“Mrs. Rosella Van Dyke, 95, of 502 S. Plain St., widow of Egbert Van Dyke, died April 2, 1958, in Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

  She leaves no immediate survivors.

  Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. James AME Zion Church.

  Burial will be in Berkshire Cemetery.

  Friends may call at the Herson Funeral Home, 110 S. Geneva St. from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.”

“Deaths, Funerals: Mrs. Rosella Van Dyke,” Ithaca Journal, April 3, 1958, 5.