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BANTA, Basle

FOUNTAIN COUNTY STAR NEWSPAPER Covington, Indiana Thursday, Jan. 7, 1982

 
Basle Banta of Crawfordsville, age 79, died Saturday morning, December 26, in Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville. He was the husband of a former Newtown woman, Ramona Black. He was born December 9, 1902, near New Richmond, a son of Thomas and Florence Baxter Banta. He married Miss Black June 1, 1927.

  Banta was a member of the First Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, the Masonic Lodge of Freeport, Illinois, Scottish Rite, Civitan Club, a former deacon and trustee of the Danville, Illinois Baptist Church, and a former member of the Gary City Plan Commission. He was a 1923 graduate of the Crawfordsville High School.

  Survivors include the widow; a son, Ronald of Martinsburg, Virginia; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a brother of the late George Banta of Newtown.

  Services were held Tuesday morning with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery at Crawfordsville with Hunt & Son Funeral Home in charge.  ā€“ thanks so much to ā€œSā€

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