Calling(s)

Thursday, January 02, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Young Family Funeral Home - Kendallville Chapel

Service

Friday, January 03, 10:00 AM Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 319 East Diamond Street, Kendallville

Obituary

Frieda Marie Imes, 96, of Kendallville died December 30, 2019 at 1:10 a.m. at Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville.

She was born in Lafayette on January 7, 1923, to George Marshal & Margaret Louise (Buwa) Harlow.

Mrs. Imes attended St. Boniface Grade School in Lafayette.

She was employed at Surety Roofing for several months.

When she was 18, in January she went to work at Purdue University in General Engineering. In 1942, she was transferred to work at the War Training office at Purdue University.

On January 23, 1943, she married Thomas L. Imes, a graduate of Purdue University, who resided in Kendallville. Thomas was drafted in February into the Army Air Corp. He was stationed at Salt Lake City where she joined him. She then followed him when he was at Miami Beach and then transferred to Greensboro, North Carolina, and Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was discharged after three years and they moved to a farm close to Kendallville.

Frieda was a bookkeeper for Orange Township for six years. Then, she went to work at the post office in Brimfield for 29 years, becoming Postmaster the last ten years. She retired on October 26, 1984.

She was a member of St. Gaspar Catholic Church in Rome City and is now a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Kendallville. She was a member of the Rosary Sodality, a member of United Postmasters and Managers of America, and was a member of the National Association of Federal Workers, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the John Purdue Club.

Surviving are a son, Tom (Maryanne) Imes of Madison; a daughter, Cindy Crawford of Westfield; three grandchildren, Kyle (Wendy) Crawford of Carmel, Clay (Shannon) Crawford of Noblesville, and Kara (Tony) Carreri of Charlotte, North Carolina; three great-grandchildren, Harlow and Penn Crawford of Carmel and Conley Crawford of Noblesville.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Thomas L. Imes on December 27, 2007.

Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, January 3, 2020, at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with Father J. Steele officiating. Burial will be at Orange Township Cemetery in Rome City.

Calling is Thursday, January 3, 2020, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Young Family Funeral Home, Kendallville Chapel, 222 South State Street, Kendallville. A Rosary service will be held at 4 p.m.

Preferred memorials are to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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