HARVEY Wabash, June 25 - John Oliver Harvey, 81, died at the Jesse Parks Nursing Home shortly after noon today following a two year illness. Harvey was born in Wabash County and had spent his entire life here. He is survived by three sons, Elza, Herbert and Oscar Harvey, all of Wabash and a daughter, Mrs. Glenn Smith of LaFontaine. The body was removed to the Brenneman Funeral Home. Burial will be in Matlock Cemetery. Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, June 26, 1940.