From the Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams County, IN , Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1973

Caroline Harshman dies at hospital

Mrs. Caroline E. Harshman, 75, of Pleasant Mills, widow of Gilbert R. Harshman, died at 2:30 a.m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been hospitalized five weeks.

She was a member of the Emanuel Lutheran Church, Manchester, Michigan.

Born in Manchester, Michigan, on March 20, 1898, she was the daughter of Charles G. and Mary Haupt-Kern, and was married on March 1, 1916, to Gilbert R. Harshman. He died on July 28, 1970.

Surviving are four children, Mrs. Edward (Dorothy) Bentz, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Isaac (Ruth) Mathis, of Anderson; Mrs. Wilmer (Helen) Miller, of route 3, Decatur; and Dale R. Harshman, of route 5, Decatur; one sister, Mrs. Pt (Minnie) Heath, of Sunnyside, Washington; one brother, Fred Kern, of Rockford, O.; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. One sister, one brother and one grandchild preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. Burial will be in the Riverside cemetery, Rockford, O. Friends may call at the funeral home after 12 noon Wednesday.

Contributed by Janice Vasilovski

Buried in Riverside Cem., Rockford, Mercer County, Ohio