Widow Ex-Local Editor Succumbs
Mrs. Janie Calkins, widow of Clinton G. Calkins and with her
husband as resident of Mt. Vernon for a number of years during Mr. Calkins
local newspaper career, died yesterday at her home in Indianapolis.
Funeral service and burial will be at Indianapolis Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Calkins was publisher of The Evening Sun, former Mt. Vernon newspaper. For many years after
his local residence he was a compositor in the mechanical department of the
Indianapolis Star. Mr. and Mrs.
Calkins were very active members of First Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon during their residence here and were
prominent in music circles of the community including the church choir. Mrs Calkins was a charter memeber
of the Mt. Vernon Cotele, a women's club.
Surviving Mrs. Calkins are a brother, Thomas H. Riggs, Princeton, Ind; a sister, Mrs Miles Drake, Franklin and
two son, Richard and Harry both of Indianapolis.
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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers