SUFFERS HEART
ATTACK, FALLS
INTO CISTERN
Mrs. Rebecca Ropp Dies
From Stroke; Hold
Rites Wednesday
The body of Mrs Rebecca Ropp
54, employed as a housekeeper
by E.A. Thompson 1635 Meadlawn Ave.
was found floating in a cistern in
the rear of the Thompson home about
7:30 o'clock yesterday morning after
she had been missing for more than
half a hour. Death was
apparently caused by a heart attack,
Dr. Donald Miller, Cass
county coroner, who Investigated,
said.
Mrs. Ropp, who had been working
at the Thompson home for the
past fifteen months, had gone to
the cistern to draw a tub of water
for the Monday washing, and is
believed to have suffered heart
fallure and collapsed, falling
through the opening to the cistern.
Dr. Miller said that no water
was found in the woman's lungs
and due to the fact that her body
was floatlng instead of sinking,
she had died from heart failure
and not from drowning.
No public inquest will be held,
Dr. Miller said.
Funeral rites are to be conducted
from the Ninth Street
Christian church Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with the
Rev. T. H. Carroll, pastor, in
charge. Interment will take place
in the Harper cemetery. The
body is at the Chase mortuary.
Seen at 6:45.
Mrs. Ropp was last seen about
6:45 o'clock, but her absence was
not noticed at first as she had
often gone to the grocery early
in the morning Thompson said.
for provisions,
Shortly after when she did not
return Thompson started a search
and Phyllis Thompson, 10
year-old daughter, made the discovery
when she looked down the
cistern opening. She ran back into
the house and told her father
Mrs. Ropp had fallen Into the
cistern.
Thompson with the aid of Fred
Graf, 1723 Treen street; Martha
Lowe, another d a u g h t e r of
Thompson, of 502 Franklin street,
and his son Daniel, pulled the
body of Mrs. Ropp from the water.
The cistern Is about seven
feet deep and the water five feet
deep, Thompson said. The opening
through which water Is drawn
is about two feet square.
Mrs. Ropp Is survived by her
husband, Joseph Ropp, 15OO
Pleasant Hill; three sons, Parley
of this city, Oscar and Raymond
of Royal Centre; two sisters,
Mrs. Val Gunther and Mrs. Christina
Wormes of Washington, Ill.
and six grandchildren,
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1933
ATTACK, FALLS
INTO CISTERN
Mrs. Rebecca Ropp Dies
From Stroke; Hold
Rites Wednesday
The body of Mrs Rebecca Ropp
54, employed as a housekeeper
by E.A. Thompson 1635 Meadlawn Ave.
was found floating in a cistern in
the rear of the Thompson home about
7:30 o'clock yesterday morning after
she had been missing for more than
half a hour. Death was
apparently caused by a heart attack,
Dr. Donald Miller, Cass
county coroner, who Investigated,
said.
Mrs. Ropp, who had been working
at the Thompson home for the
past fifteen months, had gone to
the cistern to draw a tub of water
for the Monday washing, and is
believed to have suffered heart
fallure and collapsed, falling
through the opening to the cistern.
Dr. Miller said that no water
was found in the woman's lungs
and due to the fact that her body
was floatlng instead of sinking,
she had died from heart failure
and not from drowning.
No public inquest will be held,
Dr. Miller said.
Funeral rites are to be conducted
from the Ninth Street
Christian church Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with the
Rev. T. H. Carroll, pastor, in
charge. Interment will take place
in the Harper cemetery. The
body is at the Chase mortuary.
Seen at 6:45.
Mrs. Ropp was last seen about
6:45 o'clock, but her absence was
not noticed at first as she had
often gone to the grocery early
in the morning Thompson said.
for provisions,
Shortly after when she did not
return Thompson started a search
and Phyllis Thompson, 10
year-old daughter, made the discovery
when she looked down the
cistern opening. She ran back into
the house and told her father
Mrs. Ropp had fallen Into the
cistern.
Thompson with the aid of Fred
Graf, 1723 Treen street; Martha
Lowe, another d a u g h t e r of
Thompson, of 502 Franklin street,
and his son Daniel, pulled the
body of Mrs. Ropp from the water.
The cistern Is about seven
feet deep and the water five feet
deep, Thompson said. The opening
through which water Is drawn
is about two feet square.
Mrs. Ropp Is survived by her
husband, Joseph Ropp, 15OO
Pleasant Hill; three sons, Parley
of this city, Oscar and Raymond
of Royal Centre; two sisters,
Mrs. Val Gunther and Mrs. Christina
Wormes of Washington, Ill.
and six grandchildren,
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1933
SUFFERS HEART
ATTACK, FALLS
INTO CISTERN
Mrs. Rebecca Ropp Dies
From Stroke; Hold
Rites Wednesday
The body of Mrs Rebecca Ropp
54, employed as a housekeeper
by E.A. Thompson 1635 Meadlawn Ave.
was found floating in a cistern in
the rear of the Thompson home about
7:30 o'clock yesterday morning after
she had been missing for more than
half a hour. Death was
apparently caused by a heart attack,
Dr. Donald Miller, Cass
county coroner, who Investigated,
said.
Mrs. Ropp, who had been working
at the Thompson home for the
past fifteen months, had gone to
the cistern to draw a tub of water
for the Monday washing, and is
believed to have suffered heart
fallure and collapsed, falling
through the opening to the cistern.
Dr. Miller said that no water
was found in the woman's lungs
and due to the fact that her body
was floatlng instead of sinking,
she had died from heart failure
and not from drowning.
No public inquest will be held,
Dr. Miller said.
Funeral rites are to be conducted
from the Ninth Street
Christian church Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with the
Rev. T. H. Carroll, pastor, in
charge. Interment will take place
in the Harper cemetery. The
body is at the Chase mortuary.
Seen at 6:45.
Mrs. Ropp was last seen about
6:45 o'clock, but her absence was
not noticed at first as she had
often gone to the grocery early
in the morning Thompson said.
for provisions,
Shortly after when she did not
return Thompson started a search
and Phyllis Thompson, 10
year-old daughter, made the discovery
when she looked down the
cistern opening. She ran back into
the house and told her father
Mrs. Ropp had fallen Into the
cistern.
Thompson with the aid of Fred
Graf, 1723 Treen street; Martha
Lowe, another d a u g h t e r of
Thompson, of 502 Franklin street,
and his son Daniel, pulled the
body of Mrs. Ropp from the water.
The cistern Is about seven
feet deep and the water five feet
deep, Thompson said. The opening
through which water Is drawn
is about two feet square.
Mrs. Ropp Is survived by her
husband, Joseph Ropp, 15OO
Pleasant Hill; three sons, Parley
of this city, Oscar and Raymond
of Royal Centre; two sisters,
Mrs. Val Gunther and Mrs. Christina
Wormes of Washington, Ill.
and six grandchildren,
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1933
ATTACK, FALLS
INTO CISTERN
Mrs. Rebecca Ropp Dies
From Stroke; Hold
Rites Wednesday
The body of Mrs Rebecca Ropp
54, employed as a housekeeper
by E.A. Thompson 1635 Meadlawn Ave.
was found floating in a cistern in
the rear of the Thompson home about
7:30 o'clock yesterday morning after
she had been missing for more than
half a hour. Death was
apparently caused by a heart attack,
Dr. Donald Miller, Cass
county coroner, who Investigated,
said.
Mrs. Ropp, who had been working
at the Thompson home for the
past fifteen months, had gone to
the cistern to draw a tub of water
for the Monday washing, and is
believed to have suffered heart
fallure and collapsed, falling
through the opening to the cistern.
Dr. Miller said that no water
was found in the woman's lungs
and due to the fact that her body
was floatlng instead of sinking,
she had died from heart failure
and not from drowning.
No public inquest will be held,
Dr. Miller said.
Funeral rites are to be conducted
from the Ninth Street
Christian church Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with the
Rev. T. H. Carroll, pastor, in
charge. Interment will take place
in the Harper cemetery. The
body is at the Chase mortuary.
Seen at 6:45.
Mrs. Ropp was last seen about
6:45 o'clock, but her absence was
not noticed at first as she had
often gone to the grocery early
in the morning Thompson said.
for provisions,
Shortly after when she did not
return Thompson started a search
and Phyllis Thompson, 10
year-old daughter, made the discovery
when she looked down the
cistern opening. She ran back into
the house and told her father
Mrs. Ropp had fallen Into the
cistern.
Thompson with the aid of Fred
Graf, 1723 Treen street; Martha
Lowe, another d a u g h t e r of
Thompson, of 502 Franklin street,
and his son Daniel, pulled the
body of Mrs. Ropp from the water.
The cistern Is about seven
feet deep and the water five feet
deep, Thompson said. The opening
through which water Is drawn
is about two feet square.
Mrs. Ropp Is survived by her
husband, Joseph Ropp, 15OO
Pleasant Hill; three sons, Parley
of this city, Oscar and Raymond
of Royal Centre; two sisters,
Mrs. Val Gunther and Mrs. Christina
Wormes of Washington, Ill.
and six grandchildren,
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1933
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