MITMAN, Marilou Slazas Flanigan - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

HILLSBORO—Mrs. Marilou Mitman, 40, a native of the Hillsboro community, died early Sunday morning in the Robert Long Hospital at Indianapolis where she had been a patient the past week. Previously she was a patient at Culver Hospital at Crawfordsville. She was taken to the hospital after becoming suddenly ill at her home. Born Sept. 29, 1916 Mrs. Mitman was the daughter of Joseph and Fanny Witt Slazas. She was married twice, first on Feb. 29, 1940 to Thomas Flanigan, who was killed in February 1955 in the European Theater of Operations in World War II. A daughter, Tomilou, was born to this union. In 1949 she married Ben Mitman, who survives. Also surviving, besides the husband and the daughter by the first marriage, are three other daughters, Lucy Beth, Cynthia and Andrea; three sons, Oliver Bert, Jay and Wilton; the mother, two brothers, John and George Slazas, both of near Veedersburg, and three sisters, Mrs. Lucy Crumley of Hillsboro, Mrs. Nellie Nusbaum of Lancaster, Ohio, and Mrs. Roberta Brokaw of Fort Branch, Ind. She was preceded in death by the father and a brother, Stanley Slazas. Mrs. Mitman was a graduate of the Hillsboro High School and the Indiana University School of Nursing. She was a member of the Hillsboro Methodist Church, Fountain County Nurses Club, and the Hillsboro Harmony Club. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Hillsboro Methodist Church, with burial at Rose Hill Cemetery. Rev. G. T. Johnson will be the officiating minister. The body will lie in state at the church one hour preceding the rites. Friends may call at the Crumley Funeral Home, beginning at noon Monday.   --typed by Walt W