Charles Ison Strickland

with wife

CHARLES I. STRICKLAND, 76, CALLED ON TUESDAY

Charles I. Strickland, 76, after being ill for time time, passed away at his home in Crown Point Tuesday morning. Coming here in the early 1900's, he purchased the farm southwest of town now owned by M.E. Leep, where he and his family lived for a number of years. Disposing of the farm, the family moved to Hammond [and] later to Crown Point, where for a number of years he had been manager of farming at the county infirmary until his health failed.

He leaves his wife, Mary; two sons, Leslie and Floyd, and one daughter, Mrs. Driscoll Carstens, all of Gary; three sisters, Mrs. Julia Cooney of Wichita, Kansas, Mrs. Ella Plackett, of Bloomington, Ill., Mrs. Cora Berger, El Paso, Ill., and one brother, Clarence, of Denver, Colorado.

Funeral services will be held at the Lowell Methodist church at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) in charge of E.L. Worley. Interment, in charge of W.R. Weaver, will be made in Lowell cemetery.