PALIN, Carl H. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

WEST POINT — Carl H. Palin, 74, a former Newtown resident and a resident of West Point since 1936, died at 3 a.m. Sunday in St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette. He was born Oct. 24, 1888, in Potomac, Ill., and his parents were Fred and Mary Williams Palin. On Oct. 22, 1921, he married Leah Haas. After her death, he married Fronia Kirkpatrick in 1936. He was a member of the Jackson Heights Methodist Church, served in the United States Navy from 1910 to 1914 and the United States Army from 1917 to 1919. He was a veteran of World War I and was a member of Lafayette American Legion Post 7. He was a retired farmer. Survivors include the widow; two sons, William Harmond of Gardenia, Calif., and John F. Palin of College Park, Ga.; two daughters, Mrs. A. M. King of Indianapolis and Mrs. W. S. Howard of Newtown; a step-son, Charles Kirkpatrick of Newtown; three sisters, Huldah Palin of Indianapolis, Agatha Palin of Crawfordsville and Ozark Palin of Newtown, and nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Crumley Funeral Home in Hillsboro with Rev. Clarence Loveland officiating and burial in Newtown Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.   --typed by Walt W