Funeral services for Miss Josephine Ruth Odell, who passed away Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock at the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette, will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rites will be conducted by the Rev. Forest Howell at the Eikenber- ry funeral home, where friends may oell after noon on Thursday. Burial will bd made in the Masonic cemetery. Miss Odell, a member of a pioneer family of this community, was born July 24, 1683, in the same home in which she has lived for the past 73 years. She was a daughter of Elizabeth Noland and John Curtis Odell. She was graduated from Delphi high school with the class of 1901 and studied at Madame Blaker’s school for teachers in Indianapolis and in Chicago university. Her first teaching position was at Cutler. Later she taught at New Castle and in Delphi but 31 of her 35 years in the class rooms with grade school boys and girls was in Logansport. For 30 years she was a teacher at the Daniel Webster School in the east part of Logansport. In addition, she also had taught at Rensselaer and Radnor. Miss Odell was a member of Tri Kappa sorority and of the Delphi Baptist church. Her only survivor is her brother, Charles Noland Odell, with whom she made her home at 323 west Franklin street.

Delphi Journal May 3, 1956