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Tevebaugh - Charles A.

Source: Muncie Indiana Star Press Friday 15 Sept 1950
 
Indianapolis, Sept 14 – Charles A. Tevebaugh, 74, former state YMCA secretary died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. He established the YMCA in Indianapolis and Brazil and raised new building funds for New Castle, Elkhart and Huntington. He resigned the state chairmanship in 1946.

Source: Indianapolis Times 14 Sept 1950 p 26

Services for Charles A. Tevebaugh, former state YMCA secretary will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill.  Mr. Tevebaugh, who was 74, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.  He lived at 2823 Washington Blvd.  Mr. Tevebaugh attended Indiana State Teachers College and Wabash College.  He was graduated from Indiana Law School in 1906 and taught school in Carroll County, the place of his birth for three years and practiced law in Indianapolis for three years. In 1909 he first became affiliated with the Indianapolis YMCA.  He became general secretary of the Chattanooga Tenn YMCA two years later. In 1915 he was named city work secretary for Kentucky.  During WWI Mr. Tevebaugh was acting state secretary in Kentucky.  While Indiana state YMCA secretary from 1922-1936, he established a YMCA in Brazil and raised funds for new buildings at New Castle, Huntington and Elkhart.  He was active in conduct campaigns for YMCAS, churches, rescue missions and Goodwill Industries. During WWII he served as USO campaign director in the southern states in Montana, Wyoming and Utah.  In 1941 and 1942 he was campaign director for the United War Fund in New York.  He later assisted in the YMCA World Youth Fund.  Mr. Tevebaugh was a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge No 398 F&AM and Scottish Rite.  He beloved to the Presbyterian Church in Cutler, Ind and was an elder at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church here.  Surviving are his wife, Lelia; a daughter, Miss Naomi Tevebaugh, Indianapolis and a son, Charles A, Jr, Akron, O; and two grandsons, Charles Richard and James Allen Tevebaugh.  Active pallbearers will be Edwin C. Read; Earl A. Harrison; Frank Liddie; Arthur F. Williams; John H. Jefferson and Harry W. White.  Honorary pallbearers are Fred I. Willis, Fermor Cannon; FW Esterline; Herbert King; Herbert S. Wood; H. Guy Bradley; Charles A. Breece; George L. Clark; Frank E. Cramer; George W. Davidson; Clarence W. Dicks; Edgar H. Evans; William P. Evans; David E. Fox; ML Hall; Paul A. Hancock; Edward W. Harris; Dr. Henry S. Leonard; Charles S. Nourse; Henry L. Patrick; J. Dwight Peterson; Judge Hezzie B. Pike; Leonard Reel; Jasper W. Tucker; Albert Hahn; James H. Shirk; TD Bartless; Harry Hudson and WE Kilborn.  (Note: 29 honorary pallbearers – he lived in Crawfordsville in his younger years)

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