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Born: Waterloo, IN
Died: April 02, 1918 Waterloo, IN
Married: Harvey Wells April 11, 1951
Father: Harry Altenburg Hanes
Mother: Susan Wilmetta Copeland
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Father: John Turner Wells
Mother: Elizabeth (Lizzie) Kendrick Daughter
of Alice Gullet and John L. Kendrick
Notes for Wilmetta Harriet Hanes:
She worked for the Bell Telephone Company for about 20 years.
She worked in Goshen for a while and then Auburn, IN. She used to
work with Joy at Goshen and "fixed" Joy and Theron up.
She died of cancer.
"DeKalb Birth Records" for her birth.
"Miss Wilmet Haines, Theron Haines and Miss Joy Ernest of Goshen, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Shepherd of Ashley, were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dirrim and family." This is from the Hamilton News, June 27, 1941.
In the Oct. 24, 1941 Hamilton News, it says, "Miss Wilmet Haines of Goshen, spent Monday night and Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. Harry Dirrim, and family."
In the Hamilton New, April 25, 1941, it says, "Mrs. Joe Williamson and daughter, Mary Lou, of Auburn, and Theron and Wilmet Haines of Goshen were Sunday guests of Harry Dirrim and family."
In a lot of Florida pictures of Wilmetta there was a friend named Barb in them. Information from Roma Kapp.
In her obituary it says, "Mrs. Wilmetta H. Wells, wife of Waterloo Police Chief Harvey Wells, died at 8:40 a.m. Sunday in DeKalb Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient six days. The 52-year-old lifetime DeKalb County resident died of cancer. She was born April 2, 1918, in Waterloo to Harry and Wilmetta Altenburg Hanes (note: it should read Harry Altenburg and Wilmetta Hanes). Surviving are the huband, 340 W. Union St., Waterloo, one daughter, Mrs. Roma Jean Kapp, Waterloo; two sons, James A. and Timothy J., both at home; one brother, Theron Hanes, North Manchester; three sisters, Mrs. Mary A. Williamson, 434 W. ninth St. Auburn, Mrs. Celestia Dirrimm (should be Dirrim), Hamilton, and Mrs. Bethel Buss, Waterloo, and three grandchildren. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Graffis Funeral Home, Waterloo, with the Rev. Vernon Shaw, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church Nappanee, officiating. Burial will be in Waterloo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today."
More About Wilmetta Harriet Hanes:
Cause of Death: Breast Cancer
Notes for Harvey Wells:
Harvey lived in Kentucky and then moved to Dayton, Ohio. He sang
songs on a Country Western station when he was younger. He lived
in Butler and worked as a grocery clerk for a while. He was Police
Chief of Waterloo, IN until 1971, when he died.
In a newspaper article it says "Harvey Wells of Butler Center says
wife admitted infidelity and told him of plans to wed another man."
A Butler Center grocery clerk Harvey Wells, who had trouble keeping his
wife at home, filed suit for divorce Wednesday in the DeKalb circuit court.
Three separation in three years was too much for the grocery clerk, who
said his wife left him May 5 to live in Dayton, Ohio. According to
the plaintiff, his wife first left him in March of 1946. She returned
home early in April of the same year, then left again May 6. This
time she stayed away several months, returning Christmas day of 1947.
She stayed home until their last separation. In his complaint, filed
through H. S. Grimm of Auburn, he alleged that his wife openly admitted
her infidelity and frequent associations with other men. She told
him, he claimed, that she was anxious to marry another. The couple
had one child, a 4 year old daughter, who is now in the custody of her
father. He seeks permanent custody of the little girl. The
couple were married June 24, 1945."
The closest town to where he grew up was Mt. Sterling, KY. He moved to Indiana, from Dayton, OH about 1941
On his delayed birth certificate, it says under additional information, "record - Menifee Co. - Myer's Fork School Dist.
Harvey sang on the Sunny Tennessee Radio Station.
There was a picture of the police lined up in respect at his funeral.
Below it it said, "HONOR HARVEY WELLS Solemn Police Officers stand at attention
as they await the coffin bearing Waterloo Police Chief Harvey Wells in
the Waterloo Cemetery. Wells died of a heart attack Sunday.
Pall bearers for the Wednesday afternoon funeral service were Auburn Chief
C. E. Barhydt, Butler Chief Marion Alberston, Waterloo Officer William
Vallance, Indiana State Trooper Lester Carpenter, DeKalb County Sheriff
James Sims and Deputy Wayne Newcomer. Officers from northeastern
Indiana paid last respects Wednesday."
Harvey Wells and Helen Helton had one child.
(1) Roma Jean Wells Still living Married: Harold Kapp Harold and Roma had 4 children: William Kapp, Mary Kapp (deceased), Nancy Kapp, Beth Kapp
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(3) Timothy John Wells
Still living Married twice: (1) Elizabeth
Monika Buttner Germany They had 3 children, Heidi
Elizabeth Wilmetta Wells, Janneta Lillie Wells, and Christopher James Wells.
(2) Cathy Reinoehl
They had one child: Derek Paul Harvey.
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