WADE, Wallace - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

MELLOTT--- Wallace W. Wade, 75-year-old veteran former printer and weekly newspaper editor, died of a heart attack at 5:30 p.m. Saturday only a few minutes after arriving at the home of a son, Douglas Wade, southeast of here for a family dinner. He came here with a nephew, Charles Wade, and family of Crawfordsville, with whom he had made his home since last November. Mr. Wade was born in Mellott Aug. 6, 1885, a son of Aaron and Sarah E. Dotson Wade. He was married to Jennie Booe of Veedersburg, who preceded him in death in February 1959. Once employed in the office of a Mellott newspaper called The Hustler, Mr. Wade later edited the Mellott Enterprise about 45 years ago. He also edited newspapers at Wingate and Linden. His last employment was in the Fowler Printing Co. at Fowler, where he retired about five years ago due to ill health. For the last several years Mr. Wade was a wheel chair invalid. He came here with his wife after his retirement. Survivors include five sons, Russell of Ft. Wayne, Ralph of Indianapolis and Douglas of near Mellott; three daughters, Mrs. Ethel Simpson of Crawfordsville, Mrs. Ruby Davis of Lafayette and Mrs. Pauline Bryles of Aliken, Ky., and three brothers, John Wade of Jasonville, Clyde Wade of Anderson and Stephen A. Wade of Mellott. He was more than a 50-year member of the Mellott Congregational Christian Church, the pastor of which will officiate at funeral rites announced for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Crumley Funeral Home in Hillsboro. Rev. Jack Eitelbuss is the minister. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery near Hillsboro. Friends may call at the funeral home.   --typed by Walt W