Oscar R. Booker  

Lake Shore Plumbing & Heating Co and Booker Plumbers is listed at this address as well .

Oscar Booker Birth 12 June 1920 Bremen, Marshall, Indiana Death 9 May 1990 Marshall County, Indiana Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Marshall County, Indianason of Melvin George Booker and Ella A Earl

Siepman Sells Buisness to Plymouth Man

Emil Siepmanhas sold his plumbing and heating business to Oscar Booler and Ted Kebert of Plymouth

They will move here with their families as so as places to live can be obtained.

Both are experienced in this line of buisness. They will have their office in SIepman's shop on East State Street.

Mr. Siepman has been in buisness here for 27 years and has felt the need of giving up such heavy work - CItizen Mar 13 1946

While residing in Culver Oscar was an active member of the Culver-Union Township Fire Department.

The drivers of Union Township school buses are: Oscar Booker.. Aug. 1961

Oscar Booker, formerly a resident of Culver now living in Libertyville, Ill Mar 1969, the tour bus driver

Oscar Ray Booker
June 9, 1920-May 9. 1990
PLYMOUTH - Oscar Ray Booker, 64. of 1528 Kenwood St., died at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hospital, South Bend

Mr. Booker was a driver at Coachman Vans, Wakarusa, and had retired from the Plumbers Local 130. Chicago

He was born June 8, 1920, in Bremen.

He married Lois Moon, who preceded him in death.

He then married Loretta Cook, who also preceded him in death.

On Oct. 24, 1987, he married Virginia Baker, who survives.

Also surviving are two sons, David of Woodstock, Ill, and Steven of Wonder Lake, Ill; two step daughters, Deanna Langfeidt of Gar rett, Ind. and Arlene Batalis of Mishawaka; a stepson, Richard L. Baker of Valparaiso; five grandchildren; two great grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy Vermillion and Jeraldine Shafer, both of Plymouth; and two brothers, Delma Marion, both of Bremen.

He was a volunteer firefighter in Culver.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Van Gilder Funeral Home.

Burial will be in New Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.- South Bend Tribune May 10, 1990

married 1st 31 Jul 1940 Marshall County, Indiana Lois Alene Moon Birth 31 January 1922 Logansport, Cass ounty, Indiana Death 5 December 1953 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana daughter of John Clyde Moon and Grace Harrington

Mrs Lois A Booker Succumbs at Culver
CULVER - Funeral services for Mrs Lois Alens Booker 31 who died at her home on Lake Shore Drive in Culver Saturday morning will be held at 2 Tuesday at the Culver Grace Evangelical and Reformed church Dr Meredith of that church will and burial will be in New Oak Hill cemetery at Plymouth The wife of Oscar Booker she had been ill for about a year. A resident of CUlver for the past sevn years, she was a member of the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church there. She was born in Logansport Jan. 31, 1922 but spent most of her life iat Plymouth

Surviving with the husband Oscar are two sons David and Steven at home ;her mother Mrs Grace Wiggins Logansport; her father John Moon Louisville a brother Roland Moon Fort Wayne and the following; grandparents Mr and Mrs William Moon Fulton and Mrs Mary Harrington Logansport.

Friends may call at the Easterday funeral home, Culver untill 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when the body will be taken to the church. - - Logansport Pharos-Tribune Dec 7, 1953


Mrs. Lois Booker Died Saturday At Age 31
Mrs. Lois Alene Booker, age 31, wife of Oscar Booker, died SaturLake day morning at her home on Shore Drive after an illness of one year.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church with Dr. Meredith Sprunger, pastor of the church, officiating.

Burial was at the New Oak Hill Cemetery in Plymouth.

Mrs. Booker was born at Logansport on Jan. 31, 1922 and spent most of her girlhood in Plymouth, coming to Culver to reside seven years ago.

She was a member of the Grace Church.

Surviving with her husband are two sons, David and Steven, both at home; her mother, Mrs. Grace Wiggins, Logansport; her father, John Moon, Louisville, Ky.; a brother, Rollen Moon, Fort Wayne: and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Moon, Fulton, and Mrs. Mary Harrington, Logansport. - Dec 9 1953 Citizen

They had:

Patricia (Patty) Booker b. 1940 Marshall county Indiana; died 20 Jul 1953 Culver Marshall County Indiana buried Oak Hill Cemetery Plymouth Marshall County Indiana
David Booker
Steven Booker

married ,arried 2nd 18 Mar 1954 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana Irma (Erma) Ruth (Wiggins) Cook-Jacobs Birth 3 Sep 1922 Marion Springs, Michigan Death 21 Aug 2007 filed for divorce in 1961. daughter of Fred R Wiggins and Lulu E (Edna L.) Haygood married 1st 10 Dec 1938 Hancock County, Indiana Wayne Willis Cook; married 2nd 30 Nov 1946 Boone County, Indiana Herschel Lloyd Jacobs

Jacobs-Booker Vows Spoken March 18
In a ceremony performed at 6 p. m. Thursday, March 18, by Dr. Meredith Sprunger in the parsonage of the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church, Mrs. Erma Jacobs of Logansport became the bride of Oscar Booker of Culver.

The bride was attired in a light blue knitted suit with white accessories and a corsage of white gardenias.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Price attended the couple and Mrs. Price wore a white dress with navy accessories and a corsage of red roses.

Other guests were Horace Griffin and Mrs. Thomas Cook of Cicero, Ind.

Following the wedding, a famiily dinner was served at 525 Lakeshore Drive, where Mr. and Mrs. Booker are at home to their friends.

married 3rd 10 Mar 1962 Culver, Marshall, Indiana Loretta Mae Sudis Birth 23 Dec 1928 • Culver, Marshall, Indiana Death Jun 1981 daughter of Theodore Lavern Sudis and Sylvia Arminda Burkett (Sylvia Married 2nd Keith H. Cook) married 1st 1 Sep 1951 Bartholomew, Indiana, William Harding West Sr.

Mrs. Oscar (Loretta) Booker PLYMOUTH - Services for Mrs. Loretta Booker, 52, of 2222 Tryon, Woodstock, Ill., formerly of Plymouth, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the VanGilder Funeral Home. Rev. W. E. Vannest, will officiate.

Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

She was born on Dec. 23, 1928 in Culver, Ind.

On March 10, 1962, she married Oscar Booker, who survives.

Other survivors include two sons, David and Steve, both of Woodstock; six grandchildren; three sisters, Miss Donna Jean Sudis of East Chicago, Ind.; Miss Barbara Sudis of Wheeling, , Ill. and Mrs. Patricia Jasper of Vernon Hills, Ill. and her father, Theodore Sudis of East Chicago - South Bend Tribune Jun 23, 1981

married 4th Mar 22 1982 Hillsborough county, Florida Marolyn Cline Birth 30 Jul 1932 Scottsburg, Indiana death 31 Dec 1995 Collier County Flordia Buiral Apr 1, 1996 New South Park Cemetery, Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana they divorced 3 Dec 1982 Hillsborough county, Florida ; she married 1st 29 Jul 1950 Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana Samuel L Wells ; married 2nd 1 Apr 1961 Clay County, Tennessee, Clifton Earl Eugene Short; married 3rd Nov 27 1976 Hillsborough county, Florida James Perrow Shinpaugh they divorced 1 Apr 1977 - Hillsborough, Florida daughter of Wilbur M Cline and Mary E Strouse

The Tampa Tribune Tue, Mar 23, 1982 ·Page 54 Applications for Marriage License... Oscar Ray Booker, 62, Woodstock, Ill. and Marolyn Short, 49,Tamapa

Indianapolis News Wed, Jan 03, 1996
MAROLYN CLINE SHORT, 63, Naples, Fla., formerly of Indianapolis, died Dec. 31

She worked more than 20 years Shuron Continental Co. and was an inspection supervisor when the business closed in the late 1970s.

Graveside memorial service: 3 p.m. April 1 in New South Park Cemetery,

She was the widow of CLifton Short.

Survivors: stepdaughters Sherlyn Mark, Annette King: stepson Douglas Short.

American Family Cremation Society, Lakeland, Fla., is handling arrangements

married 5th 29 Apr 1984 Marion county Indiana Violet Virginia Leeds Birth 3 Jan 1925 Rochester Fulton County, Indiana Death 20 Mar 1995 Rochester, Fulton, Indiana, Burial March 24, 1995 Crown Point Cemetery Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, daughter of John Merrill Leeds and Dolly May Gibson married 1st Jun 1943 Nueces County Texas Harry Charles Weist; they divorced; married aby Sep 1971 ? Barmgarten

Virginia V. (Leeds) Weist
Jan. 3, 1925 - March 20, 1995
ROCHESTER - Services for Virginia V. Weist, 70, of 705 E. Fourth St., Lot 39, who died at 6 p.m. Monday in her home after an illness, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Foster & Good Funeral Home.

Burial will be Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and one hour before services Friday in the funeral home.

Mrs. Weist provided home health care. She was born Jan. 3, 1925, in the Fulton County, community of Burton and had in Grass Creek and Rochester for most of her life.

She married Harry C. Weist, who survives with a daughter, Kathy Weist of Los Angeles; two sons, Timothy C. of Akron and Michael W. of San Francisco; five grandchildren; a great granddaughter; and two sisters, Dollie Ranz Rochester and Mary Gordon of Phoenix, Ariz.

She attended Akron Church of God.

Home in 1940 South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana

He married 6 th 25 Oct 1987 Fulton county Indiana Virginia (Martin) Baker Birth 2 May 1919 in Culver, Marshall Co., Indiana Death 19 Oct
2012 in Plymouth, Marshall Co., Indiana married 1st 24 may 1936 Richard Edward Baker daughter of Ambrose Martin and Calllie Hawk [Callie had remarried John Ellam and Errol Cutler all her husbands prededed her in death.]

May 2, 1919 - Oct. 19, 2012 PLYMOUTH - Virginia Ruth Baker, age 93, of 1526 Kenwood Ave., Plymouth, Indiana, passed away at 7:00 a.m. on Friday, October 19, 2012, at her home with her loved ones by her side. Virginia was born on May 2, 1919, in Culver, Indiana, to Ambrose L. and Callie C. (Hawk) Martin.

Her parents divorced in 1928 and Virginia never saw nor heard where her father was for the next 30 years.

During her school years, she lived with her grandparents, John and Byrdie Hawk, on a farm outside of Culver.

She married Richard E. Baker in May 1936; together they raised their three children, Deanna (Richard) Langfeldt, Arlene (Chris) Batalis and Richard Baker.

The Bakers moved to Plymouth in 1955. Richard and Virginia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on the island of Kauai before Richard passed away in October 1986.

After her husband passed away, Virginia spent her winter months in Zolfo Springs, Florida, until 2002. Virginia worked as an inspector for Wagner Industries, later known as United Technologies, and served as a president/financial secretary to the local IBEW union for the next 25 years. She was also a charter member of the Auxiliary of VFW in Culver with 50 years of continuous membership and was awarded a lifetime membership. Virginia belonged to the Culver Rebeccah Lodge and was a member of the Order of Eastern Star/Ivy Chapter 69. She was known for her hobbies, ceramics and quilted pillows, which she displayed in the horse barn of the Blueberry Festival until 1988. For the past nine years, she had sold her quilted tops at the Topeka Quilt Show. She also loved to garden and work with flowers. Virginia loved to travel. She had been to Stockton on the Tees, England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, and 40 of the 50 United States. For the past ten years, she spent three weeks in Kauai, Hawaii.

Virginia is survived by her three children: two daughters, Deanna (Richard, deceased) Langfeldt of Garrett, Indiana, and Arlene (Chris) Batalis of South Bend, Indiana; and son, Richard Baker of Indianapolis, Indiana. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, Greg Langfeldt of Dallas, Texas, Connie (Sean) Derry of Culver, Indiana, Jon (Lori) Langfeldt of Garrett, Indiana, Tim Batalis of South Bend, Indiana, Philip (Cindy) Batalis of Granger, Indiana, Melanie Batalis of Indianapolis, Indiana, Heather Baker of Plymouth, Indiana, and Stefanie Baker of Bourbon, Indiana; fourteen great-grandchildren, Drew, Conlan and Shannon Derry of Culver Indiana, Nicholas Batalis of South Bend, Indiana, Stephanie and Jason Batalis of Granger, Indiana, Jena and Elizabeth Baker, Autumn Wilcox and Andrew Knowlton of Plymouth, Indiana, Skyler and Dejena Thews, and Parker and Eliza Posie of Bourbon, Indiana; sisters, Shirley (Jerry, deceased) Clark of Springfield, Illinois, Karen (Eugene) Deeds and Susan (Virgil) Hudkins, both of Rochester; and four brothers, Ronald (Dorothy) Martin of McAllen, Texas, Donald Martin of Florida, John Fisher of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Jim (Mary Fisher of Rochester, Indiana.

Virginia was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard; four brothers, Robert, Ralph, Charles and LeRoy Martin; and her granddaughter, April Baker.

Memorials may be made to Ounce of Prevention, 1001 E. Jefferson Street, Plymouth, Indiana 46563.

Visitation is October 23, 2012, from noon to 2:00 p.m. in Van Gilder Funeral Home, 300 West Madison Street, Plymouth, Indiana 46563. Funeral service is Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 2:00 p.m. in Van Gilder Funeral Home, with the Rev. Paul Nye officiating. Burial at New Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth.

Memories may be shared at www.vangilderfuneralhome.com . Published in South Bend Tribune on October 21, 2012

1930; Census Place: Center, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: 617; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 6
; Name: Oscar Booker
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1921
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Center, Marshall, Indiana
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Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Melvin Booker
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's name: Ella Booker
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana

Year: 1940; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: T627_1077; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 50-18
Name: Oscar Booker
Age: 19
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1921 Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Union, Marshall, Indiana
Inferred Residence in 1935: Union, Marshall, Indiana
Residence in 1935: Same House
Resident on farm in 1935: Yes
Sheet Number: 7B
Occupation: Laborer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 48
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 640
Income Other Sources: No