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Obituary Joseph Wedlake
FORMER POLICEMAN IS DEAD; RITES THURSDAY
Joseph Wedlake, 820 S. Grant St., retired iron worker and member of the Muncie police department from 1926 to 1930, died Tuesday evening in the Morgan Nursing Home at 1408 E. Main.
Born in Greencastle, Mr. Wedlake came to Muncie to work for the Grasshopper Mill. The body was removed to Meeks Mortuary where friends may call after 7 p. m. today.
The reverend Robert Jones will conduct funeral services at 2 p. m. Thursday in the mortuary, and burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Wedlake is survived by one son, Earl of South Bend, and two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Bechtell, Grants Pass, Ore., and Mae Mathews, Eagle Point, Ore.
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Obituary Earl Wedlake
EARL WEDLAKE DIES; RITES SET THURSDAY
Earl Wedlake, 65, Muncie native and vice president in charge of production and manufacturing for the Dodge Manufacturing Co. at Mishawaka, died at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday at South Bend Memorial Hospital following a short illness. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last July 12 and had been in critical condition since that time.
Graveside funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Beech Grove Cemetery with Dr. Lewis W. Gishler officiating. The Meeks Mortuary is in charge of local funeral arrangements.
Survivors include the wife, the former Esther Humbert, also a Muncie native; a son, Dr. Edward Wedlake, and three grandchildren, Pamela, Edward and Page Wedlake, all of Wilmette, Ill., and two aunts, Mrs. William Hahn and Mrs. Nettie Tweedy, both of Muncie. Two sisters live in Medford, Oregon.
Members of the family are expected to arrive in Muncie Thursday morning at the home of Mrs. Wedlake's mother. Mrs. Edward Humbert, 525 W. North St.
Mr Wedlake was a member of the South Bend Presbyterian Church, the Indiana Club, the South Bend and Delaware Country clubs, the Niles, Mich. Pickwick Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
He started his career in industry as an apprentice toolmaker in Muncie. Later he attended General Motors Institute at Detroit and also studied mechanical drawing, heat treatment and allied phases of the metalworking industry.
He served as director of purchasing for the old Muncie Products plant and for the Acme-Lees Division of the Serrick Corp.
In 1939, he moved to South Bend to start his 21-year association with Dodge manufacturing Co. He was elected a vice president of the firm, which manufactures power transmission machinery, in 1956.
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Obituary Edward Humbert Wedlake
Monterey Herald on April 14, 2011
Edward Humbert
Wedlake, M.D.
February 1, 1928 ~ April 11, 2011
Pebble Beach - Edward Humbert Wedlake, known as "Ned", was a respected and beloved physician on the Monterey Peninsula and a resident of Pebble Beach since 1962. Born in Muncie, Indiana on Feb 1, 1928, Dr. Wedlake attended Culver Military Academy, then DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He received his medical degree from Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University in Chicago in 1955. Subsequently he interned at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago and conducted his residency at Northwestern in Evanston, IL. Dr. Wedlake served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1956-1959, first at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas and then at the U.S. Soldiers Home Hospital (Walter Reed Army Medical Center) in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Wedlake practiced Internal Medicine in Carmel and Monterey and was affiliated with Community Hospital, serving as a Senior Attending Physician from 1962-1998. He was an active volunteer in his community for many years, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Leukemia Society, the American Cancer Society, All Saints Day School and Robert Louis Stevenson School. He was Chairman of the Campaign for the United Fund in Monterey in 1970-71.
Dr. Wedlake was a member of the Old Capital Club in Monterey, John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch in Carmel Valley, and Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach. An avid and excellent golfer, Dr. Wedlake also belonged to Birnam Wood Golf Club in Santa Barbara and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of Fife, St. Andrews, Scotland.
Dr. Wedlake is survived by his devoted wife, Patricia (Tish) Cox Wedlake and daughters, Pamela and Page. He was predeceased by his son, Edward (Ted) Wedlake in 1999.
Ned Wedlake was tall and handsome, athletic, warm, outgoing and utterly charming, always sporting that great smile. He was a true gentleman, a caring and compassionate man. He will be sorely missed by many.
A memorial service will be held at the Church in the Forest at Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach this Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 3:00pm. The family requests that donations in his memory be made to the charity of your choice.
Please visit www.thepaulmortuary.com to sign Dr. Wedlake's guest book and leave messages for his family.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 22, 1919.
"MRS. MARY E. LOCKETT".-- Mary E.Nelson was born in Indiana on May 9, 1843 and died at her home west of Sidney on May 7, 1919 just before her 76th birthday.
She was the daughter of Jones and Mary Nelson and one of a family of seven children. There are two sisters who survive her: Mrs.Sarah Corwin of Onamia, Minnesota, and Mrs. Martha McDaniel of Bellingham, Washington.
On April 6, 1861 she was united in marriage to George D. Lockett.To this union were born seven children, two boys dying in infancy. Two daughters, Mrs. Martha Vanurdan and Mrs.Ella Large died in 1890, their son Jerry died in 1914, their daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Miller died on November 23, 1918, the living child being Mrs. Cora Foster, who lives west of Sidney.There are 23 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Lockett moved from Indiana to Minnesota, then to Iowa, where they lived about three years. They moved from here to Oklahoma, where they lived 5 years, then to FREMONT COUNTY, Iowa, where Mr.Lockett died on May 24, 1903 at the age of 67 years. Mrs. Lockett has since made her home here with the exception of about two years visiting relatives in Wisconsin and Minnesota only a few years ago. The last four years she has made her home with her two daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Miller, who rented and lived on her mother's place, and Mrs. S. L. Foster until the death of Mrs. Miller from the influenza last November and since that time she has kept house for and been a mother to Mrs.Miller's three sons, Clifford, William and Irvin, who did everything possible for their grandmother's comfort.
Mrs. Lockett united with the Christian church early in her life and lived a good christian life, was a kind neighbor and many old neighbors who helped to minister to her last wants are mourning the loss of a good friend.
The funeral was conducted at the home Thursday afternoon by Rev. C. S. Crouse, who had known the family for years, and the remains were laid to rest in the Lacy Grove cemetery by the side of her husband and two daughters.