HOUCHINS, Thelma M. (Walton)

Date of birth:  12 Jan 1915 – Plainfield, Hendricks County, Indiana
Date of death: 25 Nov 2001 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Franklin Daily Journal, November 27, 2001

INDIANAPOLIS

Thelma M. Houchins

Thelma M. Houchins, 86, died Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001, at Wildwood Health Care Center in Indianapolis. She was a resident of Indianapolis.

She was born Jan. 12, 1915, in Plainfield. Her parents were John Otis and Lena (Rupe) Walton. She married Jo[e] Houchins on Dec. 1, 1940. He preceded her in death June 25, 1996. Survivors include two daughters, Judy M. Pitcock of Indianapolis and Linda Scarbrough of Athens, Tenn.; one sister, Martha Lou Cummings of Plainfield; four grandchildren; and five great- grand­children. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Mary Ella Heath and Gladys Fagan.

She was employed by Beam, Longes and Neff Consulting Engineers in Cast­leton as a secretary, retiring in 1974.

The Rev. Vey Kidney will conduct a service at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Forest Lawn Wilson St. Pierre Funeral Home, State Road 135 Chapel. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens in White River Township.

Link to Thelma M. Houchins’s Find A Grave entry

Submitted by Mark Wirey