POWELL
Wabash, Aug. 11 –

Mrs. Robert Powell, 71, died at her home here today after a long illness.

Surviving are the husband; a son, Meade Powell, at home; seven grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Resler of Huntington and Mrs. Mahala Jackson of Amboy; one brother, Morton Shaw of Marion.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Pilgrim Holiness Church. Burial in Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, August 12, 1940.