Simon J. Lehe, 81, of Brookston, died Tuesday, March 30, at Lehe Farms.

He was born Nov. 28, 1917 in Jasper County to Amiel and Mary Hotler Lehe. He was manied Apnl 13, 1947 to Elizabeth Quigg, in Otterbein. She survives.

He was a resident of Brookston for 50 years.

He graduated in 1935 from Gilboa High School.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving  from April of 1941 to November of 1945, in the U.S. Army Medical Detachment of the 151st Infantry, serving in the South West Pacific area.

He was a farmer at Lehe Farms Inc.

He attended the Blessed Sacra ment Church in West Lafayette.

He was a director of The Farmers State Bank of Brookston.

He was a member of the John Purdue Club, Brookston American Legion Post 251 and the White Co. Farm Bureau.

He formerly served on the White Co. Hospital Board, in the Brookston Optimist Club and as a member of the Frontier School Board

Surviving with his wife are three sons, Donald, Richard and Dale, all of Brookston; a daughter Mrs Steve (Denise) Zabilski of Pheonix, Arizona; a brother, Paul of Greencastle; a sister, Mrs Dean (Grace) Allen of Cedar Lake and 14 grandchildren. Three brothers are deceased.

Funeral service was Thursday at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in West Lafayette with Father David Douglas officiating Hartzler Funeral Home Brookston was in charge.

Burial was in Tippecanoe Memory Gardens at West Lafayette. Military rites were. performed at the cemetery by the Brookston American Legion Post 251.

Memorials may be given to the Frontier Dollars for Scholars.