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Albert Gresham Bearss

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Albert Gresham Bearss

Birth
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Death
17 Jan 1982 (aged 91)
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 12, Row
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Monday, January 18, 1982
Rochester Sentinel

Albert Gresham BEARSS, 91, Rt. 6, Rochester, died at 4:05 p.m. Sunday at Woodlawn Hospital.

He was born Dec. 25, 1890 to George Russell and Jessie McBRIDE BEARSS. He lived his entire life on the farm where he was born. He married Anna Viola McKINNEY on March 8, 1911; she died in September 1967. He was a retired farmer, a former Fulton County commissioner from 1928-30, a former Precinct 6 Election Judge and a member of the First United Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are a brother, George M. BEARSS, Rochester; two nephews, Gresham A. "Bud" BEARSS, Berne and Wendell B. BEARSS, Rochester; and two nieces, Mrs. Donald (Frances) SMITH, Logansport, and Mrs. Juan (Janis) GARCIA, Puebla, Mexico.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home in Rochester with the Rev. David HEYWARD officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and on Wednesday until the service.

Monday, January 18, 1982
Rochester Sentinel

Albert Gresham BEARSS, 91, Rt. 6, Rochester, died at 4:05 p.m. Sunday at Woodlawn Hospital.

He was born Dec. 25, 1890 to George Russell and Jessie McBRIDE BEARSS. He lived his entire life on the farm where he was born. He married Anna Viola McKINNEY on March 8, 1911; she died in September 1967. He was a retired farmer, a former Fulton County commissioner from 1928-30, a former Precinct 6 Election Judge and a member of the First United Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are a brother, George M. BEARSS, Rochester; two nephews, Gresham A. "Bud" BEARSS, Berne and Wendell B. BEARSS, Rochester; and two nieces, Mrs. Donald (Frances) SMITH, Logansport, and Mrs. Juan (Janis) GARCIA, Puebla, Mexico.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home in Rochester with the Rev. David HEYWARD officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and on Wednesday until the service.



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