In Memory

Charles Black - Class Of 1927

Birth: 1908
Death: 1979


Family links:
Spouse:
Elizabeth B Black (1911 - 2000)


Burial:
Maple Lawn Cemetery
Flora (Carroll County)
Carroll County
Indiana, USA

Letter from his 50th Class Reunion

After graduation I attended short courses at Purdue.  Started farming by growing soy beans, a little known crop.  Threshed them with a horse drawn binder and sold them for $15/bushel.  I have been farming for nearly years selling and producing seed corn.

In 1931, I helped organize and was the first president of the Young Replicans Club.  Also about that time I helped organize and was the first president of Rural Youth in Carroll County.

In 1933 I married Elizabeth Bowman.  We have three children.  Kay (Mrs. Robert Kelly) of Chicago.  Charmion, (Mrs. Toby Cunningham) of Detroit and our son, Kim who lives on the farm that we work together.

I was on the Co-op Producers Livestock Board for 15 years.  County Farm Bureau Board several years.  County Fair Board for 25 years.  County Extension for 15 years and at present Director of the Co-op Board for the past 15 years.

I've been Deacon, Trustee and at present an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in Delphi.

 

 

The funeral of Charles T. Black, 71, of route 4, Delphi, will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Reinke Funeral Home in Flora.  Burial will be in Maple Lawn Cemetery east of Flora.  Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Thursday.
  He died at 3 a.m. this morning, December 19, 1979, at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient for several weeks.
  Born in Carroll County on August 31, 1908, he was the son of Charles G. and Lottie Thomas Black.  His marriage in 1933 at Rockfield was to Elizabeth Bowman, who survives.
  A retired farmer, he was graduate of Delphi High School and had lived his entire life at his own farm, which had been the home of his parents.
  Black was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Delphi, Delphi I.O.O.F. Lodge and was a retired director of Carroll County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association.  For 40 years he was a salesman-producer of corn for Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
  Other survivors are a son, Kim of route 4, Delphi; two daughters, Kay Kelly of Hinsdale, Ill., and Charmion Cunningham of Indianapolis; four sisters, Marie Humberd of Winona Lake, Ethel Landes of route 1, Flora, Lora Zinn of Delphi and Olive Todd of Tipton; a brother, Kenneth Black of Arcadia, Fla., and eight grandchildren.
  Memorial contributions may be made to the Cancer Fund.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Carroll County Comet, Wednesday, December 19, 1979