WHITAKER Laketon, April 1 - Funeral services for John C. Whitaker, 65, will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Wertenberger-Vorels Funeral Home here with Rev. J. H. Dickinson in charge. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery. Mr. Whittaker, who had spent his entire life in this community, died at the Grafft Nursing Home at Roann, where he had been a patient for several weeks. He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Martha of North Manchester, as well as several brothers and one sister. Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, April 2, 1940.