to Sarah Marjorie Mitchell May 22, 1937. He was a graduate of Switz City HS and attended Purdue University as a student in dairy manufacturing. He had been employed at the Meadow Gold Dairy and as a dealer for Surge Milkers. In addition to operating the Cottonwood Mobile Homes Court, he was a distributor for Conoco Co Oil products. He was a member of the First Methodist Church in Crawfordsville and a member of the Indiana Mobile Homes Association. Survivors besides his wife and mother, include three daughters, Mr. William Farrar, Fond du Lac, Michigan; Mrs. John D. Rondot, Ft. Wayne and Mrs. Herschell Suitors, Ft. Knox, Ky; two sons, David M. and Steven M. Hancock; a grandmother, Mrs. Cleola Fulk, Solsberry; three sisters, Mrs. John Terhune, Indianapolis; Mrs. Carl Record, Louisville and Mrs. Chester Ryan, Cupertino, Calif and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a granddaughter and a brother, both of whom died in infancy. – kbz
Source:Crawfordsville Journal-Review June 21, 1963
Funeral service for Mervin L. Hancock were held at Bright Funeral Home Friday afternoon in charge of Rev. W. Goddard Sherman of the First Methodist Church. Curtis E. Bright played organ selections. The men assisting with the floral offerings and acting as pallbearers were Maurice Hineman of Newberry; Robert Ennis of South Bend and William Estep, Marion K. Maxwell, Fred Jones and William Connel of Crawfordsville. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hancock, owner and operator of the Cottonwood Lane Trailer Court, died Tuesday night at the Robert Long Hospital following an injury at his trailer court. – kbz
