Hole - Leslie "Mike"
LESLIE R. "Mike" HOLE
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 7 Sep 1963 p 1 typed by Walt W
Leslie R. (Mike) Hole, 67, a former Crawfordsville and Montgomery County official, died Friday night at Culver Hospital. Hole, who lived at 903 Sloan St., had been a patient at the hospital for ten days. Born on May 13, 1896, in Montgomery County, he was the son of Rev. W. F. Hole and Rosa Etta Harriman Hole. He was married to the former Gladys Ingersoll in Indianapolis on May 6, 1926. A graduate of Pine Village High School, he also attended Wabash College, but left at the end of his freshman year to enlist in the U.S. Army. Most of his service during World War I was as a sergeant and assistant chief of the air service at Tours, France. Following his discharge he was an accountant for an automobile sales agency in Indianapolis. He was elected clerk of the Montgomery Circuit Court in 1940 and re-elected in 1944. He was named to the post of city-clerk-treasurer in 1953 when Harold A. Roth resigned. At that time he was employed at the Elston Bank & Trust Co. His last employment came in 1955 when he retired as clerk-treasurer and took a position as an auditor with the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division. He was a member of the First Christian Church and the Christian Builders Class there, and was an elder in the church. He also belonged to Byron Cox Post, American Legion and was a member of the Montgomery County Lodge 50, Scottish Rite and of the Veterans of World War I. Survivors, besides his wife, include a cousin, Rev. John R. Servies, who will conduct funeral services. The services will be held at the Bright Funeral Home Monday at 2 p.m. Rev. Servies will be assisted in the service by Rev. Howard F. Miller, pastor of the First Christian Church. Burial will be in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday.