Submitted by: Leanna Ihde

From the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune, November 16, 1955:  

JESSE HIVELY     

Jesse Hively, 72, of 822 E. Milton St., was found dead at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday of the roof of a chicken coop he was repairing on a farm at 2332 N. Hollyhock Rd. Dr. Edward S. Shelley, St. Joseph County coroner, said death apparently was due to a heart attack. Sheriff's deputies said the man was found by Dewey McCormick, Hively's son-in-law about a half hour after Hively had begun repairing shingles on the roof of the coop.
   A retired electrical engineer, Hively was born in Teagarden, Ind., June 30, 1883. He came to South Bend 48 years ago from La Paz Ind. On June 8, 1902, he married Edith Pearl Marks, of Teagarden, who survives. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. David Roose of South Bend, Mrs. Eldon Carbiener of Tucson, Ariz., and Mrs. Edward Frie of Osceola, and a brother, Elmer Hively of South Bend. He is also survived by eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
   Friends may call at the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today until 2 p.m. Friday when serviced will be conducted there by Dr. Edward Stump of the Osceola Church of the Brethren. Burial will be in the Southlawn Cemetery.