Ida May Runkle Cochran

Ida May Bales Runkle Cochran
BIRTH
23 Feb 1873
New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, USA
DEATH
22 Jan 1940 (aged 66)
Montpelier, Blackford County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Montpelier, Blackford County, Indiana, USA
MEMORIAL ID
65001593 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 5
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Married 1) Charles Sumner Runkle on 6 Jan 1891, Indiana and 2) Willard Cochran on 21 Jan 1910.

IDA COCHRAN
DIES MONDAY
LONG ILLNESS

Paralysis Fatal to Resident
Of West Sixth
Street Monday.

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Services at 2 P. M. At The Burk & Fenning Chapel -- Burial At Montpelier.

Mrs Ida May Cochran, 66, wife of Willard Cochran, died at 5:30 o'clock Monday morning at her home, 122 west Sixth street, this city, following an illness with paralysis.

Mrs. Cochran had been in ill health since an initial stroke of paralysis two years ago and then two weeks ago suffered another stroke. She had been bedfast and critically ill since that time.

Funeral services will be conducted from the Burk and Fennig chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with burial following at the Montpelier I. O. O. F. cemetery. The body will lay in state at the chapel.

Born in New Castle, February 23, 1873, Ida May Cochran was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Bales. She spent her earlier life there and was married a first time to Charles S. Runkle, now deceased. Surviving from this union are six children: Oscar Runkle, of Montpelier, Mrs. Veda Attaway, Mrs. Clayton Moore and Miss Helen Runkle, all of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Alice M. Turner, of Tulsa, Okla., and Franklin Runkle, of Hartford City.

The decedent was married a second time to Willard Cochran twenty-nice years ago. Surviving besides him, is one son, Verl Cochran, of this city. Thre are also seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.

The family had lived in this city for the past four years and previous to that time had resided intermittently here, at Montpelier and in Illinois.

Mrs. Cochran was a member of the Montpelier Christian church.

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COCHRAN Hartford City, Jan. 22 – Mrs. Ida M. Cochran, 66, wife of Willard Cochran, died at the home here this morning after a long illness of paralysis. She is survived by her husband and seven children, Oscar Runkle of Montpelier, Mrs. Veda Attaway, Mrs. Clayton Moore and Miss Helen Runkle of Fort Wayne and Miss Alice M. Turner of Tulsa, and Franklin Runkle and Verl Cochran of this city. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Burk & Fennig Chapel here, with burial in Montpelier.

Source: Journal-Gazette, Allen County, Indiana; January 23, 1940

Family Members
Spouse

Charles Sumner Runkle
1870–1909 (m. 1891)

Children

Calvin Oscar Runkle
1891–1968

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