Leora Pauline Landis ¹

  General Notes:

LEORA P. PERKINS, 81, died Thursday at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. The Fort Wayne native retired from Cooper Industrial, Auburn, in 1973 after 13 years of service.

Surviving are her daughters, Marilyn J. Hulen of Kendallville and Annabelle M. Conrad of New Port Richey, Fla.; sons, Morris E. of Garrett and Arnold L. of Wolcottville; sisters, Ruth Richter and Eleanor Conrad, both of Ashley, Eileen Simons of Angola and Troas Edwards of Portland, Ore.; a half brother, Wayne Orwig of Columbus, Ohio; 11 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

Services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at McComb, Dilgard and Cline Funeral Home in Auburn, where calling is from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Covington Memorial Gardens, Fort Wayne. Memorials are to the DeKalb County Heart Association. News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - May 4, 1996 ²

Leora married Clarence Emory Perkins, son of Samuel Charles Perkins and Mary Alice McClish, on 22 Sep 1932 in Indiana, USA. (Clarence Emory Perkins was born on 18 Jun 1908 in Indiana, USA and died on 18 Jun 1992 in Garrett, Dekalb County, Indiana, USA.)