Leighty - Effie Keller Simms
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 15 April 1972 p 3
Hillsboro - Mrs. Effie Leighty 80 of near Hillsboro died at 9:45 a.m. Friday in Culver Hospital, where she had been a patient three days. She was a member of Hillsboro Church of the Nazarene and had made her home on a farm two miles north of Hillsboro since 1936. Born December 4, 1882, in Parke County she was a daughter of William F. and Mahalia Dowden Keller. She was married in 1898* to Sherman Simms, who died in 1935. In 1936 she married Orville Russell Leighty, who died in 1937. Survivors include two sons, Raymond Simms of Indianapolis, and Freeman Simms of Logansport; three daughters, Mrs. Mammie Coleman of near Hillsboro, Mrs. Marie Fugate of near Attica and Mrs. Evelyn Roland of Garden City, Colo; 25 grandchildren; several great grandchildren eight great grandchildren and a brother, Howard Keller of Kansas. She was preceded in death by a son, Melvin and two great grandsons. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Servies-Thomas Funeral Home in Waynetown with Rev. Michael Smythers officiating. Burial will be in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
* She was married to Sherman Simms in Montgomery County, Indiana (Bk 8 p 267) 25 April 1900
Source: Taken from a collection of obituaries originally collected and owned by Fauniel Hershberger of Fountain County, Indiana, now housed by the Crawfordsville District Public Library.
Mrs. Essie Leighty, 89, of Veedersburg Route 3, died at 9:45 a.m. Friday (April 14, 1972) at Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville, where she had been a patient three days. Born Dec. 4, 1882, in Parke County, she was the daughter of William S. and Mahalia Dowden Keller. She was married in 1898 to Sherman Simms, she died in 1935. She was then married to Orville Russell Leighty who died in 1937. She had resided two miles north of Hillsboro since 1936. She was a member of Hillsboro Nazarene Church. Survivors include two sons, Raymond Simms of Logansport; three daughters, Mrs. Mamie Coleman of Hillsboro, Mrs. Marie Fugate of Attica and Mrs. Evelyn Roland of Garden City, Colo.; a brother, Howard Keller in Kansas. 25 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Melvin, in June of 1971, and two great-grandsons. Services were Monday at the Servies-Thomas Funeral Home in Waynetown, with the Rev. Michael Smythers officiating. Burial was in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. --Typed by Debby Masterson.