The Shemwell Family

Bertha Helen Troutman (nee Goodrich) Obituary and Family Listing Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Troutman will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home where friends may call after 4 p.m. today. Burial will be in Harristown Cemetery. Mrs. Troutman, 80, of Route 8. died at 5:55 p.m. Wednesday in Decatur and Macon County Hospital. She lived in Decatur for 55 years, moving here from Waynesville. Mrs. Troutman was born Oct. 1, 1832, in Waynesville, daughter of Martin and Helen Finfrock Goodrich. She married Charles S. Troutman on Oct. 1, 1908, in Milwaukee, Wis. He died Sept. 9, 1945. Mrs. Troutman was a charter member of the Sharon Home Bureau and the Sharon Methodist Church. She was a former treasurer and chairman of the Macon County Home Bureau and a member of Women's Society of Christian Service. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. R. B. (Mary) Perry of Chicago; Mrs. R. F. (Helen) Landacre of Corpus Christi, Tex.; Helen Goodrich of Decatur; sons, Howard, of Decatur; Earl B., Madison. Wis.; three sisters. Mrs. W. C. (Alice) Musser, of Illiopolis; Mrs. Mary Mokler of Gainesville, Fla.; Mrs. Eunice Wampler of Waynesville; one brother, Willis Goodrich of Waynesville and two great-grandchildren. A brother preceded her in death. Published in the Herald and Review (Decatur, IL) on Friday, May 10, 1963. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38306812/bertha_helen_troutman