Funeral services for Mrs. Hazel I. Epperson, 54, 924 Avenue C, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Woodring Chapel. The Rev. Norman Fonss, Lutheran minister and chaplain at St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha, will officiate. Interment will be at Walnut Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Epperson died Monday at an Omaha hospital.
Survivors include: Husband, Harry H.; two sons, Robert E. of Omaha and Howard L. of Council Bluffs; father, Edwin A. Tuttle of Omaha. Five sisters, Mrs. Florence DeErcol, Mrs. Mildred Henning and Mrs. Lois Miller, all of Omaha, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson of Worthing, S. D., and Mrs. Lila Van Middendorp of Sioux Falls, S.D.; brother, Morris Tuttle of Santa Clara, Calif., and four grandchildren.5
Killed in car accident. Car Ditched, Omahan Dies. Denver Auto Upsets near Lexington
Edwin Russell Tuttle, 19, of 2014 North Nineteenth Street, was killed early Wednesday when the car in which he was riding turned over in a ditch a mile and a half west of Lexington, Neb., on the Lincoln highway. Homer E. Callen of Denver, owner of the car, and an unidentified man, also a passenger, are in the lexinton hospital. Their injuries consist of cuts and bruises. neither is in serious condition. The accident happened about 4 o'clock. authorities believe Callen lost control and was trying to maneuver the car back on the highway when it overturned.
Tuttle, a graduate of South High school last year, was returning home from Denver. he told his family he had obtained a job driving one of a fleet of new cars to Denver for a local Chevrolet concern. It was thought he was hitch-hiking home.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Tuttle. Besides his parents, he is survived by six sisters, Mrs. Al Tolboe, Hazel, Mildred, Charlotte, Lila and Lois, and one brother, Maurice, all of Omaha.
Funeral services will be at the Leslie O. Moore mortuary here Saturday at 2 p.m. with burial in Forest Lawn memorial Park.
Mildred married Kenneth Dean Elder Sr. 30 November 1939 in Plattsmouth, NE. He was killed in the war. She and Edward Henning were married June 28, 1946 in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota. She was listed as Mildred Arlene Elder, a widow, at the time of the marriage.
Other children from Edward were
Linda Henning Ellsworth
Doris Henning Waddell
Gary Henning
Other siblings are:
Hazel Irene Tuttle Epperson
Florence May Tuttle, Tolboe, De Ercole
Edwin Russell Tuttle
Charlotte Jaunetta Tuttle, Elcock,Johnson
Maurice Eugene Tuttle
Lila Maxine Tuttle Van Middendorp
Mariam Lois Tuttle Miller.