Paul Lostutter, 53, beloved former coach of the Delphi Oracles and a former mayor of Bedford died at noon Tuesday at Cold Springs Road Veterans Hospital, Indianapolis, while on the operating table. “Lossie” had been patient at the hospital for several months and was preparing for additional surgery Tuesday when he died. He had been a partial invalid for a number of years with injuries incurred in World War I. Born in Taylorville, Illinois, February 4. 1898, he was graduated from Franklin College and taught school at Franklin before coming here in 1926 to take over the helm as director of athletics. He had phenomenal success with the Delphi teams he coached and because of his success here he was offered the coaching job at Shelbyville in 1934 and left here during that year. He later went to Bedford where he coached until he retired from the teaching profession to become Mayor of Bedford in 1944. He served as mayor until 1948. Surviving with the widow, Kathryn Baker Lostutter formerly of Camden, is a brother Professor Melvin Lostutter, head of the journalism department at Michigan State College in Lansing. The body was taker to a funeral home in Bedford. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. in Bedford, with burial in the Camden cemetery.

Delphi Citizen May 31, 1951