Booe - Sim S.
Simeon S. BOOE
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, 28 June 1951
Waynetown - Sim S. Booe, 51 of Chicago, Ill a veteran of WWI died at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Veterans hospital in Indianapolis. He had been a patient there for 3 weeks. Mr. Booe was born near Hillsboro Sept 14, 1899, the son of Steb and ELizabeth Pithoud Booe. He married Elsie M. Arnhart in Decatur, Ill Sept 16, 1920. he was a farmer and member of the American Legion Post 188 at Hillsboro. He is survived by his widow, Bessie M, a son Charles W. Booe, at home; his father, Steb Booe of HIllsboro, 4 brothers, Theodore and Herbert of Urbanan, Ill; Hubert and Malcolm of Chicago Ill; three sisters,(sic) Mrs. Marie Groves of Bloomington, Ill; Mrs. Elvira Bauer Cooper of Decatur, Ind. (sic - Illinois) Funeral services will be at the Grenard & Servies Funeral Home in Waynetown Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Harney S. Burns will be in charge. Burial will be in the Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Graveside rites will be conducted at the Hillsboro American Legion post. Friends may call at the funeral home. - thanks to Vickie G for this nice obit - kbz