Submitted by: Barbara J. Anderson   andertow@pacbell.net

7/18/1864-11/22/1925

THE ELKHART TRUTH, MONDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1925

OBITUARY

JEROME  E.  STONE

Jerome E. Stone, 704 West Marion Street, 61, died at 5 o’clock Sunday evening.   Death was due to pernicious anemia from which he had suffered for a number of years.  Two trips were made to California with a hope that his health might be beneficial, temporary improvement only being realized.  

Funeral services will be held at the home Wednesday at 1:30 o’clock.  Rev. F. E. Fribley of Trinity Methodist church officiating. 

Burial will take place at the Osceola cemetery, Elkhart lodge, Knights of Pythias; will have charge of the services. Mr. Stone, who was a son of Frank and Adeline Stone, was born three miles south of Mishawaka on July 27, 1864. 

While he was still a youth the family moved to Elkhart for 25 years.  Mr. Stone was employed by the New York Central Railroad Co. for 20 years as a molder.  The last four years of his service was as a watchman in the main shop.

Surviving Mr. Stone are his wife, Lucinda (Heffner) Stone; three sons, Vernon Stone of Elkhart, Alfred Stone of Los Angeles, and Walter Stone, of Florence, Ore; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Eugene Stone of Elkhart and Lewis Stone of Hammond, Ind., and a sister, Mrs. Ida Richie of Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Stone was a member of the Trinity Methodist church and of the Knights of Pythias.