KUNKLE, Henry Newton*
Source: The obituary is from a collection by Fauniel Hershberger, saved the 1950's, 60's and 70's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana. The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.
Henry Newton Kunkle, age 73, of Ridgefarm, Ill., Rt. 1, brother of Blueflaud of Perrysville and Cyrus of Kingman, died Thursday night, Dec. 1, 1966 in the Hines Veterans Hospital in Chicago. He had been ill several months. Mr. Kunkle was born Aug. 20, 1893, near Ridgefarm, the son of Cyrus and Almira Stevenson Kunkle. He was a retired miner. He was an Army veteran of World War I. Surviving are four brothers, Blueflaud of Perrysville, Virgil of Ridgefarm, Clarence of Rockville and Cyrus of Kingman; and two sisters, Mrs. Gladys Boggess of Georgetown and Mrs. Myra Wathall of Ridgefarm. He was preceded in death by two brothers. Funeral services were held at 2 pm Sunday at the Ridgefarm Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. Carl Lee officiated. The Brewer-Honnold Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. -- typed by Barbara B