Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran
SBT 12/10/1969
Mrs. Harold
James Newton
May 1, 1897
– December 9, 1969
Mrs. Evalyn H.
Newton, 72, of 1226 Joyce Dr., died at 4pm Tuesday in Memorial Hospital
after an illness of several weeks.
She was born May
1, 1897, in Bertrand MI, and had lived in this area her entire
life. She was married in 1915 in New Carlisle to Edgar L.
Hooton, who died in 1925. In 1928, in LaPorte, she married
Harold James Newton, who survives.
Also surviving
are two sons, Edgar L. Hooton of South Bend and Ralph Jay Hooton
of Tullahoma TN; eight grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Friends may call
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Thursday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home,
where services will be conducted at 1pm Friday, with Rev. James
E. Pender, pastor of the Trinity Grace United Methodist Church,
officiating. Burial will be in the New Carlisle Cemetery.
She was a member of the Nigella Home Extension Club.