Stebbins - Frederick
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, August 10, 1930
Frederick Stebbins, a former citizen of Waveland, died at his
home in Terre Haute at noon on Thursday of last week. He had been
in poor health for a number of years but grew much worse about
two weeks before his death. Funeral services at the home on
Saturday morning at ten in charge of Dr. Beck a Methodist
minister. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sharp, Ira sharp and Margaret Louise,
Hubert Loudermill and Doris and Mrs. Elmer Dietrich were present
from Waveland. The body was brought here immediately after and
buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery. A short service at the grave was
conducted by Rev. H. J. Keiser. Mr. Stebbins was born in St.
Louis, Michigan, seventy-one years ago. While a resident there he
married Miss Cora Richardson. One child survives of this union,
Mrs. Helen Twiss of Sturgis, Michigan. Mrs. Stebbins died in
Waveland where Mr. Stebbins was then in business. After her
death, he married Miss Gertie Hendrickson, who survives him with
two children, Thomas, of Terry Haute and Mrs. Eugene Buckley, of
Hammond. There are two grandson, George Fred Twiss and Bobby Gene
Buckley. Mr. Stebbins was engaged in the drug business the
greater part of his life, having stores in Waveland, Montezuma,
Hillsboro, Brownsburg and at the time of his death, in Terre
Haute. He also was for some time in the hotel business. He built
the brick hotel here after a fire and it was long known at Hotel
Stebbins. He ran the Crawfords Hotel at Crawfordsville for a year
and had charge of the Shades and Pleasant View. Mrs. Stebbins
will continue to live in Terre Haute, where her some, Thomas is
employed in the Binkley Wholesale Drug House.