From the Adams County (IN) Historical Museum;  1955 March-April 1958 Scrapbook, image 54

Handwritten-Wed. July 11, 1956

Pastor of Berne UB Circuit Is Taken by Death

Rev. Carl J. Proffitt, 40, of Geneva, Dies Following Surgery

The Rev. Carl Jacob Proffitt, 40, pastor of the Berne circuit of United Brethren Churches, died at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday at eh Jay County Hospital in Portland. Rev. Proffitt, who had resided in Geneva the past two years, had been hospitalized for 10 days. Churches in the Berne circuit are the Winchester Church, northwest of Berne and the Apple Grove Church east of Geneva.

Rev. Proffitt had not been well for seven years, being afflicted with nephritis, more commonly known as Brights disease. A year ago he suffered a heart attack but seemed to recover fairly well from this ailment. A week ago Sunday he preached at the Winchester Church in the morning service and became ill that evening. He was taken to the hospital at Portland. Early last week his sickness was diagnosed as appendicitis and at 7:30 p.m. July 4 he submitted to surgery. He seemed to stand the operation well but last Sunday his condition became worse and he went into a coma and gradually became weaker. Uremic poisoning is blamed for his death.

A native of Celina, Ohio, Rev. Proffitt was born May 9, 1916, the son of Clayton and Sarah Proffitt. He was married to Thelma Adams of near Rockford, O. in 1937 at Van Wert, Ohio.

Surviving are the widow, two sons, Marvin, a 1956 graduate of the Geneva High School and David, and a daughter, Sarah L., all at home; the parents Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Proffitt, Venencia, Ohio; three brothers, Norville Proffitt, New Lebanon, Ohio; Glen, Van Wert, Ohio, and Dilly, Dade City Florida; three sisters, Mrs. Ralph Clark and Mrs. Albert Mueller, both of Spencerville, Ohio, and Mrs. George Walker, Van Wert, Ohio.

The body is at the Hardy and Hardy Funeral Home in Geneva where friends may call. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the tabernacle at the U. B. Church campgrounds at Rockford Ohio, and burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford.

Transcribed by Janice Vasilovski