WEST. Minnie Hodge Harden
Source: The obituary is from a collection of newspaper (paper names not recorded) obituaries saved, by Fauniel Hershberger, during the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana. The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.
Hand dated 1966
Mrs. Minnie West, age 85, a resident of Covington for 66 years, died at 4:20 a.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in St. Elizabeth Hospital in Danville, Ill., where she had been a patient a few hours. Mrs. West was born Nov. 23, 1880, the daughter of Daniel and Flora Mae McKenny Hodge, in St. Joseph, Ill. She previously had resided in St. Joseph. She was married first to Rollie Harden in 1905, and then to Oscar West in 1935. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Fifth St., Covington. Surviving are: one daughter, Mrs. Ollie Hegg; one son, Robert Harden; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Cruea and Mrs. Nellie Levi, all of Covington; two brothers, Jess and Frank Hodge, both of California; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by both husbands, one daughter, two brothers, three sisters and one grandson. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Hegg Funeral Home in Covington. The Rev. E. E. McConnell officiated and burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Covington. --typed by Walt W