Irvin - Jackie
Jackie IRVIN
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, 24 Jan 1935 p8.
Wingate, Jan 2 -- Jackie Irvin, 19 expired at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the home of his parents, four and a half miles SE of Wingate, following an extended illness with tuberculosis. Jackie's twin brother, Billy died of the same disease Nov 14, 1934. The deceased was born Jan 7, 1916. Jackie was graduated from the Waynetown HS with the class of 1934. Both he and his twin brother were former stars with the Waynetown HS basketball team. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Irvin. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Elmdale Methodist Church in charge of the Rev. CC Rockwell. Burial will be made in Waynetown Cemetery. - kbz
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Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review Jan 29, 1935.
Funeral services for Jackie Irvin, son of Don and Fay Irvin, were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Elmdale M E Church. Jackie was born Jan 7, 1916 and departed this life Jan 23, 1935, at 8:15 p.m. at the age of 19 years and 16 days. Jackie expired following an extended illness with tuberculosis. His twin brother, Billie, expired with the same disease Nov 14, 1934, just ten weeks before his brother, Jackie. Jackie and his twin brother, Billie, were adopted by their foster parents at the age of 14 months. He graduated from the Waynetown high school with the class of 1934 and was a member of the basketball team. He was a member of the Elmdale M E Church. He was very active in the affairs of the church and the high school. His life was short to the number of years lived here, but it was so lived that it has left an impression for good upon his church and school and the entire community in which he lived. Ray Thompson of Wingate, accompanied by Jeanne Hamilton sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and Some Time We'll Underand," and Somewhere a Voice is Calling." Pallbearers were young men of his Sunday school class: Gerald Fuller, Donald Merrell, Russell Merrell, Kenneth Rafferty, Clarence Rafferty, and Frank Bunnell. Flower bearers were Mary DeEtta Wilkinson, Vivian Murphy, Doris Gooding, Kathleen Quillen, June De Moss, Margaret Crowder, Mary Jane Richards, Pearl Duke, Eliho Runyan, Paul Fouts, Hugh Webster, Willis Schenck and Clarence McCarthe, all members of his 1934 graduating class. Besides his foster parents, he leaves a father, Ennis Sheets, a sister Edith Twiddy: and a host of relatives and friends.The services were in charge of Rev C C Rockwell, pastor of the church. Burial was in the Waynetown Masonic cemetery.
CARDS OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kind expressions of sympathy shown us during the illness and loss of our beloved son, Jackie. We also thank the Rev. C C Rockwell,the singer, Ray Thompson, and the funeral director, R C Dickens. Mr and Mrs Don Irvin.