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Note: MONROE EVENING NEWS, Jul 27, 1951: "VERNON A. NEWELL
DEERFIELD, July 27---Vernon A. Newell, 62, life-long resident of this vicinity, died of a heart attack at 10:30 last night in his home in this village. he had been ill two years. Mr. Newell was secretary of the Deerfield Farmers' Telephone Co. and director of black North School District.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Methodist Church with the Rev. Robert Bryce and the Rev. W. J. Prestidge officiating. Burial will be in Deerfield Cemetery. Friends may call at the Valentine and McNeil funeral home until noon Sunday when the body will be taken to the church to lie in stage until time of services.
Mrs. Newell was born here Feb. 7, 1889, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Newell. he attended Deerfield schools. He was a farmer until 11 years ago when he came to the village to work in the cooperative elevator. Sept. 28, 1911, he married Grace M. Tucker.
Surviving are Mrs. Newell; three sons, Donald of Petersburg, Norman of Deerfield and Francis of Britton; a daughter, Mrs. Wilma Logan of Monroe, and six grandchildren. A son and a sister preceded him in death."
MONROE EVENING NEWS, Aug 20, 1969:
" MRS. GRACE OSTERHOUT
DEERFIELD -- Mrs. Grace Newell Osterhout, 76, of 393 Carney St. Deerfield, died at 10:30 p.m. yesterday in Herrick Memorial Hospital, Tecumseh, where she had been for six days. She had been in poor health for two months.
Friends may call after 7 tonight in the McNeil and Spencer Funeral Home, Deerfield. where services will be in the Deerfield Cemetery.
The daughter of Curtis and Elizabeth Tucker, she was born May 20, 1893, in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County. She married Vern Newell and he died July 26, 1951. She married Ray Osterhout May 19, 1956. He died May 26, 1963.
Mrs. Osterhout was a lifelong resident of the Deerfield vicinty. She worked in the cafeterias of Deerfield High School and Revco, Inc., Deerfield. She was a charter member of the Deerfield Post 392, American Legion, Auxiliary and was active in the Women's Relief Corps. She was a member of the Petersburg Presbyterian Church and of the Deerfield Chapter 249, Order of the Eastern Star. She was also active in the Amareth Lodge of Hudson.
Surviving are three sons, Donald Newell of Petersburg, and Norman and Francis Newell of Deerfield; a daughter, Mrs. Mac (Wilma) Logan of Monroe; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Van Nest of Romulus; 9 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
Three brothers, a son, daughter, and grandson preceded her in death."
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