Obituaries

Sep 20, 2007

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Gerald F. (Jerry) Spillner, 84 of Royer Lake LaGrange died at 6:53 P.M. at his residence. Mr. Spiller had lived at Royer Lake since 1964. He retired from Conrail in 1978 after 35 years.

Jerry was born June 23, 1923 in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Frank William & Ora (Snyder) Spillner. They preceded him in death....

Sep 20, 2007

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Ruby M. Trowbridge, 91, of Kendallville died at 1:10 P.M. Thursday, September 20, 2007 at Shepherd of the Hill in Kendallville. Mrs. Trowbridge was a lifetime area resident. She was a housewife. Ruby was born May 29, 1916, in Noble County, Indiana to William & Hazel (Gillespie) Strouse. They preceded her in death. She married Victor W. Trowbridge...

Sep 13, 2007

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Roland Lower, 64 of rural Wolcottville died Thursday, September 13, 2007, at 6:20 P.M. at his residence. Mr. Lower was a lifetime LaGrange County resident, living in the Pretty Lake area since 1969. He was the owner of Lower Insulation. He also worked at one time at Miller's Super Value in LaGrange as a meat cutter. He previously...

Aug 29, 2007

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Ruth N. Fitzpatrick, 89, of Kendallville died Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 3:50 p.m. in Provena Sacred Heart Home, Avilla. Mrs. Fitzpatrick was a lifetime area resident. She was the secretary to the principle at Northside Elementary School in Kendallville for 23 years. She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church in Kendallville, and Beta Sigma Phi...

Aug 17, 2007

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Gary W. Hamilton, 51, of Auburn and formerly of Kendallville died suddenly Friday, August 17, 2007, at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. He was born February 16, 1956, in Blue Moon, Kentucky, to Raymond and Elsie (Hunter) Ousley. His mother survives in Kendallville. Also surviving are four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Garruetta Hamilton-Christian & Ron Christian of Corunna;...

Aug 14, 2007

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Betty J. Arnold, 83, of Rome City died Tuesday, August 14, 2007, at 12:16 p.m. in Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne. She was a lifetime area resident. She had been employed by Berhalter-Hutchins Funeral Home in Kendallville for many years and also worked at Fischer's Pharmacy in Kendallville. She was a member of the Brimfield United Methodist Church and...

Aug 8, 2007

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Steven J. Zawadzke, 57, of Kendallville died Wednesday, August 8, 2007, at 4:17 p.m. in Hospice Home in Ft. Wayne. He had been ill since April, 2006. He was a lifetime resident, and a 1969 graduate of East Noble High School. He was a member of Trinity Church United Methodist in Kendallville. He was also a member of...

Jul 28, 2007

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Colton James Becker, 23, of Topeka died Saturday, July 28, 2007 at his residence. He was a lifetime area resident and member of Community Fellowship in Topeka. He was employed by the Bob Evans Restaurant in Auburn. He was born June 7, 2007, in LaGrange to Mike & Jeanne (Snyder) Becker. His parents survive in Topeka. Also surviving...

Jul 24, 2007

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Darwin James Garrison, 64, died July 24, 2007, in Fort Stewart, Georgia. He was born October 25, 1942, in Fort Wayne. He grew up in the Wolcottville area, and had lived in Bluffton for a number of years. Surviving is a daughter, Janine Burge of Georgia; two sons, Kenneth Garrison of Middlebury, Indiana, and Jedediah Garrison of Bluffton,...

Jul 22, 2007

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Kenneth R. Wallace, 64, of Waterloo died Sunday, July 22, 2007, in the Emergency Room of DeKalb Memorial Hospital, Auburn. He was born December 28, 1942, in Wayland, Kentucky, to Frieda Stanley. He lived most of his life in LaGrange County, and retired in 2006 from Fleetwood Homes in Garrett after working there for 15 years. He was...

Jul 8, 2007

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Dorothy May Targgart, 96, of Wolcottville died Sunday, July 8, 2007, at 2:20 p.m. in the Chandler House in Kendallville, where she had been a resident for the past year. She was born November 14,1910, in Benton, Elkhart County, Indiana, to Melvin & Maude (Huff) Hodge. She married Richard Henry Targgart on March 10, 1934, in Rome City,...

Jul 6, 2007

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Diana R. Treesh, 77, of Blackman Lake, Wolcottville died Friday, July 6, 2007, in the Emergency Room at Parkview LaGrange Hospital, LaGrange, Indiana. She was born August 17, 1929, in Warmister Wilts, England to Charles & Rosemary Monk. She had lived on Blackman Lake since 1987, coming from Butler. She moved to the US from England in 1957....

Jun 29, 2007

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Elisabeth G. (Bower)Hodge, 90, of Wolcottville died Friday, June 29, 2007, at 2:30 a.m. in Miller's Merry Manor, LaGrange, Indiana. She had been in failing health for the past four weeks. Mrs. Hodge was the Clerk-Treasurer for the town of Wolcottville unitl she retired in 2004, and continued to work part time in an advisory capacity until four...

Jun 26, 2007

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Michael A. Snyder, 47, of Kendallville was found dead at his residence on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. He had worked with his brother at Snyder Construction in Kendallville, and was a US Army veteran, serving in Germany. He was born June 4, 1960, in Buffalo, New York, to Kenneth & Helen (Rosenberger) Snyder. His mother survives in Kendallville....

Jun 24, 2007

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Paul F. Ueber, DDS, 80, of Clear Lake, Fremont, Indiana, died Sunday, June 24, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. at his residence. He was born August 26, 1926, in Fort Wayne to Charles & Esther (Minnick) Ueber. Dr. Ueber has lived at Clear Lake since May, 2006, coming from Adams Lake near Wolcottville where he resided from 1992 to...

Jun 23, 2007

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Margaret L. "Peg" Ortstadt, 101, of Davenport, Iowa, and formerly of Kendallville died Saturday, June 23, 2007, in Davenport. She was born December 19, 1905, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Walter & Elizabeth (Riddle) Lang. She worked at The Mode Store in Kendallville, was a member of Tri Kappa and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has lived...

Jun 18, 2007

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Bertha Conley, 89, of Stroh died at 2:15 a.m. Monday, June 18, 2007, in Provena Sacred Heart Home, Avilla. She was born August 26, 1917, in Knott County, Kentucky to Jack & Lona (Bailey) Handshoe. She had worked for many years at McCray Refrigeration in Kendallville and then Transogram in Sturgis, Michigan. She was a former member of...

Jun 16, 2007

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Dorothy Katherine Kay, 76, of Wolcottville died suddenly Saturday, June 16, 2007, at 7:20 p.m. in Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne. She was born February 6, 1931, in Chicago to Henry & Cecilia (Bergan) Papendik. She moved to the Wolcottville area in 1981, coming from Chicago. She was the owner and operator of the Adams Lake Restaurant and...

Jun 14, 2007

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Geraldine "Gerry" Peters Bodkin died Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 2:00 P.M. in the emergency room at Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville. Mrs. Bodkin was a teacher at Head Start in Garrett for six years. She served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era. She was a member of LaOtto Wesleyan Church in LaOtto. She also graduated...

Jun 10, 2007

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Beatress Wava Hale, 86, of Kendallville died Sunday, June 10, 2007, at 8 pm in Shepherd of the Hill, Kendallville. Mrs. Hale was born March 17, 1921, in Chicago, Illinois, to Scott Forker and Marie Nellie (Keller) Forker Weaver. She was a homemaker and had worked at Star Cleaners in Kendallville. She was an East Noble School Crossing...