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Thomas Gray and Ruth Marie Coffee were married on January 23, 1941 in California, United StatesG.

Ann Jeter and Richard Shea Coffee were married on November 2, 1968 in California, United StatesG.

Joseph Hirschinger was born on October 13, 1904 in IndianaG. He and Naomi Winifred Durkin were married on June 27, 1931 in IndianaG. He died on March 10, 2002, at age 97, in IllinoisG.

Velma Ervin was born on October 20, 1901 in IndianaG. She and Gerald R. Durkin were married on June 18, 1940 in IndianaG. She died on August 8, 1964, at age 62, in IndianaG.

Bishop Leo A Pursley will deliver the sermon at the funeral Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock for Mrs. Gerald R. Durkin, with her brother-in-law, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Durkin officiating, at St. Mary's Catholic church, it was announced this morning. The Rev. Charles Ueber will serve as the deacon, Patrick Durkin as sub-deacon and Daniel Durkin as master of ceremonies

Suffered Acute Attack

Mrs. Durkin suffered an acute heart attack at her home at 616 Mercer avenue at 10 p.m. Friday. She was seated in a chair and told her husband and son that she was fainting. They caught her, to protect her from any broken bones, and then realized that she hadn't just fainted.

The physician arrived and stated that she was clinically dead, but he gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and two shots of adrenalin, and finally started her pulse and breathing. In more than 100 cases of administering adrenalin following clinical death, this was only the second in which he had been able to start the heart and breathing again, the doctor stated.

She was then taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, and placed in special oxygen equipment, but apparently she had had a massive heart attack, following a buildup of arteria-sclerosis over a period of time, which made recovery impossible.

Mrs. Durkin, baptized Velma Lucille Ervin in St. Mary's Catholic church, was a graduate of St. Joseph's school, Decatur high school, St. Mary's College, at Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin, at Madison.

Before returning to Decatur she taught grade school in Morris, Ill., and grade and high school in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. She also taught the third grade in St. Joseph school, Decatur, for nine years.

She was a member of the Catholic Ladies of Columbia, the Rosary Society, the Decatur Woman's Club, the Rose Garden club, the Decatur home demonstration club, and the St. Vincent de Paul society.

Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ed Helmann, Richard Rumschlag, T. C. Smith, James Lose, James Murphy and Dale Morrissey. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the service (rest cut off) (8-8-64.)

Timothy G. Hirschinger was born on April 16, 1937 in IllinoisG. He died on January 3, 1965, at age 27, in IllinoisG.

Lucille Walter was born on May 9, 1930 in OhioG.

Gertrude Esther Becker was born on April 25, 1911 in IndianaG. She and Cornelius Leonard Durkin were married on October 1, 1936 in IndianaG. She died on August 29, 1971, at age 60, in IndianaG.

Dorothy Aberding and Cornelius Leonard Durkin were married on November 28, 1975 in IndianaG.