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Stout - Emmet


Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, Montgomery Co., IN
Thurs., Feb. 10, 1972 P4 C6
Emmett C. Stout, 79, 406 S. Washington St., retired Crawfordsville High School teacher, died at 7:13 this morning in Culver Hospital.
A teacher in the Crawfordsville system for 37 years in the science department, he started his teaching career here in September 1921 and retired in June 1958.
Active in the Boy Scout program, he was awarded the Silver Beaver, which is the highest award a council can present to a volunteer worker. He served as scoutmaster of First United Methodist Church Troop 332 during the 1940's.
He served as camp director for Camp Rotary several summers and many of the present structures at the camp were built by Mr. Stout and his camp staff. He was one of the originators of the idea for the camp.
He graduated from Wabash College in 1917 and later attended Butler and Indiana universities.
He served in the armed forces during World War I.
Mr. Stout was Past Master of Blue Lodge and Past Patron of OES at Crawfordsville.
Born Dec. 19, 1892, at Kendallville, he was the son of Oliver and Katherine Stout. He married Blanche Warbritton Feb. 11, 1932, at Crawfordsville. She survives.
Another survivor is his sister, Mrs. James Gordon of Liberty Chapel.
Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. at Powers Funeral Home with Rev. Frank Little officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Friday.
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