Extracted from The Elkhart Truth (IN)
Monday, March 8, 1948

ENCEL H. DODGE

Encel Hunter Dodge, 66, a native of Goshen, died at 3:10 a.m. Sunday at his home, 422 South Buffalo street, Warasw, after a long illness. He had been a newspaper man all of his life.

Mr. Dodge was born in Goshen on Dec. 30 [sic 20], 1881, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira O. Dodge, and was married Nov. 14, 1918, to Amelia D. Renkop, of Carbondale, Pa. She survives, in addition to 2 sons, Encel H. Dodge, Jr., assistant professor of chemical engineering a the University of South Dakota, Grand Forks, S.D.; and Paul Oliver Dodge, a student at the Jordan Conservatory of Music, Indianapolis; a grandson, Paul Edward Dodge; a brother, Paul Hunter Dodge of Goshen, and a sister, Miss Faith Dodge of Los Angeles.

Mr. Dodge entered newspaper work as a reporter for the Goshen Daily Times in 1898, and subsequently worked on newspapers in Illinois and eastern cities. He returned to Warsaw for a second time in August, 1921, as news editor of the Warsaw Daily Times, and remained there until ill health forced his retirement on March 10, 1941.

Mr. Dodge had also been admitted to the practice of law in Goshen, and had practiced here and at Muncie for a short time. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church at South Bend, and a member of the Masonic lodge for 34 years, and was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and also a member of the Eastern Star.

Friends may call at the Bibler funeral home in Warsaw, where services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. The Rev. G. H. Watson will officiate and burial will be in Oakland cemetery, Warsaw.