104 E. Lakeshore

Section 16 - 500.90A 1835 Original Survey

Section 16 c. 1837 500.90A (North shore town and academy)

1872 - Section. 16 Est. of I N Morris 105 A ( also 80 A) J. Duddleson - 30.60A & 10A T. Houghton 90A. J. HOughton Acreage not stated J ___ name illegible 4A G. A. Durr 10A Lot no name no acreage stated G. A. Durr 5A? - res (Lot 2 3A & 3A) Dr. Durr No amount Stated lots as if to be 2 large L D W [Lorenzo W. Wiseman]

1876 - J. Castleman - 190A 1876 Section 16 1850-1876 I. N. Morris 175/185a   [Isaac N. Morris] - 185 A

1880 North Section 16 - 500.90 Acres Town I N Morris 185.34 B. W. Watt 15.50A LakeView Club 15A J Duddleson 109.31A Tho. Houghton 90A. J. E. Houghton 19.60A E Parker 27 A

From the Logansport Daily Journal page 3 dated Aug. 27, 1882:

All the preliminaries for the extension of the Logansport branch of the Vandalia railway to Lake Michigan have been satisfactorily adjusted, and upon compliiance with a few easy conditions the contact will be closed, and the work will be commenced and pushed to completion.

Readers of the Journal are familiar with the route of this line to Marmont (Maxinkuckee), and will have no difficulty in following it to South Bend and the lake...
With these advantages before them, our citizens are asked to consider one of the conditions above named, which condition is that the right of way shall be furnished free to the new line thorugh our county. The estimated cost of this right of way is from $7,000 to $10,000 and it is proposed to raise the amount by subscription. A consideraable portion of this subscription has already been secured, and a committee appointed for that purpose will make an effort to raise the remainder during the present week...

1883 - Oct 6 - The.Vandaiia railroad company commenced laying iron at Marmount a day or two ago, and-withln a short time the tract will be completed from Maxinkuckee lake to the Nickle Plate railroad, a distance of about three miles,- Logansport Pharos Tribune

1898 - Section 16 L. C. Dillion - 10A, 99.31A, 79.76, 75.60A T. Houghton 89A A. Roughton E. Duddle(son) 9.60A E. Morris 21.49A/Morris Lake Front Plat T. H. & L RRR Lake View Club 15 A. J. J. Bryant Depot Incorporated Limits of Culver

1900 - Evermans' Biological Survey

1906 - Sanborn Fire Map - Vacant lots

1908

1913 - Jan 23 -O. T. Goss has purchased from M. R. Cline the two terrace lots on the corner of Scott and Main Streets for $1,000 each. This will make a very sightly location for the home which Mr. Goss is planning to build there this year.

1913 - Apr 10 - Is building a Residence

O. T. Goss has broken ground on the two lots at the corner of Main and Scott streets for his new residence.

The main part will be 28 fet square and there will be an addition 12 1/2 by 26. The house will contain ten rooms and will be equipped with modern conceniences.

A 10-foot porch will extend across the entire front.

Stahl & Romig have the contract fot the carpenter work.

1914 - Jan 1 - Cost by the cost by the Citizen "0. T. Goss, res........... 4,000"

1914 - Jun. 18 - 0. T Goss has made a needed aud desirable improvement to his residence by the addition of a back porch it extends 14 feet across the north end of the house and 12 feet along the west side, and is 7 feet wide.

1914 Sanborn Fire Map

Two views of the old Goss houss one a actual photo showing part of it and the other a cropped out drawing of it from a photo (assumed) for an ad

1922 Plat map

1924 Sanborn Map

1937 Sanborn Firs Map

? - 1961 - Beatrice Goss.

an ad from the 1961 telephone directory

Van Guilder funeral Home

1961 Oct - July 1964 - Van Guilder Funeral Home - Bruce Van Guilder

1964 - Jul 8 - Easterday-Bonine Funeral Home Burys Van Gilder Lease

The Easterday-Bonine Funeral Home, Culver, has taken over the lease to the property which was formerly occupied by the Vand Gilder Funeral of Culver.

There is no immediate plan to move or occupy the property by the Easterday-Nonine firm.

Future plans call for a large remodeling program for the property to meet the needs of the local firm.

The VanGilder Funeral Home of CUlvewr, which was a branch of the parnet company in Plymouth discontinied their Culver operation last week

An ad that ran in 1964 for VandGuilder's

Easterday-Bonine funeral Home

1966 - April 7 - Bonine's To Move funeral Home To New Location

James "Jim" Bonine and Mrs. Rosalie Bonine, on April 25th, moved the Easterday-Bonine Funeral Home into the re-modeled "O. T. Goss" property.

Bonnie-Odom funeral Home Inc

In August 2000, Gregory & Karen Odom, along with their son, Andrew, became associated with the Bonine Funeral Home.

2004 - Bonine-Odom Funeral Home - Gregory W. & Karen A. Odom

It became Bonnie-Odom funeral Home Inc, in April 2004 when the current director Greg Odom bought the business

Odom Funeral Home Inc. (L.L.C.)

2006, Nov. 1 - present - Odom Funeral Home - Gregory W. & Karen A. Odom In 2013 Odum's son Andrew began to Assist his parents with the operation of the funeral home

2010 - Mar 18 - Greg Odom and his family have officially taken over the former Bonine-Odom Funeral Home in Culver in full, and recently the sign outside the longstanding location of that funeral home came to reflect the change

2010 - Mar 18 - ‘Quite a legacy’ Odom takes over Culver’s 100-plus year-old funeral business

By Jeff Kenney Citizen editor

The Odom name is certainly not new to Culver. After all, it’s been affixed to the large sign outside Culver’s only funeral home since 2005, though only in recent months has the name resided there alone, no longer joined by the “Bonine” moniker which occupied it for some four decades.

Further, Greg Odom and his family have been familiar to Culverites since 2000, when Greg began working with longtime director Jim Bonine, who began to phase out of the daily operation of the funeral home and mortuary with Greg’s arrival.

Now, Odom is the fourth owner of the more than century-old business, and just the second outside the Easterday family who started it in the 19th century, and the Bonine-Odom Funeral Home has become the Odom Funeral Home.

Odom and his wife Karen, along with a 16-year-old son (another son, an adult, lives and works in St. Louis) arrived here in August, 2000, from Marion, Illinois, where Greg had been a third generation coal miner, a profession in which he intended to continue “forever,” he says. However, he started working with a local funeral director in Marion and eventually went back to school at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and obtained his mortuary science degree, working for the next five years in the local mortuary industry.

A salesman friend of his, who worked the Culver territory and knew Odom wasn’t happy where he was, contacted Odom about the Bonine Funeral Home.

“We came up and visited one weekend and fell in love with the place,” recalls Odom. “I worked a week and moved up here right away. We did a lot of prayer about it, but it turned out ok. We’ve been very happy here.”

Odom worked for the Bonines until March of 2005, during which time discussion of possible future ownership of the business came up, something Bonine was also interested in.

“He (Jim Bonine) helped me learn a lot about the business,” says Odom. “I’d had five years’ experience where I was at, but Jim opened up (about) the business end to me…I’ve got to give credit to Jim for giving me a chance here".

Odom’s buyout of the business was actually complete last fall, though the name only changed on the sign after the turn of 2010. And over the months, the Odoms have concentrated, says Greg, on “helping families create meaningful ceremonies celebrating the special people in their lives. That’s where I like to spend my energy, so they feel happy that they’ve honored that individual (the deceased).

“And of course the grief part of it is another side of it that’s a big thing I feel strongly about. We give handouts on grief and point people in the right direction if they need information on grief. We do a remembrance service once a year to celebrate the lives of people to show they’re not forgotten about. On the anniversary of their death, we light a candle in remembrance of that person. We try to keep track of that…we try to show the families that we really care, too.”

Odom stresses that those in Culver needn’t assume their choices in funeral-related services are limited simply by the small size of their community.

“I try to keep up with the trade to offer the same value to our families here as in bigger cities. Funerals are expensive, and I want people to feel like they’re getting some value out of what they’re paying for.

“I keep a list of different types of services and show it to every family,” Odom adds. “We’ve done balloon services,one with a Dixieland band; we did a Notre Dame-themed service. I try to get people to open up their imagination towhatever is meaningful to them.”

Funeral services have changed over the past decade, Odom notes, including – as might be imagined – facets incorporating technology. The use of digital images and music via DVDs for visitations and other occasions has become a regular part of the funeral home’s offering.

There’s a push on to show funerals streaming on the internet, something to which Odom says his family has given thought.

“We want to keep improving,” he explains. “You can’t offer everything, butyou try to offer something really good.”

Greg Odom believes the business he’s taken over is the second oldest of its kind in Marshall County, having started in downtown Culver in 1893. It was operated by members of the Easterday family until the Bonines took it over in the early 1960s, moving the businessto its present home at the corner of Main Street andLake Shore Drive.

“It is quite a legacy,” heacknowledges.

Odom says the Culver community has embraced his family, a sentimentthat’s entirely reciprocal.

“Culvers been very good to us,” he smiles. “The people have been great to us… very, very welcoming. I can’t say enough about that. And the trust they place in us… we make mistakes, but people have been very forgiving.

“Culver is a great place,really,” he adds. “It’s aunique little town. I’m surprised at how many people die away from here and want to be buried here. “

He says he and his family hope they’re here “for a long time. Lots of young guys are looking to get the same opportunity I got. I thank God it worked out.”

OP LOT 21 & OP LOT 20