Leo C. Craig, 77, of 2600 Bonny Lane, Lafayette, retired editor and publisher of the Delphi Journal died at 3:30 p.m. Wed., May 17, 1978, in Home Hospital of a heart attack. He had been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack April 7. Born April 15, 1901, in Carroll County, he was the son of Eli and Della Ferguson Craig. He was a graduate of Delphi High School. He attended Manchester College and Franklin College and completed a law education with LaSalle University and taught junior high school mathematics in Delphi and in Carroll County schools for 23 years before entering the newspaper business. In 1941 he purchased a half-interest in the Delphi Journal and was sole owner from 1955 until retiring in 1965 when he sold the newspaper to A.L. Moss of Flora who in 1967 combined it with the Delphi Citizen (Journal-Citizen) and in 1974 combined it with Hoosier Democrat into the Carroll County Comet. A former president of Ranger Livestock Manufacturing Co. in Delphi, Mr. Craig was named Delphi Citizen of the Year in 1966. He served under three governors as a member of the Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission and received two Sagamore of the Wabash awards, one from Govenor Roger D. Branigin and the other from Governor Otis Bowen. He served four years as a member of the Delphi City Council. Mr. Craig was an ISHAA official basketball timer for 31 years and was timer for the all-time record seven-overtime sectional game at Delphi in 1935. He did baseball scouting for Rogers Hornsby and was founder and president of Delphi’s Little League and its accompanying park. He was a local and state officer of the Izaak Walton League, helped form the American Pork Producers Association and was longtime secretary of the Indiana Duroc Breeders Association. A charter member of the Delphi Rotary Club, he was president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, on the agriculture committee of the National Editorial Association and was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society. He was a member of Delphi Masonic Lodge, Lafayette Torch Club International, and served on the boards of Delphi Methodist Church and of Grace United Methodist Church in Lafayette, the latter at the time of his death. He was married April 24, 1924, in Carroll County to Mabel Rule who survives with two daughters, Mrs. George W. (Annadell) Lamb and Mrs. James (Frances) French, both of Lafayette; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services were Saturday afternoon in Lafayette with the Rev. Robert Carmin officiating. Interment was in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Flora. For those desiring, memorials were suggested to Delphi Little League in care of Frank Fitch, Wynkoop Pharmacy, Delphi, or Grace United Methodist Church, Lafayette.

Delphi Carroll County Comet May 24, 1978