Obituaries

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...

Jun 3, 2007

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Patricia Ann "Patty" King-DeLaRossa, 69, of San Marcos, CA, formerly of Adams Lake, Wolcottville, IN, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 in San Marcos, CA. She was born May 18, 1938, in Fort Wayne, IN. She had worked at the Lazy Susan Restaurant on Adams Lake until moving to Oceanside, CA in 1994. In 1998, she moved to San...

May 27, 2007

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Velma J. Stahl, 79, of Kendallville died Sunday, May 27, 2007, at 6:35 p.m. in Hickory Creek of Kendallville. She was born January 4, 1928, in DeKalb County, Indiana, to Robert & Goldie (Swert) Lung. She was married April 7, 1945, in DeKalb County to Lloyd F. Stahl. He preceded her in death on January 8, 1982. She...

May 2, 2007

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Charles M. Napier, 68, of Rome City died Wednesday, May 2, 2007, at 8 a.m. at his residence. He was born March 3, 1939, in Hazard, Kentucky to Sidney and Florence Napier. He has lived in Rome City for 40 years, coming from Hazard. He was a truck driver for Ace Hardware in Perrysburg, Ohio for the past...

Apr 28, 2007

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Edith E. "Edie" Buss, 78, of Ligonier died Saturday, April 28, 2007, at 7:02 p.m. in Avalon Village Care Center, Ligonier, Indiana. She had been ill since June, 2004.

Edith was born December 12, 1928, in Ege, Indiana, to William & Alta (Harrold) Buss. She was a graduate of Avilla High School. On April 15, 1968,...

Apr 16, 2007

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Brylie Grace Powers, 3, died Monday, April 16, 2007 at 4:20 P.M. at her residence, in Wolcottville, Indiana, after a brave 9 month battle with brain and spinal cancer. She was born March 9, 2004 in Fort Wayne to Johnny Powers and Amanda (Patrick) Powers. She is survived by her parents; maternal grandparents, John & Flossie Davis of...