By GARRET MATHEWS, Scripps Howard News Service

FOLSOMVILLE, Ind. - The closet-sized post office at this tiny community is no more, Gone, too, is ZIP code 47614.

"People were crying ... when they first heard the news," said Karen Conner, 67, who ran the office for the last nine years. "Our ZIP code is gone forever. It makes people sentimental."

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A few hours before he died on Aug. 24, Jim Dougan asked for his hospital bed to be wheeled to a window.

"He didn't have much of a voice at the end, but he told me he wanted to smell the rain one last time," said Rita Dougan, his widow.

The winter-weather seer who calls himself a "tree-ologist and a doctor of backyard science" winces in pain.

"It's my legs," drawls 82-year-old Dick Frymire. "The doctor says they're both pretty much dead. It was that daggone Second World War when I got hurt in Okinawa.

The bulletin board at the fire department office in this Spencer County community lists one volunteer from the archabbey on a hill near the town.
The archabbey's active-duty contribution to fire safety starts and stops with Brother Benjamin Brown.