Sandra J. Miles
Nov 6, 2017
Sandra J. Cunningham Miles, age 81, passed away at 8:05 a.m. Monday, November 6, 2017 in Williamsburg Healthcare. She was born in Crawfordsville, July 5, 1936 daughter of the late Hubert and Martha Cunningham. She was married 49 years to Don Miles. Sandra graduated from Waynetown High School. She spent her life doing what she loved, working with her family...
Mildred M. Meyer
Oct 29, 2017
Mildred Mary Meyer, age 94, of Crawfordsville and formerly of Ft. Wayne, went to be with the Lord on October 29, 2017. She was born January 22, 1923 in Palmerton, PA to the late William and Mable Zimmerman Steigerwalt. Millie graduated from high school at the age of 16 and from Cornell University in 1944 with a degree in nursing....
Larry Linn Foster
Oct 7, 2017
Larry Linn Foster, age 60, of Crawfordsville, died at 12:31 a.m. Tuesday, October 7, 2017 in Franciscan Alliance Hospital, Greenwood. He was born in Perry, Iowa August 3, 1957 to the late Charles and Kay Dudgeon Foster. He married Sylvia Diane Tate Foster in Darlington on November 6, 1982 and she survives. Larry graduated form North High School in Des...
Paul Jeffers
Oct 7, 2017
Paul D. Jeffers, age 83, of rural Waynetown, died at 9:53 a.m. Saturday, October 7, 2017 in Creasy Springs Lafayette. He was born in Vigo County on August 28, 1934, son of the late Theodore and Lorena Jeffers. He married Betty L. Ainsworth on June 9, 1957 in Vigo County and she survives. Paul was a graduate of Glenn High...
Vera 'Shelly' Michelle Pruett
Oct 6, 2017
Vera Michelle 'Shelly' Vansickle Pruett, age 53, a Waynetown native, returned to her heavenly home at 10:50 p.m. Friday, October 6, 2017, in Franciscan Health Hospital, Crawfordsville, surrounded by her family. Most recently, she had resided in Wellbrooke of Crawfordsville and Williamsburg Health Care. She was born in Frankfort, Indiana, on August 8, 1964, to John F. and Beverly A....
Sandra Jane Pendleton
Oct 5, 2017
New Richmond – Sandra Jane Hitch Pendleton, age 71 of New Richmond, passed away unexpectedly at 11:17 a.m. Thursday, October 5, 2017 in Franciscan Health St. E. East Hospital, Lafayette. She was born in Crawfordsville, November 14, 1945 daughter of the late Corwin Albert and Ruth Zurface Hitch. She married Arthur 'Doc' Pendleton on February 15, 1970 in Crawfordsville and...
Marlene A. Lantz
Oct 5, 2017
Marlene Ann Lantz, age 70, of Rensselaer, Indiana (formerly of McHenry), passed away on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at IU Health Arnett Hospital in LaFayette, IN. She was born in Streator, IL on January 5, 1947 to Edward A. Kettmann and Mariette A. Griesmar. She attended St. Mary's School in Woodstock and graduated from Marian Central Catholic High School in...
Dietrich Alfred Bertold Kodrack
Oct 3, 2017
Dietrich Alfred Bertold Kodrack, 81, of Crawfordsville, succumbed to a short battle with thyroid cancer, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 in Franciscan Health St. E. East Hospital, Lafayette. He was born January 27, 1936 to Paul and Charlotte Kodrack in Berlin, Germany. Dietrich was raised in war-torn East Germany. He was fortunate to have escaped shortly after the Berlin wall was...
Margaret H. Dyson
Aug 19, 2017
Mellott – Margaret H. Wilhite Dyson, age 97, passed away at 6:45 a.m. Saturday, August 19, 2017 in Parkview Nursing Home, Attica. She was born in Crawfordsville, November, 21, 1919 daughter of the late Robert and Mary Agnes Grabman Wilhite. She married Roscoe Dyson on December 23, 1942 and he preceded her in death January 1986. She attended Crawfordsville schools...
Melissa Ann Shillings
Jul 29, 2017
Melissa Ann Gleason Shillings, age 40, of the Darlington area, died at 9:57 p.m. Saturday, July 29, 2017 in Franciscan Health Lafayette East Hospital, from injuries she received as a result of a vehicle striking the motorcycle she and her husband were riding. She was born in Frankfort, January 21, 1977 daughter of Mike and Pam Hardy Gleason. She married...
Elaine K. Lidester
Jul 14, 2017
New Richmond – Elaine K. Pendleton Lidester, age 69, died at 2:46 p.m. Friday, July 14, 2017 in Franciscan Health Lafayette East Hospital. She had been in failing health the past few years. She was born in Lafayette, March 27, 1948 to Barbara Louise Miner who survives in West Lafayette and the late Roy J. Pendleton. She married Larry Lee...
Sherry Sue 'Claycomb' Bruton
Jul 12, 2017
Crawfordsville – Sherry Sue 'Claycomb' Bruton, age 42 died in her home, surrounded by family, 12:04 p.m. Wednesday, July 12, 2017 following a battle with cancer. She was born February 5, 1975 in Lafayette's Home Hospital, her mother Sue Ellen Claycomb survives in Wingate. She married Tom Bruton, January 26, 2008 in Woodland Heights Church and he survives. Sherry was...
Norman L. Martin
Jun 25, 2017
Attica – Norman L. Martin, age 79, a life long Fountain County resident and farmer, died in his home on the family farm, following a lengthy illness, 7:00 a.m. Sunday, June 25, 2017. He was born in Lafayette on March 3, 1938 son of the late Robert and Evelyn McKnight Martin. He married Judy Richey, who survives, June 14, 1957...
Kale G. Galloway
Jun 16, 2017
Kale G. Galloway, age 9 of rural Waynetown, heard his family's last prayers at 6:30 a.m. Friday, June 16, 2017 in Riley Hospital for Children and took flight to be with the lord. He has bravely battled cancer the past 7 years. Kale was born in Lafayette, September 30, 2007 the son of Douglas Alan and Jessica Nicole Mitton Galloway...
David V. Coon
Jun 1, 2017
David V. Coon, age 94 of rural Wingate passed away, at 9:48 a.m. Monday, June 1, 2017 in the Franciscan Alliance Hospital, Crawfordsville. He had been in good health and his death was unexpected. He had resided with his daughter, Lynn, and granddaughter, Jennifer, at his home near Wingate. David was born in Crawfordsville, December 8, 1922 to the late...
Betty Lois Cope
May 29, 2017
Betty Lois Jones Cope, age 89, of Crawfordsville, died at 3:20 a.m. Monday, May 29, 2017 in Franciscan Alliance Hospital in Crawfordsville. She was born near Waynetown, June 27, 1927, daughter of the late Paul and June Chesterson Jones. She married Donald Cope in Wingate, February 15, 1947 and he survives. She attended school in Waynetown and graduated from Newtown...
Maxine Hurd Cross
May 26, 2017
Maxine Hurd Cross, age 79, a former resident of Mellott, died at 4:30 a.m. Friday, May 26, 2017 in Rosewalk Village of Lafayette, her death was unexpected. She was born in Gamaliel, KY, September 19, 1937 daughter of the late Clifford and Bessie Safford Hurd. She married Edison H. Cross on October 7, 1954 in Temple Hill, KY and he...
James H. Foster
May 20, 2017
New Richmond – James Herman Foster, age 78, of New Richmond, died at 1:47 a.m. Saturday, May 20, 2017 in his home following a lengthy illness. He was born in Holton, KS, March 1, 1939 to the late James Milton and Martha Elizabeth Meaike Foster. He married Earlene Bernice Powers on April 7, 1959 in Attica and she survives. Jim...
William S. Foster
May 17, 2017
Attica – William S. Foster, age 71, passed away at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in his home, where he had been lovingly cared for by his wife and daughter. He had been in failing health the past year. Bill was born in Danville, Illinois, on August 12, 1945, son of the late Max and Betty Eileen Trigstead Foster....
Kenton R. Hutson
May 8, 2017
Kenton Hutson was an extraordinary man. He was a natural leader with an uncanny ability to recognize people's strengths and capitalize on them through motivation and encouragement. He had a gift for operating machines – any machine – he was a virtuoso who made the most complex maneuvers appear simple. He was a talented athlete, played musical instruments and sang...
