Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 6, 1965 at 2 p.m. at the Hatfield Funeral Home, Coldwater, for Charles Allen DeMoss. Rev. Marvin Alley was the officiating minister, Organist was Mrs. Glenn Maris. The Mennonite Quartet from south of Protection sang "When I Take My Vacation in Heaven" and "Beyond the Sunset."

Pallbearers were S. O. Wright, Russell Heidiman, William E. Hull, Gerald Holler, Robert Hopkins and Donald James.

Interment was in Wilmore cemetery, Wilmore.

Obituary

Mr. DeMoss was born August 5, 1880 in Royal Center, Ind. Due to ill health he and his wife moved from Wichita to Protection in 1962 to be near their daughter, Mrs. Albert Holler.

He is survived by his widow, one son, Kenneth, of Sharon, Kans.; and four daughters, Mrs. Opal Hoskins, Towanda, Kans.; Mrs. T. A. Pack, Pueblo, Colo., Mrs. Albert Holler, Protection, Kans.; and Mrs. Delbert Smutz, Wichita.

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Pauline (Demoss) Hoskins, daughter of Charles Allen DeMoss.

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