Milford chronicle., 1959-08-21
OBITUARY
WILSON

She was the daughter of the late
William r. and Matilda T. Wilson
of the Milton area. She is survived
by a niece, Mrs. Grace Jones of
Milton, and two nephews, Raymond
NJ. Conwell, Panama City, Fla, and
H. Ernest Conwell, Milton.
The funeral was held Monday at
2 D. m. at the William NJ. Short
Funeral Home, Milton, with the
Rev. Terry Hill, pastor of Goshen
Methodist Church, officiating. In
terment in Goshen Methodist
Church Cemetery.
MEARS
r. Glenn Mears, Jr., %, husband
of Mrs Rita Swope Mears of 124
Hall Street, SeafOrd, died August
Is, in Delaware Hospital, Whining
ton, after long illness.
Mr.. Mears, son of r. Glenn
Mears, Sr., and Mrs. Edith r. Mears
of Seaford, served in the Army dur
ing the Korean Conflict. He was a
member of st. Johns Methodist
Church, Seaford, and the Army Sc
curity Agency.
In addition to his wife and par
ents, he is survived by son, Scott
William Mears, and a sister, Mrs.
Richard Croft, Clearwater, Florida.
Services were held Tuesday at
2 p. m. in the Watson Funeral
Home, Seaford, with Rev. William
o. Hackett, pastor of st. Johns
Church, officiating. Interment was
in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford
MELVIN
Kenneth Eugene Melvin, II, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin w. Melvin,
died in the Milford Memorial Hos
pital, August Is, after a short ill
ness.
He was a member of Trinity
Methodist Church Sunday School
and a seventh grade pupil in Har-
rington School.
Services were held from the J..
Millard Cooper Funeral Home,
Harrington, Tuesday at p. m. The
Rev. Nelson Benjamin, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church officia-
ting. Interment was in Mt. Olive
Cemetery, Sandtown.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by brother, Curtis w. Mel
vim, Harrington, and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Sadie Berry, of
Harrington.
CHAPMAN
Albert E. Chapman, 81, died Au-
gust Is, in Nanticoke Memorial
Hospital, Seaford, after a brief ill
ness.
He was the son of the late Irwin
M. and Mrs. Martha w. Chapman,
Seaford, and is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Sally G. Roach Chip
man, Seaford, and three brothers,
DR.. l. Lewis Chapman, William T
Chipman, and Horace K. Chapman
all of Wilmington.
Services were held August Is
in the Watson Funeral Home with
the Rev. A. T. Mcfarland, st.
Johns Church officiating. Inter
ment in Odd Fellows Cemetery
Seaford, where members of the
Hiram Lodge No. 21, held masonic
rites.
WINGATE
Mrs. Elizabeth Handlin Wingate
80, died August Is in the Beebe
Hospital, Lewes. She was the dau-
ghter of Joshua and FIOssie ReveI
Handlin, Millsboro.
Besides her parents, she is sur
vived by her husband, Leon T. Win.
gate, and two sons, Thomas Leon
and Edison Glenn at home, and
two brothers, Major Paul Handlin
Germany, and John Lee Handlin
Millsboro.
She was member of the Grace
Methodist Church, Millsboro.
Services were held Wednesday al
2 p. m. in the Watson and Gray
Funeral Chapel, Millsboro. The
Rev. John Irwin, pastor of Grace
Methodist Church and the Rev
Donald Hornung, pastor of the
Centreville, Md, Methodist Church
and the Rev. Clarence Wilkens, {
retired clergyman officiating. In.
terment was in Mechanics Gene.
terry.
JONES
Funeral services for the Rev. C
Nadal Jones, Sc, a retired Metho
dist minister of the Peninsula Con
| ference, who died last Thursday il
the Delaware Hospital after shor
illness, were held at IL a. m. Sat
! urday in the Spicer- -Mullikin Flu
| neral Home, Twenty-fourth anC
Market Streets, Wilmington.
The Rev. George w. Cooley
pastor of Newport Methods
Church, and the Rev. Howell o
Wilkins, pastor of Hillcrest Mem
orial Methodist Church, oficiateC
at the services.
Interment was at Gracelaw1
Memorial Park.
A grandson, son, brother. anC
father of Methodist ministers, Mr.
Jones was a minister for AZ year.
until his retirement in 1912. Ht
was the son of the Rev. Adam C
Jones and Mrs. Clara N. Jones
and the brother of the Rev. ]. w
Jones of Wilmington, retired, anC
the late Rev. Omar E. Jones o.
Seaford. The Rev. Harold C. Jones
pastor of the Methodist Church il
Babylon, Long Island, N. Y, is on,
of his three sons.
Born and raised in Fairlee, Md.
Mr. Jones began his ministry il
1900 in the Wilmington Conferenc,
at Leipsic. Successive charge.
were in Colora, Nd, 1903; Cook
man Church, Wilmington, 1904-O5
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